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Third-party risk management

Asked as “third-party risk management platform”, and as “vendor risk assessment tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
53%
Clear leader
53UpGuard10Panorays06Sprinto31others

53% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

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. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01UpGuard53%9%47endorsed leader
02Panorays10%17%35accepted challenger
03Vanta TPRM6%17%30accepted challenger
04SecurityScorecard2%21%29accepted challenger
05Bitsight2%24%29accepted challenger
06Prevalent2%26%23criticized challenger
07ProcessUnity2%35%23criticized challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management0%55%11criticized challenger
11Archer0%50%16criticized challenger
09OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management0%37%30criticized challenger
08Riskonnect0%18%11accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each

One product takes 53% of first choices here, so the chart would put ten markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Five products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management
37%
11 of 30 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Caution level: High — especially for standalone vendor risk teams... "OneTrust's TPRM is absolute garbage except for the questionnaire function."” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Panorays
17%
6 of 35 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Limited customization options, poor reporting capabilities, lack of clarity in risk assessment processes, inefficient risk management due to false positives” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
ProcessUnity
35%
8 of 23 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Most enterprise tools (OneTrust, ProcessUnity) start at $50K+ annually—unsuitable for limited budgets.” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Bitsight
24%
7 of 29 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“Why to be cautious: These tools are excellent for continuously monitoring a vendor's external perimeter ... treating an automated external "letter grade" ... as the complete picture ... is a major mistake” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

66 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 922 links across 201 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · UpGuard55 answers · 90 citations · 11 models
30 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Vanta30 answers · 41 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Risk Ledger29 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Panorays25 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Bitsight22 answers · 34 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G218 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Riskonnect18 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Sprinto16 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
vendor site · G213 answers · 28 citations · 7 models
13 answers · 19 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best third-party risk management platform”, “third-party risk management platform”, “third-party risk management platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
UpGuard upguard.com53%1862,90080319,457253
Panorays panorays.com10%51590121,22855
Vanta TPRM vanta.com6%10172,260120
Sprinto sprinto.com6%2562,4007926,89643
ThirdProof thirdproof.ai4%6
SecurityScorecard securityscorecard.com2%1332,400118151,38597
Bitsight bitsight.com2%1604,400146126,245$60314
Prevalent mitratech.com2%9674,0004,08246,305$10,768106
ProcessUnity processunity.com2%109880192,672172
StandardFusion standardfusion.com2%9905170

