General summary
Vanta is a trust management platform focused on compliance automation. The platform unifies compliance and TPRM workflows under a single dashboard, reducing the time and complexity of achieving and maintaining alignment with popular standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Its AI-driven features and API extensibility support varied organizational needs, from startups to large enterprises.
UpGuard is an end-to-end third-party risk management platform with best-in-class time-to-value and scalability from initial implementations to beyond.
UpGuard delivers powerful, integrated tools for automated third-party monitoring, in-depth risk assessment and remediation, and one-click reporting.
By combining actionable insights with built-in risk management workflows, UpGuard helps organizations maintain comprehensive oversight of their supply chain security posture and equips them with the necessary tools to shut down emerging risks rapidly.
UpGuard delivers powerful, integrated tools for automated third-party monitoring, in-depth risk assessment and remediation, and one-click reporting.
By combining actionable insights with built-in risk management workflows, UpGuard helps organizations maintain comprehensive oversight of their supply chain security posture and equips them with the necessary tools to shut down emerging risks rapidly.
SecurityScorecard is a cybersecurity ratings platform that monitors external-facing vendor networks. It aggregates risk signals from various sources to produce vendor security ratings. SecurityScorecard integrates with SIEM and GRC tools and provides insights that mitigate supply chain attacks. However, risk assessment workflows are managed separately via the Atlas module, which can lead to fragmented processes that could delay vendor assessment delivery and impact program efficiency
Bitsight is a cybersecurity ratings platform that continuously monitors organizational and vendor security postures. It collects and analyzes data from multiple sources—including botnet and malware intelligence—to offer evidence-based risk insights. Bitsight also integrates with GRC and TPRM workflows, allowing teams to proactively mitigate threats across their extended supply chain. However, Bitsight’s pricing structure can complicate scalability.
Black Kite is a third-party cyber risk management platform emphasizing external risk visibility, financial impact modeling, and compliance automation. Black Kite uses non-intrusive OSINT-based scans to discover assets and vulnerabilities, presenting findings as easy-to-read letter grades. However, by excluding critical TPRM workflows, Black Kite’s potential for effective third-party risk management is significantly limited.
Key strengths
Vanta's standout strengths include its broad compliance automation capabilities—covering 35+ frameworks—and its robust library of integrations for automatically collecting evidence. Its AI technology accelerates tasks like document reviews and security questionnaires. These combined capabilities reduce manual overhead, providing a unified risk and compliance posture.
UpGuard excels by completing full vendor scans every 24 hours, which provides near real-time visibility into vendor security postures while seamlessly integrating native end-to-end AI-powered vendor assessment workflows.
UpGuard's licensing model and efficient learning curve offer best-in-class time to value and program efficiency.
UpGuard's licensing model and efficient learning curve offer best-in-class time to value and program efficiency.
SecurityScorecard covers an extensive range of cyber intelligence, drawing from open, proprietary, and dark web sources to identify vendor security risks and assess IP reputation risks. SecurityScorecard’s well-known A–F letter grade system makes it approachable for executives and large enterprises.
In addition to risk monitoring, Bitsight employs analytical forecasting to estimate future security trajectories. It integrates with platforms like ServiceNow, JIRA, and PowerBI to suit more advanced workflows. This network of partnerships, coupled with strong institutional acceptance, reinforces Bitsight’s profile with complex organizations.
Black Kite takes a diverse approach to cyber risk quantification with a methodology heavily based on the Open FAIR™ standard. This allows Black Kite to derive their varying cyber risk insights from a consistent quantification base.
Key weaknesses
Vanta is focused on automating evidence collection, documentation management, and monitoring policy-based controls. As a result, customers will need to deploy additional solutions where real-time attack surface visibility, asset discovery, and external threat intelligence capabilities are required. Additionally, licensing can become more complex as organizations add frameworks or grow vendor portfolios.
UpGuard's focus on core frameworks like ISO 27001 and NIST offers robust coverage for most security and compliance needs, though organizations requiring highly specialized or region-specific regulations may choose to augment it with dedicated GRC modules.
Its strengths in cybersecurity and continuous monitoring ensure strong TPCRM capabilities, but those seeking an all-encompassing governance solution (e.g., covering environmental or privacy regulations) might benefit from additional integrations.
