Harness Chaos Engineering vs Steadybit

Harness Chaos Engineering9.0Visit SSteadybit8.8Visit

Higher score Harness Chaos Engineering #3 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 9.0/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Harness

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S Steadybit #5 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 8.8/10 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Free trial✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Steadybit

• Harness Chaos Engineering fits best

  Teams wanting free hybrid cloud coverage

• Steadybit fits best

  Enterprise reliability workflows and governance

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Side by side

Feature	Harness Chaos Engineering 9.0/10 Visit ↗	SSteadybit 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.0	8.8
Ranking	#3 in Chaos Engineering Platforms	#5 in Chaos Engineering Platforms
Best for	Teams wanting free hybrid cloud coverage	Enterprise reliability workflows and governance
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Paid
Starting price	—	—
Free plan	✓ (best)	—
Free trial	—	30 days
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Community, Docs	Email, Tickets, Docs
Integrations	9 integrations	28+ integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Harness Chaos Engineering 5/5 · Steadybit 5/5
Kubernetes support	✓	✓
Cloud fault injection	✓	✓
Network fault injection	✓	✓
Experiment scheduling	✓	✓
Blast-radius controls	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment model	Hybrid	Hybrid
Our review
Pros	Free plan covers Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and bare metal Blast-radius limits, approval gates, probes, and scheduled experiments CI/CD integration plus prebuilt faults and experiment templates	No-code experiments with blast-radius controls and emergency stops Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, cloud, networks, hosts, and applications CI/CD, API, CLI, scheduled execution, reports, and audit logs
Cons	Paid-plan pricing requires contacting Harness Free Plan includes community support rather than standard or premier support Chaos infrastructure is deployed in the target Kubernetes environment	Professional and Enterprise plans require contact with Steadybit There is no permanent free plan Advanced governance features are reserved for Enterprise
Our verdict	Harness Chaos Engineering is a resilience-testing product for SRE, platform, QA, and engineering teams. It injects controlled faults into Kubernetes workloads, cloud resources, infrastructure, and network paths, then evaluates behavior… Read the review →	Steadybit is a chaos engineering and reliability testing platform for software, platform, and reliability teams. It helps organizations discover system components, identify reliability risks, design no-code experiments, inject faults, and… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Harness Chaos Engineering — where it wins

  • Free plan covers Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and bare metal
  • Blast-radius limits, approval gates, probes, and scheduled experiments
  • CI/CD integration plus prebuilt faults and experiment templates

  Where it doesn't

  • Paid-plan pricing requires contacting Harness
  • Free Plan includes community support rather than standard or premier support
  • Chaos infrastructure is deployed in the target Kubernetes environment

• Steadybit — where it wins

  • No-code experiments with blast-radius controls and emergency stops
  • Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, cloud, networks, hosts, and applications
  • CI/CD, API, CLI, scheduled execution, reports, and audit logs

  Where it doesn't

  • Professional and Enterprise plans require contact with Steadybit
  • There is no permanent free plan
  • Advanced governance features are reserved for Enterprise

• Harness Chaos Engineering9.0/10 · Free plan

  A free hybrid-cloud option with strong experiment controls and broad infrastructure coverage.

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• SSteadybit8.8/10 · Pricing on request · 30-day trial

  A governed, no-code platform for running controlled reliability experiments at scale.

  Visit SteadybitFull verdict →