Harness CI
vs.
CircleCI
UPDATEd ON
13 Feb
2025
Flexible governance
Harness delivers flexible governance at scale through policy-as-code using the Open Policy Agent, native secrets management, and granular RBAC.
High ROI
Harness CI includes selective running of tests based on code changes, caching dependencies, docker layers, and build tasks, thus speeding up builds significantly and reducing the cost of builds.
Secure and fast hosted builds infrastructure
Harness provides native security scanning capability and SLSA L3-compliant lightning-fast build infrastructure/runners.
How does
CircleCI
compare?
CircleCI offers an extensible CI solution that is easy to use. Harness CI is also easy to use and provides features that speed up builds in a cost-effective way while making sure that security and governance are treated as first-class citizens.
Test Intelligence - Faster Builds Through Selective Test Execution
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Test splitting
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Automatic software dependencies caching with Cache Intelligence
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Caching docker layers
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Caching build tasks
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Container & Cloud Native
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Any Source Code Manager
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Containerized Pipelines
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Containerized Plug-ins
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Custom Dashboards
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Security Scanner Integrations - SAST, SCA
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Deduplication of Scanner Results
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Automated Prioritization of Vulnerabilities
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SLSA L3 (v 1.0) - compliant build infrastructure
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Pipeline-as-Code
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Visual Pipeline Editor
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Pipeline Templates
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3rd Party Git Integrations
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3rd Party CI Integrations
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Secrets Management
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Native Approvals
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3rd Party Approvals (SNOW/Jira)
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Policy-as-Code (OPA)
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AI Guidance for Failure Remediation
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Cloud-Agnostic
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Support for Mobile Builds
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Source Code Management
Platform Support
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