Its strengths in cybersecurity and continuous monitoring ensure strong TPCRM capabilities, but those seeking an all-encompassing governance solution (e.g., covering environmental or privacy regulations) might benefit from additional integrations.
SecurityScorecard's staggered scan cycles disrupts real-time vendor security posture visibility. IP attribution issues are also cited as common scanning problems.
Additionally, vendor monitoring and risk assessments are licensed separately, which may increase purchasing complexity and limit coverage of end-to-end visibility of supply chain vendors
Bitsight's pricing structures can quickly escalate operational expenses for TPRM programs and create complicated decisions regarding the extent of risk visibility that can be deployed for vendors within a supply chain. Customers additionally cite attribution challenges for risks and assets within shared IP and cloud environments, which require support request submissions to address.
Monitoring and assessment capabilities are also separately licensed, which may increase purchasing complexity and limit end-to-end coverage to several vendors within supply chains.
Black Kite does not offer vendor questionnaires or risk assessments as part of their solution offerings. While Black Kite's quantification-forward approach may be sufficient for some, customers with requirements for vendor security reviews and assurance documents for compliance needs will likely require an additional solution for this capability.
Usability and learning curve
Vanta's prescriptive setup and ready-made policy templates keep the initial learning curve manageable. Its AI-driven assistance and guided workflows reduce the onboarding effort for core compliance frameworks. However, larger teams integrating many custom apps or requiring intricate multi-entity management (via Vanta "Workspaces") may need extra configuration time before fully realizing a streamlined experience.
UpGuard offers best-in-class time to value for initial implementations.
UpGuard's platform architecture is designed from the ground up to deliver a quick and shallow adoption curve. UpGuard's clean and intuitive interface ensures ease of ongoing operation and rapid pick-up from new staff members as needed.
UpGuard's platform architecture is designed from the ground up to deliver a quick and shallow adoption curve. UpGuard's clean and intuitive interface ensures ease of ongoing operation and rapid pick-up from new staff members as needed.
SecurityScorecard's dashboards and clear A-F grading help non-technical stakeholders quickly grasp vendor risk exposure. However, some users report multiple drill-down steps required to reach specific risk insights, which could lengthen new user learning curves
Bitsight is generally intuitive for professionals familiar with security ratings, with an interface offering clear vendor risk summaries. However, some advanced features require more expertise and time to leverage effectively, particularly when deploying Bitsight's separate modules for monitoring and risk assessments.
Black Kite's interface is designed around letter-grade dashboards and detailed risk findings for its range of quantification options offered. However, insights for each focused rating are not clearly segmented by audience and often bleed across the entire platform. This can make the relevance of platform insights less consistent for specialized users, even within teams.
Community support
Vanta provides in-app chat, comprehensive documentation, and access to subject matter experts, especially for customers with higher-scale or complex deployments. Users typically report fast, helpful responses. As programs become complex, dedicated implementation support—often via Vanta's partner network—can be crucial for advanced customizations or specialized frameworks.
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Generally supportive for enterprise levels, with a community of free users. However, customers at lower licensing tiers report slower responses and less personalized support.
Bitsight provides reputable support, particularly for large enterprises with dedicated account teams. Smaller organizations may experience less responsiveness and find self-service documentation limited.
Black Kite's users report mixed support experiences: some find support teams responsive with weekly check-ins, while others cite slower resolution times and inconsistent follow-up on false positives and duplicate findings.
Release rate
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Pricing and support
While Vanta does not publicly disclose exact pricing, its tiered plans can be tailored to support the needs of smaller organizations as well as larger, more established businesses. Licensing costs may scale as additional frameworks or large vendor counts are added.
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
Public pricing information is not available. Offers a free plan and a 14-day free trial for paid plans.
Public pricing is not available. Does not publically offer a free trial.
Public pricing details are limited. Costs typically rise based on the number of monitored vendors, which can become significant for large supply chains. Some organizations report that the step up in licensing for “critical” vendors can be expensive.
API and extensibility
Vanta's API and pre-built integrations allow organizations to extend coverage to additional solutions and pull data from proprietary systems. This includes common cloud providers, HRIS platforms, and project management tools.
