European Alternatives to Bitsight
Looking for a European alternative to Bitsight? Bitsight is a US company, and its privacy policy states that personal information may be transferred to the United States and that the company relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, so your supplier and exposure data sits with a US-parented vendor. Its security ratings access terms also limit use of the rating data to internal purposes, which matters if you want to share scores with customers or auditors.
The European and Israeli tools below cover outside-in risk scoring, continuous attack surface discovery and exposure validation, each contracted through a company in the EU, UK, Switzerland or Israel.
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10 European Alternatives to Bitsight
Orpheus Cyber
Cyber risk scores for your own estate and your suppliers
CybelAngel
Daily external scanning for exposed assets and leaked data
Hadrian
Continuous attack surface mapping with validated exposures
ONYPHE
Weekly whole-Internet scan data with an ASM edition
Intruder
Attack surface monitoring and scanning with a free plan
Detectify
Attack surface mapping and web application scanning from Stockholm
ImmuniWeb
Geneva AI platform with continuous exposure discovery and CyberScore
Edgescan
Dublin exposure management platform with attack surface and pentest services
Outpost24
Swedish vulnerability management and external attack surface vendor
Check Point Exposure Management (Cyberint)
External risk platform formerly Cyberint, now part of Check Point
Key takeaways
- Bitsight is a US company, and its privacy policy says personal information may be transferred to the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
- Orpheus Cyber, registered in England and Wales, is the European tool on this page that issues scores for your own organisation and for your suppliers.
- CybelAngel states on its pricing page that it scans your external surface every day on all three packages.
- Hadrian lists Nova pentests from EUR 1,250 per test excluding VAT, and Intruder lists a Free plan with weekly external scans for up to three users.
- Check Point Exposure Management, formerly Cyberint, adds supplier monitoring from an Israeli parent, but Cyberint Inc. also exists as a US subsidiary, so the order form decides who you contract with.
Why people leave Bitsight
Bitsight is the name most procurement and risk teams reach for when someone says "security rating". The product gives an organisation an outside-in score, built from signals gathered without the rated company's cooperation, and lets a customer follow the same kind of score for its suppliers. The company is Bitsight Technologies, Inc., a US business, and that is the starting point for every European buyer who asks where the monitoring data ends up.
The privacy policy is the document to read first. It says personal information may be transferred to the United States and that the company relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for those transfers.
For a tool whose whole purpose is to build a picture of your exposed systems and your suppliers' exposed systems, that picture is held by a US-parented vendor. Some data protection officers accept this with a transfer assessment, others would rather not open the file at all.
A second reason is usage rights. The security ratings access terms limit use of the rating data to internal purposes, according to the terms we could trace.
A team that wants to hand a score to a customer questionnaire, an auditor or an insurer has to read that clause before building a process around it. The European and Israeli vendors below differ in how they sell scores, and some do not sell scores at all, so the first job is deciding which part of the Bitsight job you actually need.
- Personal data transfers to the United States Bitsight's privacy policy states that personal information may be transferred to the United States and that the company relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. That is a lawful route today, but it ties your records to a framework that depends on a political decision. A vendor contracted through a company in the EU, the UK, Switzerland or Israel removes that dependency from your transfer register.
- Rating data is for internal use The security ratings access terms limit use of the rating data to internal purposes. If your plan is to show a score to customers, brokers or regulators, you need to check what that clause allows before signing. Several tools on this page sell scans and findings rather than a score to circulate, which sidesteps the question but also changes what you can show others.
- A single vendor sees your whole map An attack surface inventory lists open ports, forgotten hosts, leaked credentials and your suppliers' weak points. That is attractive data for an attacker and sensitive for a lawyer. Choosing a supplier whose terms are written under English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Irish, Swiss or Israeli law gives your counsel a jurisdiction to review that is closer to your own.
- You may need less than a rating platform Many teams buy a rating product when what they act on every week is a list of exposed assets and unpatched services. Intruder, Detectify and Hadrian publish more about scope and price than a ratings vendor does, and CybelAngel scans daily on every package. If nobody outside the security team reads the score, a scanner may fit better.
What you have to replace, not just match
Moving off Bitsight means separating two jobs that the product bundles. One is the score: a number per company, trended over time, that procurement and risk committees use to compare suppliers. The other is the exposure list behind the number.
