SecurityScorecard vs UpGuard: Which One Fits Your TPRM Ratings Loop?
Choose on attribution evidence, dispute handling, assessments, and remediation. Letter grades versus a 0-950 score are not the decision. UpGuard prints both a number and a letter. UpGuard Standard is USD $1,750 per month, billed annually, for Vendor Risk with 50 vendor slots.
Letter grades are not the decision on this pair. UpGuard’s ratings article prints a score from 0 to 950 and also maps it to a letter: A at 801-950, B at 601-800, C at 401-600, D at 201-400, and F at 0-200. SecurityScorecard’s pricing page sells a security rating scorecard inside TITAN Watch, Assess, and Secure. Pick the product whose attribution evidence, dispute path, assessment, and remediation object match the week you actually run.
On 3 Oct 2026, UpGuard Vendor Risk Standard is USD $1,750 per month, billed annually. That price includes 50 vendor monitoring slots, vendor security ratings, and assessment and remediation workflows. Additional vendors are USD $79 per month. The page does not restate an annual commitment on the add-on line. SecurityScorecard’s pricing page has a free own-domain scorecard and does not print a dollar for paid TITAN packages. It says paid price follows how many organizations you monitor.
For questionnaire-led trust exchange against UpGuard ratings, see Whistic vs UpGuard. Broader vendor-risk shortlists live under GRC.
| Job | Attribute assets, dispute a scorecard finding, assess a vendor questionnaire, and validate remediation | Attribute domains and IPs, waive or escalate a finding, run a Vendor Risk assessment, and send a remediation request |
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| How a bad day closes | Refute a domain or IP in the Digital Footprint, or submit a finding as fixed, as a compensating control, or as a false positive | Send a remediation request from the risk profile, the remediation page, or an assessment, or waive the risk in your own account |
| Day-to-day workflow | Digital Footprint evidence, questionnaire review, and finding validation | Vendor risk profile, assessment evidence, and remediation requests on monitored slots |
| Deploy | SaaS. Free own-domain scorecard, or paid TITAN Watch, Assess, Secure, or TITAN OS | SaaS Vendor Risk. Standard is the published card. Professional, Corporate, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ are contact sales |
| License/pricing | No dollar amount on the pricing page opened 3 Oct 2026. Paid price follows the count of organizations monitored | USD $1,750 per month, billed annually, Vendor Risk Standard, 50 vendor slots. Additional vendors USD $79 per month |
| Who operates it | The team that reviews Digital Footprint attribution and outgoing questionnaires | The team that runs Vendor Risk assessments and remediation requests |
We reviewed first-party documentation, pricing pages, and live community threads. This compare does not include exploit proofs of concept.
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Editions and pricing
Use the price that is printed, with the product it includes. Do not treat a letter grade or a 950-point scale as a substitute for that price.
| How you buy it now | Free own-domain account, a free trial of TITAN Watch, or sales for TITAN Watch, Assess, Secure, and TITAN OS. TITAN MAX is a managed service that still requires a platform subscription | Vendor Risk Standard at the published price. Professional, Corporate, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ say contact sales |
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| Public price (3 Oct 2026) | No currency amount. The pricing page says the paid price follows how many organizations you monitor and manage. A unit rate was not found in this research | USD $1,750 per month, billed annually, for Vendor Risk Standard: 50 vendor monitoring slots, vendor security ratings, assessment and remediation workflows. Additional vendors USD $79 per month. Annual commitment on that add-on line was not restated |
| What the invoice covers | Free: own-domain scorecard, questionnaire response, footprint management, issue view, remediation prioritization, score-change alerts, and basic reports. Watch adds monitored scorecards, ChatSSC, vendor intake, and rules. Assess adds pre-built questionnaires, questionnaire agents, risk scoring, and automatic remediation of gaps. Secure adds threat-informed finding presets, response automation, fourth-party detection, a real-time events feed, and remediation tracking. The comparison table marks pre-built questionnaires as No on Watch and on Secure | Standard includes the rows above plus questionnaire builder, questionnaire library, onboarding questionnaire, instant risk assessments, and risk and remediation management. Professional on the same table: 150 vendor slots, no dollar. Corporate: 500 vendor slots, fourth parties, no dollar. Enterprise and Enterprise+: unlimited vendor slots, no dollar |
| Self-serve start | Free own-domain account. Paid packages are sales | Standard is the published card. Higher tiers are sales |
Attribution and disputes
An attribution accuracy percentage was not found in this research. SecurityScorecard’s pricing page prints “99.9% Data accuracy” and does not define the measurement, the denominator, or an attribution false-positive rate. UpGuard’s ratings article does not print a percentage. Neither number decides this pair.