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 13 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (bitsight.com, gartner.com, panorays.com, riskledger.com, riskonnect.com, upguard.com). The first result for “best third-party risk management platform” is gartner.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best third-party risk management platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which vendor risk assessment tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top third-party risk management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best third-party risk management platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a third-party risk management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which third-party risk management platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceStandardFusion, UpGuardChanged
One alternativeSprinto
no first choice
Seven alternativesDrata, MetricStream, Panorays, Prevalent, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard, Vanta TPRM
no first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniProcessUnity
Four alternativesLogicGate, MetricStream, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Onspring
BitsightChanged
Four alternativesExiger, Interos, Prewave, Resilinc
no first choiceMitti
One alternativeRisk 365
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashUpGuard
Three alternativesVanta TPRM, Venminder, Whistic
UpGuardHeld
Four alternativesPanorays, Sprinto, Vanta TPRM, Whistic
against: Archer, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
UpGuard
Six alternativesBitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, Prevalent, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard
against: Drata, Vanta TPRM
SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
Five alternativesAttaxion, Risk Ledger, Sprinto, Vanta TPRM, VendorCheck
no first choice
Three alternativesPanorays, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
against: Archer, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
against: Archer, Bitsight, MetricStream, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Perplexity SonarUpGuard
Three alternativesLogicGate, Panorays, StandardFusion
UpGuardHeld
Four alternativesHyperproof, Panorays, Prevalent, Vanta TPRM
no first choiceUpGuard
One alternativeVanta TPRM
against: SmartSuite
no first choiceagainst: Archer, Bitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, ProcessUnity, Riskonnect, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management, UpGuard
Grok 4.20UpGuard
Two alternativesPanorays, Vanta TPRM
against: MetricStream, ProcessUnity, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
UpGuardHeld
Four alternativesBitsight, SecurityScorecard, Sprinto, Vanta TPRM
against: Hyperproof, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, ProcessUnity
ProcessUnity
Eight alternativesBitsight, Diligent One, MetricStream, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Riskonnect, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management, UpGuard
UpGuard
Two alternativesBitsight, SecurityScorecard
against: OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, ProcessUnity, Vanta TPRM
no first choiceagainst: ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard, Vanta TPRM
Mistral SmallUpGuard
Two alternativesPanorays, Prevalent
Sprinto, Vanta TPRMChanged
Four alternativesBitsight, Panorays, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
ProcessUnity
Five alternativesBitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Riskonnect, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
Sprinto, UpGuard
One alternativeHyperproof
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashUpGuard
Four alternativesOneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, Sprinto, Vanta TPRM
UpGuardHeld
Three alternativesDrata, Panorays, Vanta TPRM
against: Bitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent
no first choice
Eight alternativesBitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management, UpGuard, Venminder
ThirdProof
Three alternativesBusiness Radar, RiskXchange, UpGuard
against: Archer, Bitsight, Black Kite, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, Prevalent, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
no first choice
Three alternativesAuditBoard, SAI360, StandardFusion
against: Archer, Bitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
Llama 4 MaverickPanorays, UpGuard, Vanta TPRM
One alternativeOnspring
Sprinto, UpGuard, Vanta TPRMChangedno first choiceUpGuard
Four alternativesIBM OpenPages, Risk Ledger, Riskonnect, Vanta TPRM
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashPanorays, UpGuard
One alternativeServiceNow Vendor Risk Management
against: OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management
PanoraysChanged
Three alternativesSprinto, UpGuard, Vanta TPRM
against: Prevalent
no first choice
Six alternativesBitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard
Vendorapp
One alternativeComplies.ai
against: OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management, UpGuard
Prevalent
Three alternativesDrata, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Vanta TPRM
against: Archer, ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
against: Archer, Bitsight, MetricStream, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Kimi K2Panorays, UpGuard
Two alternativesPrevalent, Venminder
against: Bitsight
UpGuardChanged
Three alternativesPanorays, Prevalent, Vanta TPRM
against: ProcessUnity
ProcessUnity
Six alternativesBitsight, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, SecurityScorecard, UpGuard, Venminder
Fair TPRM, UpGuard
Three alternativesLT-VRM, SimpleRisk, Venminder
no first choiceagainst: OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, RiskRecon
GLM 4.7 FlashXUpGuard
Four alternativesLogicGate Risk Cloud, Panorays, StandardFusion, Vanta TPRM
HyperproofChanged
Four alternativesLogicGate, Panorays, UpGuard, Vanta TPRM
Panorays, UpGuard
Seven alternativesComplyScore, LogicGate Risk Cloud, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Prevalent, SecurityScorecard, SureCloud, Vanta TPRM
against: MetricStream, Riskonnect
LT-VRM, ThirdProof
Two alternativesComplyJet, Nudge Security
against: Vanta TPRM
UpGuard
Six alternativesHyperproof, OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management, Panorays, ProcessUnity, SecurityScorecard, SureCloud
against: Panorays, Risk Ledger, Vanta TPRM
MiniMax M2.5Panorays, UpGuard
One alternativeSureCloud
UpGuardChanged
Three alternativesBitsight, Panorays, SecurityScorecard
no first choiceUpGuard
Four alternativesBitsight, Panorays, Secureframe, Vanta TPRM
no first choiceagainst: Panorays
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:16no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:14yes15 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 11:08yes1522 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 14:13yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 10:41yes3619 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:55yes98 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:47yes917 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:42yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:57yes960 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:06yes1333 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:19yes2071 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:26yes934 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:45yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:55yes27 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:24yes921 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:38yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 13:14yes3715 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:22yes56 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:30yes912 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:44yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:16yes534 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:51yes1226 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:48yes30140 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 13:08yes524 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:55yes1111 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 14:02yes512 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:08yes1925 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:35yes208 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 13:21yes2721 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:22yes1213 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 14:10yes1839 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:06yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:36yes1438 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:04yes940 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:53yes8218 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:39yes922 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:08yes1020 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:09yes27 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:47yes1622 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:28yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 11:49yes3114 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:11yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 14:08yes1620 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:58yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:10yes1646 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:38yes1442 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:39yes22104 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:22yes517 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:17no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:33no012 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:38yes1323 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:46yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 12:19yes1511 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:32no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:53yes1822 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:15yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:57no039 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:55yes1025 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:40yes1454 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:54yes519 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:22yes188 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:39no04 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:40yes2825 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:21yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 10:33yes2315 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:53yes107 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:18yes2943 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:48yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:44yes1557 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 11:30yes3041 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:52yes26258 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:49yes519 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Diligent read as Diligent One
OneTrust read as OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management
OneTrust (TPRM Module) read as OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management
OneTrust (Vendor Risk) read as OneTrust Third-Party Risk Management
ServiceNow read as ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
ServiceNow (Risk Management) read as ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
ServiceNow (VRM) read as ServiceNow Third-Party Risk Management
Vanta read as Vanta TPRM
Unresolved, counted raw
Bitsight-style ratings tools
Business Radar
Diligent ThirdPartyBond
Dun & Bradstreet
Lockpath
Prewave
Sourcery
SureDecks
VendorCheck
Venerable
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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