How much does Zania cost?

Pricing is not published and is quoted through enterprise sales, typically as an annual subscription scoped to the GRC programs and frameworks in use.

What are the best alternatives to Zania?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Zania among enterprise operations agents are Orbio, RedOwl, Bretton AI, Maxima AI. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

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

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Zania 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: Certification and access controls both appear on the security page. Zania holds SOC 2 Type II certification with ongoing third party penetration testing, and a trust center at trust.zania.ai holds the reports. Customers get SAML single sign. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Zania give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Zania publishes public evidence of tracing, observability and audit logging into agent runs, so a team can see what an agent did and why. Evidence basis: Every system interaction, AI agent actions included, is logged with a timestamp and user ID in immutable audit logs customers can see at any time. Every output carries a source reference, an evidence trail and a confidence score, remediatio. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Zania require human approval before an agent acts?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Zania publishes public evidence of human approval steps and guardrails, so an agent action can be held for review before it executes. Evidence basis: The agent routes each remediation pull request to a named owner, and it needs approval before merge inside Zania's own remediation log. Approval workflows can be set to match the customer's review process, and browser automation runs with h. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Zania

Q: Who is Zania for?

enterprise, audit and advisory firms, mid-market

Also known as: Zania AI, Zania Inc.

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Enterprise operations agentindependentVerified 2026-09-06

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Agentic AI platform whose domain specific agents execute security governance, risk, and compliance work end to end rather than just tracking it.

Zania is an agentic AI platform for enterprise governance, risk and compliance, based in Palo Alto and used by Fortune 500 companies and audit and advisory firms including KPMG, Grant Thornton, Armanino, Plaid, Reddit and Stanford University.

Its agents execute GRC work rather than tracking it: they collect evidence continuously across the customer's environment from connected systems such as AWS, GitHub and Slack and, where no integration exists, directly through browser automation under human oversight, keep that evidence current and mapped to controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS and ISO 42001 at once, test the design and operating effectiveness of each control with source linked findings and confidence scores, run third party and internal risk assessments and security questionnaires, and drive issues from detection to resolution by prioritizing them, routing them to owners, opening remediation pull requests and following up until they are closed, with human approval built into every fix.

Control mappings, ownership and approval workflows are configured to how the customer's program operates, every output carries a source reference, evidence trail and confidence score, and immutable audit logs of every user and agent action are available to customers at any time. The platform hosts its own models in isolated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with private endpoints, keeps a stateless policy under which customer data is used only for the task in hand and never for training, and offers SAML single sign on, granular role based access, session level scoping, data residency choice and SOC 2 Type II attestation. Zania is sold as an enterprise plan priced by vendor volume, assessment frequency and program scope, with unlimited reviewer seats and no per assessment fees.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://zania.ai

Subcategory

Governance, risk, and compliance

Funding status

Independent, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2023 by Shruti Gupta. Raised an eighteen million dollar Series A in September 2025 led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures via the Anthology Fund, Palm Drive Capital, and angel investors including CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz, former Airbnb head of engineering Mike Curtis, and Persistent Systems founder Anand Deshpande. Reports ten times ARR growth in six months, with customers including Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University, and a Big Four accounting firm, and distribution alliances with Tata Consultancy Services and HCLTech.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

continuous compliance automationthird party and internal risk assessmentcontrols testing and evidence collectiongap analysis and audit readiness

Target customers

enterpriseaudit and advisory firmsmid-market

Deployment options

SaaScloud

Integrations

Connects to enterprise systems of record, security tooling, and collaboration tools such as Slack to collect evidence and run controls testing, and ingests policy and evidence files in more than eighty languages. Exposes a natural language Ask Zania interface and maps findings to frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST CSF.

In practice

Your compliance team spends months manually collecting evidence and testing controls for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits. Zania's agents run evidence collection and controls testing end to end, compressing that marathon into minutes with visible reasoning.

A third party vendor review means digging through breach history, policies, and controls by hand. Zania analyzes vendor controls and supply chain risk automatically and flags deficiencies mapped to your frameworks.

You have thousands of policy documents in many languages and no way to check them against every control. The Gap Assessment module ingests them across eighty plus languages and maps each to the right control to expose gaps in one pass.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://zania.ai/blog/series-a-fundraise-announcement https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250930756506/en/Zania-Raises-$18M-Series-A-Led-by-NEA-to-Reinvent-Enterprise-Risk-Compliance-with-AI-Agents https://fintech.global/2025/10/01/agentic-ai-firm-zania-bags-18m-in-nea-led-funding-round/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zania-47a5

