Bitsight pricing and what Bitsight costs a year, from ten years of federal awards

The short answer: Bitsight prints no price list, so the best public record of Bitsight pricing is what its customers paid. Buyers recorded on Vendr pay a median of $23,640 a year, in a range of $5,206 to $58,821, and save 16 percent on average against the first quote. US federal agencies, which publish every award, pay from about $34,000 to $155,000 a year for a single subscription. The one list price Bitsight shows anywhere is $138,550 a year for an enterprise license on AWS Marketplace.

Every figure below comes from award records on USAspending.gov, from Bitsight's AWS Marketplace listing, or from contracts reported by buyers on Vendr. We read them on 7 October 2026. Federal awards are signed, dated and repeated for the same line year after year, which makes them the most reliable guide to how a Bitsight renewal behaves.

Bitsight pricing is not published, and three places you would look are empty

Bitsight's website has no pricing page. The address bitsight.com/pricing returns a 404. The UK government's G-Cloud 15 catalogue, where vendors must attach a price document to every listing, returns no results for Bitsight, although it holds five SecurityScorecard listings and a full Panorays rate card. That leaves AWS Marketplace, where Bitsight lists one product with one price.

The gap between those numbers is the first thing to understand. The AWS price is for Security Performance Management, the product a large company buys to measure its own security program and benchmark it against 20 peers. The Vendr median is mostly third-party risk buyers monitoring a list of vendors. They are different products sold under one brand, so a quote for one says little about the other. A page that auto-summarizes the AWS listing is worth reading with care, too. Trust the price table on the listing, not the generated text around it.

What Bitsight costs a year in federal award records

Agencies buy Bitsight through resellers, and each order is recorded with a description, a period and an amount. Seven agencies give a clear annual figure.

Two things stand out. The descriptions name sized packages: the CFPB bought a "Large TPRM package" and a 2022 Customs and Border Protection order reads "Bitsight Medium". Bitsight sells third-party risk in sizes, and a large package for a financial regulator came to roughly $34,000 a year. And the spread is wide. FERC and DISA pay more than twice what the SEC pays, which tracks scope (how many companies are monitored and which modules are in) far more than it tracks agency size. Award amounts are obligations recorded by the agency and can include reseller margin, so treat each as a ceiling on what Bitsight itself received.

How much Bitsight renewals go up

This is the part no quote will tell you. Three agencies have consecutive awards for what reads as the same line.

The pattern is steady renewals of 1 to 3 percent, broken by one-time steps when scope changes. The 2020 to 2021 jump at Customs and Border Protection came with a change of description, from "system maintenance" to a full subscription, and the line then sat flat near $56,000 for years. It is recorded at $56,382.95 for 2026, within 2 percent of the 2021 figure.

The two decreases are the useful ones for a buyer. The NLRB's award fell by nearly a third in the year its order moved from one reseller to another, and the SEC is paying less for 2024 to 2027 than it paid for 2016 to 2019. Bitsight pricing moves down when a buyer reopens the deal, through a new reseller, a competitive quote or a multi-year commitment. Vendr's 16 percent average saving says the same thing about commercial buyers.

Bitsight pricing against SecurityScorecard, UpGuard and Panorays

Bitsight is the least transparent of the four main security ratings vendors. Its rivals each publish something you can hold against a quote.

The medians for Bitsight and SecurityScorecard differ by $21, which is as close to identical as two datasets get. Where they part is the ceiling: SecurityScorecard's recorded range runs to $135,395 and Bitsight's stops at $58,821, while federal Bitsight awards run well past that. Commercial Bitsight buyers in the dataset are mostly mid-size programs. The slot rules and add-on prices behind the other side of the comparison are in our SecurityScorecard pricing breakdown, and per-vendor bands are in Panorays pricing per vendor.

For a program of about 50 vendors, UpGuard's published $21,000 a year is the number to carry into a Bitsight negotiation. It is public, it is all-in for 50 vendors, and it sits just below both medians. List prices on marketplaces do change without announcement, so if you plan to quote one in a negotiation, set up price and page change tracking on the listing and keep a dated copy.