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Bitsight integrates with popular platforms like ServiceNow and Splunk, offering APIs for custom reporting and automation. Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Bitsight integrates with popular platforms like ServiceNow and Splunk, offering APIs for custom reporting and automation. Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
While no exhaustive list of native integrations is publicly available, Black Kite generally supports exporting scan results to external systems.
Third-party integrations
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Integrates with Supply Wisdom and VendorInsight.
Customers
Major customers include Duolingo, Intercom, Atlassian, and NYU Langone Health.
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
Major customers include Morgan Lewis, Healthfirst, Navy Federal, and Maersk.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
4.5, based on 383 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
4.2, based on 75 reviews.
4.6, based on 44 reviews.
Currently not rated.
Predictive capabilities
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Bitsight is widely recognized for malware and botnet reporting, though attribution to hosting providers or shared IP ranges can lead to accuracy challenges requiring correction support.
Performs non-intrusive checks including passive DNS, attack surface detection, passive vulnerability scanning, DNS health, SSL/TLS strength, and email security, as well as asset reputation, credential compromises, hacktivist shares, social media monitoring, dark web search, cloud delivery network security, fraudulent apps, and DDoS detection. They do not, however, provide real transparency into the efficacy of these checks.
Security rating
950
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950
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General summary
Vanta is a trust management platform focused on compliance automation. The platform unifies compliance and TPRM workflows under a single dashboard, reducing the time and complexity of achieving and maintaining alignment with popular standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Its AI-driven features and API extensibility support varied organizational needs, from startups to large enterprises.
Key strengths
Vanta's standout strengths include its broad compliance automation capabilities—covering 35+ frameworks—and its robust library of integrations for automatically collecting evidence. Its AI technology accelerates tasks like document reviews and security questionnaires. These combined capabilities reduce manual overhead, providing a unified risk and compliance posture.
Key weaknesses
Vanta is focused on automating evidence collection, documentation management, and monitoring policy-based controls. As a result, customers will need to deploy additional solutions where real-time attack surface visibility, asset discovery, and external threat intelligence capabilities are required. Additionally, licensing can become more complex as organizations add frameworks or grow vendor portfolios.
Usability and learning curve
Vanta's prescriptive setup and ready-made policy templates keep the initial learning curve manageable. Its AI-driven assistance and guided workflows reduce the onboarding effort for core compliance frameworks. However, larger teams integrating many custom apps or requiring intricate multi-entity management (via Vanta "Workspaces") may need extra configuration time before fully realizing a streamlined experience.
Community support
Vanta provides in-app chat, comprehensive documentation, and access to subject matter experts, especially for customers with higher-scale or complex deployments. Users typically report fast, helpful responses. As programs become complex, dedicated implementation support—often via Vanta's partner network—can be crucial for advanced customizations or specialized frameworks.
Release rate
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
Pricing and support
While Vanta does not publicly disclose exact pricing, its tiered plans can be tailored to support the needs of smaller organizations as well as larger, more established businesses. Licensing costs may scale as additional frameworks or large vendor counts are added.
API and extensibility
Vanta's API and pre-built integrations allow organizations to extend coverage to additional solutions and pull data from proprietary systems. This includes common cloud providers, HRIS platforms, and project management tools.
Third-party integrations
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
Customers
Major customers include Duolingo, Intercom, Atlassian, and NYU Langone Health.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
Security rating
950
/ 950
General summary
UpGuard is an end-to-end third-party risk management platform with best-in-class time-to-value and scalability from initial implementations to beyond.
UpGuard delivers powerful, integrated tools for automated third-party monitoring, in-depth risk assessment and remediation, and one-click reporting.
By combining actionable insights with built-in risk management workflows, UpGuard helps organizations maintain comprehensive oversight of their supply chain security posture and equips them with the necessary tools to shut down emerging risks rapidly.
UpGuard delivers powerful, integrated tools for automated third-party monitoring, in-depth risk assessment and remediation, and one-click reporting.
By combining actionable insights with built-in risk management workflows, UpGuard helps organizations maintain comprehensive oversight of their supply chain security posture and equips them with the necessary tools to shut down emerging risks rapidly.
