Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 54 → 29 of 78
Harness · 1 category · RankedHarness Cloud Cost Management
39Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in FinOps for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Harness Cloud Cost Management →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business32 of 83
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market11 of 76
2%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise11 of 73
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
In finops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Harness Cloud Cost Management for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 11 of 76 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Harness Cloud Cost Management held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · FinOps · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 14 → 11 of 70
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 12 of 71
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinOps | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 11 of 76 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Harness Cloud Cost Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Harness Cloud Cost Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative15 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Harness offers a highly generous Free Forever tier that covers up to $250,000/month in cloud spend” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice
“Best For: DevOps teams wanting to enforce cost guardrails at the source code level.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
“You can start with a zero-dollar plan – free forever – for up to 100 AWS resources” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative
“Developer-centric: Continuous optimization, anomaly detection, Kubernetes-native” Grok 4.20 · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Subpar customer support... Avoid if: Rely on strong support or DevOps integrations.” Grok 4.20 · FinOps · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Harness Cloud Cost Management, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harness Cloud Cost Management was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Harness Cloud Cost Management, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harness Cloud Cost Management was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Harness Cloud Cost Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 35 of the 39 answers that named Harness Cloud Cost Management and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cloudaware.com26
cloudzero.com25
nops.io19
finout.io15
amnic.com13
openmetal.io13
g2.com12
usage.ai11
vantage.sh11
harness.ioYour site10
145 of the 155 domain citations in answers naming Harness Cloud Cost Management came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
harness.io ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Harness Cloud Cost Management takes 2% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
harness.io ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Harness Cloud Cost Management takes 2% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud cost management platform”
2
Position for “cloud cost management platforms”
2
- Searches for its name, Google
- 40 a month (“harness cloud cost management”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its company's site
- harness.io shared with Harness's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 86,302 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 11,466 · 746 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,641
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 76 in finops
Segment leader
45%
Vantage
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 39 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 35 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Harness Cloud Cost Management
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Harness Cloud Cost Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Harness 5Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) 2Harness CCM 1Harness CCM (Cloud Cost Management) 1Harness Cost Management 1
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The company
Harness is the company behind Harness Cloud Cost Management.ShowHide
The company
Harness is the company behind Harness Cloud Cost Management.
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Company records- Also from Harness
- Harness Cost Management, Harness FME, Harness Feature Flags, Harness IDP, Harness Internal Developer Portal
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a cutting-edge cloud and AI cost management solution that empowers your FinOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams with intelligent tools to optimize your cloud and AI spend
- For
- your FinOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams
- Customers named
- Tyler TechnologiesSynopsysRelativityOneAdvancedGoSpotCheck
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Harness Cloud Cost Management's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: developer.harness.io/cloud-cost-management, harness.io/tag/cloud-cost-management, harness.io/offer/cloud-cost-management, developer.harness.io/cloud-cost-management/3.0, developer.harness.io/faqs/cloud-cost-management-faqs. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Harness Cloud Cost Management is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Harness Cloud Cost Management, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.