What to negotiate before you sign a Bitsight order

1. Name the package and the count. Ask which package size the quote is (the awards show at least Medium and Large) and how many monitored companies it includes. A quote without a count cannot be compared.
2. Separate the two products. Security Performance Management for your own organization and third-party risk for your vendors are priced differently. If you only need vendor monitoring, do not accept a bundle anchored to the $138,550 enterprise license.
3. Price the multi-year term. The SEC, FERC and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service all signed three or four years. Ask for the one-year and three-year price side by side, with the annual rate fixed in the order.
4. Get a second channel quote. The NLRB's 31 percent drop followed a change of reseller. Commercial buyers can ask for a marketplace private offer or a partner quote alongside the direct one.
5. Cap the renewal. DISA's 9 percent step shows what an uncapped year looks like. A 3 percent cap matches the ordinary years in the record.
6. Check the refund line. The AWS listing says no refunds. Assume the same for a direct order unless the paper says otherwise.

The part a Bitsight subscription does not do

A security rating tells you how a vendor looks from the outside. It does not tell you why you are monitoring that vendor, or what your regulator expects you to do with the score. Those answers sit in rules that keep moving. Banks follow the interagency guidance on third-party relationships issued in June 2023. Firms licensed in New York follow 23 NYCRR 500.11. Investment advisers and broker-dealers picked up service provider oversight duties under the amended Regulation S-P, with compliance dates in December 2025 and June 2026.

Start there, because the rules decide how many vendors need continuous monitoring, and that count decides the package. ComplianceOfficer keeps one register of the federal and state rules that apply to your firm, checks them daily, and drafts the policy update when one changes. It costs $149 a month for one owner or $298 for up to three people, month to month, with every plan on the pricing page. It is not a ratings tool and does not replace one. It tells you what the ratings tool has to prove. The wider category is covered in vendor risk management software, and the scan above shows the rules on your own register in under a minute.

Questions buyers ask about Bitsight pricing

How much does Bitsight cost?

Bitsight publishes no price list, and its pricing page returns a 404. Recorded buyers on Vendr pay a median of $23,640 a year, in a range of $5,206 to $58,821. US federal agencies pay more: award records show annual subscriptions from about $34,000 at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to $154,698 at the Defense Information Systems Agency. The one public list price is $138,550 a year for an enterprise license on AWS Marketplace.

Does Bitsight publish its pricing?

No. Bitsight has no pricing page, and it has no listing on the UK G-Cloud framework, where rivals such as SecurityScorecard and Panorays have filed full price lists. The only figure Bitsight itself prints is on AWS Marketplace: $138,550 for a 12-month Security Performance Management enterprise license that includes 20 benchmarking subscriptions, with a no-refund policy.

How much do Bitsight renewals increase?

Federal records show mostly small increases with occasional steps. The Defense Information Systems Agency paid $137,775, then $150,177 (up 9.0 percent), then $154,698 (up 3.0 percent). Customs and Border Protection paid $55,509.90, then $55,994.08 (up 0.9 percent). The National Labor Relations Board saw its award fall 31 percent, from $84,211 to $57,942, in the year it changed reseller.

Is Bitsight more expensive than SecurityScorecard?

Not in recorded contracts. The Vendr median is $23,640 a year for Bitsight and $23,619 for SecurityScorecard. Enterprise list prices on AWS are close too: $138,550 for Bitsight against $141,250 to $155,375 for SecurityScorecard at 75 monitored domains. SecurityScorecard is easier to price in advance because it publishes entry tiers and a free account for your own domain.

How is Bitsight priced?

By package and by the number of companies you monitor. Federal award descriptions name sized packages, including a "Bitsight Medium" subscription and a "Large TPRM package", and the AWS listing prices Security Performance Management per license with a bundle of benchmarking subscriptions. Multi-year terms are common in the records: three of the largest awards run three or four years.

What does a security ratings tool not cover?

It scores a vendor's internet-facing security. It does not tell you which regulations make you run the vendor program, or when those rules change. Banks answer to the 2023 interagency guidance on third-party relationships, New York licensees to 23 NYCRR 500.11, and advisers to the amended Regulation S-P. Tracking those obligations is a separate job from buying ratings.