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Harness vs Tekton comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

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 enhances deployment efficiency, reducing release times, improving processes, and decreasing failures, saving up to 40% development time.
Sentiment score
6.9
Tekton provides significant cost and time savings, enhancing scalability and efficiency compared to Jenkins with cloud-native features.
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 a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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
With Harness, the release process decreased from three or four hours to one or two hours, making deployments much quicker.
Software Engineer at Citi
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Organizations rely on internal teams for incidents with Harness, benefiting from efficient communication and minimal external support needs.
Sentiment score
6.5
Tekton's support is effective with commendable Red Hat assistance, and many find community resources sufficient for issue resolution.
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 a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
We have been receiving incident reports whenever an incident occurs on Harness, and they are usually quick to respond.
Technical Associate at ZS
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Harness is scalable for large enterprises, though stability issues may arise with integrations exceeding 20 applications.
Sentiment score
6.8
Tekton excels in scalability within Kubernetes, but requires customization and improved resource allocation for seamless integration.
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
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
When I integrated Harness to more than 20 applications in one place, it becomes less stable.
Software Engineer at Citi
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Harness is stable with prompt support, though integration of multiple applications may reduce stability, and occasional downtime occurs.
Sentiment score
7.0
Tekton is praised for stability and integration with Kubernetes, though configuration and resource management issues can affect performance.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Harness is decently stable.
Technical Associate at ZS
Stability-wise, it is very stable, and we can seamlessly integrate.
Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Harness should streamline setup, enhance security and stability, simplify configurations, and revamp the UI to outperform competitors.
Tekton needs better tool integration, flexible pipelines, improved UI, enhanced APIs, and comprehensive documentation for easier use.
There is no way to execute nested pipelines, which means that we cannot execute child pipelines within child pipelines and child pipelines even within those child pipelines.
Technical Associate at ZS
Flexible pricing models and more essential features in lower tiers could address this issue.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Harness setup and configurations could be made easier to configure, which would be helpful.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Scalability means based on the load, it will automatically gain resources and run.
Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Tekton is a cost-effective, open-source tool for Kubernetes environments, offering savings over licensed alternatives like Jenkins.
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
 

Valuable Features

Harness simplifies code deployment with automation, visual tools, AI error detection, and secure, downtime-free deployment methods.
Tekton excels in Kubernetes integration, scalability, and automation, streamlining CI/CD with flexibility and compatibility for diverse workflows.
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 a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
One of the best features Harness offers is the ability to templatize pipelines.
Technical Associate at ZS
Tekton is quite built on top of Kubernetes, so the learning curve is minimal.
Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Harness
Ranking in Build Automation
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Cloud Cost Management (9th), Feature Management (2nd)
Tekton
Ranking in Build Automation
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Harness is 5.8%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tekton is 7.9%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Tekton7.9%
Harness5.8%
Other86.3%
Build Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
reviewer2741265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Benefit from a smooth learning curve and efficient adaptability
After seeing Jenkins and Tekton, I think Tekton is quite built on top of Kubernetes, so the learning curve is minimal. If you are working with Kubernetes, then OpenShift created Tekton on top of that, making it easily adaptable. Tekton is highly customizable. With Kubernetes, we can customize on our own and create custom builders. If teams have time and want to make enhancements, they can do it themselves. Whatever OpenShift is providing regarding Tekton is sufficient. It is easy to use because we don't need to write every pod step every time. A proper DevOps engineer can help once or twice, and development teams can easily adapt to that, make small shell script changes in the steps, understand the process, and work with it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
Harness UI can do a lot of good things. Harness's UI should not feel very complicated. At the current stage, it feels very commercialized and compared to other platforms such as Argo CD or Jenkins,...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
Harness has been implemented in our organization for one of our clients for approximately 8 to 10 months. Harness is particularly utilized for our infrastructure provisioning pipelines and our RITM...
How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?
When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...
What needs improvement with Tekton?
I didn't get the intention of scalability. Scalability means based on the load, it will automatically gain resources and run. The question of pipeline scalability remains unclear. It's quite easy t...
What is your primary use case for Tekton?
We use Tekton for build and deployments. For LMP testing, we use the Tekton pipeline. We also use GitHub CI/CD. For infrastructure pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), we use Tekton. Previou...
 

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
The Home Depot, PayPal, Target, HSBC, McKesson, Oncology Venture
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