Vendor Risk Management Software
Vanta review
Compliance automation platform that sells vendor risk management as an add-on to its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 plans.
Vanta at a glance
- Category
- Vendor Risk Management Software
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom (tiered plans plus add-ons)
- Public pricing
- No
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- No
- Contract
- annual (typical)
- G2 rating
- 4.6 (2,345 reviews)
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Employees
- 1,000+ (Wikipedia 2026; trackers estimate 1,600 to 2,000)
- Security
- Trust Center, Device monitoring
- Integrations
- 400+
Who Vanta is for
Choose Vanta if
- Companies already buying Vanta for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 that want vendor review in the same tool.
- Small security teams who want AI-assisted questionnaire handling.
Look elsewhere if
- Buyers who only want standalone vendor risk management, since key TPRM features are paid add-ons.
- Small budgets: reviewers cite cost as the main barrier.
Vanta pricing
| Plan | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Contact sales | one framework | Agentic policy generation, evidence checks |
| Plus | Contact sales | Questionnaire automation, 25 per year | |
| Professional | Contact sales | 144 questionnaires per year, advanced reporting and risk management | |
| Pro | Contact sales | ||
| Enterprise | Contact sales |
Vendr buyer data: median contract about $20,000/yr on 267 purchases, range $8,000 to $46,000 (vendr.com/marketplace/vanta). Vendor risk add-on estimates from Orbiq (a competitor, about $11,200/yr) are unreliable.
What Vanta really costs
- Billing
- Quote.
- Add-ons
- Access management; Security reviews; TPRM: vendor security reviews, continuous monitoring, REST API; Questionnaire upgrade 25 to 144 per year.
Vanta features by buying criteria
| Criterion | What we found |
|---|---|
| Questionnaires / assessments | AI questionnaire automation: 25/yr on Plus, 144/yr on Professional. |
| Continuous monitoring | Continuous vendor risk monitoring sold as add-on. |
| Evidence review (AI) | AI-powered security reviews sold as add-on. |
| Vendor tiering | Vendor inventory; tiering detail not verified. |
| Framework coverage | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, custom. |
| Remediation workflow | Vendors page on all plans; TPRM REST API is an add-on. |
| Pricing / add-on | Quote-based; TPRM features are add-ons. |
What reviewers say about Vanta
Praised for
- Automation and ease of use.
- Compliance features save manual work.
Common complaints
- Cost is high for smaller businesses.
- Interface not always intuitive.
Themes paraphrased from public reviews on G2 and similar sites, not quotes.
What most Vanta reviews leave out
- AI security reviews, continuous monitoring, vendor inventory and the TPRM API are add-ons, not in base plans.
- Questionnaire automation is capped at 25 per year on Plus and 144 on Professional.
- The Vendors page itself is included on all plans per the help center.
- Vendr median contract about $20,000/yr for Vanta overall (not the VRM add-on alone)
- Essentials covers a single compliance framework.
Vanta alternatives
DrataCompanies already using Drata for compliance that want vendor risk in the same system.Contact sales
SecureframeStartups and mid-size companies already buying a compliance automation platform that want vendor risk in the same tool.Contact sales
OneTrustEnterprises that already use OneTrust for privacy or GRC and want vendor risk on the same platform.Contact sales
PanoraysSecurity teams monitoring a vendor base with outside-in cyber scoring.Contact sales
WhisticSecurity and GRC teams that run questionnaire-based vendor assessments.Contact sales
SecurityScorecardSecurity teams that want outside-in continuous monitoring of many vendors.Contact sales
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Sources
Every fact on this page comes from Vanta's own pricing, product or documentation pages, G2 and company records, checked on October 24, 2026. Unknown values are left out instead of estimated.