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Harness vs North Cloud comparison

 

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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
7.3
Harness enhanced deployment efficiency and error reduction, yielding significant ROI through automation and AI-driven cost-saving strategies.
Sentiment score
5.2
North Cloud users saw a 25% ROI by reducing resource waste, cutting costs, and simplifying billing, saving time and effort.
The biggest ROI comes from faster software delivery and improved engineering productivity.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The AI features that they have and with which we can rewrite the pipeline and troubleshoot issues significantly saved time.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 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
I did not need more employees and was able to reduce headcount by a ratio of one to three because North Cloud performs the work that other engineers would do.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
I have seen a return on investment through time saved and achieving 10 to 30% cloud cost savings by optimizing my environment and reducing idle resource wastage.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
Harness offers reliable, responsive customer service and well-structured documentation, providing efficient issue resolution and high user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
5.4
North Cloud's customer service is praised for friendliness, helpfulness, and responsiveness, despite occasional response delays.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
We have not faced any customer support issues, with tickets resolved in less than a four-day SLA.
Quality Engineering Lead at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
I have not required extensive customer support involvement, as the documentation is well-structured.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We reached out during onboarding, and they were very responsive and technically helpful.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Customer support for North Cloud is really good, as I receive responses within a timely manner.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Customer support for North Cloud is great; they are friendly.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Harness effectively scales SaaS environments, supports complex workflows, but may face stability issues with simultaneous service integrations.
Sentiment score
5.7
North Cloud offers scalable, stable solutions with efficient multi-cloud support, enhanced dashboard speed, and no reported downtime issues.
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
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
It handles increasing complexity in deployment pipelines and maintains high release frequency without any issues.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
North Cloud is scalable in a way that when you are growing your enterprise, it grows with you.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud's scalability is excellent, as it handles growth and changes in our cloud environment well.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
It is optimized for multi-accounts and multi-cloud environments, with a better caching mechanism for frequent queries.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Harness is considered stable and reliable, although integration with many applications may occasionally affect stability.
Sentiment score
8.0
North Cloud offers reliable performance with stable uptime, efficient cost reporting, and source-based billing reliability despite minor update delays.
Deployment pipelines, rollback systems, and performance reliability have been excellent even during high deployment activity.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Harness is completely stable, and we are using it in production without facing any stability issues at all.
Quality Engineering Lead at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
I have not seen any downtime in the tool.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud is stable as we have not experienced any downtime or issues.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
The output of North Cloud is very efficient and reliable, providing appropriate answers with high accuracy in cost reporting and billing source-based reliability.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Simplify configuration, improve UI, expand features, clarify pricing, and enhance security to improve accessibility and functionality for smaller teams.
North Cloud should expand AWS savings plans, improve multilingual support, enhance AI, and offer better customer service and integration.
There is not a lot of good support for pipeline as code, and I often find myself not using pipeline as code the way other platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins integrate pipeline as code.
Technical Associate at ZS
Improved documentation and onboarding tutorials would help accelerate adoption.
Cloud Platform at Futurescape
One key area for improvement is simplifying the onboarding of new users; the reduction of platform complexity will help new users understand how all components interact, which feels initially very difficult.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
This isn't a limitation on the North side, as they were able to rapidly add support for the existing database savings plans offerings when they launched, but more of an AWS limitation.
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I would like to see additional savings for RDS and data transfer, as that would help my organization.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
 

Setup Cost

Harness pricing is higher than open-source but justified by benefits, with room for improvement in licensing cost noted.
North Cloud offers flexible, affordable pricing and easy setup, appealing to enterprises needing quick implementation without long-term commitments.
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
However, once Harness was fully integrated into our workflow, the operational benefits became clear, justifying the investment for our use case, despite the slightly higher cost for smaller teams.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The licensing cost is a little bit too high.
Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Pricing for North Cloud is acceptable at $99 per month, which is affordable.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
The setup cost is low with minimal infrastructure efforts needed, as it is fully cloud-based and requires cloud account integrations, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, billing access setup, and roles and permission configurations.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
With our North Cloud account, we can take advantage of cost savings without committing to a contract, which makes it flexible for seasons when usage fluctuates.
Co-Founder at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Harness simplifies CI/CD automation with AI-driven processes, enhancing deployment speed and reliability while reducing risks and manual effort.
North Cloud provides seamless multi-cloud support, cost-saving insights, intuitive tools, and real-time analytics for effective financial management.
Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The platform also supports cloud-native environments and Kubernetes deployments, making pipeline management easier, and its automation capabilities significantly improve speed and reliability.
Cloud Platform at Futurescape
The unified platform through Harness is extremely valuable because it has reduced our tool sprawl; instead of maintaining separate CI/CD, feature flagging, and verification tools, we can now manage everything effectively.
ML Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
North Cloud has positively impacted our organization because we are aware of what we will incur in terms of the cost of using AWS or GCP. It has really helped us to save more, which was not happening in the past.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
The unique aspect of the real-time analytics feature is that instead of logging into Google Cloud Platform, I can log into North Cloud and see exactly how the usage breaks down across CPU, RAM, storage, and network components.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Categories and Ranking

Harness
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (8th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (12th), Feature Management (2nd)
North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
10th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Harness is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of North Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Harness2.2%
North Cloud1.2%
Other96.6%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

MK
Technical Associate at ZS
Templatized pipelines have improved efficiency while limitations in code-based development remain
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, which feel much more lively and much more simple. Infrastructure as code or pipeline as code is something that Harness severely lacks. There is not a lot of good support for pipeline as code, and I often find myself not using pipeline as code the way other platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins integrate pipeline as code. Pipeline as code is definitely one of the disadvantages when it comes to Harness. Additionally, the entire platform feels very commercialized, which is something that a lot of developers, especially open-source enthusiasts, might not appreciate even within the organization. One of the very important key factors I observed was that 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. There is no way to execute nested pipeline execution, which may or may not be required based on the use case, but it is definitely one of those features that I wish the platform had.
AmandeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Improved cloud cost governance has enabled precise budgeting, monitoring, and waste reduction
For North Cloud's improvement, I would suggest enhancing its AI capabilities, adding advanced AI/ML features, improving real-time cost tracking to reduce the delay between cloud usage and dashboard updates, enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit, as well as deeper cloud integrations beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP to Kubernetes cost tracking, improving tagging governance, and providing automatic detection of missing and incorrect cloud tags, plus AI-based tagging recommendations and a better user experience with more modern and interactive dashboards for easier navigation for non-technical users. For needed improvements, I would add that there should be easier navigation for non-technical users for the financial team and a simplified onboarding for new users, along with advanced alerting systems, smart alert thresholds using historical trends, predictive alerts, and multi-channel notifications via Slack, Teams, email, and PagerDuty.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Construction Company
30%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Harness?
There are some UI components that can be improved. The needed UI improvements include more graphs, more history, the ability to create pipelines through the UI, and more interactions, with UI compo...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
My main use case for Harness is to create pipelines, deploy applications, and manage security pipelines. I use Harness to deploy applications to EC2 instances and Kubernetes instances, and I create...
What advice do you have for others considering Harness?
My advice for others looking into using Harness is to use AI capabilities, create pipelines, and then use it to deploy. Harness is a good tool. I would rate this review a nine out of ten.
What needs improvement with North Cloud?
North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list. I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS adds additional savings vehicles.
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
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