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Openwake vs UpGuard.
UpGuard describes itself as a cyber risk posture management platform: vendor risk, attack surface, workforce risk and a trust exchange, rated from the outside. Openwake answers a different question from the inside: what is actually leaving your organization for AI providers, who sent it, and does that match your policy. Many teams will want both. Here is where each one is the right tool.
| UpGuard | Openwake | |
|---|---|---|
| What it looks at | Vendors from the outside: internet-facing security posture as a rating, vendor questionnaires, breach and data-leak monitoring, and a User Risk module for workforce and shadow AI. | Your own environment from the inside: what each person, device and agent sends to which AI provider and application, classified on the machine, plus the provider's own declared terms, quoted and dated. |
| Shadow AI | One module among five ("User Risk"). | The whole product: every interaction tied to an identity, an account context and a policy decision, with agents and their tool servers included. |
| Content | Not applicable to ratings and questionnaires. | Labels, not content, by default. Prompts, files and keystrokes stay on the machine; only labels and destinations are recorded. Content is kept only when your organization turns the Evidence Vault on, sealed, with every reveal recorded. |
| Vendor facts | Security ratings and questionnaire answers. | A registry of the vendor's own documents, re-read daily, every fact cited to its source and date, with a change feed when a clause moves. |
| Agents and MCP | Not a stated focus. | Agent sessions, tool calls, MCP servers and the providers behind them, on the same record as people. |
| Deployment | SaaS with integrations; a free trial and a product tour. | One install line or a fleet package per platform; the first report lands within minutes. A live demo organization anyone can open. |
| Pricing | Standard from $1,750 a month billed annually for 50 vendor monitoring slots; larger tiers by contacting sales; no free tier. | Free for up to 5 endpoints. Team is $2.50 per endpoint per month; an endpoint is a machine with the sensor, and its browsers are included. Everything included. 20 endpoints is $50 a month; 100 is $250. |
| Scale and recognition | "Trusted by 45,000+ companies", G2 Leader badges, published case studies. | New in 2026. Live registry counts on the homepage, the demo organization, and receipts anyone can verify without trusting us. |
UpGuard descriptions and prices are as read on upguard.com on September 8, 2026; they belong to UpGuard and may change. Openwake prices are on the pricing page.
Where UpGuard is the better tool
- Rating a vendor's internet-facing security posture without any access to it
- Running security questionnaires with hundreds of vendors at scale
- Monitoring for breaches and leaked data outside your environment
- A long track record and third-party recognition
Where Openwake is the better tool
- Knowing which person or agent sent which kind of data to which AI provider, in which account
- Deciding by policy at that level, with a simulation before publishing and a record on every decision
- Seeing agents: their sessions, tool servers, MCP, and the providers behind them
- Starting today, free for up to 5 endpoints, then $2.50 an endpoint, with no content kept by default
See it on a real organization.
The demo organization is live, seeded with synthetic activity, and open to anyone. The homepage numbers come from it.