The short answer
Before you shop for a Prosegur alternative, answer one question: which Prosegur are you buying from?
Prosegur is a Spanish multinational that describes itself as having more than 170,000 team members across 36 countries, and it sells five distinguishable things under one brand: manned and integrated security, cash logistics, monitored alarms, cybersecurity, and outsourced services. Most "Prosegur alternatives" articles ignore that and produce a single list of guard companies. That list is wrong for roughly half the people reading it.
If you are buying armored transport or cash processing, your realistic alternatives are Brink's, Loomis, and GardaWorld's cash arm, Sesami. If you are buying airport screening, wheelchair services, or secure ground handling, you are comparing regulated aviation specialists, not guard agencies. If you are buying security officers standing a post at a U.S. site, you are comparing Allied Universal, Securitas, GardaWorld, thousands of licensed regional agencies, and on-demand marketplaces like Calvis.
This guide routes you to the right shortlist for each, with honest notes on where Prosegur remains the better answer. For a direct head-to-head against the marketplace model specifically, see Calvis vs Prosegur.
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What Prosegur actually is, by the numbers
The revenue split is the clearest way to understand what kind of company you are dealing with. In its FY2025 results, Prosegur reported total sales of €4.930 billion, consolidated net profit of €119 million (up 52.8 percent), and EBITA of €357 million (up 8.9 percent). Underneath that:
- •Prosegur Security — manned guarding plus integrated electronic security — posted €2.604 billion, which the company called its highest-ever turnover for the division.
- •Prosegur Cash — armored transport, cash centers, ATM servicing, cash management outsourcing — posted €1.987 billion.
- •Prosegur Alarms, including its Movistar Prosegur Alarmas joint venture, posted €234 million.
- •Cipher (cybersecurity) and AVOS (added-value outsourcing) round out the group without separately disclosed division sales in that release.
Two things follow from those figures. First, guarding and cash are roughly comparable in size, so treating Prosegur as "a guard company" misreads more than a third of the business. Second, in the FY2025 release the company identified the United States as the main growth engine for the Security division, which is worth knowing if a U.S. branch is courting you: you are being sold by the division under the most growth pressure.
The U.S. business is younger and narrower than the brand
Prosegur USA launched in 2019 after acquiring four established American companies covering remote monitoring, aviation security, retail loss prevention, manned guarding, and cybersecurity. The largest of those was Command Security Corporation, acquired at $2.85 per share in a deal that closed in February 2019 and brought with it the Aviation Safeguards division. That lineage is why Prosegur's U.S. identity skews aviation-heavy compared with its identity in Spain or Latin America.
There is a second wrinkle U.S. buyers frequently miss. Prosegur Cash markets itself around a footprint of roughly three dozen countries and does not present the United States as one of its cash-logistics markets. If you are an American company and someone tells you Prosegur is a cash-in-transit alternative for your domestic routes, verify that claim against a specific U.S. service address before you build a shortlist around it.
On the guarding side, Prosegur USA's own service list is broad: armed and unarmed officers, concierge and front-desk posts, access control and parcel inspection, off-duty police officers, EMT and AED-trained officers, special events, crowd and traffic control, mobile vehicle patrol, X-ray screening, and emergency services. Its published screening includes criminal history review at state, federal, and international levels, education and employment verification, and continuous monitoring, with training that covers security fundamentals, threat awareness, and MOAB de-escalation. What it does not publish anywhere is a rate. Pricing is quoted per contract, which is standard for the category and is the main reason buyers start comparison shopping in the first place.
