# Harness vs Semaphore

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Semaphore

| Attribute | Harness | Semaphore |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 50.8 (24% (low)) | 62.5 (70% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A DevOps platform integrating continuous integration, continuous delivery, security testing orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code management. It supports multi-cloud, on-premises, serverless, and hybrid deployments with policy-as-code governance and automated deployment strategies including canary releases and blue-green deployments. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"What is Harness?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Harness does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Essentials and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"How much does Harness cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Harness supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Harness support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Harness can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"Can Harness be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 32 integrations for Harness, including Google Analytics, mParticle, Segment, Sentry, Datadog, Jira, New Relic and Sumo Logic, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"What does Harness integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Harness. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Harness not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.harness.io/products/security-testing-orchestration/features","question":"What security certifications does Harness have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Harness is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","question":"Where is Harness available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An all-in-one continuous integration and delivery platform designed for modern cloud development, offering both open-source self-hosted and cloud-hosted options for building and deploying applications. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://semaphore.io/","question":"What is Semaphore?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Semaphore offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://semaphore.io/","question":"Is Semaphore free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Semaphore. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://semaphore.io/blog/2013/03/07/semaphore-pricing-update-with-higher-plans.html","question":"What platforms does Semaphore support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Semaphore can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://semaphore.io/","question":"Can Semaphore be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for Semaphore. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Semaphore not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://semaphore.io/","question":"What security certifications does Semaphore have?","confidence":0.48}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source development infrastructure combining version control, automated pipelines, hosted development environments, and artifact management in a single system. | A delivery platform that combines CI/CD capabilities with AI-driven features through a command-line interface. |
| features.capabilities | `{"caching":false,"hosting":"cloud","marketplace":true,"matrix_builds":false,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","matrix_builds":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"self_hosted_runners":true}` |
| integrations.count | 27 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"mParticle"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Sumo Logic"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitLab","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Jenkins","native":true,"category":"ci","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"orchestration","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Dynatrace","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ServiceNow","native":true,"category":"ticketing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenTofu","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Terragrunt","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Snyk","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Semgrep","native":true,"category":"sast","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Checkmarx","native":true,"category":"sast","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Bandit","native":true,"category":"sast","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Sonarqube","native":true,"category":"sast","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Wiz","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"JFrog Artifactory","native":true,"category":"artifact_repository","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo CD","native":false,"category":"gitops","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Flowdock"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free tier","features":["Harness Open Source","Litmus Chaos","Community support"],"description":"For individual developers and small teams","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Essentials","summary":"All-in-one bundle — contact sales","features":["CI","CD","Infrastructure as Code","Security Testing Orchestration","Standard support"],"description":"All-in-one bundle including CI, CD, IaC, and security for growing organizations","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"organizations":"up to 500","code_repository_storage":"250GB","pipeline_execution_history":"6 months"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Fully modular — contact sales","features":["Feature Management & Experimentation","Database DevOps","Artifact Registry","Resilience Testing","Application Security Testing","Web Application & API Protection","AI Security","Cloud AI Cost Management","Self-hosted runners","Deployment freeze windows","Premier support with dedicated account manager"],"description":"Modular platform with mix-and-match modules and enterprise-grade features","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"organizations":"Unlimited","pipeline_execution_history":"25 months"}}],"summary":"Free tier available. Essentials and Enterprise plans require contacting sales.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-03T22:58:43.573Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Compute - Ubuntu ARM","summary":"$0.003–$0.012/min depending on vCPU","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.003,"currency":"USD","specification":"2vCPU"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.006,"currency":"USD","specification":"4vCPU"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.012,"currency":"USD","specification":"8vCPU"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_jobs":"20 by default"}},{"free":false,"name":"Compute - Ubuntu x64","summary":"$0.0075–$0.015/min depending on vCPU","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0075,"currency":"USD","specification":"2vCPU"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.015,"currency":"USD","specification":"4vCPU"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_jobs":"20 by default"}},{"free":false,"name":"Compute - MacOS","summary":"$0.09/min","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD","specification":"4vCPU"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_jobs":"20 by default"}},{"free":false,"name":"Compute - Self-Hosted","summary":"$0.0025/min","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0025,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_jobs":"contact for limits"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Dedicated Cache Server","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":400,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Private Docker Registry","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":400,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Support - Basic","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Support - Priority Response","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Support - SLA Standard","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Support - SLA Premium","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":750,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Success - Visibility","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":125,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Success - Performance","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":300,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Success - Scale","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Success - Alliance","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":2000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Engineering Access","components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":900,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":1250,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":2000,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Pay-per-minute metered compute: $0.0025/min (self-hosted) to $0.09/min (MacOS). Includes 20 concurrent jobs, $15/month free credits, 9.6 GB cache, and free support. Optional modular support and success services.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://semaphore.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T20:21:00.253Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.0025,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.harness.io/blog/an-in-depth-look-at-achieving-slsa-level-3-compliance-with-harness | - |

## Capabilities (CI/CD Tools)

| Capability | Harness | Semaphore |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| Self-hosted runners | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Config-as-code pipelines | ✓ | ✓ |
| Matrix / parallel builds | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Build** |  |  |
| Container-native builds | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Build caching | ✗ | - |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Secrets management | ✓ | - |
| **Delivery** |  |  |
| Deployment environments & approvals | ✓ | - |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| Reusable actions / marketplace | ✓ | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:38:45.875Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*