Applause vs Berezha Security Group
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Field by field
| Field | Applause | Berezha Security Group |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Framingham, the USA | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Delivery locations | the USA, Germany, Israel, Poland, India | Ukraine, Poland |
| Team size | 201-500 people | 11-50 people |
| Founded | 2007 | 2014 |
| Ownership | Subsidiary | Independent |
| Services | Manual testing, Test automation, Payment flow testing, Accessibility testing, Usability testing, Localization testing, Security testing, Mobile app testing, IoT and device testing, AR/VR testing | Penetration testing, Security testing, Secure code review, Red teaming |
| Industries | Automotive, Ecommerce, Media, Banking, Travel, Healthcare, Games, Telecom | Fintech, Banking, Ecommerce, Healthcare, Telecom, Games, SaaS |
| Frameworks | Not published | Not published |
| Engagement modelspublished by one of the two | Crowdtesting, Managed testing service | Not published |
| Client stagespublished by one of the two | Enterprises | Not published |
| Certificates | No certificate confirmed by a register entry | No certificate confirmed by a register entry |
| Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA | Not confirmed / Not confirmed | Not confirmed / Not confirmed |
| Published ratespublished by one of the two | Not published |
|
| Minimum projectpublished by one of the two | Not published | $5,000clutch.co |
| Onboarding | Not published | Not published |
| Crowd tester poolpublished by one of the two | 1,500,000applause.com | Not published |
| Device lab | Not published | Not published |
Who each one fits
Applause fits a buyer whose engagement is crowdtesting run at enterprise scale, drawing on a published on-demand tester pool spread across devices and locales. Berezha Security Group fits a buyer whose scope is a focused security assessment, carried out by a narrower practice based in Ukraine and Poland.
Certificates sit open on each profile: no named credential such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 appears on either side of this pair, so a buyer who needs a credential for its own compliance file cannot settle the question from the table. The first-call ask, regardless of which vendor gets picked, is a current audit report or a certificate number.
Published rates work the opposite way: the field carries a stated hourly figure on the narrower security-practice side and nothing on the broader crowdtesting side. A buyer weighing cost across the pair should ask the silent side for a quote before comparing, since a fixed-fee security engagement and an enterprise crowdtesting contract are priced on different bases to begin with.
A tag is attached when the company's published fields meet its condition, never by judgement. Both lists come from the same closed vocabulary, so a tag missing from one side means the condition was not met, not that nobody looked.
Applause
Berezha Security Group
Berezha Security Group meets no applicability condition in this catalog. That is a statement about what its published fields show, not about the company.
Both meet the conditions for Nearshore for the EU, so those conditions do not separate them.
Where the data runs out
Completeness against the 14 fields of the comparison checklist is 71% for Applause and 57% for Berezha Security Group. A field is counted as filled when a source confirms it, so a gap means nobody published it.
Neither company has a value recorded for these fields: Frameworks, Certificates, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Onboarding, Device lab. The table shows those rows empty rather than estimating them.
Field definitions and the completeness checklist are on the methodology page. The sources behind each field are listed on the Applause profile and the Berezha Security Group profile.
Questions
- Does either Applause or Berezha Security Group hold a published security certification such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2?
- Applause's trust page states its own controls are aligned with SOC 2 rather than holding a certification, checked 2 September 2026. Berezha Security Group's service pages name ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS only as frameworks its assessments test client systems against, checked 3 September 2026. Neither profile records a certification of its own in the catalog's certificates field, so a buyer needing a certificate number for its own audit trail has to request one directly instead of relying on either company's site.
- For a buyer budgeting by the hour, which side of this pair has a stated rate on record and which does not?
- Berezha Security Group's Clutch profile lists a blended hourly rate of $25 to $49, recorded 3 September 2026. Applause's own rates field carries no published figure. The comparison stops at one number: a published range on the Berezha Security Group side with no published counterpart on the Applause side to weigh it against.
Published by QA RatingUpdated on September 6, 2026
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