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Best Vendor Risk Management Software: 13 tools compared for 2026
Vendor risk management software assesses and monitors the security, compliance and financial risk of third parties. It runs questionnaires, tracks evidence and scores vendors.
- Tools compared
- 13
- Publish prices
- 1 of 13
- Free plan or trial
- 2 of 13
- Median G2 rating
- 4.5
Vendor Risk Management Software at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Pricing model | Starting price | G2 rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vanta | Companies already buying Vanta for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 that want vendor review in the same tool. | custom (tiered plans plus add-ons) | Contact sales | 4.6 (2,345 reviews) |
 Drata | Companies already using Drata for compliance that want vendor risk in the same system. | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (1,329 reviews) |
 Secureframe | Startups and mid-size companies already buying a compliance automation platform that want vendor risk in the same tool. | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (760 reviews) |
| UpGuard | Mid-size security teams that want published entry pricing for vendor risk. | flat | $1,750 per month, billed annually | 4.5 (654 reviews) |
 Venminder | Banks and credit unions needing examiner-ready vendor due diligence. | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (115 reviews) |
 SecurityScorecard | Security teams that want outside-in continuous monitoring of many vendors. | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (91 reviews) |
 Gatekeeper | Mid-size and enterprise teams managing 250 to 750+ third parties with many internal users. | custom (by third-party quota) | Contact sales | 4.5 (89 reviews) |
 Bitsight | Teams that want outside-in security ratings to monitor many vendors continuously. | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (76 reviews) |
 ProcessUnity | Regulated firms (banks, insurers) that need configurable assessment workflows and framework mapping. | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (53 reviews) |
 Whistic | Security and GRC teams that run questionnaire-based vendor assessments. | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (53 reviews) |
 Panorays | Security teams monitoring a vendor base with outside-in cyber scoring. | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (52 reviews) |
 Mitratech Prevalent | Mid-market and enterprise risk teams running structured vendor assessment programs. | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (21 reviews) |
 OneTrust | Enterprises that already use OneTrust for privacy or GRC and want vendor risk on the same platform. | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (5 reviews) |
Prices as published by each vendor on October 24, 2026. "Contact sales" means no public price. G2 ratings read on the same day.
How to compare vendor risk management software
- Questionnaires / assessments. Standard and custom templates.
- Continuous monitoring. External security ratings.
- Evidence review (AI). Reduces manual review.
- Vendor tiering. Risk-based scope.
- Framework coverage. SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR.
- Remediation workflow. Tracking findings.
- Pricing / add-on. Often a module of a GRC platform.
| Tool | Questionnaires / assessments | Continuous monitoring | Evidence review (AI) | Vendor tiering | Framework coverage | Remediation workflow | Pricing / add-on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanta | AI questionnaire automation: 25/yr on Plus, 144/yr on Professional. | Continuous vendor risk monitoring sold as add-on. | AI-powered security reviews sold as add-on. | Vendor inventory; tiering detail not verified. | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, custom. | Vendors page on all plans; TPRM REST API is an add-on. | Quote-based; TPRM features are add-ons. |
| Drata | Vendor questionnaire automation. | Not verified | Agentic scoring, evidence collection and follow-up (vendor description) | Inherent and residual risk scoring, custom risk rules. | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, Cyber Essentials; also DORA, FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO 42001 listed. | Third-party risk register, audit package sync. | Separate TPRM module, quote only. |
| Secureframe | Standard questionnaire templates and AI questionnaire automation (G2 feature list) | Vendor security posture monitoring per vendor page. | Comply AI for VRM (introduced 2024) | Risk level based on data and environments vendor accesses. | Platform covers SOC 2 and ISO 27001 among others; VRM framework mapping not verified. | Not verified | Add-on or higher tier of compliance platform (third-party reports) |
| UpGuard | Questionnaires and templates; automation from Professional. | Security ratings based monitoring. | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Templates and automation from Professional, onboarding portal. | Vendor-count tiers. |