Key strengths
UpGuard excels by completing full vendor scans every 24 hours, which provides near real-time visibility into vendor security postures while seamlessly integrating native end-to-end AI-powered vendor assessment workflows.
UpGuard's licensing model and efficient learning curve offer best-in-class time to value and program efficiency.
UpGuard's licensing model and efficient learning curve offer best-in-class time to value and program efficiency.
Key weaknesses
UpGuard's focus on core frameworks like ISO 27001 and NIST offers robust coverage for most security and compliance needs, though organizations requiring highly specialized or region-specific regulations may choose to augment it with dedicated GRC modules.
Its strengths in cybersecurity and continuous monitoring ensure strong TPCRM capabilities, but those seeking an all-encompassing governance solution (e.g., covering environmental or privacy regulations) might benefit from additional integrations.
Its strengths in cybersecurity and continuous monitoring ensure strong TPCRM capabilities, but those seeking an all-encompassing governance solution (e.g., covering environmental or privacy regulations) might benefit from additional integrations.
Usability and learning curve
UpGuard offers best-in-class time to value for initial implementations.
UpGuard's platform architecture is designed from the ground up to deliver a quick and shallow adoption curve. UpGuard's clean and intuitive interface ensures ease of ongoing operation and rapid pick-up from new staff members as needed.
UpGuard's platform architecture is designed from the ground up to deliver a quick and shallow adoption curve. UpGuard's clean and intuitive interface ensures ease of ongoing operation and rapid pick-up from new staff members as needed.
Community support
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Release rate
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Pricing and support
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
API and extensibility
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Third-party integrations
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Customers
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
4.5, based on 383 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Predictive capabilities
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Security rating
950
/ 950
General summary
SecurityScorecard is a cybersecurity ratings platform that monitors external-facing vendor networks. It aggregates risk signals from various sources to produce vendor security ratings. SecurityScorecard integrates with SIEM and GRC tools and provides insights that mitigate supply chain attacks. However, risk assessment workflows are managed separately via the Atlas module, which can lead to fragmented processes that could delay vendor assessment delivery and impact program efficiency
Key strengths
SecurityScorecard covers an extensive range of cyber intelligence, drawing from open, proprietary, and dark web sources to identify vendor security risks and assess IP reputation risks. SecurityScorecard’s well-known A–F letter grade system makes it approachable for executives and large enterprises.
Key weaknesses
SecurityScorecard's staggered scan cycles disrupts real-time vendor security posture visibility. IP attribution issues are also cited as common scanning problems.
Additionally, vendor monitoring and risk assessments are licensed separately, which may increase purchasing complexity and limit coverage of end-to-end visibility of supply chain vendors
Usability and learning curve
SecurityScorecard's dashboards and clear A-F grading help non-technical stakeholders quickly grasp vendor risk exposure. However, some users report multiple drill-down steps required to reach specific risk insights, which could lengthen new user learning curves
Community support
Generally supportive for enterprise levels, with a community of free users. However, customers at lower licensing tiers report slower responses and less personalized support.
Release rate
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Offers a free plan and a 14-day free trial for paid plans.
API and extensibility
SecurityScoreCard offers an extensive marketplace of integrations with security, GRC, and workflow platforms. However, integrations tend to primarily focus on score visibility in other platforms rather than workflow extensibility. Offers integrations with several third-party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
4.2, based on 75 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Security rating
950
/ 950
General summary
Bitsight is a cybersecurity ratings platform that continuously monitors organizational and vendor security postures. It collects and analyzes data from multiple sources—including botnet and malware intelligence—to offer evidence-based risk insights. Bitsight also integrates with GRC and TPRM workflows, allowing teams to proactively mitigate threats across their extended supply chain. However, Bitsight’s pricing structure can complicate scalability.
Key strengths
In addition to risk monitoring, Bitsight employs analytical forecasting to estimate future security trajectories. It integrates with platforms like ServiceNow, JIRA, and PowerBI to suit more advanced workflows. This network of partnerships, coupled with strong institutional acceptance, reinforces Bitsight’s profile with complex organizations.
Key weaknesses
Bitsight's pricing structures can quickly escalate operational expenses for TPRM programs and create complicated decisions regarding the extent of risk visibility that can be deployed for vendors within a supply chain. Customers additionally cite attribution challenges for risks and assets within shared IP and cloud environments, which require support request submissions to address.
