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UpGuard watches your vendors from the outside, continuously. Alvor runs third-party risk inside the program, where each vendor connects to the assets it touches, the risks it creates, and the evidence your auditor reads.
Scope at a glance
Alvor
9 of 9 · one graph
UpGuard
2 of 9 · 2 partial
Read from UpGuard's public materials, July 2026: Vendor Risk, Breach Risk, User Risk, Trust Exchange, and Risk Automations; AI features run on UpGuard's OpenAI integration. Partial means lighter-weight or adjacent coverage rather than a dedicated module. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
The quick verdict
Choose Alvor when
Choose UpGuard when
The bigger picture
UpGuard is a third-party risk and attack surface platform: security ratings, continuous external monitoring, AI questionnaire automation, and a free trust page, aimed squarely at lean mid-market security teams.
UpGuard has built the strongest mid-market package for watching vendors from the outside: security ratings on a 950-point scale, daily rescans, breach and data-leak detection, and an AI layer that compresses questionnaire work to minutes. G2 ranked it first in third-party and supplier risk management in its 2026 awards, and its free Trust Exchange product is a genuinely useful answer to inbound questionnaires. At monitoring, it is excellent.
But watching is not governing. An outside-in rating sees the vendor's perimeter, not their program, which is why UpGuard's own methodology blends questionnaire results into the score once they exist. And in UpGuard, the vendor lives in a monitoring tool that sits alongside your program: findings hand off through a small set of native integrations, while the risk register, policies, compliance evidence, and continuity plans that vendor affects live in other software. In Alvor, TPRM is one module of eight on the same graph: the vendor links to the assets it processes, assessment findings become risk entries, reassessments run on schedule, and the evidence lands where the auditor reads it.
The honest fork: if the mandate is continuous external monitoring of a large vendor portfolio with a lean team, UpGuard is very good at exactly that, and its entry tier is priced to start. If vendor risk is one workstream of a security program that has to hold together for audits, boards, and customers, buy the program: that is Alvor, with the price on the page.
Side by side
Plain-text descriptions, no checkmark games. If we can't say it, we don't.
Capability
Alvor
UpGuard
Primary category
Alvor
Unified security architecture management and compliance platform
UpGuard
Third-party risk and attack surface monitoring (cyber risk posture management)
Scope
Alvor
Eight integrated modules: asset management, secure by design (security architecture), risk, compliance, policy, program, third-party risk, and business continuity, plus an embedded AI assistant.
UpGuard
Five products: Vendor Risk, Breach Risk (attack surface), User Risk (workforce and shadow AI), Trust Exchange (trust page), Risk Automations.
TPRM model
Alvor
Vendor lifecycle inside the program: SIG / SIG Lite / CAIQ questionnaires, domain-level scoring, reassessment schedules, findings that become risks and evidence.
UpGuard
Outside-in security ratings (950 scale) blended with questionnaire results, AI-generated assessments, remediation workflows.
External monitoring
Alvor
Domain-level scoring inside the vendor record; Alvor is not an external scanning service and does not pretend to be.
UpGuard
Genuine strength: daily external scans, data-leak and breach detection, typosquatting and dark-web monitoring.
Risk management
Alvor
Full risk register: heat maps, threat libraries, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, inherent vs residual scoring, treatment plans.
UpGuard
No general-purpose risk register; risk views cover scan findings and waivers on your own attack surface.
Compliance
Alvor
Compliance automation across ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, with evidence collection and audit workflows.
UpGuard
Framework-mapped questionnaires (ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, DORA, PCI DSS 4); no control monitoring or evidence automation for your own program.
Business continuity
Alvor
Eighth module: process register, guided BIA, BIA-inherited RTO/RPO, exercises, live activation board.
UpGuard
Not covered; continuity appears in questionnaire content (DORA, CPS 230) only.
Security architecture / Secure by Design
Alvor
Seven-phase workflow, threat modeling (STRIDE, LINDDUN), AI design and threat modeling studios, decision records.
UpGuard
Not covered.
AI
Alvor
Agentic studios on your own model provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock), approval-gated writes, audit-logged.
UpGuard
AI questionnaire autofill, instant risk assessments, AI triage; runs on UpGuard's OpenAI integration with no model choice.
Pricing
Alvor
Published. Starter $8K, Growth $18K, Scale $48K. One seat per employee. 10% renewal cap.
UpGuard
Entry tier published (July 2026: $1,750/month billed annually for 50 monitored vendors); Professional, Corporate, and Enterprise+ require a sales conversation.
Module gating
Alvor
Every plan includes every module.
UpGuard
Five products sold separately; fourth-party monitoring gated to the Corporate tier and above.
Comparison based on each product's publicly described scope at the time of writing. Capabilities and pricing may change; we update this page when we notice. If something here is out of date, write to us and we'll fix it.
Questions
Common questions security leaders ask while shortlisting.
For the TPRM workflow, yes: Alvor's module covers the vendor lifecycle end to end, with SIG, SIG Lite, and CAIQ questionnaires, domain-level scoring, reassessment schedules, and findings that flow into the risk register and compliance evidence. Continuous outside-in scanning (daily perimeter rescans, breach and data-leak detection) is UpGuard's genuine ground: Alvor is not an external monitoring service, and if that is a hard requirement, that is the right reason to pick UpGuard.
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