| Venminder | Questionnaires plus Vendiligence outsourced control assessments; over 30,000 risk-rated assessments a year (vendor claim) | Venmonitor: cyber, business health, financial viability, privacy, ESG. | Experts review vendor documents and give risk ratings (Vendiligence) | Not verified | Not verified | Vendor lifecycle workflow. | Quote only. |
| SecurityScorecard | Not verified | Core product: scans internet-facing assets and scores them. | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Quote only. |
| Gatekeeper | Not verified | MarketIQ Full adds financial health and cybersecurity monitoring (usage-based) | AI suite included from Pro; specifics not verified. | Not verified | Company badges: GDPR, ISO 9001, SOC 2 Type 2, DORA. | Best-practice and custom AI-enabled workflows, count rises by plan. | Quote-based, tiered by third-party quota. |
| Bitsight | Not verified | Core product: external security ratings monitored continuously. | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Quote only; monitoring and assessment modules reportedly licensed separately. |
| ProcessUnity | Standardized questionnaires with automated workflow and dynamic risk scoring. | Via integrations with external intelligence sources. | AI-assisted evidence analysis described. | Dynamic risk-based vendor tiering. | DORA, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, APRA CPS 230 cited. | Automated distribution, approvals, reassessment scheduling, remediation. | Quote only. |
| Whistic | AI-powered vendor assessments, evidence vault. | Outside-in ratings via RiskRecon Assessments Powered by Whistic (Mastercard, March 2025) | Evidence vault component per reviewer. | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Custom quote. |
| Panorays | Automated questionnaires. | External attack surface assessment and ongoing monitoring. | Not verified | Inherent risk assessment up front (per Globes) | Not verified | Covers remediation (per Globes) | Custom quote; free trial listed on G2. |
| Mitratech Prevalent | 800+ standardized assessment templates; AI FastTrack can fill a new questionnaire from up to 15 prior assessments. | Vendor Threat Monitor: financial, cyber, ESG, regulatory, reputation; 30,000+ news sources and 1,000+ sanctions lists. | AI risk scoring, ARIES survey automation, AI insights, AI contract risk analysis. | Inherent and residual risk scoring to tier vendors. | Not named on the product page. | Built-in remediation recommendations; workflows triggered on supply chain incidents. | Demo-based quote. |
| OneTrust | Automated supplier risk assessment workflows. | Via integrations with security-rating vendors (BitSight, UpGuard, Recorded Future, RiskRecon) | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | Automated workflows across supplier due diligence lifecycle. | Custom quote. |
The 13 tools in detail
Vanta
Compliance automation platform that sells vendor risk management as an add-on to its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 plans.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom (tiered plans plus add-ons)
- G2 rating
- 4.6 (2,345 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- AI questionnaire automation: 25/yr on Plus, 144/yr on Professional.
- Continuous monitoring
- Continuous vendor risk monitoring sold as add-on.
- Evidence review (AI)
- AI-powered security reviews sold as add-on.
- Vendor tiering
- Vendor inventory; tiering detail not verified.
Choose it if
- Companies already buying Vanta for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 that want vendor review in the same tool.
- Small security teams who want AI-assisted questionnaire handling.
Skip it if
- Buyers who only want standalone vendor risk management, since key TPRM features are paid add-ons.
- Small budgets: reviewers cite cost as the main barrier.
Worth knowing
- AI security reviews, continuous monitoring, vendor inventory and the TPRM API are add-ons, not in base plans.
- Questionnaire automation is capped at 25 per year on Plus and 144 on Professional.
- The Vendors page itself is included on all plans per the help center.
Drata
Compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more) with a separate third-party risk management module.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (1,329 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Vendor questionnaire automation.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Agentic scoring, evidence collection and follow-up (vendor description)
- Vendor tiering
- Inherent and residual risk scoring, custom risk rules.
- Framework coverage
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, Cyber Essentials; also DORA, FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO 42001 listed.
Choose it if
- Companies already using Drata for compliance that want vendor risk in the same system.
- Startups and SMBs chasing SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Skip it if
- Buyers who only need a standalone vendor risk tool.
- Teams wanting transparent pricing.