Monitoring and assessment capabilities are also separately licensed, which may increase purchasing complexity and limit end-to-end coverage to several vendors within supply chains.
Usability and learning curve
Bitsight is generally intuitive for professionals familiar with security ratings, with an interface offering clear vendor risk summaries. However, some advanced features require more expertise and time to leverage effectively, particularly when deploying Bitsight's separate modules for monitoring and risk assessments.
Community support
Bitsight provides reputable support, particularly for large enterprises with dedicated account teams. Smaller organizations may experience less responsiveness and find self-service documentation limited.
Release rate
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Pricing and support
Public pricing is not available. Does not publically offer a free trial.
API and extensibility
Bitsight integrates with popular platforms like ServiceNow and Splunk, offering APIs for custom reporting and automation. Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
4.6, based on 44 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Bitsight is widely recognized for malware and botnet reporting, though attribution to hosting providers or shared IP ranges can lead to accuracy challenges requiring correction support.
Security rating
950
/ 950
General summary
Black Kite is a third-party cyber risk management platform emphasizing external risk visibility, financial impact modeling, and compliance automation. Black Kite uses non-intrusive OSINT-based scans to discover assets and vulnerabilities, presenting findings as easy-to-read letter grades. However, by excluding critical TPRM workflows, Black Kite’s potential for effective third-party risk management is significantly limited.
Key strengths
Black Kite takes a diverse approach to cyber risk quantification with a methodology heavily based on the Open FAIR™ standard. This allows Black Kite to derive their varying cyber risk insights from a consistent quantification base.
Key weaknesses
Black Kite does not offer vendor questionnaires or risk assessments as part of their solution offerings. While Black Kite's quantification-forward approach may be sufficient for some, customers with requirements for vendor security reviews and assurance documents for compliance needs will likely require an additional solution for this capability.
Usability and learning curve
Black Kite's interface is designed around letter-grade dashboards and detailed risk findings for its range of quantification options offered. However, insights for each focused rating are not clearly segmented by audience and often bleed across the entire platform. This can make the relevance of platform insights less consistent for specialized users, even within teams.
Community support
Black Kite's users report mixed support experiences: some find support teams responsive with weekly check-ins, while others cite slower resolution times and inconsistent follow-up on false positives and duplicate findings.
Release rate
Pricing and support
Public pricing details are limited. Costs typically rise based on the number of monitored vendors, which can become significant for large supply chains. Some organizations report that the step up in licensing for “critical” vendors can be expensive.
API and extensibility
While no exhaustive list of native integrations is publicly available, Black Kite generally supports exporting scan results to external systems.
Third-party integrations
Integrates with Supply Wisdom and VendorInsight.
Customers
Major customers include Morgan Lewis, Healthfirst, Navy Federal, and Maersk.
G2 rating
Accurate as of March 2025
Currently not rated.
Predictive capabilities
Performs non-intrusive checks including passive DNS, attack surface detection, passive vulnerability scanning, DNS health, SSL/TLS strength, and email security, as well as asset reputation, credential compromises, hacktivist shares, social media monitoring, dark web search, cloud delivery network security, fraudulent apps, and DDoS detection. They do not, however, provide real transparency into the efficacy of these checks.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Vanta Pricing
Vanta's pricing is generally determined by factors such as the number of frameworks you need, the complexity of your vendor portfolio, and additional features (e.g., automated questionnaire responses and Trust Center modules).
Vanta does not publicly disclose pricing information. Prospects must request a demo with sales to obtain a quote.
Here's an overview of Vanta's plans and services:
No free plan
Vanta does not offer a permanent free tier.
No free trial
There is no standard free trial available. Prospective customers typically explore the platform via a demo or consultation with Vanta's sales team.
Vanta for startups
An entry-level package that includes one framework (e.g., SOC 2). Ideal for smaller companies needing to achieve baseline compliance with a single standard.
Core, plus, & growth
These tiers expand compliance coverage and automation, introducing more frameworks, questionnaire automation, and integrations. Suited for mid-sized organizations needing broader internal controls and some vendor risk capabilities.