Orpheus Cyber is the tool here that covers both, with scores for your own organisation and for third parties. Check Point Exposure Management covers part of the supplier side through a supply chain module. Everything else on the page gives you findings without a supplier score.
Then there are the workflows that grew around the rating. Vendor onboarding checklists may require a minimum score. Cyber insurance renewals may cite a rating. Board dashboards may plot a score by quarter. Each of these needs a replacement artefact, either a different score you agree with the counterparty or a report of validated findings. Plan a parallel period in which both tools run, so you can explain differences instead of discovering them in a renewal call.
Finally there is the historical record. A rating vendor holds years of your score history, and that series does not move to another vendor in any format we could verify. Export what your plan allows before the contract ends, and expect to start a new baseline. ONYPHE is the only tool here that states a long data history (up to 48 months on its ASM views), but that is scan history for assets, not a rating series.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Orpheus Cyber | London, United Kingdom | Not published; a free cyber risk trial is offered | United Kingdom |
| #2 | CybelAngel | Paris area, France | Quote only: Essential, Core and Elite packages | EU (France) |
| #3 | Hadrian | Netherlands | Atlas priced on total asset count (quote); Nova pentests from EUR 1,250 per test excluding VAT | EU (Netherlands) |
| #4 | ONYPHE | Cléder, France | Custom pricing, contact sales for each view | EU (France) |
| #5 | Intruder | London, England | Free plan; Cloud, Pro and Enterprise by quote or checkout; AI pentests from USD 3,500 per test | United Kingdom |
| #6 | Detectify | Stockholm, Sweden | Starter free (up to 5 users, 100 assets) / Standard €2,500 / Professional €5,000 / Enterprise €15,000 per year | EU (Sweden) |
| #7 | ImmuniWeb | Geneva, Switzerland | Free Community Edition; paid AI Platform (penetration testing, ASM, dark web monitoring) quoted by sales | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #8 | Edgescan | Dublin, Ireland | See website; no prices on the pages checked | EU (Ireland) |
| #9 | Outpost24 | Karlskrona, Sweden | Quote; Outscan NX is an annual subscription priced by asset count | EU (Sweden) |
| #10 | Check Point Exposure Management (Cyberint) | Tel Aviv, Israel | See website; plan tiers are listed without prices | Israel |
How each alternative compares to Bitsight
Best for: Risk and procurement teams in Europe that compare suppliers by cyber risk score as well as managing their own estate
Orpheus Cyber is a London company, Orpheus Cyber Limited, and it is the one vendor on this page that sells the same shape of product as Bitsight: a score per organisation, plus a third-party module that places your suppliers on a heat map. New suppliers are onboarded through the portal, and the same portal handles your own perimeter, including shadow IT discovery.
Around the score sit a security questionnaire module, an insurance offer and a vulnerability score called OVSS. Compared with Bitsight you give up scale: the vendor is smaller, so its coverage of obscure suppliers should be tested in the free trial using your real supplier list before you commit.
What Orpheus Cyber does better than Bitsight
- English-law terms and a UK-registered contracting entity
- A free cyber risk trial to test coverage
- DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001 mapping in the same portal
- One portal for questionnaires, scores and vulnerability priorities
Where Orpheus Cyber is a step down from Bitsight
- No published price list
- Likely thinner supplier coverage than a large US ratings vendor
- Hosting region not stated on the pages checked
Standout against Bitsight. Orpheus is the only tool here that scores your suppliers and your own estate in one portal.
Best for: Security teams that want daily monitoring of their own exposure, with analysts available and takedown support
CybelAngel is a French SAS registered in Paris, and it looks outward from your organisation: forgotten servers, open file shares, leaked credentials, look-alike domains and dark web mentions. According to its pricing page every package scans daily and covers the full external surface, with the differences lying in analyst time and active testing.
It is not a ratings service. Third-party risk shows up as services for M&A, suppliers and executives, and mostly in the higher packages. If your reason for leaving Bitsight is the supplier league table, this is not the answer. If it is the work that follows a low score, CybelAngel covers the finding and the takedown.
What CybelAngel does better than Bitsight
- Daily scanning on every package
- Credential leaks and takedowns in the same product
- Analyst support in the upper tiers
Where CybelAngel is a step down from Bitsight
- Quote-only pricing
- No ratings series to show others
- Supplier coverage limited to higher tiers
Standout against Bitsight. CybelAngel is the only tool on this page that combines daily scanning, credential monitoring and takedown services in one contract.
