4.5/5
G2 rating
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Should I Use UpGuard?
UpGuard is the only platform that unifies cyber risk management across your vendor supply chain, attack surface, and human workforce.
Depends
DependsBuy if you're a mid-size or larger org with dozens of vendors and budget to act on findings.
Respected vendor-risk platform (4.5/5, 771 G2 reviews) from $1,599/mo — great with many vendors, overkill for small teams.
Confidence: Medium
$1,599/mo
Starting price
billed annually; trackers cite $1,750/mo
2012
Founded
per PRNewswire company profile
$150M
Total funding
$75M Series C, Feb 2026
Value for money
3
From ~$1,599/mo annually; steep
Ease of use
4
Users report easier, improved vendor-risk workflows
Feature depth
4
Vendor, breach and user risk unified
Security posture
4
No public vulnerabilities found; publishes security page
Pros
Cons
Gotchas
- highEntry price billed annually — roughly $19,000+ upfront commitment⁴
- mediumVendor Risk and Breach Risk have separate self-service plans and separate pricing
- mediumUpGuard updates scoring algorithms, which can move your or vendors' scores⁷
- mediumPublished entry prices cover self-service modules only; bigger deployments go through sales⁵
Best for
- Orgs with dozens of third-party vendors
- Mid-size and enterprise security teams
- Companies drowning in vendor security questionnaires
- Teams monitoring their external attack surface
Not for
- Startups that can track vendors in a spreadsheet
- Anyone with fewer than ~10 third-party vendors
- Teams wanting pure compliance automation (get Vanta)
- Buyers without budget to remediate what it finds
Companies that use it
- Colorado State University11
- Burgess Group
- Chemist Warehouse
- OVO
Pricing
Vendor Risk (Standard, self-service)
$1,599–$1,750/mo billed annually
- Third-party/vendor security monitoring
- Security ratings and questionnaires
Breach Risk (self-service)
Tiered; see site
- External attack surface scans
- Data leak and dark web detection
Security
No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
What users say
Reviewers on G2 (4.5/5, 771 reviews), Gartner and Reddit broadly praise UpGuard for streamlining vendor risk workflows, with few concrete complaints in the sources.
“Upguard 100%”
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Alternatives
Compare UpGuard with each alternative.
SecurityScorecard
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UpGuard vs SecurityScorecardBitsight
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UpGuard vs BitsightVanta
Better fit if you want compliance automation, not vendor ratings.
UpGuard vs VantaRiskLedger
Simpler, cheaper TPRM; 5,500+ companies onboard.
UpGuard vs RiskLedgerFull analysis
Based on ~20 public sources: G2, Gartner, Reddit threads, pricing trackers, and UpGuard official pages. Review snippets were truncated in sources; pricing figures vary slightly between trackers.
Sources
review
- UpGuard Vendor Risk Reviews & Ratings 2026gartner.comreview
review
news
- Pricing For The UpGuard CRPM Platformupguard.comofficial
- UpGuard self-service Vendor Risk plan (Help Center)help.upguard.comofficial
- How UpGuard Introduces New Risks and Scoring Algorithm Changeshelp.upguard.comofficial
official
- UpGuard Raises $75M in Series C Fundingprnewswire.comnews
- UpGuard Ranked #1 for Third Party and Supplier Riskprnewswire.comnews
- UpGuard Customersupguard.comofficial
- UpGuard Product security pageupguard.comsecurity
- SecurityScorecard vs UpGuardsecurityscorecard.comnews
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