How much does Vanta cost?

Plans are Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise, with published inclusions (for example 25 automated questionnaires a year on Plus and 144 on Professional) but no published prices; pricing is personalized through sales.

What are the best alternatives to Vanta?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Vanta among security and SOC agents are Sprinto, Anvilogic, BlinkOps, Drata. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Vanta support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Vanta publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: The Vanta API (public beta) with OAuth applications and granular read and write scopes, documented at developer.vanta.com, for data ingestion, process automation, data extraction and remediation triggers; plus a remote MCP server (beta) at. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Vanta have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Vanta publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: Attestations include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, named on the security page, with the SOC 2 report and ISO certificate on the Trust Center. Access runs through roles (Admin, View-only Admin, Editor, Collaborator, scoped and cust. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Can Vanta be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Vanta publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: Separate United States, Europe and Australia instances run on AWS infrastructure, each with its own endpoint (mcp.vanta.com, mcp.eu.vanta.com, mcp.aus.vanta.com). Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Vanta

Q: Who is Vanta for?

startups pursuing first certification, scaling SaaS companies, mid-market, multi entity organizations, companies under enterprise sales security review pressure

Also known as: Vanta AI Agent, Vanta Risk Graph, Vanta Trust Center

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Security / SOC agentindependentVerified 2026-09-28

Entry priceContact sales; plans are Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise with no published pricesFull pricing detail

Agentic trust and compliance platform: the Vanta AI Agent answers questionnaires and flags gaps from the customer's own knowledge base, Custom Agents run on schedules and events with approval steps and curated templates, and an API and MCP server run in US, EU and Australian regions.

Vanta is a compliance automation company that repositioned as an Agentic Trust Platform in November 2025. The Vanta AI Agent works from the customer's Knowledge Base, previous responses, policies, controls and tests: it answers security questionnaires for a person to review and submit, flags inconsistencies between policy and practice, monitors vendors' attack surfaces and alerts in real time, and writes remediation snippets for tools such as Terraform and the AWS CLI for developers to review.

Since July 2026 customers can build Custom Agents that run on a schedule, on demand or on platform events (Knowledge Base additions, risk scenario changes, vendor risk score changes and assessment milestones), start from curated agent templates, require approval before a run proceeds with Slack notifications for pending requests, and keep a run history per agent. The Risk Graph connects controls, vendor assessments, configurations and people data, and built-in workflows require reviewer approval for questionnaires, access changes and audit evidence.

Coverage spans SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, FedRAMP and other frameworks with prebuilt controls and policy templates. The Vanta API (public beta) and a remote MCP server (beta) run from US, EU and Australian instances. Vanta holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, supports SAML and SCIM with role-based and custom roles, and sells Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise plans through sales. An AI governance product for inventorying and monitoring agents is in early access.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.vanta.com

Subcategory

Agentic compliance and trust management

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

autonomous policy drafting and control remediationsecurity questionnaire answering from the company own evidencecontinuous control monitoring across cloud infrastructuremulti framework compliance programs including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001public trust center and customer commitment tracking

Target customers

startups pursuing first certificationscaling SaaS companiesmid-marketmulti entity organizationscompanies under enterprise sales security review pressure

Deployment options

SaaS on AWS with US, EU and Australian instances

Integrations

Evidence is collected automatically from connected systems, access management spans integrated applications, and the Vanta API (OAuth with granular read and write scopes) ingests data from systems without a native integration, extracts data for reporting and triggers external remediation workflows. The remote MCP server at US, EU and Australian endpoints lets Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Cowork, Perplexity and other MCP clients remediate failing tests, manage controls and govern policies.

In practice

A sales team drowning in security questionnaires has the agent answer them from evidence the company has already collected, rather than a human retyping the same answers each quarter.

A security lead lets the agent draft and remediate policies continuously so the posture holds between audits rather than being reconstructed before each one.

A company running SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA together reuses evidence across frameworks through cross mapping instead of collecting it three times.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://www.vanta.com https://www.vanta.com/collection/fedramp/fedramp-and-soc-2

