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8 Vanta alternatives for 2026
The tools buyers compare with Vanta, side by side on price, pricing model and what each one is built for.
Why teams look beyond Vanta
- Cost is high for smaller businesses.
- Interface not always intuitive.
- 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.
From Vanta's published plan limits and recurring themes in public reviews. See the Vanta review for sources.
Vanta vs. its alternatives
| Tool | Pricing model | Starting price | G2 rating | Questionnaires / assessments | Continuous monitoring | Evidence review (AI) | Remediation workflow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vanta Current | custom (tiered plans plus add-ons) | Contact sales | 4.6 (2,345 reviews) | AI questionnaire automation: 25/yr on Plus, 144/yr on Professional. | Continuous vendor risk monitoring sold as add-on. | AI-powered security reviews sold as add-on. | Vendors page on all plans; TPRM REST API is an add-on. |
 Drata | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (1,329 reviews) | Vendor questionnaire automation. | Agentic scoring, evidence collection and follow-up (vendor description) | Third-party risk register, audit package sync. | |
 Secureframe | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (760 reviews) | Standard questionnaire templates and AI questionnaire automation (G2 feature list) | Vendor security posture monitoring per vendor page. | Comply AI for VRM (introduced 2024) | |
 OneTrust | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (5 reviews) | Automated supplier risk assessment workflows. | Via integrations with security-rating vendors (BitSight, UpGuard, Recorded Future, RiskRecon) | Automated workflows across supplier due diligence lifecycle. | |
 Panorays | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (52 reviews) | Automated questionnaires. | External attack surface assessment and ongoing monitoring. | Covers remediation (per Globes) | |
 Whistic | custom | Contact sales | 4.5 (53 reviews) | AI-powered vendor assessments, evidence vault. | Outside-in ratings via RiskRecon Assessments Powered by Whistic (Mastercard, March 2025) | Evidence vault component per reviewer. | |
 SecurityScorecard | custom | Contact sales | 4.3 (91 reviews) | Core product: scans internet-facing assets and scores them. | |||
| UpGuard | flat | $1,750 per month, billed annually | 4.5 (654 reviews) | Questionnaires and templates; automation from Professional. | Security ratings based monitoring. | Templates and automation from Professional, onboarding portal. | |
 Venminder | custom | Contact sales | 4.7 (115 reviews) | Questionnaires plus Vendiligence outsourced control assessments; over 30,000 risk-rated assessments a year (vendor claim) | Venmonitor: cyber, business health, financial viability, privacy, ESG. | Experts review vendor documents and give risk ratings (Vendiligence) | Vendor lifecycle workflow. |
The alternatives in detail
Drata
Compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more) with a separate third-party risk management module.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (1,329 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Vendor questionnaire automation.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Agentic scoring, evidence collection and follow-up (vendor description)
- Vendor tiering
- Inherent and residual risk scoring, custom risk rules.
- Framework coverage
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, Cyber Essentials; also DORA, FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO 42001 listed.
Choose it if
- Companies already using Drata for compliance that want vendor risk in the same system.
- Startups and SMBs chasing SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Skip it if
- Buyers who only need a standalone vendor risk tool.
- Teams wanting transparent pricing.
Worth knowing
- TPRM is sold as its own module, and Agentic TPRM Assessment is an add-on even on the Enterprise compliance plan.
- Foundation compliance tier caps at 50 FTEs and one pre-mapped framework.
- Drata's rating is for the whole compliance product; vendor risk reviews are a small slice.
Secureframe
Compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others) whose third-party risk module adds vendor tracking, AI questionnaire help and monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (760 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Standard questionnaire templates and AI questionnaire automation (G2 feature list)
- Continuous monitoring
- Vendor security posture monitoring per vendor page.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Comply AI for VRM (introduced 2024)
- Vendor tiering
- Risk level based on data and environments vendor accesses.
Choose it if
- Startups and mid-size companies already buying a compliance automation platform that want vendor risk in the same tool.
Skip it if
- Teams wanting a standalone, deep TPRM program.
- Buyers needing public pricing.
Worth knowing
- Vendor module was renamed from Vendor Risk Management to Third-Party Risk Management.
- Detects apps employees access via SSO to keep the vendor list current.
- The G2 rating (about 4.7) is for the whole platform, not the vendor risk module.
OneTrust
Broad privacy, GRC and third-party risk platform whose Third-Party Management module runs supplier due diligence and assessments.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (5 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Automated supplier risk assessment workflows.
- Continuous monitoring
- Via integrations with security-rating vendors (BitSight, UpGuard, Recorded Future, RiskRecon)
- Remediation workflow
- Automated workflows across supplier due diligence lifecycle.
- Pricing / add-on
- Custom quote.
Choose it if
- Enterprises that already use OneTrust for privacy or GRC and want vendor risk on the same platform.
- Teams needing ethics and compliance due diligence (PEP, sanctions, adverse media screening)
Skip it if
- Small teams wanting a quick, simple vendor questionnaire tool: reviewers call it broad with a learning curve.
- Buyers who need public pricing.
