Software directory
8 OneTrust alternatives for 2026
The tools buyers compare with OneTrust, side by side on price, pricing model and what each one is built for.
Why teams look beyond OneTrust
- Broad product with a steep learning curve.
- Out-of-box reporting and dashboards seen as weak.
- Pricing called high.
- Small teams wanting a quick, simple vendor questionnaire tool: reviewers call it broad with a learning curve.
- Buyers who need public pricing.
From OneTrust's published plan limits and recurring themes in public reviews. See the OneTrust review for sources.
OneTrust vs. its alternatives
| Tool | Pricing model | Starting price | G2 rating | Questionnaires / assessments | Continuous monitoring | Evidence review (AI) | Vendor tiering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 OneTrust Current | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (5 reviews) | Automated supplier risk assessment workflows. | Via integrations with security-rating vendors (BitSight, UpGuard, Recorded Future, RiskRecon) | ||
 Whistic | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (53 reviews) | AI-powered vendor assessments, evidence vault. | Outside-in ratings via RiskRecon Assessments Powered by Whistic (Mastercard, March 2025) | Evidence vault component per reviewer. | |
| UpGuard | flat | $1,750 per month, billed annually | 4.5 (654 reviews) | Questionnaires and templates; automation from Professional. | Security ratings based monitoring. | ||
 Bitsight | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (76 reviews) | Core product: external security ratings monitored continuously. | |||
 SecurityScorecard | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (91 reviews) | Core product: scans internet-facing assets and scores them. | |||
 Panorays | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (52 reviews) | Automated questionnaires. | External attack surface assessment and ongoing monitoring. | Inherent risk assessment up front (per Globes) | |
 Vanta | custom (tiered plans plus add-ons) | Contact sales | 4.6 (2,345 reviews) | 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. |
 Drata | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (1,329 reviews) | Vendor questionnaire automation. | Agentic scoring, evidence collection and follow-up (vendor description) | Inherent and residual risk scoring, custom risk rules. | |
 Secureframe | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (760 reviews) | 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. |
The alternatives in detail
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
When to stay with OneTrust
- 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)