Route yourself to the right shortlist
| If your invoice is for | What you are actually buying | Realistic alternatives | The question that decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armored transport, cash centers, ATM servicing | Licensed, insured, capital-intensive logistics | Brink's, Loomis, GardaWorld Sesami | Route density and vault proximity to your locations |
| U.S. security officers on a post | Local labor supply and supervision | Allied Universal, Securitas, GardaWorld, regional agencies, marketplaces | Depth of the specific branch or agency serving your address |
| Airport screening, ground handling, wheelchair services | Regulated aviation services with certification requirements | Aviation-specific contractors; the national firms with aviation books | Which certifications the vendor actually holds at your airport |
| Cameras, access control, alarm monitoring | Systems integration plus a monitoring center | Regional integrators, national monitoring providers, guarding firms with video arms | Whether you want hardware and officers on one contract or two |
| Managed detection and response, GRC | Enterprise cybersecurity services | Dedicated MSSPs and consultancies | Whether physical-security bundling actually saves you anything |
| Multi-country programs across Iberia and Latin America | One vendor across borders | Securitas, Allied Universal, few others | Which countries are owned operations versus partner arrangements |
The most expensive mistake in this table is comparing across rows. A cash-logistics carrier and a guard agency are not substitutes, and a bundled proposal that mixes both is nearly impossible to benchmark. Ask for each scope priced separately before you compare anything.
Cash logistics alternatives
If the Prosegur relationship you are replacing is armored transport or cash processing, the field is short by design. This is a business with vault networks, insured limits, route economics, and regulatory exposure that a general security company cannot improvise.
Brink's is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and sells cash-in-transit, ATM services and ATM managed services, total cash management and cash processing, retail solutions including its RetailBox product, and secure logistics for valuables. It is the default first call for most U.S. buyers.
Loomis describes a U.S. network of nearly 200 locations with more than 9,000 employees and more than 3,000 vehicles, part of a global network of more than 400 locations across 23 countries. Its service line covers cash-in-transit, ATM services, cash management, cash forecasting, cash exchange, and its SafePoint smart-safe program. For multi-site retail with heavy daily deposit volume, the smart-safe plus provisional-credit model is often the real comparison point rather than pickup frequency.
GardaWorld Sesami is the third credible North American option and is worth including on any bid list for competitive tension alone. Our GardaWorld alternatives guide breaks down how that company's divisions separate.
Evaluate all three on the same four criteria: route density near your actual addresses, vault and cash-center proximity, insured liability limits per stop, and the quality of reconciliation reporting. Headline company size is close to meaningless here; a carrier with a base twenty minutes away will outperform a larger carrier running you as a spur.
U.S. guarding alternatives
This is where most readers land, and it is the section where the honest answer depends on why you are leaving.
If your objection is the local branch, not the model
Then a like-for-like national swap is reasonable. Allied Universal is the largest contract guarding firm in North America and usually has the deepest officer bench in a given metro, which is the single best predictor of whether a 2 a.m. call-out gets covered. Securitas is the Swedish-headquartered global operator with a large U.S. footprint built partly through Pinkerton and a long investment in pairing officers with electronic security. GardaWorld rounds out the set. Expect all three to carry the same structure you are leaving: annual or multi-year terms, minimum hour commitments, auto-renewal, and pricing quoted after a sales process rather than published. See Allied Universal alternatives for that comparison in detail.
If your objection is the model itself
Switching nationals will not fix quoted-not-published pricing, contract minimums, or account-management layers, because those are characteristics of enterprise contract guarding generally rather than of Prosegur specifically. Two options actually change the structure.
Regional and independent agencies. Below the nationals sit thousands of licensed local operators. Lower corporate overhead usually means a lower bill rate, and the person answering your call is frequently the person deciding whether your post gets filled tonight. The catch is variance: quality ranges from excellent to genuinely unsafe, and confirming that the agency license is current, that individual guard registrations are valid, and that insurance is real lands entirely on you.
On-demand marketplaces. Calvis is a marketplace, not a security agency. Rather than negotiating with one firm at a time, you describe the coverage you need and compare independently licensed local agencies side by side on flat hourly rates and credentials, then book without a long-term contract. The officers are employed and licensed by those agencies, and each agency's license is verified against its state regulator as a condition of appearing. In practice that keeps the pricing and responsiveness advantages of local operators while taking the vetting burden off the buyer.