Worth knowing
- TPRM is sold as its own module, and Agentic TPRM Assessment is an add-on even on the Enterprise compliance plan.
- Foundation compliance tier caps at 50 FTEs and one pre-mapped framework.
- Drata's rating is for the whole compliance product; vendor risk reviews are a small slice.
Secureframe
Compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others) whose third-party risk module adds vendor tracking, AI questionnaire help and monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (760 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Standard questionnaire templates and AI questionnaire automation (G2 feature list)
- Continuous monitoring
- Vendor security posture monitoring per vendor page.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Comply AI for VRM (introduced 2024)
- Vendor tiering
- Risk level based on data and environments vendor accesses.
Choose it if
- Startups and mid-size companies already buying a compliance automation platform that want vendor risk in the same tool.
Skip it if
- Teams wanting a standalone, deep TPRM program.
- Buyers needing public pricing.
Worth knowing
- Vendor module was renamed from Vendor Risk Management to Third-Party Risk Management.
- Detects apps employees access via SSO to keep the vendor list current.
- The G2 rating (about 4.7) is for the whole platform, not the vendor risk module.
UpGuard
Security ratings and vendor risk platform with public Standard-plan pricing and a free Trust Exchange.
- Starting price
- $1,750 per month, billed annually
- Pricing model
- flat
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (654 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Questionnaires and templates; automation from Professional.
- Continuous monitoring
- Security ratings based monitoring.
- Remediation workflow
- Templates and automation from Professional, onboarding portal.
- Pricing / add-on
- Vendor-count tiers.
Choose it if
- Mid-size security teams that want published entry pricing for vendor risk.
- Teams monitoring around 50 vendors who want SSO and API at the base plan.
Skip it if
- Teams with only a few vendors on a tight budget (Standard is $21,000 per year before add-ons)
- Buyers needing data residency without extra cost.
Worth knowing
- Plan limits are by vendors monitored: 50 / 150 / 500 / unlimited.
- Extra vendors on Standard cost $79 per month each.
- Role-based access, audit log and automation require Professional (contact sales)
Venminder
Third-party risk platform for banks and credit unions that pairs software with outsourced expert control assessments and continuous monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (115 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Questionnaires plus Vendiligence outsourced control assessments; over 30,000 risk-rated assessments a year (vendor claim)
- Continuous monitoring
- Venmonitor: cyber, business health, financial viability, privacy, ESG.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Experts review vendor documents and give risk ratings (Vendiligence)
- Remediation workflow
- Vendor lifecycle workflow.
Choose it if
- Banks and credit unions needing examiner-ready vendor due diligence.
- Teams short on staff who want experts to review vendor SOC reports and controls.
Skip it if
- Buyers wanting published prices.
- Non-financial companies seeking a lightweight vendor register.
Worth knowing
- Acquired by Ncontracts on 4 September 2024 in an Hg buyout, taking Ncontracts past 5,000 customers.
- Over 1,200 customers, mostly banks and credit unions.
- Outsourced Vendiligence assessments are a service layered on the software, separate from the platform.
SecurityScorecard
Outside-in security ratings platform used to monitor vendors and your own attack surface continuously.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.3 (91 reviews)
- Continuous monitoring
- Core product: scans internet-facing assets and scores them.
- Pricing / add-on
- Quote only.
Choose it if
- Security teams that want outside-in continuous monitoring of many vendors.
- Boards and insurers that want a single score for reporting.
Skip it if
- Small companies with tight budgets (reviewer says pricing is hard to justify)
- Teams that need deep questionnaire and evidence workflow as the core.
Worth knowing
- Scores come from outside scanning, so findings reflect public assets, not internal controls.
- G2 comparison says UpGuard has more reviews and higher rating, SecurityScorecard higher ease of use.
- Total funding about $290M per several sources.
Gatekeeper
Vendor and contract lifecycle platform priced by number of third parties, with unlimited users and eSign licences.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom (by third-party quota)
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (89 reviews)
- Continuous monitoring
- MarketIQ Full adds financial health and cybersecurity monitoring (usage-based)
- Evidence review (AI)
- AI suite included from Pro; specifics not verified.
