Harness Chaos Engineering

Freemium#3 of 25 in Chaos Engineering Platforms

Harness Chaos Engineering: A free hybrid-cloud option with strong experiment controls and broad infrastructure coverage. Ranked #3 of 25 in Chaos Engineering Platforms by our editors (9.0/10); pricing: Free plan; best for teams wanting free hybrid cloud coverage.

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At a glance

Editor score
9.0 / 10
Pricing
Free plan
Best for
Teams wanting free hybrid cloud coverage
Free plan
Yes
Kubernetes support
Yes
Facts checked
20 Sep 2026

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

Our verdict on Harness Chaos Engineering

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 with probes and resilience scores. Coverage includes Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, bare metal, ECS, RDS, and Lambda, making it suitable for organizations testing more than one infrastructure layer or cloud environment.

The Free Plan is the clearest entry point. It costs 0 and includes Harness Open Source, Litmus Chaos, and community support. Its experiment controls cover Kubernetes pod, node, network, CPU, memory, I/O, and service faults, along with cloud-resource faults for AWS, GCP, and Azure services. Teams can schedule recurring experiments with cron-based execution, set blast-radius limits, add approval gates, run automatic resilience probes, and connect experiments to CI/CD pipelines. A prebuilt fault library and experiment templates can help structure common scenarios.

The Essentials Plan adds an all-in-one DevOps bundle with CI, CD, IaC, and security in one plan, plus standard support. The Enterprise Plan allows teams to choose modules and includes enterprise-grade features in every module, premier support, and a dedicated account manager. Both paid plans are contact-sales offerings. The product uses a Harness control plane, while chaos infrastructure is deployed in the target Kubernetes environment, so platform teams should account for that operating model. Pick Harness Chaos Engineering for broad, controlled experimentation with a free hybrid-cloud starting point; choose an alternative if you need a simpler standalone scheduling tool or a fully self-contained deployment model.

Questions about Harness Chaos Engineering

Does Harness Chaos Engineering have a free plan? Yes, there is a free plan.

What does Harness Chaos Engineering run on? Web. It runs in the cloud and self-hosted.

What does Harness Chaos Engineering integrate with? 9 integrations, including Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and VMware.

Who is Harness Chaos Engineering built for? Small businesses, mid-market companies and enterprises (our editorial estimate).

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Harness Chaos Engineering pricing

Plans Free planFreemium A usable free plan; paid tiers unlock the limits above. Prices checked 20 Sep 2026.

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Harness Chaos Engineering fact sheet

Free plan	Yes
Paid from	Not verified
Kubernetes support	Yes
Cloud fault injection	Yes
Network fault injection	Yes
Experiment scheduling	Yes
Deployment model	Hybrid
Blast-radius controls	Yes
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web
Support	Community, Docs
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate)
Integrations	9 integrations: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, bare metal …
Pricing	Free plan (source)
Website	harness.io
Facts checked	20 Sep 2026

Harness Chaos Engineering integrations

Harness Chaos Engineering lists 9 integrations on its own site.

Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
VMware
bare metal
ECS
RDS
Lambda

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