Vanta review: Compliance automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, plus risk and vendor tools

What Vanta does

Automates evidence collection and monitoring for security certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, and helps with questionnaires and vendor risk.

Vanta is a compliance and trust platform that automates much of the work behind security certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI and GDPR. The vendor says it supports more than 35 frameworks, with continuous monitoring and an AI agent that drafts policies, completes questionnaires and points out issues.

Beyond core compliance, the product pages describe modules for risk management, third-party (vendor) risk, a Trust Center for showing your security posture to buyers, AI governance and tracking of commitments made to customers. A Vanta API is listed for building custom integrations.

Pricing is organized into four plans: Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise. Essentials covers one compliance framework and includes the Vanta AI Agent, evidence collection and a Trust Center. Plus adds automated policy onboarding, access management and questionnaire automation for 25 questionnaires per year. Professional raises that to 144 questionnaires per year and adds risk management, an advanced Trust Center, custom monitoring tests and advanced reporting with six customizable reports. Enterprise is a fully customizable package for advanced governance, risk and compliance needs.

No prices are shown on the official site. Pricing not published on the official site: buyers are asked to request a demo to get personalized pricing. Several capabilities, such as vendor security reviews and extra Trust Center features, are marked as add-ons in the plan comparison.

• Automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI and GDPR
• More than 35 supported frameworks
• AI agent for policies, questionnaires and issues
• Continuous controls monitoring
• Questionnaire automation
• Risk management with dashboard and reporting
• Vendor risk management
• Trust Center
• Customer commitments tracking
• Vanta API

Our take

Vanta suits companies that need to certify against security frameworks and want evidence collection, policies, questionnaires and vendor risk handled in one place. Startups, mid-market teams and enterprises are all addressed on the vendor's homepage. The trade-off is transparency: no prices are published, so you must book a demo before you can compare cost. The plan structure also matters, because Essentials covers a single framework and several features are sold as add-ons. Questionnaire volume is capped per year on Plus and Professional. Teams wanting self-serve sign-up or a free tier will not find one stated on the official pages.