Scale & enterprise
Large-scale plans supporting multiple workspaces, AI features, increased questionnaire capacity, and more advanced requirements. Typically involves complex integrations or advanced compliance modules.
Add-ons and additional costs
The following premium features and modules can potentially increase overall costs with Vanta:
- Additional Frameworks: While Vanta supports numerous compliance standards out of the box, expanding to specialized frameworks beyond the defaults may involve extra licensing or subscription fees.
- Advanced Questionnaire Automation: Organizations requiring high-volume questionnaires or advanced AI-driven features for security reviews may pay more for extended usage.
- Trust Center & Custom Branding: Features such as enhanced Trust Center displays or branded compliance portals can be billed separately from core subscriptions.
- Multiple Workspaces: Configuring Vanta to manage compliance across multiple business units or distinct entities may incur added costs, depending on the tier or plan.
- Pen Test & Audit Bundles: Certain plans bundle in a penetration test or internal audit for frameworks like SOC 2 or ISO 27001, but additional audits, scope expansions, or specialized assessments typically increase licensing fees.
How does Vanta's pricing compare to its competitors?
UpGuard
UpGuard's packages start at around USD 1,599 per month. The platform maximizes value by natively integrating end-to-end TRPM workflows, removing the need to purchase additional solutions to fill workflow gaps.
The platform offers a free plan for monitoring up to five vendors (which includes access to risk ratings, assessment, and remediation tools) and unlimited free use of its vendor questionnaire and trust management tool, Trust Exchange.
A free 14-day trial is also available for its paid tiers.
For more details, see UpGuard's pricing page.
Bitsight
Bitsight does not publicly disclose its pricing. Unlike some competitors, It does not offer a free plan or standard trial, though it does provide a free security rating and industry benchmark report as a preliminary snapshot.
As usage grows, costs can escalate due to optional add-ons like advanced analytics, third-party risk enhancements, exposure management modules, and API access.
SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard's pricing is not publicly disclosed. A free plan is available, but it is limited to self-monitoring. To experience its vendor monioring capabilities, prospects can sign up for a 14-day trial of its Business Plan features, which includes monitoring up to five companies, daily alerts, and integrations—after the trial, the service reverts to limited self-monitoring unless upgraded.
Costs can escalate with optional add-ons such as monitoring additional scorecards, advanced analytics, enhanced threat intelligence, extra API capacity, and specialized modules like Attack Surface Intelligence (ASI).
RiskRecon
RiskRecon's pricing model is directly tied to the number of vendors and the required depth of assessments, making it potentially more budget-friendly for organizations with smaller ecosystems.
Although the company does not publicly disclose costs, a 30-day free trial allows monitoring of up to 50 vendors, offering a hands-on preview of its portal and security ratings. Beyond this trial, there is no permanent free plan, and packages scale with an organization's needs—from basic coverage for small businesses to more extensive frameworks for larger enterprises requiring advanced compliance mapping, custom risk policies, or risk assessment workflow integrations.
These add-ons and upgraded features can increase total costs, and annual subscription fees may rise by at least 3% or the Consumer Price Index (CPI) after the first year, which could surprise customers as vendor counts grow or mid-contract adjustments come into play.
OneTrust
OneTrust's pricing is not publicly disclosed. There is no free plan and free trial is not publicly offered. OneTrust offers tiered packages serving organizations from small businesses to large enterprises, with costs varying according to the number of modules, users, and integrations.
Implementation fees are usually included, adding to the overall investment required for setup and training.
Black Kite
Black Kite does not publicly disclose its pricing, but it aims to minimize surprises by including onboarding, configuration, and user licenses at no additional charge. Although the company does not offer a free plan or standard trial, it does provide a free cyber risk assessment as an initial snapshot.
Pricing is tiered and designed to suit different TPRM requirements—from standard monitoring (reportedly higher-priced than some competitors) to enterprise-level options that bundle vendors at slightly discounted rates.
Gartner Peer Insights
Overall ratings for the IT VRM Solutions market. Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.4, based on 160 reviews. Named a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for IT VRM Solutions
Vanta
4, based on 3 reviews.
G2
Accurate as of March 2025
UpGuard
4.5, based on 383 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Vanta
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
Glassdoor
Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.6
Vanta
4.2
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