Agentic Index coverage score

9.5 / 14 capabilities · 68%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Automated evidence collection from connected systems, access management across integrated applications, remediation snippets for tools such as Terraform and AWS CLI, an API that ingests data from systems without a native integration and triggers external remediation workflows, and an MCP server whose tools remediate failing tests and open pull requests. Sourcevanta.com/products/vanta-apiread 2026-09-28
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Custom Agents, generally available since July 2026, let customers create their own agents that run on a schedule, on demand or on platform events, beside the Vanta AI Agent, so a buyer can run several agents it built and configure its own flows. Sourcehelp.vanta.com/en/articles/11345422-product-updatesread 2026-09-28
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Full
The Vanta AI Agent answers from the customer's Knowledge Base and previous responses and draws on its policies, controls, frameworks, tests and documentation, with the Risk Graph connecting controls, vendor assessments, configurations and people data: a maintained store of the customer's knowledge that the agent retrieves from. Sourcevanta.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
Custom Agent runs can require approval, with Slack notifications linking to pending requests; built-in workflows require reviewer approval for questionnaires, access changes and audit evidence before they are final; questionnaire answers are reviewed and submitted by a person and remediation arrives as snippets for developer review. Sourcehelp.vanta.com/en/articles/11345422-product-updatesread 2026-09-28
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
Attestations include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, named on the security page, with the SOC 2 report and ISO certificate on the Trust Center. Access runs through roles (Admin, View-only Admin, Editor, Collaborator, scoped and custom roles), SCIM role sync from the identity provider and custom SAML connections. Sourcevanta.com/company/securityread 2026-09-28
Observability & Auditability	Partial
Custom Agents keep an execution history, and each agent's details page shows its prompt, configuration and scoped run history. That is a run level record; no per step or per tool call detail is documented. Continuous control monitoring, the Risk Graph and the Trust Center report on the customer's estate rather than on the agents. Sourcehelp.vanta.com/en/articles/11345422-product-updatesread 2026-09-28
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
No agent memory with a scope and lifetime is documented. Previous responses and the Knowledge Base ground the agent's answers, and run history is an execution record rather than memory. Sourcevanta.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Deployment & Data Residency	Full
Separate United States, Europe and Australia instances run on AWS infrastructure, each with its own endpoint (mcp.vanta.com, mcp.eu.vanta.com, mcp.aus.vanta.com). Sourcedeveloper.vanta.com/docs/vanta-mcpread 2026-09-28
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Full
Curated Custom Agent templates create workflows in one click with recommended schedules (August 2026), policy templates come in every plan, and framework coverage is packaged with prebuilt controls. Sourcehelp.vanta.com/en/articles/11345422-product-updatesread 2026-09-28
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
Custom Agents run on a schedule and on events: Knowledge Base document additions, risk scenario creation or update, vendor residual risk score changes and vendor assessment due-date milestones; the AI Agent also monitors continuously and alerts in real time. Sourcehelp.vanta.com/en/articles/11345422-product-updatesread 2026-09-28
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Vanta uses "a combination of models from industry-leading third-party platforms" without naming them and offers no model choice. Claude and Cursor reaching Vanta through its MCP server is a way in for outside assistants, not a model choice. Sourcevanta.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
The Vanta API (public beta) with OAuth applications and granular read and write scopes, documented at developer.vanta.com, for data ingestion, process automation, data extraction and remediation triggers; plus a remote MCP server (beta) at regional endpoints with OAuth, whose tools remediate failing tests, manage controls and mappings and govern policies. Sourcedeveloper.vanta.com/docs/vanta-mcpread 2026-09-28
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Not documented
No harness or scored tests for evaluating the AI Agent or Custom Agents are documented; continuous control tests check the customer's estate, not the agent. Sourcevanta.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
Evidence is collected through integrations and the API; no browser or computer use by an agent is documented. Sourcevanta.com/products/airead 2026-09-28

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Recent platform changes

2026-09-04·Agent capabilityVerified

Vanta released a major update to its Custom Agent and MCP capabilities. Users can now trigger Custom Agent workflows automatically from Knowledge Base additions or vendor assessment milestones, utilize curated agent templates, and ask the Vanta Agent questions about vendor findings and alerts. Non-admins can now also connect to Vanta's MCP server based on their existing permissions.

Bears on: Workflow orchestration

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Pricing

Contact sales; plans are Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise with no published prices

Plan tier with questionnaire allowances; price not published

Included quota

25 automated questionnaires a year on Plus, 144 on Professional.

What is public

Plan names and inclusions: Essentials (one framework, the Vanta AI Agent, Trust Center), Plus (25 automated questionnaires a year, access management), Professional (144 questionnaires a year, risk management, custom tests) and Enterprise (custom). No prices.

Billing mechanics

Personalized pricing through sales per plan; plan inclusions set questionnaire allowances and modules.

Cost watchouts

Inference, not stated by the vendor: the independent audit firm's fee for an attestation sits outside the platform subscription.

Variable cost rationale

Plan tiers cap questionnaire automation (25 or 144 a year), so higher volume moves a buyer up a plan; the price steps are not published.

Additional watchouts

Check the questionnaire allowance against expected inbound volume when choosing a plan.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

None retrieved

Key ambiguities

No plan price is published, and what sets the price within a plan is not stated.

Missing data

All plan prices and the pricing basis within each plan.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-28

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Alternatives to Vanta

The closest documented capability profiles to Vanta among security and SOC agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Sprinto9.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Vanta
Anvilogic8.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Vanta
BlinkOps10.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
Drata10.5 / 14Adds documented Testing, Debugging & Optimization
Seemplicity8.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Vanta
SentinelOne10.5 / 14Adds documented Model Flexibility & Routing

Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded

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Data confidence: high