Overview
Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) is the former Split product. Harness, a CI/CD platform vendor led by Jyoti Bansal, announced on 29 May 2024 that it would acquire Split Software, with financial terms undisclosed, and said Split would be folded into the Harness brand[7]. FME covers feature flags with progressive rollouts and kill switches, versioned and schema-validated configs including AI configs for swapping prompts and models, A/B and multivariate experimentation with sequential testing and guardrail metrics, a warehouse-native experimentation mode, release monitoring with automated rollback triggers, and governance through role-based access, policies, approvals and audit trails[6].
Harness also offers a Feature Flag Cleanup Agent that finds stale flags and drafts pull requests, and its AI assistant explains experiment results[6]. The product page lists a free plan for individual developers and small teams; on Harness’s main pricing page, FME appears as a module of the Enterprise plan, priced by quotation[6][8]. Tight coupling with Harness pipelines is the main advantage for existing Harness customers, while teams on other CI/CD tools gain less from it and face opaque pricing above the free tier.
What Harness does
- Progressive rollouts and kill switches
- Configs and AI configs
- Warehouse-native experimentation
- Release monitoring with automated rollback
- Feature Flag Cleanup Agent
- Approvals and audit trails
- CI and CD with GitOps
- Infrastructure-as-code management
Harness pricing
Free plan for individual developers and small teams; paid FME is a module of the Harness Enterprise plan, priced by quotation.
Harness strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Integrated with Harness CI/CD
- Warehouse-native experiments
- Stale-flag cleanup automation
- Strong governance controls
- Broad modular platform
- Strong governance for large enterprises
Limitations
- Paid pricing unpublished
- Most value inside Harness ecosystem
- Split brand transition may confuse documentation searches
- Enterprise orientation
- Paid prices not published
- Essentials cloud-only
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