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Harness vs LaunchDarkly 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Harness
Ranking in Feature Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (7th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Cloud Cost Management (9th)
LaunchDarkly
Ranking in Feature Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Feature Management category, the mindshare of Harness is 25.6%, down from 50.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LaunchDarkly is 18.3%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Feature Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Harness25.6%
LaunchDarkly18.3%
Other56.099999999999994%
Feature Management
 

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.
reviewer2769948 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Software Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Has increased developer confidence by enabling safe production releases using targeted feature toggles
I wish we were using more targeting in our feature toggles and I wish we were using more feature toggles as well as feature toggle dependencies. Making one feature toggle or one set of feature toggles dependent on another one would allow us to turn them all on or turn them all off at one time. For improvements in LaunchDarkly, managing team members and access to those team members was challenging. We could add team members through Terraform and do it programmatically, and then modify it through the user interface. However, once we started modifying things through the interface, we weren't able to go back to using any configuration programmatically for the team members. It made it challenging to orchestrate team member management. The other aspect I wasn't particularly fond of was when they started adding AI to the interface and deployment interface. It reminded me of old school wizards when installing software and simplified the interface too much, removing some of the engineering control I preferred.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The features of Harness are valuable, supporting rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime."
"Production deployments are faster and more reliable, especially for Kubernetes and cloud-based services, with significant reduction in deployment-related incidents, faster recovery when issues occur, faster, more confident releases, increased deployment frequency with higher confidence, and better governance and compliance that improved visibility and coordination across Dev, QA, Ops, and SRE teams."
"By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time and also reduced risks of failures or error rates by upwards of 70%."
"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place."
"Harness starts integrating with organizations, making everything automated without the need for manual interruption."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"Everything in Harness is configured and runs smoothly."
"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place, making it convenient."
"I appreciate that we can release any feature in production and maintain control over it."
"The setup is easy."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I like that it offers the ability to control the flags."
"From the development side, it allows us to manage multiple things."
"The ability to turn off a flag is crucial when a task is not complete, especially if there is an error in a commit."
"These features in my current project have helped my team because they allow us to specifically target users to start turning on functionality, we can monitor the behavior and make sure that it's behaving as expected when the feature toggle is turned on, and then we can increase the usage."
"It has really helped during the series of product lines and faster deployment and faster development."
 

Cons

"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"The first point for improvement is the steep learning curve, where concepts such as services, environment, pipelines, and templates take time to understand."
"When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur. Improvements are needed when deploying one component to one environment."
"Even with automation, there's a requirement for manual change requests for approvals."
"Infrastructure as code or pipeline as code is something that Harness severely lacks."
"Harness setup and configurations could be made easier to configure, which would be helpful."
"I prefer the previous less compact UI version of Harness, which showed more details on the screen."
"When integrating Harness with more than twenty applications in one place, it becomes less stable, causing improvements to be necessary."
"Fetching information about multiple flags in a single action would be beneficial."
"I have used LaunchDarkly for around two and a half years and I haven't faced any issues with it."
"Right now, no improvements are needed."
"The feature where one feature flag is dependent on another could be explored more for our usage."
"Managing team members and access to those team members was challenging. We could add team members through Terraform and do it programmatically, and then modify it through the user interface. However, once we started modifying things through the interface, we weren't able to go back to using any configuration programmatically for the team members."
"We need experience to use it, and the initial setup can be difficult. Also, sometimes it has breakdowns."
"When the system has an excessive number of feature flags, managing them can become cumbersome."
"I strongly believe they need to develop a strategy for handling situations where LaunchDarkly goes down."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
University
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

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 LaunchDarkly?
At my current organization, I have no experience with licensing and setup cost. However, at my previous organization, I wasn't making any decisions but got some visibility into the pricing and usag...
What needs improvement with LaunchDarkly?
I wish we were using more targeting in our feature toggles and I wish we were using more feature toggles as well as feature toggle dependencies. Making one feature toggle or one set of feature togg...
What is your primary use case for LaunchDarkly?
Currently, my main use case for LaunchDarkly is as a consumer. The application that I'm using uses LaunchDarkly as feature toggles. We toggle our flags on and off depending on what environment they...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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