CyberGRX alternative that adds your own compliance to vendor risk

Yes. ProcessUnity acquired CyberGRX in July 2023, and the CyberGRX Exchange is now sold as the ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange. It is the same shared-assessment product under a new name, so a search for a CyberGRX alternative and a search for a ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange alternative are looking for the same thing.

If you need your own compliance readiness as well as vendor risk, yes. CyberGRX is strong at reusing attested vendor assessments across a large portfolio. Scrutineer adds control mapping, automated evidence collection and inbound questionnaire automation for your own organization, and assesses, scores and monitors vendors in the same platform.

It is a shared library of standardized vendor risk assessments built on a complete-once, share-many model. A vendor fills out one validated assessment and any customer entitled to see it reads the same file instead of sending its own questionnaire. ProcessUnity reports more than 18,000 attested assessments plus cyber risk data on close to 370,000 companies.

CyberGRX has no public list price of its own, but ProcessUnity, which acquired it, does publish figures. The VRM Essential Edition subscription starts at $15,000 a year, and ProcessUnity posts a tiered price list of roughly $2,700 to $6,000 a month, around $32,400 to $72,000 a year, covering up to 2,000 vendors with unlimited questionnaires. Older comparison sites circulate a six-figure starting figure that we could not re-verify in August 2026, so start from the published tiers and confirm your own scope with ProcessUnity.

The closest competitors split into three groups. Other assessment exchanges and questionnaire platforms: Whistic, Prevalent and Panorays. Security ratings vendors that grade from the outside instead: SecurityScorecard, Bitsight, UpGuard and RiskRecon. Enterprise risk suites with a third-party module: Archer and LogicGate, the other two Leaders in the Forrester Q1 2026 TPRM Wave. Teams that also need their own compliance automated weigh Scrutineer.

They answer different questions. CyberGRX gives you an attested assessment the vendor actually completed, covering internal controls and practices you cannot see from the internet. SecurityScorecard gives you an outside-in letter grade computed from observable signals, with no vendor participation needed. The exchange is deeper per vendor; the rating is faster and covers everyone. Many programs run both.

Choose CyberGRX when your problem is assessment depth across a large vendor portfolio and you want attested answers about internal controls you cannot observe from outside. Choose UpGuard when you want continuous outside-in scanning, attack-surface monitoring and leaked-credential detection across every vendor without waiting for anyone to fill anything in. UpGuard also publishes tier pricing, listing $1,750 a month for 50 vendors as of September 2026 and quoting the tiers above that, while CyberGRX quotes per customer, so the two are also very different purchases. The honest answer for most programs is that they cover different halves of the same question.

CyberGRX is an exchange: the value is that a vendor completed one validated assessment already and you read it instead of sending your own. Panorays blends the vendor's questionnaire answers with externally observed attack-surface data on one record, so a claimed control can be checked against visible signal, and its Supply Chain Discovery maps Nth-party suppliers the vendor never disclosed. If reuse and portfolio scale matter most, CyberGRX. If verifying claims and finding undisclosed dependencies matter most, Panorays.

Often, but not always. A standardized exchange assessment covers the questions most buyers ask, which is why reuse works. It will not cover requirements specific to your contract, your regulator or your data flows, so most programs treat the shared file as the baseline and send a short supplemental set for anything unusual.

That is the design. Outbound, you assess vendors, score their responses, monitor them continuously and track remediation to close. Inbound, the security questionnaires that hold up your own deals get drafted from the evidence already collected for your SOC 2 or ISO 27001 program. One platform, both directions.

No software can. Scrutineer is decision support and audit readiness: it keeps controls mapped, evidence current and vendor risk scored, while an accredited independent auditor performs the audit and issues the SOC 2 attestation or ISO 27001 certificate. You choose the auditor.