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Vanta SOC 2 compliance software
Vanta uses quote-based pricing rather than a published rate card; its auditor workspace lets auditors import and track Information Request Lists inside Vanta, as described at www.vanta.com/partners/auditors; custom environments can still require manual evidence work.
By Peter Korpak, Lead Editor · independently researched · Methodology
- Pricing
- Quote-based (reported $7.5K–$57K/yr)
- Source-checked frameworks
- 7
- Integrations
- 400+
- G2 (2026-07-24)
- 4.6 · 2,665 reviews
Third-party procurement data (Vendr) puts observed annual contracts from about $7,500 to $56,781 with a $20,000 median. 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 is cost and renewal-price growth rather than the core automation itself.
Vanta has raised roughly $504M total across six rounds; the most recent is a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management, announced July 23, 2025, valuing the company at $4.15B (up from $2.45B a year earlier).
Vanta has scoped marketplace prices.
Direct pricing still requires a sales conversation. The public figures below are scoped marketplace or catalog prices, not a universal rate card; third-party procurement evidence is kept separate.
- Disclosure model
- Quote-based (reported $7.5K–$57K/yr)
- Sourced annual range (reported)
- USD 7,500–56,781 / year
- Basis
- Estimate, 2026-07-24
Published catalog evidence
These prices are tied to the named channel and scope. A missing direct price remains unknown; it is not inferred from the marketplace listing.
| Plan or add-on | Published price | Channel and scope |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials Plan | USD 14,000 / 12-month contract | Starting at. 1-20 employees through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Plus Plan | USD 21,500 / 12-month contract | Starting at. 1-20 employees through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Professional Plan | USD 23,000 / 12-month contract | Starting at. 1-20 employees through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| AWS FTR Add-on | USD 7,500 / 12-month contract | AWS FTR module · AWS Marketplace |
| Trust Center Add-on | USD 6,000 / 12-month contract | 1-20 employees through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Third Party Risk Management Add-on | USD 13,600 / 12-month contract | Up to 50 vendors managed per year through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Questionnaire Automation Add-on | USD 10,000 / 12-month contract | 144 questionnaires per year through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Questionnaire Automation Advanced Add-on | USD 16,000 / 12-month contract | 288 questionnaires per year through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Trust Center Advanced Add-on | USD 10,000 / 12-month contract | 1-20 employees through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
| Customer Trust Management Add-on | USD 22,250 / 12-month contract | Bundle sold through AWS Marketplace · AWS Marketplace |
Software pricing alone does not establish the audit fee. A licensed CPA firm issues the SOC 2 report. A commercial offer may package coordination or the fee, so get the legal provider, deliverable, and amount in writing. See the SOC 2 audit cost guide for scope and budget context.
Read the Vanta pricing guide for the current source table and quote checklist.
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) | Yes | Vanta documents SSO, role management, and SCIM account lifecycle provisioning. SCIM may require an upgrade or add-on, so capability is confirmed while contract inclusion still requires verification. Source |
| SCIM 2.0 provisioning | Yes | Vanta's current SCIM experience provisions, deprovisions, reactivates, and updates Vanta user roles and teams through WorkOS for Azure, Google Workspace, JumpCloud, and Okta. SCIM may require an upgrade or add-on. For Okta, Vanta currently directs customers to a custom SCIM app until the OIN app supports SCIM. 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 checked individually, 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 |
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 documented as possibly requiring an upgrade or add-on without a published tier or price, 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..
Compare Vanta with three alternatives.
- Comp AI Sponsored
Technical founders want expert guidance and inspectable automation while implementing controls in-house.
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A founder or CTO needs a dedicated consultant alongside the software for a first audit.
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Audit tracking and the CPA examination should run as one connected process, with an option to keep an existing GRC platform.
Where every figure on this page came from.
14 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.
- Vanta-sold 12-month starting costs for Essentials, Plus, and Professional at 1-20 employees, plus seven named module prices and their published scope limits. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-5ophamrbfxt44
- Personalized direct pricing; four plan cards (Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise) and a feature matrix that also contains a separate Pro column. https://www.vanta.com/pricing
- Current WorkOS-based SCIM lifecycle for Vanta user accounts, roles, and teams; supported IdPs, add-on caveat, and temporary Okta custom-app requirement. https://help.vanta.com/en/articles/11345647-enabling-scim-in-vanta
- 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)
- 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
- Customer-questionnaire response workflow and usage evidence; product claims are not independent performance tests. https://www.vanta.com/products/questionnaire-automation
- Scoped package recheck: the Plus plan card includes AI-powered Questionnaire Automation for 25 questionnaires per year; Professional includes 144 per year. These are direct-plan allowances, separate from Marketplace add-on price dimensions. No full-record re-verification. https://www.vanta.com/pricing
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