ShieldWise as a Hoxhunt alternative
Hoxhunt is built for organisations of thousands, and priced accordingly: their own pricing page works through a 10,000-employee example, and no number reaches you until after a 30-minute scoping call. If your team is smaller than that, you are buying an enterprise programme you may not have the staff to run. Here is the comparison, sourced, including where they are genuinely ahead of us.
Facts checked 15 August 2026
Choose ShieldWise if
- Your headcount is in the tens or hundreds, not the thousands.
- You need Georgian, which they do not offer at all.
- You want a price without booking a scoping call first.
- You want certificates your people can prove to an employer with a link.
Choose Hoxhunt if
- You have thousands of employees and a security team to run the programme.
- Simulation engagement is the single metric you are optimising.
- You need behavioural reporting deeper than click rate today.
| What you're comparing | ShieldWise | Hoxhunt |
|---|---|---|
| Georgian language | 63 courses written natively in Georgian and English. Your team reads security advice that sounds like a person wrote it, because one did. | Their own site offers English and German. Georgian is not part of the offering. |
| Phishing simulations and scoring | in buildGraded on the server from the decisions your people actually make. Nobody passes by leaving a video running in another tab. Phishing campaigns send today; the results dashboard is in build. | This is their strength: adaptive, gamified simulations with strong behavioural reporting and high engagement rates. |
| Completion certificates | Every completed course issues a named certificate carrying a public verification link, so an auditor or a new employer can confirm it in seconds without an account. | Training records and reporting are part of the platform. |
| Contract and renewal | No auto-renew, ever. You stay because it works, not because you missed a notice window. | Terms are not published; they are set during the quote process. |
| Pricing transparency | A real number for your team inside a week, from the person who sets it. No procurement dance, no scoping call before anyone will talk price. | No prices published. Their pricing page states that a quote depends on employee count and capabilities, and comes after a 30-minute scoping call. Third-party review sites report entry points in the five figures annually; treat those as estimates, not list prices. |
| Who you talk to | You talk to the people who build it. The bug you report is fixed by the person you reported it to. | Enterprise onboarding and customer success, scoped during the sales process. |
| Course catalogue | 63 courses of 3 to 5 minutes and 11 interactive simulations, chosen so your admin never has to pick from a thousand. The curation is the product. | Behaviour-first training built around simulation and reporting rather than a large course library. |
| Who it's built for | Small and mid-sized teams in Georgia and Europe who want training their staff will actually finish. | Large enterprises. Their own pricing page uses a 10,000-employee organisation as its worked example. |
Common questions
- How much does Hoxhunt cost?
- They do not publish prices. Their pricing page says the quote depends on employee count and which capabilities you need, and follows a 30-minute scoping call. Review sites report annual entry points in the five figures, which suits the enterprise segment they target.
- Is Hoxhunt worth it for a small team?
- It depends on your headcount. Their product, pricing and worked examples are aimed at organisations of thousands. Below that, you may be paying for an enterprise programme you do not have the team to run.
- What does ShieldWise do differently?
- We are smaller and cheaper to run, we teach in Georgian as well as English, and our certificates carry a public verification link. Their simulation engine and behavioural reporting are more advanced than ours today.
What Hoxhunt does better
- Their simulation engine and behavioural reporting are ahead of ours today. We are building toward it; they are already there.
- A genuinely liked end-user experience, backed by strong review scores.
- At enterprise scale they are built for the job and we are not.
Sources
We checked each of these on 15 August 2026. Products change; if something here is stale, tell us and we will correct it.
Hoxhunt is a trademark of its owner. It is named here for comparison only, and there is no affiliation between us.
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