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Harness · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Harness IDP

12Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

5 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Harness IDP was named 6 times in Developer portals and 1 other category, where Port led with 53%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business30 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 52

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 of 54

under the label threshold

In developer portals · 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 IDP 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
Internal developer portals	Developer platform	0%	12 of 52	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Port at 53%
Digital employee experience	IT operations and endpoint	0%	128 of 219	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ControlUp at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Harness IDP yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Harness IDP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Other budget-friendly options include configure8 and Harness Internal Developer Portal, both of which offer free plans for smaller teams.” Mistral Small · Developer portals · budget prompt · alternative

“Already standardized on Harness, or want a broader delivery-platform offering? Evaluate Harness IDP.” GPT-6 Luna · Developer portals · comparative prompt · alternative

“enterprise-grade with broad integrations” Grok 4.1 Fast · Developer portals · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Harness IDP, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harness IDP was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backstage9 of 125Not among the top eight

Port9 of 124Not among the top eight

OpsLevel7 of 121Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud6 of 121Not among the top eight

Roadie6 of 121Not among the top eight

Atlassian Compass4 of 120Not among the top eight

Configure83 of 120Not among the top eight

Cycloid3 of 120Not among the top eight

Humanitec3 of 120Not among the top eight

Port.io2 of 121Not among the top eight

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 IDP. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Harness IDP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

port.io7

cycloid.io6

gartner.com6

harness.ioYour site6

cortex.io5

dupple.com5

humanitec.com5

itechguides.com5

devx.com4

platformengineering.org4

Forty-seven of the fifty-three domain citations in answers naming Harness IDP came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-developer-portals6

port.io/blog/top-5-internal-developer-platform-tools6

dupple.com/learn/best-internal-developer-portals5

itechguides.com/best/internal-developer-portals5

devx.com/web-development-zone/internal-developer-portals4

harness.io/products/internal-developer-portal4

humanitec.com/internal-developer-portal4

platformengineering.org/blog/what-is-an-internal-developer-portal4

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 IDP takes 0% of first choices and Port takes 53%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “internal developer portal”

Position for “internal developer portals”

Searches for its name, Google: 140 a month (“harness idp”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 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

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

12 ads · 5 video, 4 text, 3 image · 6 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as Harness. Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 10 in the year, 2 before. 6 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 52 in developer portals

Segment leader

53%

Port

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: in 12 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 IDP

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Harness IDP; a claim can dispute any of them.

Harness Internal Developer Portal 2

Follow Harness IDP

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Harness is the company behind Harness IDP.

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On record

Company records

Also from Harness: Harness Cloud Cost Management, Harness Cost Management, Harness FME, Harness Feature Flags, Harness Internal Developer Portal

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Streamline developer workflows and reduce cognitive overload with self-service onboarding for new applications and environments.
developer.harness.io/university/idp
For: engineers looking to deepen their understanding and expertise in Harness
developer.harness.io/university/idp
Certifications: Internal Developer Portal - DeveloperInternal Developer Portal - AdministratorInternal Developer Portal - Architect
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers

What Harness IDP's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: developer.harness.io/university/idp, developer.harness.io/internal-developer-portal/use-idp/plugins, developer.harness.io/internal-developer-portal/use-idp/scorecards, developer.harness.io/internal-developer-portal/new-to-idp/overview, developer.harness.io/internal-developer-portal/use-idp/git-experience. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Harness IDP's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Harness IDP, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Harness IDP by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Harness IDP 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 IDP, 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.