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Third-party risk management · September 2026 Edition

UpGuard vs Vanta

Ten of twelve models named UpGuard first on the direct prompt; one named Vanta. UpGuard was named by eleven of the twelve models and Vanta by eleven and UpGuard carries 47 labels and Vanta 30, so the shares are not directly comparable.

UpGuard

endorsed leader

Named in three categories this edition.

Vanta

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share53%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate9%17%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.

Labels4730A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, UpGuard reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Panorays was named alongside these two in nine of the twelve direct answers. UpGuard vs Panorays · Panorays vs Vanta

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the third-party risk management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

UpGuardFirst choices, of twelve modelsVanta

Direct101

Paraphrase82

Comparative201 against Vanta

Budget-constrained701 against UpGuard · 2 against Vanta

Scale-constrained10

Negative003 against UpGuard · 2 against Vanta

Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where UpGuard and Vanta stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.

Llama 4 MaverickPanorays, UpGuard, Vanta alternatives: Onspring

UpGuard first, Vanta an alternative

9 of 12 modelsVanta was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

Gemini 3.5 FlashUpGuard alternatives: Vanta, Venminder, Whistic

Perplexity SonarUpGuard alternatives: LogicGate, Panorays, StandardFusion

Grok 4.1 FastUpGuard alternatives: Panorays, Vanta

Mistral SmallUpGuard alternatives: Panorays, Prevalent

DeepSeek V4 FlashUpGuard alternatives: OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, Sprinto, Vanta

Qwen 3.7 FlashPanorays, UpGuard alternatives: ServiceNow Vendor Risk Management

Kimi K2Panorays, UpGuard alternatives: Prevalent, Venminder

GLM 4.7 FlashXUpGuard alternatives: LogicGate Risk Cloud, Panorays, StandardFusion, Vanta

MiniMax M2.5Panorays, UpGuard alternatives: SureCloud

Neither was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice

GPT-5.4 miniProcessUnity alternatives: LogicGate, MetricStream, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Onspring

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.

Small business

UpGuard leads by eighteen points.

UpGuard#1 of 13

Vanta#2 of 13

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

UpGuard leads by forty-seven points.

UpGuard#1 of 11

Vanta#3 of 11

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

UpGuard leads by eight points.

UpGuard#3 of 13

Vanta#11 of 13

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about UpGuard

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“UpGuard Vendor Risk: Solid 4.5/5 on G2, lauded for usability, but criticized for expensive pricing (tough for SMBs), limited functionality” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative

“They are not a full TPRM solution: They lack native questionnaire workflows, remediation tracking, and supply-chain relationship mapping.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative

“it is significantly more expensive than the options above. However, it is worth mentioning if you can access the free tier.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative

“UpGuard is highly recommended for mid-market teams that want a balance of continuous monitoring and automated assessment workflows.” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice

“Best All-Rounder (Continuous Monitoring + Questionnaires): UpGuard Vendor Risk ... UpGuard is the market leader for mid-sized teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the strongest default choice is UpGuard because it offers a free plan to monitor five vendors and has published pricing” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vanta

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Limited customization in reporting and dashboards, integration problems, limited integrations with niche tech stacks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · hard negative

Also compared

UpGuard vs Panorays Panorays vs Vanta The full TPRM standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.