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Chaos Monkey vs Harness Chaos Engineering

Both stand on chaos engineering platforms. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Choose Harness Chaos Engineering if you need scheduled resilience experiments with blast-radius controls and Kubernetes, cloud, or network fault injection. The Free Plan provides Harness Open Source and Litmus Chaos; teams wanting standard or premier support should look at the paid plans, which begin through Contact Sales.

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The facts

	Chaos Monkey	Harness Chaos Engineering
Free plan	Not published	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux	Web
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	3
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	github.com	harness.io
On chaos engineering platforms	#24 of 25	#20 of 25

Chaos Monkey: what it does well

Harness Chaos Engineering: what it does well

Supports Kubernetes, cloud, and network fault injection
Experiments can be scheduled
Blast-radius controls manage experiment scope
Hybrid deployment model
Free Plan includes Harness Open Source and Litmus Chaos

What to know first

Free Plan support is community support
Essentials and Enterprise use Contact Sales

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