Best for: Teams buried in scanner output that want only validated findings and on-demand pentests
Hadrian Security B.V. splits its offer in two. Atlas maps the external attack surface continuously and tests each change it finds; Nova runs agentic pentests on demand. The vendor says only validated exposures trigger notifications, which is a claim about its approach that we did not test. The terms name the Dutch company as contracting party.
Compared with Bitsight there is no score and no supplier list, so Hadrian answers a different question: what can actually be broken today. Its pricing is partly open (Nova from EUR 1,250 per test excluding VAT) and partly by asset count for Atlas. Read the order form, because the terms let the governing law be set to England and Wales or New York.
What Hadrian does better than Bitsight
- A published per-test pentest price
- Findings validated before alerts
- DORA and NIS2 mapping on its pages
- A free external scan to start
Where Hadrian is a step down from Bitsight
- No supplier ratings
- Atlas pricing only on request
- Governing law can be non-EU in the order form
Standout against Bitsight. Hadrian puts an exploit proof behind each notification, so a finding arrives as evidence and not as a score drop.
Best for: Analysts who want raw scan data, queries and alerts on their own domains rather than a finished score
ONYPHE SAS is based in Cléder, France, and it works from its own scans of the whole Internet, run weekly. The homepage cites more than 20 billion banners and more than 10 billion DNS entries collected monthly. The ASM Edition adds asset tracking and alerts, identifies assets by domain name as well as by IP address, and keeps up to 48 months of history on larger views.
This is closer to a data platform than to Bitsight. Nobody gets a score, and analysts need to write queries in OQL and build the workflow. The pricing pages state a rate limit of about one request per second, which matters if you plan to feed a large supplier list through the API. For teams with a threat intelligence function, owning the query layer is the point.
What ONYPHE does better than Bitsight
- Raw data and an API instead of a fixed score
- Up to 48 months of asset history
- Domain-based asset discovery
- A French vendor whose site is hosted by OVH
Where ONYPHE is a step down from Bitsight
- No supplier score
- No public prices
- Needs analyst skills to get value
Standout against Bitsight. ONYPHE is the only tool here whose product starts from its own whole-Internet scan and lets you query it.
Best for: Small teams and SaaS companies that want change alerts on what they expose without running a scanner farm
Intruder Systems Ltd is registered in England, and the product joins attack surface monitoring, external and internal scanning, cloud checks and container image scanning under one subscription. Its pricing page lists Free, Cloud, Pro and Enterprise plans, with a 14-day trial on Cloud. The homepage claims more than 3,000 companies use it, which is a vendor figure.
Change detection is the feature to notice: new ports or cloud services trigger a scan on their own. Against Bitsight, Intruder gives you a hygiene view of your own assets and no supplier ratings. It is also the cheapest way to try the category, though the free plan is limited to ports 80 and 443 and paid plan amounts did not appear in the page text we read.
What Intruder does better than Bitsight
- A free plan with weekly scans
- Change detection when assets appear
- Integrations with Slack, Teams, Jira, GitHub and GitLab
Where Intruder is a step down from Bitsight
- No supplier ratings
- Paid prices not visible in page text
- AI pentests priced in US dollars
Standout against Bitsight. Intruder is the quickest to start with: a free plan covers three users with weekly external scans.
Best for: Security teams whose exposure is mostly web applications and APIs, and who want annual prices on a page
Detectify AB, in Stockholm, combines external attack surface management with dynamic application testing. Its payloads come partly from Crowdsource, a group of more than 400 ethical hackers, and the Standard tier adds REST and GraphQL API scanning. Prices are listed: a free Starter tier for up to five users and 100 assets, then EUR 2,500, EUR 5,000 and EUR 15,000 per year.
Against Bitsight the difference is depth on web assets and the absence of ratings. It finds weaknesses and does not block attacks, so it is not a WAF or CDN replacement. Standard tops out at 750 assets and 10 users, and CI/CD integration starts on Professional, so plan the tier around your pipeline.
What Detectify does better than Bitsight
- Published annual prices
- Application-level testing, not only exposure listing
- Swedish AB under EU law
Where Detectify is a step down from Bitsight
- No supplier ratings
- Standard capped at 750 assets and 10 users
- Large price jump to Enterprise
Standout against Bitsight. Detectify is the only tool here that publishes prices for every tier, from a free plan to EUR 15,000 a year.