- Framework coverage
- Company badges: GDPR, ISO 9001, SOC 2 Type 2, DORA.
- Remediation workflow
- Best-practice and custom AI-enabled workflows, count rises by plan.
Choose it if
- Mid-size and enterprise teams managing 250 to 750+ third parties with many internal users.
- Teams wanting vendor repository, contracts and eSign in one tool, with NetSuite sync.
Skip it if
- Buyers who want a published price before a demo.
- Teams needing a deep security-ratings feed on every plan (financial health and cyber monitoring sit in MarketIQ Full, usage-based)
Worth knowing
- Pricing meter is third-party count, not users: unlimited users, eSign licences and contracts on every plan.
- Cap of 250 third parties on Pro and 750 on Enterprise; archived third parties do not count.
- SSO is listed under all plans on the pricing page, but SCIM and RBAC are Enterprise features.
Bitsight
Security-ratings company that sells outside-in cyber risk scores and a third-party risk management product built on them.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (76 reviews)
- Continuous monitoring
- Core product: external security ratings monitored continuously.
- Pricing / add-on
- Quote only; monitoring and assessment modules reportedly licensed separately.
Choose it if
- Teams that want outside-in security ratings to monitor many vendors continuously.
- Security-led TPRM programs with a dedicated analyst.
Skip it if
- Small teams that only need questionnaires and a vendor register.
- Buyers who want a published price.
Worth knowing
- Vendr buyer data shows a wide contract range ($650 to $80,000), so quotes depend heavily on number of monitored vendors.
- Cybersixgill acquisition (announced Nov 2024, $115M) adds dark web threat intel to monitoring.
- The rating is outside-in only: it sees internet-facing assets, not internal controls, so it complements questionnaires.
ProcessUnity
Configurable third-party risk platform with questionnaires, workflow and the CyberGRX risk exchange, sold on request.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (53 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Standardized questionnaires with automated workflow and dynamic risk scoring.
- Continuous monitoring
- Via integrations with external intelligence sources.
- Evidence review (AI)
- AI-assisted evidence analysis described.
- Vendor tiering
- Dynamic risk-based vendor tiering.
Choose it if
- Regulated firms (banks, insurers) that need configurable assessment workflows and framework mapping.
- Programs that want shared assessments from a risk exchange to reduce questionnaire load.
Skip it if
- Small teams wanting quick self-serve setup.
- Buyers who need strong contract lifecycle management in the same tool.
Worth knowing
- Marlin and ProcessUnity bought CyberGRX in July 2023 and merged it into ProcessUnity.
- Marlin took majority control in a 2021 recapitalization; Long Ridge invested in 2018.
- Vendor cites a survey that organizations assess only 36% of third parties on average.
Whistic
Third-party risk platform built around shared security profiles and AI-assisted vendor assessments.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (53 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- AI-powered vendor assessments, evidence vault.
- Continuous monitoring
- Outside-in ratings via RiskRecon Assessments Powered by Whistic (Mastercard, March 2025)
- Evidence review (AI)
- Evidence vault component per reviewer.
- Pricing / add-on
- Custom quote.
Choose it if
- Security and GRC teams that run questionnaire-based vendor assessments.
- Teams wanting outside-in ratings via the Mastercard RiskRecon partnership.
Skip it if
- Buyers who need continuous vendor monitoring as a baseline (one reviewer says it lags table stakes)
- Teams wanting a simple interface: several reviewers call it unintuitive.
Worth knowing
- March 2025 Mastercard partnership packages RiskRecon ratings with Whistic assessments, sold by Mastercard.
- G2 shows 52 to 53 reviews depending on page capture date.
- Positioned as vendor assessment first, so contracts and vendor performance scoring are not evident.
Panorays
Panorays is a third-party cyber risk platform that combines automated questionnaires with external attack surface scoring and ongoing monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.3 (52 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Automated questionnaires.
- Continuous monitoring
- External attack surface assessment and ongoing monitoring.
