# Harness vs Woodpecker CI

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Woodpecker CI

| Attribute | Harness | Woodpecker CI |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 43.3 (29% (low)) | 59.9 (43% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 4 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 7,753 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A comprehensive software delivery platform combining continuous integration, deployment, and feature management with AI-driven automation to help teams ship code faster and more reliably across complex cloud environments. | An open source continuous integration and deployment platform that uses Docker containers to execute pipeline steps on self-hosted distributed agents. It supports multiple workflows, dynamic scaling, and extensibility through a plugin ecosystem. |
| features.capabilities | `{"caching":false,"hosting":"cloud","marketplace":false,"matrix_builds":false,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":false,"secrets_management":false,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":false}` | `{"hosting":"self","marketplace":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"self_hosted_runners":true}` |
| integrations.count | 8 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"mParticle"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Sumo Logic"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Plan","description":"For individual developers and small teams","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Essentials Plan","description":"For growing organizations with small to mid-size teams","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Plan","description":"For large-scale organizations with complex needs","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free plan available. Commercial plans require contacting sales for pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.harness.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:40:04.981Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free and open source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://woodpecker-ci.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:34:09.060Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 23 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.18.0","date":"2026-08-24T09:38:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.17.0","date":"2026-07-31T14:08:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.16.0","date":"2026-06-27T11:45:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.15.0","date":"2026-05-28T10:40:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.14.1","date":"2026-05-12T11:09:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.14.0","date":"2026-05-01T09:28:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.14.0-rc.2","date":"2026-04-27T12:52:05Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.14.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.14.0-rc.1","date":"2026-04-15T10:18:01Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.14.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.14.0-rc.0","date":"2026-04-01T13:00:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.14.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.13.0","date":"2026-01-14T12:26:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.12.0","date":"2025-11-18T17:26:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.11.0","date":"2025-10-19T16:18:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.11.0-rc.0","date":"2025-10-02T06:17:53Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.11.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.10.0","date":"2025-09-28T20:18:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.9.0","date":"2025-08-20T20:54:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.8.0","date":"2025-07-05T07:43:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2025-06-06T16:53:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.6.0","date":"2025-05-07T11:48:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.5.2","date":"2025-04-15T20:13:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/releases/tag/v3.5.1","date":"2025-04-04T09:24:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.1"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.1 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":3,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fwoodpecker-ci%2Fwoodpecker&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (CI/CD Tools)

| Capability | Harness | Woodpecker CI |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Self-hosted only |
| 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:14:55.770Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*