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Most security awareness vendors will not show you a price page. They want a demo, a discovery call, and a scored account before a number leaves the room.

Security awareness training pricing is the per-user annual fee organizations pay to license cybersecurity education, phishing simulations, and compliance modules for employees. List prices typically range from $5 to $50 per user per year. Costs vary by vendor, content format, simulation depth, and contract length, and most vendors do not publish public pricing. Simulation depth is usually the biggest swing factor: see what a full phishing simulation program actually covers.

The best security awareness training platform in 2026 depends on the segment you buy from. For large enterprises with deep compliance needs, KnowBe4 remains the default shortlist pick. For mid-market teams that want employees to actively practice attacks, RansomLeak wins on interactive depth and AI-era threat coverage. For EU-regulated organizations, SoSafe leads on GDPR-native hosting. This roundup ranks ten platforms with transparent methodology and segment-by-segment guidance.

Updated April 2026.

ChatGPT is now inside most enterprises, whether security teams approved it or not. The productivity gains are real, and so are the risks. Data leaves the building one prompt at a time. Hallucinated code ships to production. Prompt injection turns a helpful assistant into an exfiltration channel. Auditors notice. This is the security posture to understand before you draft another policy.

The FTC Safeguards Rule at 16 CFR Part 314 requires non-bank financial institutions to maintain a written information security program, and that program must include security awareness training plus specialized training for the personnel responsible for it. The amended rule became fully enforceable on June 9, 2023, and it reaches well beyond banks.

Auto dealers, mortgage brokers, tax preparers, retailers offering in-house financing, collection agencies, and investment advisors all fall inside the FTC’s definition of a “financial institution.” Many of them spent 2023 and 2024 scrambling to document training programs their compliance teams had assumed were already in place.

HIPAA security awareness training is a mandatory Administrative Safeguard under the HIPAA Security Rule. Every covered entity and every business associate must run a training program for all members of its workforce, including management, and the documentation must survive OCR audits that can sample records going back six years.

The rule itself is short. The expectations around it are not. Covered entities that treat HIPAA training as a fifteen-minute annual video tend to learn this the hard way, usually during a breach investigation or a Resolution Agreement that costs six or seven figures.

For the §164.308(a)(5) framework breakdown end-to-end, see our HIPAA security awareness training framework guide. This post focuses on what OCR investigators actually sample during an audit.