Sentrytex vs UpGuard
Last updated: April 2026
TL;DR
UpGuard and Sentrytex both touch the question of vendor risk, but they operate at different scales and price points. UpGuard is a third-party-risk management (TPRM) platform aimed at enterprise security and compliance teams — it runs continuous external scans of your vendors, scores them, manages questionnaires, and produces audit-ready reporting. Sentrytex is a focused alerting service for developers and small teams: register the SaaS tools you actually use, get a clean alert within 60 minutes when one of them has a breach or a CVE. UpGuard is broader and enterprise-priced. Sentrytex is narrower, cheaper, and faster to set up.
Comparison at a glance
| Feature | Sentrytex | UpGuard |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Vendor breach and CVE alerts for the SaaS tools in your stack | Third-party-risk management: continuous vendor security scoring, questionnaires, audit reporting |
| What it monitors | External SaaS vendors via CISA KEV, NVD, GHSA, and vendor disclosure feeds | Vendor security posture via external scans, leaked credentials, breach databases, data leak detection |
| Alert latency | Under 60 minutes from verified disclosure | Continuous; depends on configuration |
| Pricing | Solo $9/mo, Team $29/mo. 7-day trial. | No free tier. Paid Standard plan: $1,750/month (annual billing). Enterprise pricing on request. [verified May 2026] |
| Free tier | 7-day trial, then paid | Demo and trial available; no public free tier |
| Best for | Founders, indie hackers, and small teams running on a SaaS stack | Mid-market and enterprise security, GRC, and procurement teams |
What each tool monitors
UpGuard is a TPRM platform. It scans vendors' external attack surface, checks for leaked credentials, monitors typosquat domains, runs security questionnaires, tracks vendor security scores over time, and produces the kind of reporting auditors expect. It's designed for security and procurement teams managing dozens to hundreds of vendor relationships under SOC 2, ISO, or regulatory scope.
Sentrytex monitors a much narrower question: "has a vendor in my stack just had a security incident?" We poll vendor disclosure feeds, CISA KEV, the NVD, and the GitHub Advisory Database every 30 minutes and notify you when something verified affects a tool you've registered. There are no questionnaires, no vendor scores, no audit reports — just alerts.
Alert latency
UpGuard continuously scans and updates vendor scores. How and when alerts fire depends on your configuration and the kind of signal — a new breach indicator, a score drop, a leaked credential match.
Sentrytex delivers verified alerts within 60 minutes of disclosure. One job, optimised for speed.
Pricing
Sentrytex is two plans: Solo at $9/month, Team at $29/month. Both include a 7-day free trial. Prices exclude VAT and sales tax.
UpGuard's entry Standard plan is $1,750/month on annual billing (~$20,900/year), with no free tier — a trial and demo are available. Professional, Corporate, and Enterprise tiers are quoted by sales and scale with vendor count and feature depth. [verified May 2026] Expect a sales call.
Scope and depth
UpGuard is wider. It covers questionnaire workflows, audit evidence, vendor onboarding, fourth-party risk, and security ratings — things you need if you're answering to a CISO and an external auditor.
Sentrytex is deeper on one specific signal: real-time breach and CVE alerts for the vendors you actually use. We're not a platform, we're a tripwire.
When to pick UpGuard
Pick UpGuard if you run a formal third-party-risk programme. You need security questionnaires, vendor scoring trends, audit-ready evidence, and reporting that satisfies SOC 2 or ISO requirements. You have a security or GRC team to operate the platform. Sentrytex doesn't replace any of that.
When to pick Sentrytex
Pick Sentrytex if you're a developer, founder, or small engineering team that depends on a handful of SaaS vendors and wants a fast, focused alert when one of them has a problem. You don't have a procurement process. You don't need a vendor score history. You need to know — within an hour — when Vercel, Supabase, GitHub, or Stripe has a CVE or a breach. UpGuard at enterprise pricing is overkill for that shape of team.
The two can coexist: a security team using UpGuard for compliance and Sentrytex for fast, developer-friendly alerts on the tools the engineering team relies on day to day.
Get started
Sentrytex is $9/month for Solo, $29/month for Team, with a 7-day free trial on either. See pricing for the current breakdown, or join the waitlist if you're still scoping.
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