Every category where a model named Harness 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
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	10 of 43	17%	12	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Feature flags	Developer platform	0%	17 of 35	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by Flagsmith at 25%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Internal developer portals	Developer platform	0%	13 of 52	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Port at 53%
API security platforms	Security operations	0%	77 of 93	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Aikido Security at 12%
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	164 of 233	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%

Movement

Since September 2026, Harness held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · CI/CD · by segment

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 51 → 29 of 39

Mid-market=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 8 → 11 of 39

Enterprise▲+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 10 → 7 of 43

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
CI/CD	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 8 → 10 of 43
Feature flags	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 11 → 17 of 35
Developer portals	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 13 of 52, unchanged
API security	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 77 of 93, unchanged
AI security	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 164 of 233, unchanged

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 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.20	1	4	0	5
Mistral Small	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

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

Direct12 labels1

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative19 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained22 labelsNone

Negative19 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative84 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.

“If compliance, governance, or enterprise controls matter most, TeamCity, GitLab, and Harness are frequently highlighted” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · comparative prompt · alternative

“Harness excels at automated canary deployments, GitOps, and cloud cost management. The Catch: They can be overkill” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · alternative

“Choose Harness if: You want rapid deployment, automated governance, and deep CI/CD integration” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Developer portals · comparative prompt · alternative

“Modern platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Harness are preferred” Mistral Small · CI/CD · negative 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.

“Avoid if: You want a highly independent tool and do not want to be locked into or upsold on a massive, unified DevOps suite.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Feature flags · negative prompt · soft negative

“Harness completed its merger with Traceable on March 4, 2025... confirm the product's current roadmap, support ownership” GPT-6 Luna · API security · negative prompt · soft negative

“It has a steeper learning curve, is overkill for simpler applications, and comes with a premium price tag.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“automated verification, and secrets management, but usually more expensive.” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Harness, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harness was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitLab CI/CD49 of 8421Not among the top eight

GitHub Actions45 of 8419Not among the top eight

Jenkins43 of 840Not among the top eight

CircleCI34 of 840Not among the top eight

Azure DevOps29 of 842Not among the top eight

JetBrains TeamCity24 of 840Not among the top eight

LaunchDarkly17 of 846Not among the top eight

Argo CD17 of 840Not among the top eight

Flagsmith16 of 843Not among the top eight

Unleash14 of 843Not 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. 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 75 of the 84 answers that named Harness and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

harness.ioYour site50

blog.jetbrains.com34

atlassian.com20

siit.io19

learn.g2.com18

northflank.com18

accelq.com16

octopus.com16

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com15

linkedin.com15

171 of the 221 domain citations in answers naming Harness came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools33

siit.io/blog/best-ci-cd-tools18

learn.g2.com/best-continuous-delivery-tools17

accelq.com/blog/continuous-integration-tools16

atlassian.com/devops/devops-tools/cicd-tools14

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-202512

northflank.com/blog/best-ci-cd-tools12

harness.io/blog/continuous-delivery-tools11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

harness.io ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Harness takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ci/cd platform”

Position for “ci/cd platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 60,500 a month (“harness”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 55,100 a month
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 10 of 43 in CI/CD

Segment leader

68%

GitHub Actions

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 84 answers
Its own site cited: in 75 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on harness.io

10,003

subdomains included

Content

1,641

counted in the table below

Documentation

7,581

Product · Integration

88 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	944	169	2026-09-28	Feature flags, FinOps
News or press	146	21	2026-08-14	FinOps, Feature flags
Comparison	128	49	2026-09-28	FinOps, Feature flags
Glossary or explainer	121	54	2026-09-21	FinOps, IaC
Case study	84	58	2026-09-28	Feature flags, FinOps
Conference or event	84	6	2026-10-26
Template or tool	77	11	2026-09-28	ITSM
Webinar or virtual event	32	4	2026-10-14	Feature flags
Report or ebook	25	13	2026-09-16	Feature flags

Most recent

2026-10-26Cio roundtable dinner chicago conference or event
2026-10-22Vip nfl suite experience ne patriots at chi bears conference or event
2026-10-14The autonomous software delivery lifecycle moving at ai speed without losing control conference or event
2026-10-14Live demo cma webinar or virtual event
2026-10-13Stockholm harness fsi event conference or event
2026-10-07Cicd webinar or virtual event

Events in person

Last twelve months

September 24, 2026{unscripted} London Executive Lunch 2026The Library Room, Convene Sancroft, St Paul's, London · hosted
September 23, 2026{unscripted} 2026 London Partner Forum DinnerGaucho City of London 1 Bell Inn Yard, London EC3V 0BL, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom · hosted
September 15, 2026{unscripted} 2026 Chicago Partner Forum BreakfastBeatrix 834 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607, Chicago · hosted

As the event pages on harness.io state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page harness.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Harness

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

Harness Enterprise 1

Follow Harness

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 its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI Platform for the Autonomous SDLC
harness.io
For: enterprise scale
harness.io
Price stated: One free tier, one all-in-one bundle, and one fully modular plan. No hidden fees, no per-pipeline charges. harness.io/pricing
Starting price: 0 harness.io/pricing
Free plan or trial: Try the full platform free. No module restrictions, no credit card. harness.io
Certifications: SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPRDORANIS2ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27001 SoAISO/IEC 27017:2015
Hosting: AWSAzureGoogle CloudOn-Premise Infrastructuresprivate cloud setups
Customers named: MorningstarUnited AirlinesCitiCitibankPlayQDigiCertADPSpeedway Motors
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Harness's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: harness.io, harness.io/pricing, trust.harness.io, harness.io/demo/platform, harness.io/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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'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, 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 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Harness 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, 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.