VGS

What it is

VGS (Very Good Security) is Very Good Security, Inc.’s payment tokenization and independent PCI vault platform, sold to collect, protect (alias/tokenize), and transmit sensitive payment and other sensitive data without that plaintext sitting in the customer’s systems. Live marketing brand on homepage, Vault, Card Management Platform, Network Tokens, Account Updater, Pricing, About Us, Contact, Careers, and footer is VGS / Very Good Security. Legal name: Very Good Security, Inc. on Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice; footer copyright VERY GOOD SECURITY, Inc. Canonical marketing domain used for this listing: https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/ (HTTP 200 at research). Apex https://verygoodsecurity.com/ resolved to the www host at research. Homepage title: The World’s Leader in Payment Tokenization - VGS. Homepage headline: The World’s Leader in Payment Tokenization. Homepage also markets The Trusted Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as a parallel hero frame next to the core tokenization job.

The confirmed public product URL for the Vault surface used for this listing is https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/vault (page title: Vault | VGS; HTTP 200 at research). Vault headline framing: Collect, Protect and Transmit. Vault subcopy: Collect, protect, and transmit sensitive data from a processor-agnostic, PCI-compliant vault. Descope your liability and insulate your business from risk exposure and compliance overhead by operating on randomized, non-sensitive tokens instead of raw data. Homepage Vault challenge tile: Use an independent vault to reduce your PCI compliance requirements and protect your business. Related Card Management Platform (CMP) product URL: https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/card-management-platform (canonical link printed on that page). CMP: Store and Enrich All Your Payment Data; Access Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS, and Account Validation with One API Integration. Docs split the stack as Credential Management Platform (https://docs.verygoodsecurity.com/cmp) and Secure Data Vault (https://docs.verygoodsecurity.com/vault).

This page is VGS payment tokenization / vault: Collect (web form, mobile SDKs, HTTPS/SFTP, Vault API), Protect (alias into the vault), Transmit (re-insert plaintext on outbound routes to authorized endpoints such as PSPs), plus optional CMP enrichment on the same credential object. Adjacent products are VGS’s. They are not this page. Card Management Platform packaging as a standalone enrichment suite, Network Tokens / Account Updater / Card Attributes / 3DS / Account Validation SKUs, AI Data Firewall, agentic commerce hub and toolkit packaging (/industries/agentic-commerce, /agentic-commerce-hub, docs agentic guides), PCI Compliance Subscription packaging, payment-orchestration use-case marketing, PII / open-banking / card-issuance vertical pages, and industry landing pages are VGS’s. They are not this page.

Who it’s for

Shapes from VGS’s homepage, Vault, CMP, About, industries, Contact, and docs:

• Ecommerce, delivery/marketplace, restaurant, gaming, and omnichannel merchants, which homepage industry tiles sell as multi-PSP strategy, tokenize and operate on sensitive data while reducing PCI scope, omni-channel aliases, and PCI compliance while adding multiple PSPs.
• Merchant enablers, fintechs, crypto on/off-ramp builders, and financial institutions, which homepage tiles sell as best-of-breed stacks for merchants, secure card/bank handling for crypto flows, and protecting customer data while adding payment services.
• Teams that need portable aliases plus network enrichments without per-PSP lock-in, which Vault sells as a single tokenization layer across payment providers and which CMP sells as one card object for Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS, and Account Validation across PSPs.
• Builders evaluating agentic commerce rails, which /industries/agentic-commerce and /agentic-commerce-hub sell as adjacent packaging on the same independent vault and network-token rails. That agentic packaging is VGS’s. It is not this page’s Vert focus beyond a Standout wall-off.

Partner intake is dual-path. Marketing CTAs: Sign Up; Contact Us; Try for Free (Pricing Starter); Get Started; Create a Sandbox (nav Developers). Contact (https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/contact): Fill out the form below and we’ll direct you to the right expert. Dashboard signup host live at research: https://dashboard.verygoodsecurity.com/signup (HTTP 200). Login: https://dashboard.verygoodsecurity.com/signin. Docs CMP Getting Started: create a Sandbox tenant through the VGS Dashboard; Sandbox accounts enabled for credential management by default; also references Vault Dashboard for Secure Data products. Vault page Ready to Get Started: Create an account with VGS; It’s free to get started; in less than 10 minutes baseline tokenization program as marketed. Pricing Starter: Get started for free and contact us to learn more; Try for Free. Pricing Growth: Contact Us. Terms: sign up for a dashboard account; sandbox environments for testing only (no SLA / no data-retention guarantee; do not place sensitive information in sandbox); production fees via purchase order / payment plan. Privacy Notice: Create a VGS account online; Create a sandbox in VGS’s vault.