How the three models compare
| Factor | Prosegur and other nationals | Regional independent agency | Calvis marketplace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing visibility | Quoted per contract, not published | Quoted per agency, varies widely | Flat hourly rates shown before booking |
| Contract to start | Annual or multi-year, minimum hours | Often monthly, negotiable | None required to begin |
| Vendor choice | One firm, one proposal | One agency at a time | Multiple vetted agencies compared at once |
| Time to first officer | Enterprise onboarding, typically weeks | Days if the agency has bench depth | Same-day to next-day in covered metros |
| Vetting burden | Vendor carries it | Buyer carries it | Handled before the agency appears |
| Credential visibility | On request | On request | Visible in dashboard before the shift |
| Cash logistics | Prosegur Cash, outside the U.S. | No | No |
| Aviation security | Yes, via Aviation Safeguards lineage | Rarely | No |
| Multi-country coverage | Yes, strongest in Iberia and Latin America | No | No |
| Best fit | Cross-border programs, aviation, integrated systems | Single metro, steady schedule, price-sensitive | Single site, events, projects, short notice |
Read that as three different tools rather than a ranking. A multinational with sites in Madrid, São Paulo, and Dallas and a single self-storage facility in Phoenix should reach opposite conclusions from the same table.
Aviation, systems, and cyber
Aviation. Prosegur's U.S. aviation book came from Command Security's Aviation Safeguards division, and it is a legitimate specialty. Pre-board screening, wheelchair and passenger services, cabin cleaning, and secure ground handling carry certification and airport-badging requirements that ordinary guard agencies do not hold. If this is your scope, compare only vendors that can name the specific certifications and the specific airports where they already operate. A marketplace does not compete here and we will not pretend otherwise.
Systems integration, monitoring, and alarms. Prosegur sells cameras, access control, remote monitoring, and alarm connections alongside officers, which is genuinely convenient when you want one program. The alternative shortlist is regional integrators plus national monitoring providers, and the decision usually comes down to whether bundling hardware with labor gets you a better total number or simply makes each line harder to price-check. Ask for the guarding-only price separately even if you intend to buy the bundle.
Cybersecurity. Cipher competes with dedicated managed security service providers and consultancies. Physical-security bundling rarely produces a real discount here, so evaluate it against pure-play MSSPs on detection coverage, response commitments, and analyst quality rather than on vendor consolidation for its own sake.
Where Prosegur stays the better choice
A comparison that finds no case for the incumbent is an advertisement, not a comparison.
Cross-border programs. If you have facilities in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, or Colombia alongside U.S. sites, very few vendors carry one relationship across all of them. Prosegur can.
Cash-in-transit outside the United States. Prosegur Cash is a top-tier global operator, and in much of Latin America it is the market leader.
Regulated aviation services. The Aviation Safeguards lineage is real capability, not marketing.
One integrated program. Cameras, access control, alarm connection, a monitoring center, and officers procured together and escalated through one account team is a coherent purchase for a large enterprise.
Enterprise procurement constraints. One master services agreement, one consolidated invoice, one insurance certificate, and one escalation path is sometimes a hard requirement rather than a preference.
If your situation is on that list, stop reading comparison posts and go negotiate.
How to run the comparison properly
Separate the divisions before you price anything. Get guarding, monitoring, systems, and any cash services quoted independently. Bundles are difficult to benchmark and easy to auto-renew without noticing.
Pressure-test the branch, not the brand. Ask which office serves your address, how many officers it employs within a defined radius, what its call-out fill rate was last quarter, and how long the officers at comparable nearby sites have been in place. Prosegur's U.S. depth varies by metro because it was assembled through acquisitions, so a strong national brand tells you little about your specific post. A vendor that cannot answer with specifics is answering.
Read the term, the minimum, and the notice period together. A twelve-month term with monthly minimums and a ninety-day notice requirement is effectively a fifteen-month commitment. Match that to the real life of the need, not to the vendor's default.
Benchmark the rate before the first call. Walk in knowing what unarmed, armed, and patrol coverage costs in your market. That single step moves a negotiation more than anything else you can do.
Verify licensing at the source. Every state licenses both security agencies and individual officers, and the state regulator is the authoritative record. For armed posts, confirm the individual officer's armed registration and firearms permit, not just the agency license. Never accept a corporate brand as a substitute for a license number you can look up.
Plan the transition, not just the signature. Post orders, badging, key and access handover, and overlap coverage on the changeover date are where switches actually go wrong. Our guide on how to switch security guard companies walks through the sequence.
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