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Harness vs Klocwork comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
9.0
Harness streamlines deployments, boosting efficiency, reducing errors, and lowering costs, validating its licensing investment through automation.
Sentiment score
6.2
Klocwork enhances code quality and compliance, improving efficiency in defect resolution, especially in automotive sectors, despite ROI measurement challenges.
By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time.
Technical Associate at ZS
Time is saved because we now save engineering time. Before, it required two to three engineers actively monitoring production during deployments, but after starting to use Harness, there is zero or minimal manual monitoring.
Site Reliability Engineer at Granicus Inc.
With Harness, the release process decreased from three or four hours to one or two hours, making deployments much quicker.
Software Engineer at Citi
The main ROI factors include efficiency and how we meet compliance standards for various automotive requirements.
Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Users appreciate Harness support's responsiveness and effectiveness, praising timely incident reports, proactive notifications, and helpful communication.
Sentiment score
6.8
Klocwork's support is praised for responsiveness, effective problem-solving, and reducing user contact via comprehensive documentation, despite prioritization issues.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Harness customer support is really helpful anytime I try to reach out; they are available to assist with any issues I am facing.
Site Reliability Engineer at Granicus Inc.
We have been receiving incident reports whenever an incident occurs on Harness, and they are usually quick to respond.
Technical Associate at ZS
The customer support team is very responsive, proactive, and engages in conversations to ensure our needs are met.
Application Development Team Lead at Miura Pay
The issue is not about the knowledge of the support but about the prioritization of the tickets they handle.
Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
During the initial phase, there was a need for follow-ups and clarifications.
Integration Supervisor Lead at Visteon Corporation
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Harness excels in scalability, supporting extensive applications, though performance may drop with over 20 integrations in enterprise settings.
Sentiment score
6.7
Klocwork is scalable, efficient, and integrates well with SAST tools, suitable for teams of all sizes without scalability issues.
Our entire organization uses it with hundreds of applications, and it supports this scale effectively.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is able to work on our infrastructure side, which is EKS, and we are able to handle our organization growth effectively for an enterprise use case.
Technical Associate at ZS
When I integrated Harness to more than 20 applications in one place, it becomes less stable.
Software Engineer at Citi
Klocwork supports our scalability needs without issues, even as project volumes increase.
Application Development Team Lead at Miura Pay
The program-to-program enablement is scalable.
Director - Quality Excellence at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Harness is stable and reliable, with minor integration issues and proactive communication during occasional downtime enhancing user experience.
Sentiment score
6.8
Klocwork is reliable and stable, effectively handling large codebases but requires significant computing power and faster updates.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Harness is decently stable.
Technical Associate at ZS
Installation is easy, and the solution is stable.
Integration Supervisor Lead at Visteon Corporation
 

Room For Improvement

Harness needs streamlined setup, better security, improved automation, and flexible pricing to enhance efficiency and user experience.
Klocwork needs improved language support, flexible reporting, better integration with Agile DevOps, and enhanced static and dynamic analysis.
There is not a lot of good support for pipeline as code, and I often find myself not using pipeline as code the way other platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins integrate pipeline as code.
Technical Associate at ZS
An improvement idea is better guided onboarding with more opinionated defaults and examples.
Site Reliability Engineer at Granicus Inc.
Previously, when deploying a version that had been deployed successfully before, it sometimes failed upon trying again, which seems to be an intermittent issue about stability.
Software Engineer at Citi
There are too many warnings, and it requires expertise to determine the correct category for them.
Integration Supervisor Lead at Visteon Corporation
Klocwork sometimes provides too many additional warnings which require expertise to manage.
Director - Quality Excellence at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We would like Klocwork to connect to Git and notify developers of issues tied to specific commits.
Application Development Team Lead at Miura Pay
 

Setup Cost

Klocwork's flexible pricing models are valued, though opinions vary on cost-effectiveness, catering to diverse organizational needs.
From what I understand with respect to Harness, licensing and setup costs were relatively low for an enterprise, and the pricing was more catered toward enterprises who would invest in the technology.
Technical Associate at ZS
It is less expensive than Coverity.
Director - Quality Excellence at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is not very cheap, however, it is less expensive than Coverity.
Integration Supervisor Lead at Visteon Corporation
Klocwork was competitively priced, making it a cost-effective solution for us.
Application Development Team Lead at Miura Pay
 

Valuable Features

Harness simplifies deployment with automation, AI-driven error handling, and intuitive design, enhancing safety, visibility, and efficiency for microservices.
Klocwork provides efficient static code analysis with strong IDE integration, supporting multiple languages and enhancing code quality and collaboration.
Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Meantime to recovery (MTTR) improved from 30 to 60 minutes before Harness to 5 to 10 minutes now.
Site Reliability Engineer at Granicus Inc.
The best features in Harness are its user-friendliness and setup configuration.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
The most valuable feature of Klocwork is the static analysis tools, which help identify potential security threats and errors.
Application Development Team Lead at Miura Pay
Its integration with the CI/CD pipeline has helped streamline the software development process.
Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It takes just half a day to set up.
Integration Supervisor Lead at Visteon Corporation
 

Categories and Ranking

Harness
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
16th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (7th), Cloud Cost Management (9th), Feature Management (2nd)
Klocwork
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (17th), Static Code Analysis (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Harness is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Klocwork1.4%
Harness0.6%
Other98.0%
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at Granicus Inc.
Automated delivery has made production releases safer and has reduced deployment incidents
The first point for improvement is the steep learning curve, where concepts such as services, environment, pipelines, and templates take time to understand. New users often need training before becoming productive, resulting in slower initial onboarding compared to simpler CD tools. An improvement idea is better guided onboarding with more opinionated defaults and examples. The second improvement can be on UI complexity and navigation; the UI can feel cluttered with many options and finding past executions, logs, or specific settings sometimes takes extra clicks, leading to small but noticeable productivity loss. Simplified UI views for common workflows and improved search and filtering could help. I also see cost and licensing as potential areas for improvement, as pricing can feel high for small teams and advanced features are tied to higher tiers, which may limit adoption for startups or smaller organizations. Flexible pricing models and more essential features in lower tiers could address this issue.
KG
Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Experience with compliance improvements and efficiency boosts but static analysis engine shows a need for enhancement
One area for improvement is that when customers use different static analysis tools, they report more issues compared to Klocwork. The static analysis engine of Klocwork has areas that need improvement. Customers using different static analysis tools report more issues than with Klocwork, indicating that Klocwork's engine is not as superior. Klocwork should be able to analyze large codebases efficiently, supporting a desktop version for periodic small delta changes before pushing to the server.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
Manufacturing Company
23%
Computer Software Company
10%
Transportation Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
The first point for improvement is the steep learning curve, where concepts such as services, environment, pipelines, and templates take time to understand. New users often need training before bec...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
My main use case for Harness is continuous deployment (CD), specifically for safe, automated deployment to production, especially in Kubernetes and cloud environments. For continuous deployment in ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?
Klocwork's pricing seems attractive, as it uses a per-user license model that does not have a lot of overhead.
What needs improvement with Klocwork?
One area for improvement is that when customers use different static analysis tools, they report more issues compared to Klocwork. The static analysis engine of Klocwork has areas that need improve...
What is your primary use case for Klocwork?
I work on tools such as Klocwork, LDRA, as well as Jira and Confluence, focusing more on the software quality assurance aspect. We use Klocwork for coding and aggregate checks. We use it for static...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL
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