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Vanta
We found Vanta's pricing is not published; third-party procurement data (Vendr) puts observed annual contracts from about $7,500 to $56,781 with a $20,000 median, well above the low end some vendor-facing blogs advertise.
Vanta leads the category on raw integration count (400+) and G2 review volume, and multiple sources describe an hourly continuous-monitoring cadence as faster than Drata's daily cadence. The recurring independent complaint, seen across Reddit and third-party reviews, is cost and renewal-price growth rather than the core automation itself.
Desk research against public sources. Every figure below carries its source and the date we retrieved it.
What Vanta does.
Seven capabilities, graded the same way for every platform in the directory. "Not established" means we looked and could not confirm it, not that the feature is missing.
| Capability | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Automated evidence collection | Yes | Vendor states 1,400+ automated, hourly tests pulling evidence from connected systems. Source |
| Auditor workspace | Yes | Auditors are added as platform users with scoped access to controls/evidence; Information Request Lists (IRLs) let auditors import and track their own request lists inside Vanta. Source |
| Trust center | Yes | Standalone product (also sold as an add-on); public instance at trust.vanta.com. Source |
| Security questionnaire answering | Yes | AI-drafted answers from a knowledge base of prior questionnaires/docs, with human review before sending. Source |
| Enterprise admin (SSO, SCIM, RBAC) | Partial | SSO and RBAC are available broadly (help.vanta.com), but a third-party SCIM integrator reports Vanta's SCIM provisioning is restricted to Enterprise-tier packages (quoted at $49,000-$80,000+/year); we could not confirm multi-entity support from a primary source. Source |
| SCIM 2.0 provisioning | Yes | Full push provisioning (create, update, deactivate, reactivate) across Okta, Entra, Google Workspace and JumpCloud. Vanta's own article says SCIM may require an upgrade or add-on, and its pricing page shows a SCIM row across five tiers with 'Add-on' under Pro, so it is gated but we could not establish where. Third-party SCIM trackers name an Enterprise-only gate against tier names Vanta no longer uses, so we do not carry their figure. Source |
| Continuous control testing | Yes | Vendor claims hourly automated test cadence, the fastest publicly stated cadence among the major platforms we checked. Source |
| Native multi-framework support | Partial | Vanta documents cross-mapping overlapping controls across frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 to SOC 2) so the same evidence satisfies more than one framework, rather than fully independent native control sets per framework; we could not find a primary source disaggregating which frameworks are natively authored versus mapped. Source |
7 frameworks, and how well each is established.
A framework on a marketing page is a vendor claim, not a confirmed capability. We grade the difference rather than repeating the list.
| Framework | Evidence | Note |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Confirmed | Independently categorized as SOC 2 / cloud compliance software by G2 and covered as such by CNBC and Forbes, not only by Vanta's own marketing. Source |
| ISO 27001 | Vendor-claimed | Source |
| HIPAA | Vendor-claimed | Source |
| PCI DSS | Vendor-claimed | Source |
| GDPR | Vendor-claimed | Source |
| ISO 42001 | Vendor-claimed | Cited across 2026 comparison coverage as part of Vanta's 35+ framework library; not independently verified line-by-line. Source |
| NYDFS Part 500 | Vendor-claimed | A dedicated 23 NYCRR Part 500 product page with mapped controls, policy templates and reporting for the annual certification. Vanta's own product page; the mapping is not independently verified control-by-control, and the certification itself is filed by the covered entity, not issued by Vanta. Source |
Vanta does not publish a price.
Getting a number requires a sales conversation. Anything below comes from reported quotes or marketplace listings, and is labeled as such.
- Disclosure model
- Quote-based (reported $7.5K–$57K/yr)
- Observed range (reported)
- USD 7,500–56,781 / year
- Basis
- Estimate, 2026-07-24
Auditor fees are separate from all of these. See the SOC 2 audit cost guide for what the audit itself runs.
Who actually issues the report.
Vanta is not a CPA firm and does not issue the SOC 2 report itself. It collects and organizes evidence and gives an added auditor scoped read access to controls, tests, and documents inside the platform (including importing the auditor's own request list); an independent, AICPA-accredited CPA firm performs the examination and signs the report.
Software prepares you for the audit; a licensed CPA firm performs it and issues the report. If you have not picked a firm yet, we list independent SOC 2 auditors separately, and we are not one of them.
Who Vanta is for, and who it is not.
Good fit
A venture-backed SaaS company that needs to close an enterprise deal gated on SOC 2 and runs a fairly standard modern stack where Vanta's integration breadth pays off immediately.
Poor fit
A cost-sensitive early-stage startup or a company that expects its quote to hold steady: independent buyer reports (Vendr, Reddit r/soc2 and r/cybersecurity threads) describe list pricing as high relative to smaller competitors, SCIM gated behind the priciest tier, and repeated accounts of year-two renewal increases (one Reddit user cited a 40% jump alongside a decline in support responsiveness).
Typical buyer: Cloud-native SaaS companies on mainstream stacks (AWS/GCP/Azure, common HRIS/identity/dev tooling) pursuing a first SOC 2 or a growing multi-framework program..
Where every figure on this page came from.
10 sources, each with what it establishes and when we read it. If a claim here is out of date, this is the list that tells you which one to re-check.
- 4.6/5 rating; review count (2,665 shown on this page, with other G2 surfaces showing 2,453-2,667 depending on cache/category filter). https://www.g2.com/products/vanta/reviews
- Observed customer contract data: low $7,500, high $56,781, median $20,000/year. https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/vanta
- Current integration count stated as 400+. https://www.vanta.com/
- Customer count and ARR trajectory (16,000+ customers, ~$300M ARR by April 2026) and valuation history. https://sacra.com/c/vanta
- $150M Series D at ~$4B valuation, July 2025, up from $2.45B a year prior. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/crowdstrike-backed-vanta-is-valued-at-4-billion-in-new-funding-round.html
- Corroborates funding history and April 2026 scale figures (1,000 employees, 16,000+ customers, $300M ARR) with citations to Reuters/Bloomberg/CNBC/Forbes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanta_(company)
- SCIM provisioning is limited to Enterprise-tier Vanta plans, quoted at $49,000-$80,000+/year. https://www.stitchflow.com/scim/vanta
- User feedback describing Vanta as expensive for what it delivers and not startup-friendly despite marketing. https://www.reddit.com/r/soc2/comments/1krz49z/interested_in_feedback_on_vanta/
- User report of declining support quality and a 40% year-two price increase. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1753guq/vanta_for_cyber_audits/
- Vanta's own comparison claims hourly test cadence versus Drata's daily cadence (vendor-authored, treat as a claim rather than independently verified). https://www.vanta.com/compare/drata
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