Vanta
SOC 2/ISO 27001 evidence automation, now with AI agents
Overview
Vanta continuously monitors cloud infrastructure and auto-collects audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. Its Agentic Trust Platform (Nov 2025) added AI agents that draft policies, answer security questionnaires and flag vendor risk.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- One compliance framework
- Vanta AI Agent (search, evidence checks)
- Continuous controls monitoring
- Trust Center + auditor API
- Everything in Essentials
- Expanded AI Agent features
- 25 AI-answered questionnaires/year
- Access management
- 144 AI-answered questionnaires/year
- Custom risk management
- Advanced Trust Center
- Custom monitoring tests
- Tailored to org needs
- Dedicated support
- Custom integrations
- Volume/multi-year pricing
Use cases
What you can produce with Vanta
- Continuous evidence collection across AWS/GCP/Azure/Okta/GitHub integrations
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and other framework coverage
- AI Agent: automated policy generation and evidence-gap flagging
- AI-automated security-questionnaire responses (up to 144/year on Professional)
- Third-party vendor risk auto-analysis
- Trust Center for public-facing security posture
- Auditor-facing API for direct evidence access
ASEAN Perspective
Vanta in Southeast Asia
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Sixteen thousand-plus customers and $300 million-plus in ARR make Vanta the category leader in compliance automation, not just a contender — it continuously pulls evidence from AWS, GCP, Okta, GitHub and dozens of other integrations, and keeps SOC 2/ISO 27001/HIPAA/GDPR audits from becoming an all-hands fire drill every renewal cycle. The AI Agent layer added since late 2025 handles first-pass security-questionnaire answers and policy drafting, a real time-save if your team fields RFPs constantly.
The tradeoff is price: nothing is published, quotes commonly run $10K-$28K for a single-framework startup and climb past $50K-$100K with multiple frameworks and headcount growth, and renewal increases are the most-cited G2 complaint. It doesn't replace an external auditor or actual security controls — it automates the evidence trail, not the work of being secure. Best fit: funded, cloud-native startups chasing their first SOC 2 fast; overkill for a five-person team.
What people say
Vanta holds a 4.6 out of 5 across roughly 2,400 reviews on G2, a large enough sample to trust the pattern rather than any single review. The recurring praise clusters around three things: the breadth of integrations (AWS, Okta and GitHub come up most), how legible the compliance dashboard is to non-security staff, and — a less obvious point — that auditors themselves are already familiar with Vanta's evidence export format, which speeds up the actual audit conversation.
The complaints are just as consistent. Pricing is the single most-cited negative: Vanta doesn't publish rates, and reviewers repeatedly flag steep increases at renewal once a company is locked into the workflow and switching costs are high. Support quality also tracks tier — reviewers on the entry-level Essentials plan report slower response times than customers on Professional or Enterprise.
On product substance: Vanta relaunched as an "Agentic Trust Platform" in November 2025, with a second wave of agent upgrades ("AI Agent 2.0") shipping in January 2026. Three agents now run inside the platform — one that manages the evidence lifecycle and flags policy inconsistencies, one that auto-generates third-party vendor risk write-ups, and one that answers inbound security questionnaires from a knowledge base meant to improve as it's used. Whether that self-improvement holds up under real audit scrutiny isn't something review sources confirm, but the questionnaire-automation piece specifically draws favorable mentions because RFP security questionnaires are a genuine time sink for any team selling into enterprise.
Business fundamentals back up the category-leader read: Vanta reported 16,000+ customers as of April 2026, crossed $300 million in ARR (roughly tripling since 2024), and closed a $150 million Series D in July 2025 led by Wellington at a $4.15 billion valuation. That scale cuts both ways for a buyer — the integration library and auditor relationships are mature, but Vanta also has less incentive to compete on price than a smaller rival like Sprinto or Drata.
Net from reviews: strong product, sales-led pricing that rewards negotiation leverage, and a support experience that's noticeably better once you're paying more.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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