CyberScore vs UpGuard
UpGuard built its name in third-party-risk scoring — rating the security of other companies you depend on. CyberScore monitors your own attack surface and lets you publish your score if you want to. Different jobs.
If you're here because you searched "UpGuard alternative" expecting a continuous-monitoring tool for your domains, the rest of this page argues you're looking at the wrong category — and CyberScore is the focused, transparently-priced fit.
Last reviewed May 2026. UpGuard references reflect their public website at the time of writing — pricing and features may have changed since.
Side by side
| Capability | CyberScore | UpGuard |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | Public — Starter $99, Pro $249, Always-On $799 / month | Quote-based. From the public website at the time of writing, contracts typically start in the four-figure range per month with annual commit. |
| Primary use case | Continuous monitoring of YOUR domains — your attack surface, your compliance log, your public score badge. | Third-party / vendor risk monitoring (BreachSight + Vendor Risk). Designed to score companies you do business with. |
| Self-serve sign-up | Yes — registration in 2 minutes, no sales call required | Sales-led. Free trial behind a demo request on the public website at the time of writing. |
| Compliance tracker (cross-domain CSV export) | Yes — every "Mark fixed / Won't fix / Snoozed" decision in one downloadable CSV with the operator email and timestamp. | Risk-management workflows + compliance questionnaires + policy library. Heavier and more enterprise. |
| Public score badge | Yes — opt-in /badge/<domain> page with a 1200×630 OG card. | UpGuard publishes ratings of OTHER companies (you can be rated without consenting). They do offer "Trust Page" services on enterprise tiers. |
| Slack alerting | Yes — incoming-webhook URL with a "Send test" button | Yes via integrations |
| Continuous monitoring frequency | Weekly on Pro, daily on Always-On | Continuous on enterprise tiers |
| Audit-friendly artefacts | PDF report per scan + CSV export of compliance decisions + JSON export of raw scan data | Risk reports, vendor-risk scorecards, compliance frameworks library |
| Free preview without an account | Yes — one anonymous sample scan per IP | No — sales call required to access the platform |
| Hosting + data residency | Hosted in France | US / Australia. Data residency on enterprise plans. |
When CyberScore is the right call
- You want continuous monitoring on your own domains — not on a portfolio of vendors.
- You want pricing you can read on a webpage and pay with a credit card, not a sales-led contract.
- You need an audit artefact (CSV of remediation decisions + dated PDF reports) that your CFO will accept for compliance prep.
- You want a public score badge to drop on your trust page or LinkedIn — not a vendor scorecard system.
When UpGuard is the right call
- Your job is third-party-risk management: you score and onboard hundreds of vendors, not your own domains.
- You need a compliance-questionnaire workflow with built-in framework libraries (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, PCI).
- You're an enterprise security team comfortable with quote-based pricing and a vendor-managed onboarding cycle.
See it for yourself
Run a free sample scan on your own domain — no account, no credit card. The whole evaluation takes 2 minutes.
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