Best for: Organisations that want audited pentesting plus discovery and dark web monitoring, and a free first look
ImmuniWeb SA is a Swiss corporation in Geneva, independent since 2019 and self-funded. Its platform sells penetration testing, attack surface discovery and dark web monitoring as one suite, and it states CREST accreditation, including the new AI-enabled penetration testing accreditation. Data location is given as Geneva.
Switzerland is outside the EEA and relies on an adequacy decision, which you should record in your assessment. Compared with Bitsight, you get a free CyberScore check and a free Community Edition, but the paid AI Platform is quoted by sales and no supplier league table comes with it.
What ImmuniWeb does better than Bitsight
- Data stated as located in Geneva
- A free Community Edition and CyberScore check
- CREST-accredited testing in the same suite
Where ImmuniWeb is a step down from Bitsight
- Paid platform pricing is not published
- Outside the EEA (adequacy decision)
- No supplier ratings series
Standout against Bitsight. ImmuniWeb offers a free CyberScore check, a quick outside view of a domain that needs no sales call.
Best for: Teams that want attack surface, web, API and network testing with expert verification of results in one platform
Edgescan, operated by BCC Risk Advisory Limited in Dublin, describes a continuous testing and exposure management platform founded in 2017. The attack surface module is one of several, next to web, API, network and mobile testing and pentest as a service. The vendor says findings are checked by people to reduce false positives.
As a Bitsight replacement it only covers the exposure half: no supplier ratings, no published pricing on the pages we checked. The vendor also has an office in New York, and the privacy policy we read covers the website, so confirm which entity signs service contracts before relying on it.
What Edgescan does better than Bitsight
- Human verification of findings
- Testing services in the same contract
- Irish company with a public registration number
Where Edgescan is a step down from Bitsight
- No public prices
- No supplier ratings
- Service contract entity not confirmed
Standout against Bitsight. Edgescan is the only tool here that pairs the attack surface module with human verification and pentest as a service.
Best for: Larger organisations that want external attack surface management beside network vulnerability scanning
Outpost24 AB is a Swedish company that sells external attack surface management, the Outscan NX vulnerability service and application testing. Its Outscan NX service terms describe an annual subscription priced by number of assets, and it publishes a set of service-specific terms, including a DORA appendix. The vendor states more than 2,500 customers.
Its site blocked our automated fetches, so product details come from search results of its own pages and its terms, not from pages opened directly. Treat that as a thin picture. There is no supplier score and no public price, and the product is aimed at bigger buyers than Intruder or Detectify.
What Outpost24 does better than Bitsight
- Vulnerability management and exposure discovery from one Swedish vendor
- Published service-specific terms
- Asset-count pricing logic for Outscan NX
Where Outpost24 is a step down from Bitsight
- No supplier ratings
- No public prices
- Less verified here than most tools on the page
Standout against Bitsight. Outpost24 publishes its contract terms, including a DORA appendix, before you talk to sales.
Check Point Exposure Management (Cyberint)
Israeli-origin external risk platform with a supply chain module
Best for: Teams that already run Check Point or want attack surface and dark web monitoring bundled together
Cyberint is now sold as Check Point Exposure Management, and the vendor site says it is a Check Point company. The product bundles attack surface management, deep and dark web monitoring, brand protection and a supply chain module that detects the vendors you use and alerts on high risks. The pricing page compares tiers by module and credits for takedowns.
That supply chain module is the nearest thing to Bitsight's supplier view after Orpheus Cyber, though it is monitoring, not a score series. Ownership is the catch: the licence names Check Point Software Technologies Ltd of Tel Aviv, but Cyberint Inc. is listed among US subsidiaries, so confirm the contracting entity in the order form.
What Check Point Exposure Management (Cyberint) does better than Bitsight
- Supplier monitoring inside an external risk platform
- Dark web and brand monitoring bundled
- Israeli parent (counts as European on EP)
Where Check Point Exposure Management (Cyberint) is a step down from Bitsight
- Contracting entity needs confirming
- No longer an independent company
- No prices shown
Standout against Bitsight. Check Point Exposure Management is the only tool here that is part of a large security vendor.
