Harness vs Torq

Harness — Application · Private · Late-stage · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Torq — Application · Private · Late-stage · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Security Testing Agent and Torq Auto Triage both list threat detection and response; Harness's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 shared capabilitiesShared product type

3 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list agent orchestration, threat detection and response and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sells

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent, agent platform, application and 1 more.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldHarnessTorq
StageLate-stageLate-stage match
Founded20172020 3 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USATel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationThreat detection and responseWorkflow automation

Not verified for Torq · 6

Agentic codingCode reviewData analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetySummarization

Recorded for Harness. Torq’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Harness · 1

Knowledge retrieval

Recorded for Torq. Harness’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Harness

Application

AI DLC InsightsApplication

Engineering-intelligence module that tracks DORA metrics, developer productivity and AI coding-tool spend together: which AI tools teams use, token consumption by developer, team, agent and model, AI-authored code and its effect on delivery.

AI FirewallApplication

AI Firewall blocks prompt injection, evasion, and malicious payloads targeting AI applications.

AI PostureApplication

AI Posture discovers AI assets and agents and assesses their security posture.

AI SREApplication

Correlates deployment, feature flag, and infrastructure changes during incidents.

AI and Cloud CostsApplication

AI and Cloud Costs translates natural-language governance intent into cloud rules and remediates violations automatically.

API Advanced ProtectionApplication

Detects and blocks API attacks, bots and Layer 7 DDoS with behavioral AI trained on live traffic, covering credential stuffing, account takeover and business-logic abuse such as BOLA and mass assignment.

AI agent

Cost Management AgentAI agent

Tracks cloud and AI spending and automatically fixes waste.

Runtime Protection AgentAI agent

Blocks prompt injection and unsafe model output.

Security Testing AgentAI agent

Uses agents to triage and remediate software vulnerabilities.

Software Delivery AgentAI agent

Automates CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code delivery.

Agent platform

Worker AgentsAgent platform

Governed AI agents defined in a committed file that run inside Harness pipelines on events such as CI failures and pull requests, with prebuilt agents for autofix, code review, code coverage, feature-flag cleanup, manifest remediation and IaCM remediation.

Platform

Harness PlatformPlatform

AI-native software delivery platform: pipelines and canary deployments, AI security testing, runtime API and AI protection, cost management and policy governance, driven by AI agents that recommend while people decide.

Torq

Application

Torq Case ManagementApplication

Torq Case Management supports security incident investigation, collaboration, and response within the Torq AI SOC Platform.

AI agent

Torq Auto TriageAI agent

An agentic engine that ingests and triages security alerts: normalizes them to OCSF, enriches with threat intelligence and business context, assigns verdicts with reasoning, suppresses noise, and escalates high-confidence threats to Torq Case Management and response agents.

Torq HyperAgentsAI agent

Specialized, customizable AI agents that investigate, manage, and respond to security cases across the full threat lifecycle, operating as a coordinated team under Torq Socrates; an Agentic Builder lets teams describe a goal in natural language to have a new HyperAgent planned, built and tested.

Torq SocratesAI agent

An AI agent for security-operations teams that triages alerts, investigates cases with data pulled from connected tools, and carries out containment and remediation, with analysts able to review.

Agent platform

Torq Context Graph and Memory LayerAgent platform

Technology layer under the Torq AI SOC Platform: a continuously updated graph of identities, assets and policies from the security stack, plus memory of analyst verdicts and decisions, that grounds every agentic triage and investigation decision.

Torq HyperautomationAgent platform

Security workflow-automation foundation of the Torq AI SOC Platform: build agentic or deterministic automations in minutes, with AI generating integrations to connect the security stack in seconds.

Platform

Torq AI SOC PlatformPlatform

Torq AI SOC Platform combines agentic AI and automation for security triage, investigation, containment, and remediation.

No counterpart

Harness sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Torq yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

AI Code ReviewDeveloper tool

Reviews pull requests by grouping diffs by risk so the riskiest changes come first, enforcing required checks that cannot be bypassed, and citing delivery history and the knowledge graph for context.

AI EvalsDeveloper tool

Scores AI-agent responses for faithfulness, relevance, and task completion.

AI SASTDeveloper tool

AI SAST scans agent-generated code and provides AI-generated fix suggestions.

AI SCADeveloper tool

AI SCA applies reachability analysis and EPSS scoring to open-source risk detection.

AgentTraceDeveloper tool

Monitors AI-agent LLM calls, tool calls, and decisions.

Harness AI Test AutomationDeveloper tool

Creates intent-based tests and runs them within CI/CD pipelines with AI-assisted failure analysis.