RiskRecon Pricing and What Mastercard Charges

RiskRecon does not publish a price. Every route on its site leads to a demo request or a 30-day trial, and Mastercard, which has owned RiskRecon since a deal announced in December 2019, quotes each customer on its own terms. Recorded purchase data on Vendr puts the median RiskRecon contract at $10,000 a year, with a reported low of $6,000 and a high of $20,000. Those are reported figures from a page Vendr last updated in February 2025, so confirm your own number with RiskRecon.

That makes RiskRecon one of the cheaper ways in to outside-in vendor ratings, at least on paper. The catch is that the median describes small portfolios. The price moves with how many vendors you put under continuous monitoring, and a program that rates a few hundred suppliers will not land anywhere near $10,000. Below is what is public, what buyers report, where the published estimates disagree, and how to price the contract before the sales call.

How much does RiskRecon cost?

RiskRecon costs a median of about $10,000 a year, based on purchase data on Vendr's RiskRecon page, with reported contracts running from roughly $6,000 to $20,000. RiskRecon publishes no list price. It quotes each customer on the number of vendors monitored, whether you also rate your own organization and subsidiaries, and which add-on products from the wider Mastercard cyber line you take.

For a US company that wants ratings on its 25 to 50 most critical suppliers, the low-to-median band is a fair planning range. A bank, insurer or health system that wants every vendor in its inventory under continuous monitoring should plan above the reported high, because the published estimates for larger portfolios are per vendor, and they add up quickly.

RiskRecon pricing plans and products

There is no plan grid. What RiskRecon sells is a set of products and two use cases, and the quote is built from those. We read riskrecon.com in October 2026.

RiskRecon's site also lists Mastercard products such as Threat Protection, Cyber Quant and Cyber Front next to the ratings. Those are separate purchases. If they appear on a ratings quote you did not ask for, ask for them as separate lines so you can see what the ratings alone cost.

What buyers report paying for RiskRecon

With no list price, recorded purchases and published estimates are the only public evidence. They do not agree.

Our reading: the Vendr contracts are mostly small portfolios, where a flat bundle covers a few dozen vendors. The per-vendor estimates describe what happens when the portfolio grows. Multiply even the low per-vendor figure by 200 suppliers and you get $300,000, which no recorded contract approaches, so those estimates are probably list rates before volume discounts. Budget from the Vendr range if you are rating 50 vendors or fewer. Above that, get the price for your actual vendor count in writing before you compare RiskRecon with anyone.

What moves a RiskRecon quote

• Vendors under monitoring. The biggest lever by far. Ask for the price at your current count and at the next band, because a vendor inventory only grows.
• Which vendors need a rating at all. A payroll processor holding employee SSNs needs continuous monitoring. The catering company does not. Tiering vendors first is the cheapest discount you will get, and our vendor tiering guide covers the criteria.
• Self and subsidiary monitoring. Rating your own footprint is a separate use case. Leave it off if your security team already runs attack-surface management.
• Add-on Mastercard products. Privacy ratings, assessments and the threat-intelligence products are priced separately.
• Term length and competition. Rating vendors compete hard with each other. A written Bitsight or SecurityScorecard quote is the strongest lever you have.

Is RiskRecon worth the price?

For grading a large supplier base from the outside, it is a strong product. RiskRecon attributes each finding to a specific asset and weights issues by the value at risk on that system, rather than treating every exposed port the same. That attribution is what lets a vendor accept a finding instead of arguing about it, and shareable action plans let you track the fix with them.

It is a weaker fit when your problem is the other direction. A rating scores other companies from what is visible on the internet. It does not tell you whether a vendor's access reviews happen, whether its backups restore, or whether its SOC 2 report has exceptions, and it does nothing for your own controls. A rating also says nothing about whether a critical SaaS supplier is actually up: if availability is the risk you care about, a plain uptime monitor on that vendor's endpoints covers it for far less. Our RiskRecon alternative page lays out where RiskRecon wins and where a combined tool fits better.

RiskRecon vs Bitsight and SecurityScorecard on cost

Almost everyone pricing RiskRecon has Bitsight and SecurityScorecard on the same list. All three sell outside-in ratings, all three quote, and the reported medians tell a clear story.

RiskRecon's median sits at less than half of the other two. Part of that is real: it competes on price for smaller portfolios. Part of it is sample: Vendr's RiskRecon data is older and thinner than its Bitsight data. Compare quotes at the same vendor count, not medians. The third-party risk management software pricing page sets out what every major TPRM platform bills on.

RiskRecon pricing vs Scrutineer pricing

The honest summary: if you only need a defensible external score on 30 vendors, RiskRecon at the reported median is cheaper than Risk+. If you also send vendor questionnaires, track their evidence and have to prove your own controls to auditors and customers, those are three more purchases on top of the rating, and one flat price usually comes out ahead.

How to get an accurate RiskRecon quote

1. Run the 30-day trial on your 50 most critical vendors first. It shows whether the ratings change any decision you would make before you pay for them.
2. Tier your vendor inventory and decide exactly how many need continuous monitoring. That number is the quote.
3. Ask for the ratings price alone, with privacy ratings, assessments, self-monitoring and any Mastercard products as separate lines.
4. Get the price at the next vendor band and the renewal uplift cap in writing.
5. Bring a written Bitsight or SecurityScorecard quote at the same vendor count to the negotiation.

If you want to see how a flat-priced vendor assessment works before talking to sales, run one in the demo at the top of this page. It scores a sample vendor from evidence the same way it would score yours.