Agentic Index coverage score

10.0 / 14 capabilities · 71%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Agents pull evidence from connected systems named as AWS, GitHub and Slack, open pull requests that carry configuration changes into the customer's repository, and suggest configuration changes, routing approvals to owners. The pricing page says implementation connects the customer's GRC and procurement systems, along with ticketing and identity. No framework for customers to add tools is documented, and the connector list on the pages is short. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2 and zania.ai/pricingread 2026-09-06
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Agents run the compliance lifecycle end to end. They collect and map evidence, test how each control is designed and how it operates, and detect issues, then rank them by risk, route them to owners and open remediation pull requests, following up until each is resolved. Issues move from detected and routed through remediation to resolved, and control mappings, ownership and approval workflows can be set to fit the customer's program. That is work in several steps across several agents, with workflow settings the customer controls. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Full
Evidence collected from the customer's environment is kept current and mapped to controls, and it carries across frameworks automatically, so one evidence library serves SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, along with GDPR and PCI DSS. Every finding and answer links back to its source, and auditors see the evidence tied to each control and what changed over time. Processing on the model side is stateless. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
The agent routes each remediation pull request to a named owner, and it needs approval before merge inside Zania's own remediation log. Approval workflows can be set to match the customer's review process, and browser automation runs with human oversight. The pricing page includes unlimited reviewer seats with human approval workflows, and the security page adds deterministic guardrails, not driven by AI, that validate agent decisions on critical workflows. The approval routing and review surface are Zania's own; the merge itself happens in the code host. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2 and zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
Certification and access controls both appear on the security page. Zania holds SOC 2 Type II certification with ongoing third party penetration testing, and a trust center at trust.zania.ai holds the reports. Customers get SAML single sign on with Okta, Azure AD and Google, granular role based access control that maps permissions to job responsibilities, and session restrictions that scope which datasets, tools and sessions a user can reach. SourceZania, zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
Observability & Auditability	Full
Every system interaction, AI agent actions included, is logged with a timestamp and user ID in immutable audit logs customers can see at any time. Every output carries a source reference, an evidence trail and a confidence score, remediation logs record each agent step, and auditors see the reasoning behind decisions and what changed over time. SourceZania, zania.ai/security and zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
A stateless data policy is stated: data sent to the model exists in memory only for the duration of the request, context is discarded when the agent finishes its task, and assessment data and session logs are eligible for deletion on completion. That is a documented absence of a memory layer. The evidence library mapped to controls persists between runs as the customer's knowledge, not as agent memory. SourceZania, zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
Deployment & Data Residency	Partial
Data residency controls appear on the security page in a single line, choose where your data lives to meet local regulations, alongside private model hosting on isolated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with virtual networks and private endpoints, and strict logical isolation per customer. No region list, customer environment option or selection surface is documented, so how residency is chosen is not shown. SourceZania, zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Full
Named agents ship for a customer to adopt, covering third party and vendor risk assessment, security questionnaire automation and controls testing, along with evidence collection through the Zania Evidence Agent named on the SOC 2 page. Prebuilt control mappings for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS and ISO 42001 are adopted and adapted by the customer, and they do work once selected. Take away the questionnaire agent and controls testing and evidence collection still work whole. The agents are listed by function on marketing pages rather than in a catalog. SourceZania, zania.ai/pricing and zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
The agents start on a schedule and on events. The pricing page lists continuous monitoring and reassessment triggers as an included capability, the SOC 2 page shows evidence collection running continuously with hourly refresh timestamps and a last test run time, and issues found in controls testing go to owners for remediation automatically. Users also work through the web application and Slack. SourceZania, zania.ai/pricing and zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
No model provider is named: Zania hosts its own models privately and in isolation on Microsoft Azure and refers to its foundation models without saying who makes them. No customer or admin model selection is documented, and no routing across providers on the vendor's side. SourceZania, zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Not documented
Nothing documented lets an outside caller drive the platform: there is no API, SDK or MCP server. The site's navigation and footer, from Products and Security to Pricing and the status page, carry no developer link, and no docs subdomain appears. The integrations Zania documents are its agents reaching the customer's systems, and claims of API access and MCP integrations come only from third parties. SourceZania, zania.ai/security and zania.ai/pricingread 2026-09-06
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Controls testing, with pass, partial and confidence results, measures the customer's controls, which is the product's job rather than a test of the agent. The output validation layer and the confidence score on every answer are checks on each output at run time. No harness, scored test cases or release gate is documented for a change to the agents or to the workflows a customer configures. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2 and zania.ai/securityread 2026-09-06
Browser & Computer Use	Full
The evidence agent collects directly through browser automation, with human oversight, where no native integration exists. Access review screenshots and endpoint security configuration are captured that way, beside evidence pulled from AWS, GitHub and Slack. So an agent Zania operates drives a real interface Zania does not control, because no programmatic interface exists. Whether the browser is hosted by Zania or runs locally is not stated. SourceZania, zania.ai/compliance/soc2read 2026-09-06

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

Pricing

Contact for pricing

vendor volume, assessment frequency and program scope

What is public

No list pricing. Zania routes commercial terms through sales and publishes no self serve tier.

Billing mechanics

Enterprise annual subscription scoped to the GRC programs, frameworks, and agent coverage a customer needs.

Cost watchouts

Confirm whether additional frameworks, third party risk modules, or higher evidence volumes move the subscription to a higher tier.

Variable cost rationale

Sold as an enterprise subscription scoped to the customer's GRC programs and frameworks, so cost is largely fixed once sized rather than metered per action.

Additional watchouts

With no public rate, benchmark against other GRC and security compliance platforms and clarify how pricing scales with frameworks and entity count.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Demo on request; no public free tier

Key ambiguities

No entry rate or per seat figure is published; all pricing is quoted under sales.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-06

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Orbio9.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Zania
RedOwl8.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Zania
Bretton AI10.0 / 14Adds documented APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
Maxima AI8.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Zania
Ramp10.0 / 14Adds documented APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
Adopt AI12.5 / 14Adds documented Model Flexibility & Routing and APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

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