Harness vs. LaunchDarkly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Harness
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Harness, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Founded in 2016, Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight.N/A
LaunchDarkly
Score 7.6 out of 10
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LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Pricing
HarnessLaunchDarkly
Editions & Modules
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Foundation
$12
per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
Enterprise
Custom
Guardian
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HarnessLaunchDarkly
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
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User Ratings
HarnessLaunchDarkly
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10.0
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7.0
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Usability
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7.4
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Availability
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10.0
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Performance
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8.1
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Support Rating
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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Configurability
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8.0
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Ease of integration
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8.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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User Testimonials
HarnessLaunchDarkly
Likelihood to Recommend
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Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production. I would say it is less well suited for toggling features permanently for users as this requires more integration with our backend and billing systems that would be a lot of work to set up.
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Pros
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  • Feature Flag Management: It's like magic. With a flip of a switch, you can manage feature rollouts to visitors or accounts across the web and mobile applications!
  • Segmentation: Create a segment of visitors or accounts and then use that to target a feature flag rule. Really easy to use and saves so much time.
  • Ease of Use: Seamless copy/paste functionality, really clear status indicators so you can find what is on and for whom.
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Cons
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  • It would be nice to see a feature flag's settings against all environments at once.
  • It would be to have a "array" type flag for related but different settings (eg, enableA and enableB could be enable: [a, b]).
  • It would be nice have customizable columns on the Users page (eg, if I want to inject a new meta data).
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Likelihood to Renew
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It fits out business case
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Usability
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It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.
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Reliability and Availability
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No issue with availability at all
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Performance
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From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.
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Support Rating
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The overall support is very responsive
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Implementation Rating
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Yes I do.
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Alternatives Considered
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Rollout is another dedicated feature flag tool that can be used to manage features. LaunchDarkley offers all the features of an enterprise level tool, unlike Rollout, reserves the security features for the Enterprise plan. Out of box integrations are limited but they do have a well documented REST API.
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Scalability
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The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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Return on Investment
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  • Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
  • Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
  • Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.
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ScreenShots

Harness Screenshots

Screenshot of Harness

LaunchDarkly Screenshots

Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.Screenshot of where track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.Screenshot of how to target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in a product.Screenshot of where to design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels, and measure multi-step user journeys. This is used to determine whether conversions are succeeding, with all metrics visible in one place.