What actually breaks when you switch
Expect three kinds of friction. First, scope: every tool here defines an asset differently, by domain, IP, cloud account or application, so a Bitsight asset count will not map across. Run the new tool against the same domains for two weeks and list which findings overlap before cancelling anything. Second, integrations: ticketing, SIEM and procurement connectors are not interchangeable, and only Intruder lists its integrations (Slack, Teams, Jira, GitHub, GitLab) on the pages we read.
Third, contracts. Bitsight's rating data comes with internal-use terms, and new vendors bring their own, so a supplier who was told "we monitor you with a Bitsight score" will ask what replaces it.
Give suppliers notice, send the new report format early, and watch the notice period and renewal date of the current contract so the change does not leave a gap in monitoring. Hadrian's terms let the order form set the governing law, so check that clause now and not at signature.
Can any of these tools give me a score I can send to a customer?
Orpheus Cyber is the closest to that use. It issues cyber risk scores for an organisation and says its scores were validated by Gallagher Re as predictive of cyber claims, a vendor statement we did not test. Whether you may pass a score outward depends on the terms you sign, so ask for the clause in writing before you plan a customer-facing process around it.
ImmuniWeb offers a free CyberScore check on its site, which is useful for a quick outside view of a domain. The other tools produce findings, not scores to circulate. A report of validated exposures from Hadrian or a scan summary from Intruder can answer a customer's security questionnaire, but it is evidence, not a rating that a counterparty can compare to other companies.
Will a European vendor really reduce my data protection work?
It removes the transfer question for the vendor itself, because the contracting entity sits in the EU, the UK, Switzerland or Israel. It does not remove your duty to check sub-processors and hosting. Most of the vendors on this page do not state their portal hosting region on the pages we read, so ask for the sub-processor list and the hosting region in the order form.
Two cases need extra care. Hadrian's terms allow the order form to set English or New York law, and Check Point Exposure Management sits beside a US subsidiary. Neither is a reason to rule them out, but both mean you read the contract instead of assuming the vendor's headquarters decides the law.
Which one to pick
Pick Orpheus Cyber if the Bitsight job in your company is supplier scoring for procurement, insurance or the board, and run its free trial against your real supplier list. Pick Check Point Exposure Management if you already work with Check Point and want a supply chain module without a second vendor, and confirm the contracting entity. Neither replaces a very large ratings dataset, so say so to your committee.
Pick CybelAngel, Hadrian or Intruder if the work that matters is fixing your own exposure: CybelAngel for daily external monitoring with analysts, Hadrian for validated findings and pentests, Intruder for a free start. Pick Detectify when web apps dominate, ImmuniWeb or Edgescan when testing services come with discovery, ONYPHE when analysts want the data itself, and Outpost24 for vulnerability management with exposure discovery at larger scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
Orpheus Cyber is the closest match in purpose, because it scores your own organisation and your suppliers from London and offers a free cyber risk trial. If your real need is finding and fixing your own exposure, CybelAngel, Hadrian and Intruder are stronger fits, and Check Point Exposure Management adds a supplier monitoring module. None of them is a drop-in copy of Bitsight, so test the one you shortlist against your own supplier list.
No. Bitsight Technologies, Inc. is a United States company. Its privacy policy says personal information may be transferred to the United States and that the company relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. We could not open Bitsight's own site on 27 October 2026 because of a bot check, so everything here about the company comes from the policy and access terms recorded by our research.
Yes, in different forms. Intruder has a Free plan with weekly external scans, one cloud account, two container images and three users. Detectify has a free Starter tier for up to five users and 100 assets. Orpheus Cyber offers a free cyber risk trial, Hadrian a free external scan, and ImmuniWeb a free Community Edition plus a free CyberScore check.
Orpheus Cyber lists compliance mapping for DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001. Hadrian maps results to DORA and NIS2, and its Nova pentests map to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIS2. Outpost24 publishes a DORA appendix with its contract set. Mapping is a reporting feature, not proof of compliance, so use it as input for your own assessment.
Orpheus Cyber, CybelAngel (quote only), ONYPHE, Edgescan, Outpost24 and Check Point Exposure Management do not show prices on the pages we checked. Detectify publishes annual prices from a free Starter tier up to EUR 15,000 for Enterprise, Hadrian publishes the Nova per-test price, and Intruder lists plans but did not show paid amounts in its page text.
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