- Vendor tiering
- Inherent risk assessment up front (per Globes)
- Remediation workflow
- Covers remediation (per Globes)
Choose it if
- Security teams monitoring a vendor base with outside-in cyber scoring.
- Enterprise and mid-market buyers in North America, UK and EU.
Skip it if
- Small companies sensitive to price (G2 reviewers flag cost)
- Teams wanting heavily customizable reporting.
Worth knowing
- Covers the lifecycle from inherent risk to remediation and monitoring in one platform.
- No public price; Capterra shows an implausible per-user figure, so ignore it.
- Funding totals conflict widely across sources, so treat size claims carefully.
Mitratech Prevalent
Third-party risk management platform, now part of Mitratech, covering vendor assessments, continuous threat monitoring and risk tiering.
Acquired: Acquired by Mitratech on 2024-10-02 (with Preparis); now sold as Mitratech Prevalent. prevalent.net redirects to mitratech.com/products/prevalent/.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (21 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- 800+ standardized assessment templates; AI FastTrack can fill a new questionnaire from up to 15 prior assessments.
- Continuous monitoring
- Vendor Threat Monitor: financial, cyber, ESG, regulatory, reputation; 30,000+ news sources and 1,000+ sanctions lists.
- Evidence review (AI)
- AI risk scoring, ARIES survey automation, AI insights, AI contract risk analysis.
- Vendor tiering
- Inherent and residual risk scoring to tier vendors.
Choose it if
- Mid-market and enterprise risk teams running structured vendor assessment programs.
- Teams that want adverse-media and sanctions monitoring alongside questionnaires.
Skip it if
- Small teams that need public pricing.
- Buyers who want a lightweight tool inside a compliance automation suite.
Worth knowing
- Acquired by Mitratech on 2024-10-02; Mitratech promised unchanged support staffing and an AI and continuous monitoring roadmap.
- Prevalent.net now 301 redirects to Mitratech, so older Prevalent domains and branding are in transition.
- Monitoring covers adverse media and sanctions lists, not only cyber ratings.
OneTrust
Broad privacy, GRC and third-party risk platform whose Third-Party Management module runs supplier due diligence and assessments.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (5 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Automated supplier risk assessment workflows.
- Continuous monitoring
- Via integrations with security-rating vendors (BitSight, UpGuard, Recorded Future, RiskRecon)
- Remediation workflow
- Automated workflows across supplier due diligence lifecycle.
- Pricing / add-on
- Custom quote.
Choose it if
- Enterprises that already use OneTrust for privacy or GRC and want vendor risk on the same platform.
- Teams needing ethics and compliance due diligence (PEP, sanctions, adverse media screening)
Skip it if
- Small teams wanting a quick, simple vendor questionnaire tool: reviewers call it broad with a learning curve.
- Buyers who need public pricing.
Worth knowing
- G2 has only 5 reviews for the TPM product; Gartner Peer Insights shows 4.1 from 177 ratings and GetApp 4.3 from 57, so the G2 score is thin evidence.
- Continuous monitoring relies on third-party security-rating integrations rather than a native scoring engine (per integration pages).
- Adds ethics and compliance screening (PEP, sanctions, adverse media) beyond security questionnaires.
Frequently asked questions
What is vendor risk management software?
Vendor risk management software assesses and monitors the security, compliance and financial risk of third parties. It runs questionnaires, tracks evidence and scores vendors.
Which vendor risk management software publish their pricing?
1 of the 13 tools we compared publish prices: UpGuard ($1,750 per month, billed annually). The others quote on request, so ask for a written quote that names the seat or spend basis, the term and the renewal uplift.
Which vendor risk management software have a free plan or free trial?
UpGuard (free trial) and Panorays (free trial), according to the vendors' sites on October 24, 2026.
Which vendor risk management software are rated highest on G2?
Among tools with at least 20 G2 reviews: Drata 4.7 from 1329 reviews, Secureframe 4.7 from 760 reviews, Venminder 4.7 from 115 reviews. Ratings were read on October 24, 2026; small review counts move quickly, so read recent reviews from companies your size.