It is a fit for a merchant, platform, or fintech that wants a self-serve sandbox plus sales-assisted production path on an independent PCI vault, will keep PSP seats with chosen processors, and does not need VGS to underwrite or settle as the processor of record.

Standout details

• Brand, domain, and product URL (as printed). Official marketing name: VGS / Very Good Security. Legal: Very Good Security, Inc. / VERY GOOD SECURITY, Inc. Canonical site: https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/. Frontmatter website uses the Vault product URL https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/vault (clearest public independent-vault surface for this listing). Related live URLs also used here: /, /card-management-platform, /network-tokens, /account-updater, /card-attributes-bin-lookup, /3ds, /pricing, /about-us (/about 301/200 to about-us), /contact (/contact-us 200 to /contact), /careers, /partners, /payment-orchestration, /compliance-solutions/pci, /learn/tokenization, /industries/agentic-commerce, /agentic-commerce-hub, /press, /privacy-notice, /terms-and-conditions. Docs: https://docs.verygoodsecurity.com/ (vault and cmp trees). Dashboard: https://dashboard.verygoodsecurity.com/. Trust Center: https://security.verygoodsecurity.com/. Status: https://status.verygoodsecurity.com/. /get-started, /demo, /signup on the marketing host returned 404 at research (signup lives on dashboard host).

• Vault Collect / Protect / Transmit. Vault: Secure Web Form; Native iOS and Android SDKs; HTTPS or SFTP; Vault API; third-party integrations such as Sardine named on the Vault page. Protect: intercepts data before it hits customer servers; configurable routes with filters/operations; redacts critical data and generates a token; Network Tokens and Account Updater can keep credentials updated. Transmit: re-inserts original data on outbound requests to destination endpoints (for example PSPs) so customer systems keep aliases. Docs Secure Data Vault: VGS Aliases; HTTPS Proxies; Batch File Transmission; TCP Proxy (ISO8583); VGS Collect; VGS Show; VGS Compute. Vault FAQ data types: payment card data, PII, financial/bank data, PHI, crypto credentials as marketed. Vault FAQ: Is the Vault PCI DSS compliant? Yes. VGS is PCI DSS Level 1 compliant.

• CMP enrichments next to the vault. CMP marketing and docs: unified API / single card object for Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS, and Account Validation; PCI-Compliant Vault (use VGS Vault or your vaulting solution); market-leading network integrations; provider neutrality. Network Tokens and Account Updater have dedicated product pages. Those enrichment modules are VGS’s. They sit next to this page’s vault job and are mentionable as optional CMP add-ons, not as a substitute for the independent-vault listing.

• Ops and pricing (public). Dual CTAs: Sign Up / Try for Free / Create a Sandbox / Get Started alongside Contact Us. Docs: self-serve Sandbox tenant creation in Dashboard. Terms: sandbox is testing-only; production billing via purchase order / payment plan; fees non-cancelable/nonrefundable as printed; U.S. Dollars unless agreed otherwise. /pricing (HTTP 200): Our Pricing Model. Starter Package: Plans start at a printed monthly starter figure on the page; Get started for free; Try for Free; Plans Starting at chip. Growth Package: Customize your payment infrastructure solution with the VGS Vault and combine it with additional products and services; Contact Us; listed Growth capabilities include Network Tokens, Account Updater, PCI Compliance Subscription (L1, L2-L4), VGS Provided Auditor, Large File Transfers, VGS Compute, Card Attributes. This listing’s public_pricing YAML is a label only (no dollar amounts). Homepage and Careers scale chips (vendor claims): 9 Billion Tokens Held Globally; 10 Billion Monthly Interactions; VGS Powers Fortune 500 Organizations; Careers also prints powers over a third of the world’s e-commerce transactions. Contact quote from Matt Doka references nearly $1M saved and six months of development time. Treat $1M / 9 Billion / 10 Billion / one-third chips and quotes as VGS marketing or named-customer claims, not as public list pricing and not as independently audited results.