| Attribution signals | Digital Footprint help lists DNS lookup, port scan, published data from providers such as AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft Azure, and Comcast, SSL certificates via ThreatMarket, user-contributed data, logins to SecurityScorecard, third-party feeds, and WHOIS from regional registries. Evidence can be exported as CSV on request, with Source and Evidence columns | Attribution help lists WHOIS registrant lookups, DNS nameserver analysis, MX, SPF, TXT, and CAA records, certificate transparency logs, and redirect tracking. Subdomains follow the parent domain. IPs use reverse DNS, or certificate fingerprints and common names when reverse DNS is missing. Third-party hosted assets can still appear when UpGuard treats them as functionally associated |
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| Score shape | The pricing page centers a security rating scorecard. | 0 to 950, subtractive, severity-weighted. Assets start at 950. Category penalty shares are printed (IP and domain reputation 19%, website 19%, encryption 17%, and seven smaller shares). Organization score is a weighted mean by organization size. Letters sit on top of the number, as listed above. After a questionnaire is submitted, scanning is 50% of the rating and the questionnaire is 50%. Before that, scanning is 100% |
| Dispute a bad attribution | Manage the domain or IP in the Digital Footprint. Review the attribution evidence, then submit a category. Domain categories include tenant, parked, other, and “domain should not be linked,” which removes the domain and its issues. IP categories include guest network, tenant, parked, other, and “IP should not be linked.” Support reviews the request. The help article says the score updates within 48 hours after approval. Subdomains are not managed on their own | The ratings article commits to dispute, correction, and appeal, and says information from a challenged rating is treated as confidential. It does not list the steps. The investigate article says Support can replicate a finding you call a false positive. A vendor risk waiver, or a public risk waiver, drops the risk from the score shown to your organization and does not change the vendor’s public rating. A workflow that removes a misattributed domain from the public rating, with a stated review time, was not found in this research. That is unknown, not a missing control |
| Dispute a finding | Since July 2025, finding feedback is technical remediation (“I have fixed this”), compensating control, or false positive. A near-instant rescan runs. Fixed and false-positive submissions are approved when the rescan no longer sees the issue. A false positive that the rescan still sees opens a support case. A compensating control is approved even if the issue is still observed, and it is not re-raised while that control stays noted. A fixed finding can be re-raised if a later scan sees it again | The investigate article says to compare the expected value with the actual finding, then waive the risk or remediate it. Support investigates a finding you still call inaccurate. The waiver articles cover risks from scanning, questionnaires, and additional evidence. They change your view of the score, not the public rating |
Assessments and remediation
| Assessment | Atlas is sunset. The questionnaires help says to use the Questionnaires tool. Review lives under Communications, Questionnaires, Outgoing. Evidence, messaging to the vendor or only to your team, a flag, findings, and history are on the question. Close by sending it back, or finalize as No decision, Passed, Passed with conditions, or Failed. A validation score is a percentage. Default points, if you do not set your own, are Yes +200, N/A +100, No 0, unanswered 0, and attachment +50. The help says that score appears after 10% of the questionnaire is complete, and only on custom templates built through the Excel upload | A Vendor Risk assessment records evidence (domains and their risks, questionnaires, additional evidence, and automated scans), findings, who assessed, and a reassessment date, and exports a PDF. You can limit the assessment to selected domains. Comments on a risk stay in the assessment report and are not stored on the risk profile. The pricing table includes traditional risk assessment workflows, a questionnaire builder, a library, and an onboarding questionnaire on Standard |