Worth knowing
- G2 has only 5 reviews for the TPM product; Gartner Peer Insights shows 4.1 from 177 ratings and GetApp 4.3 from 57, so the G2 score is thin evidence.
- Continuous monitoring relies on third-party security-rating integrations rather than a native scoring engine (per integration pages).
- Adds ethics and compliance screening (PEP, sanctions, adverse media) beyond security questionnaires.
Panorays
Panorays is a third-party cyber risk platform that combines automated questionnaires with external attack surface scoring and ongoing monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.3 (52 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Automated questionnaires.
- Continuous monitoring
- External attack surface assessment and ongoing monitoring.
- Vendor tiering
- Inherent risk assessment up front (per Globes)
- Remediation workflow
- Covers remediation (per Globes)
Choose it if
- Security teams monitoring a vendor base with outside-in cyber scoring.
- Enterprise and mid-market buyers in North America, UK and EU.
Skip it if
- Small companies sensitive to price (G2 reviewers flag cost)
- Teams wanting heavily customizable reporting.
Worth knowing
- Covers the lifecycle from inherent risk to remediation and monitoring in one platform.
- No public price; Capterra shows an implausible per-user figure, so ignore it.
- Funding totals conflict widely across sources, so treat size claims carefully.
Whistic
Third-party risk platform built around shared security profiles and AI-assisted vendor assessments.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (53 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- AI-powered vendor assessments, evidence vault.
- Continuous monitoring
- Outside-in ratings via RiskRecon Assessments Powered by Whistic (Mastercard, March 2025)
- Evidence review (AI)
- Evidence vault component per reviewer.
- Pricing / add-on
- Custom quote.
Choose it if
- Security and GRC teams that run questionnaire-based vendor assessments.
- Teams wanting outside-in ratings via the Mastercard RiskRecon partnership.
Skip it if
- Buyers who need continuous vendor monitoring as a baseline (one reviewer says it lags table stakes)
- Teams wanting a simple interface: several reviewers call it unintuitive.
Worth knowing
- March 2025 Mastercard partnership packages RiskRecon ratings with Whistic assessments, sold by Mastercard.
- G2 shows 52 to 53 reviews depending on page capture date.
- Positioned as vendor assessment first, so contracts and vendor performance scoring are not evident.
SecurityScorecard
Outside-in security ratings platform used to monitor vendors and your own attack surface continuously.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.3 (91 reviews)
- Continuous monitoring
- Core product: scans internet-facing assets and scores them.
- Pricing / add-on
- Quote only.
Choose it if
- Security teams that want outside-in continuous monitoring of many vendors.
- Boards and insurers that want a single score for reporting.
Skip it if
- Small companies with tight budgets (reviewer says pricing is hard to justify)
- Teams that need deep questionnaire and evidence workflow as the core.
Worth knowing
- Scores come from outside scanning, so findings reflect public assets, not internal controls.
- G2 comparison says UpGuard has more reviews and higher rating, SecurityScorecard higher ease of use.
- Total funding about $290M per several sources.
UpGuard
Security ratings and vendor risk platform with public Standard-plan pricing and a free Trust Exchange.
- Starting price
- $1,750 per month, billed annually
- Pricing model
- flat
- G2 rating
- 4.5 (654 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Questionnaires and templates; automation from Professional.
- Continuous monitoring
- Security ratings based monitoring.
- Remediation workflow
- Templates and automation from Professional, onboarding portal.
- Pricing / add-on
- Vendor-count tiers.
Choose it if
- Mid-size security teams that want published entry pricing for vendor risk.
- Teams monitoring around 50 vendors who want SSO and API at the base plan.
Skip it if
- Teams with only a few vendors on a tight budget (Standard is $21,000 per year before add-ons)
- Buyers needing data residency without extra cost.
Worth knowing
- Plan limits are by vendors monitored: 50 / 150 / 500 / unlimited.
- Extra vendors on Standard cost $79 per month each.
- Role-based access, audit log and automation require Professional (contact sales)
Venminder
Third-party risk platform for banks and credit unions that pairs software with outsourced expert control assessments and continuous monitoring.
- Starting price
- Contact sales
- Pricing model
- custom
- G2 rating
- 4.7 (115 reviews)
- Questionnaires / assessments
- Questionnaires plus Vendiligence outsourced control assessments; over 30,000 risk-rated assessments a year (vendor claim)
- Continuous monitoring
- Venmonitor: cyber, business health, financial viability, privacy, ESG.
- Evidence review (AI)
- Experts review vendor documents and give risk ratings (Vendiligence)
- Remediation workflow
- Vendor lifecycle workflow.
Choose it if
- Banks and credit unions needing examiner-ready vendor due diligence.
- Teams short on staff who want experts to review vendor SOC reports and controls.
Skip it if
- Buyers wanting published prices.
- Non-financial companies seeking a lightweight vendor register.
Worth knowing
- Acquired by Ncontracts on 4 September 2024 in an Hg buyout, taking Ncontracts past 5,000 customers.
- Over 1,200 customers, mostly banks and credit unions.
- Outsourced Vendiligence assessments are a service layered on the software, separate from the platform.
When to stay with Vanta
- 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.