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Alternatives to Unit21
21 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Unit21 in this directory. Below is what separates each from Unit21 on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 1
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Unit21 starts at
- On request
Why people look past Unit21
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Unit21 entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Unit21 carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 1 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Unit21 publishes a single plan, Unit21 Platform at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
Priced and rated the same as Unit21 on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Unsupervised AI transaction monitoring for cross-border and correspondent banking
Priced and rated the same as Unit21 on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Can be used without paying; Unit21 cannot.
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than quote.
Workforce and customer authentication from a certificate authority
- Publishes an entry price of $2/month, where Unit21 does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Unit21's 1.
Adaptive behavioural analytics for payment fraud and financial crime
Priced and rated the same as Unit21 on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Large Chinese video platform that US federal buyers and federal contractors cannot lawfully use
Priced and rated the same as Unit21 on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Every Unit21 alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit21 (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| FeedzaiIf you need real-time scoring inside a card authorisation path at issuer scale | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| ThetaRayIf your exposure is cross-border and correspondent flows where unsupervised detection beats hand-written rules | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Google Authenticator | Free | Free, no in-app purchases | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Entrust Identity as a Service | $2/month | Per user per month | 2 | vs Unit21 |
| Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Dahua Technology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Genetec Security Center | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Envysion | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| IDnow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Delinea | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Unit21 |
| DTiQ | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| BeyondTrust | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| HID Global | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Fenergo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| March Networks | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Jumio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | 1 | vs Unit21 |
| Camio | $4.99/month | Per camera per month | 2 | vs Unit21 |
| Beyond Identity | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Unit21 |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Unit21 badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (1)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Google Authenticator , Free
What you would be giving up
Unit21 is most often brought in for a neobank whose sponsor bank requires a documented monitoring programme before it will keep the bin sponsorship, a crypto exchange needing sar filing and case management without building an internal compliance engineering team, a payments startup where the fraud lead needs to ship a new rule the same day a new attack pattern appears, a lender consolidating fraud alerts from three point tools into one investigator queue with a single audit trail. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Unit21 is broadly right and the question is cost, the Unit21 pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cybersecurity category lists everything the directory holds, and best cybersecurity tools ranks them.
Unit21 runs on web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Unit21 alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Unit21?
- 21 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by Feedzai, ThetaRay, Google Authenticator, Entrust Identity as a Service. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Unit21?
- 1 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Google Authenticator.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Unit21?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Unit21?
- Unit21 is most often brought in for a neobank whose sponsor bank requires a documented monitoring programme before it will keep the bin sponsorship, a crypto exchange needing sar filing and case management without building an internal compliance engineering team, a payments startup where the fraud lead needs to ship a new rule the same day a new attack pattern appears, a lender consolidating fraud alerts from three point tools into one investigator queue with a single audit trail. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Unit21?
- None of the cybersecurity tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Unit21 alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cybersecurity, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Unit21 against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Unit21 covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cybersecurity tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cybersecurity category, 21 tools beside Unit21. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.