<yes><yes> SaaS, Hybrid, and On-Premises‍

With Harness you can choose between using Harness Cloud (Harness hosted builds), using a SaaS platform with self-hosted build environment, or a fully self-hosted solution

<with><with> Self-Managed only‍

CloudBees CI is fully self-hosted

<yes><yes> Cloud-Native‍

Harness CI offer modern Cloud-Native enterprise-ready CI solution

<with><with> Based on Jenkins‍

CloudBees CI is based on Jenkins, a traditional automation server, carrying many downsides of the Grandfather of CI such as security vulnerabilities, heavily scripted pipelines, etc.

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Declarative Yaml‍

Declarative, readable and easy to use yaml syntax that enabled any developer to create and maintain pipelines.

<with><with> Scripted (most common)

While declarative yaml is available, most users use Groovy-based domain specific languages with complex scripting, and use scripted templates.

<yes><yes> Built in Visual Editor‍

Built-in visual editor that is fully integrated with Git, allowing anyone to easily author pipelines.

<no><no> Inactive Blue Ocean Plugin‍

Pipelines are typically defined in a file in a source repository, and edited as text. There is a community project Blue Ocean that provides limited visualization but is no longer maintained.

<yes><yes> Built in YAML Editor‍

IDE-like built-in yaml editor with auto-complete and schema validation, makes it easy to author pipeline as code. The editor is fully integrated with Git

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<yes><yes> Multiple types of Community plugin‍

Harness allows you to leverage many types of community plugins: Drone plugins, Github Actions and Bitrise integration

<with><with> Community + Proprietary plugins‍

CloudBees CI includes proprietary plugins designed for large organizations, and supports Jenkins Community plugins.

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<yes><yes> Native and simple‍

Open Policy Agent (OPA) based pipeline policies integrated in the platform, allowing you to meet security needs

<no><no> with scripted pipelines‍

Scripted pipelines are dynamic in nature, making it challenging to set pipeline policies.

Flexible & Intuitive

<with><with> Limited and complex

Free & Paid‍

Harness CI is licensed per developer. Credits for Harness hosted builds are available as add-on.

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Paid

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Native and Simple

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Complex Configuration

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Native and simple

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Complex configuration

<yes><yes> Low efforts (if any)‍

Our SaaS platform take this burden of the customer, while upgrading our self-managed solution require low efforts

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Efforts extensive

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with paid plans

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