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| Remediation | Finding-level validation is the near-instant rescan above. TITAN Assess is the plan that lists automatic remediation of gaps. TITAN Secure lists remediation tracking. A vendor remediation request with an owner, a due date, and a predicted score change was not found in this research on the remediation article or the pricing table. That is unknown, not a missing control | Create a remediation request from the vendor risk profile, the vendor remediation page, the Remediation module, or from inside an assessment. The planner estimates how the selected risks would move the security rating. The request records the risks, the requester, and the correspondence. You can export one request or a set, as PDF or Excel, including risk details and impacted assets, once or on a recurring schedule. The assessment can be completed while remediation is still open, and the remediation summary on that assessment keeps updating until the request closes |
| What moves the score you show a vendor | Approved footprint removals update the scorecard within 48 hours of approval. Compensating-control approvals stay off the scorecard on later scans. The pricing page does not say a waiver changes only your view | A waiver recalculates the rating displayed to your organization and leaves the public rating unchanged. Questionnaire answers, once submitted, become half of the rating |
That comment names UpGuard. It is about public AI-agent configuration files. It is not a finding about attribution, a dispute, or a remediation request.
Where they overlap
Both sell outside-in vendor ratings, questionnaires, and a way to act on findings between full assessments. UpGuard prints a letter on top of a 0-950 score, so “letters versus numbers” does not separate them. An RFP that only says “security ratings for vendors” will get two responses. The split is the dispute path and the remediation object above.
When to use both
Most teams will not run two rating engines. A split that matches the docs is SecurityScorecard for Digital Footprint refutes and questionnaire decisions, and UpGuard for Vendor Risk assessments and remediation requests, when those owners and budgets are already separate.
Skip UpGuard for this pair if you need SecurityScorecard’s domain and IP refute, with a stated 48-hour score update after approval, or the questionnaire finalize states Passed, Passed with conditions, and Failed. Skip SecurityScorecard for this pair if you need the published Vendor Risk Standard price and a remediation request that estimates the rating impact before you send it.
Match the attribution evidence, the dispute, the assessment, and the remediation object. Then read the price that is actually printed: UpGuard Standard at USD $1,750 per month, billed annually, for 50 Vendor Risk slots, or a SecurityScorecard quote with no dollar on the pricing page. The letter on the scorecard is not the decision.
FAQs
Are SecurityScorecard and UpGuard the same vendor-rating product?
No. Both rate vendors from the outside in. UpGuard prints 0-950 and a letter. SecurityScorecard sells a scorecard inside TITAN packages. The operating difference is attribution evidence, how a dispute is filed, how an assessment is closed, and how remediation is tracked.
What public prices should buyers note?
On 3 Oct 2026, UpGuard lists Vendor Risk Standard at USD $1,750 per month, billed annually, including 50 vendor monitoring slots, vendor security ratings, and assessment and remediation workflows. Additional vendors are USD $79 per month. Higher tiers do not print a dollar. SecurityScorecard’s pricing page does not print a dollar. Paid price follows how many organizations you monitor. The free account covers your own domain.
Is this the same decision as Whistic vs UpGuard?
No. Whistic vs UpGuard is questionnaire-led trust exchange versus continuous ratings. This pair keeps both products on ratings, then compares attribution, disputes, assessments, and remediation.
Is an accuracy percentage published?
An attribution accuracy percentage was not found in this research. SecurityScorecard’s pricing page prints “99.9% Data accuracy” and does not define it. UpGuard’s ratings article does not print a percentage. Do not treat either gap as a measured accuracy result.
Is this a scored bake-off?
No. Order is editorial.
Does this page include exploit how-tos?
No. SecureCoding compare pages do not publish exploit proofs of concept or attack construction steps.