• Company facts. Founded: 2015 from About Us (Founded in 2015, VGS is the world’s leader in payment tokenization…). Headquarters: San Francisco, CA from footer and About block (207 Powell Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94102). Leadership named on About: Chuck Yu (CEO); Marshall Jones (CTO & Co-Founder); Terry Angelos (Chief Strategy Officer); Veronica Fernandez (Chief Revenue Officer); Tim Nguyen (General Counsel); Simon Tiu (SVP, Finance). Careers: remote-first company as printed. Terms last updated December 13, 2022. Privacy Notice effective Dec 9, 2024. Footer copyright year block observed as (c) VERY GOOD SECURITY, Inc. Press: CNBC & Statista 2025 World’s Top Fintech Companies naming as linked from homepage/news.

• Named customers and partners (vendor-named). Trust Center chips: Albertsons, Zilch, PayOS, MoonPay, Upside, Cartpanda, SumUp, Bilt, Robinhood, Rappi. Contact quotes name Billy Russell, VP of Payments at Bilt; Ayal Karmi, CEO & Co-founder (nekuda on agentic pages); other quotes omit company in the static extract. Agentic hub: Gondola case-study CTA; PayOS quote (Johnathan McGowan). Agentic industry: preferred/partner language for Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay, American Express ACE. Vault FAQ names processors such as Stripe or Adyen as example Transmit destinations. Those names are infrastructure VGS routes to, partners with, or customer stories VGS prints. They are not this page’s product.

• License and security posture (as printed). Vault FAQ and PCI solutions page: PCI DSS Level 1; PCI DSS v4.0 framing on compliance-solutions/pci. Trust Center: PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, GDPR, CCPA; Qualys SSL Labs grades marketed for Main Site and Dashboard. Terms: You own your data; VGS is a data security platform for securing and transmitting sensitive data; independent-contractor relationship; not framed as a bank charter or merchant acquirer in Terms. Homepage and Vault: independent / processor-agnostic vault. VGS markets vault, tokenization, and CMP enrichment. It does not market itself as the processor of record that underwrites and settles merchants. Customer still contracts with PSPs and other endpoints.

• Adjacent modules (wall-off). This page is VGS payment tokenization / independent vault. Adjacent products are VGS’s. They are not this page. CMP as a packaged enrichment suite, Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS, Account Validation, AI Data Firewall, Agentic Commerce Hub / toolkit / industry packaging, PCI Compliance Subscription / auditor packaging, payment-orchestration and PII/open-banking/card-issuance use-case pages sit next to the core vault job. Agentic remains mentionable here as an adjacent module that reuses the same independent vault and network-token rails without replacing this vault listing.

Sources: verygoodsecurity.com, Vault, Card Management Platform, Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes / BIN Lookup, 3DS, Pricing, About Us, Contact, Careers, Partners, Payment Orchestration, PCI Compliance Solutions, Learn Tokenization, Agentic Commerce industry, Agentic Commerce Hub, Press, Privacy Notice, Terms and Conditions, Trust Center, Docs overview, Secure Data Vault docs, CMP docs, CMP Getting Started, Dashboard signup, Status.

Honest verdict

VGS is the listing to read when the job is payment tokenization on an independent PCI vault: collect sensitive data with Collect forms/SDKs/API, alias it in a processor-agnostic vault you treat as yours for scope reduction, transmit to authorized PSP endpoints, and optionally enrich the same credential with Network Tokens, Account Updater, Card Attributes, 3DS, or Account Validation through CMP. VGS is not a processor of record, not a bank, and not the PayFac that underwrites and settles merchants. Acquiring and settlement stay with the customer’s chosen processors. VGS supplies the vault, aliases, routes, and enrichment layer.

What it is not: a processor of record, a bank charter, a lender, or a Growth buy-rate card. Sign Up, Try for Free, and Dashboard Sandbox tenants are real; production fees still follow purchase order / payment plan per Terms, and Growth / network services go through Contact Us. Starter Plans Starting at is published on /pricing (dollar amount on the live page; not repeated in YAML). Homepage 9 Billion tokens / 10 Billion interactions / Fortune 500 chips and the nearly $1M customer quote are VGS marketing or named-customer claims, not list pricing. Agentic commerce hub and toolkit packaging is adjacent on the same rails. If you need the vendor itself to acquire and settle as processor of record, stop. If the job is an independent PCI vault with portable tokenization and optional CMP enrichments, start here.