Vanta Reviews & Competitors

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Vanta feature-by-feature comparisons

Here are a couple of handy feature-by-feature comparisons to help you compare Vanta to the competition.
Capabilities
Star rating
Provides security certification and framework compliance services along with broad risk visibility. Does not provide security ratings, data leak detection, continuous monitoring, or external scanning.
5 stars
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
Star rating
Helps organizations automate their third-party risk assessment and vendor compliance due diligence processes.
Star rating
170,000 supported organizations.
Star rating
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Usability and the learning curve
Star rating
Simple dashboard for viewing compliance progress with audit standards and other key risks.
5 stars
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
Star rating
A fully cloud-based service with minimal installation criteria required. The Panorays platform is an easy-to-use navigation interface and reporting functionality.
Star rating
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Star rating
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Community support
Star rating
Offers a Vanta Academy for customers, website blog, webinar series, eBooks, and help education resources.
5 stars
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Star rating
Panorays engages their user community with regular blog posts on topics covering relevant security incidents, new feature updates, and industry developments. Panorays also offers live and recorded webinars to help viewers align their programs to best security practices.
Star rating
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
Star rating
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
Release rate
Star rating
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
4 stars
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Star rating
Panorays’ support pages do not currently appear to document release notes about changes to the platform’s functionalities.
Star rating
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Star rating
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Star rating
Vanta pricing is not publicly available but have many lower-level offerings as part of various packages.
5 stars
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
Star rating
Public-facing pricing is not available. Prospective customers must engage with a Panorays representative to receive pricing quotes for different subscription tiers, with higher tiers allowing for a greater number of monitored vendors and customer users.
Star rating
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
Star rating
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Star rating
Vanta uses Connectors API to allow developers to send information to Vanta or pull data from third-party services.
4 stars
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Star rating
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Star rating
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Star rating
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
Third-party integrations
Star rating
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
4 stars
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Star rating
Offers out-of-the-box integrations with a limited number of third-party platforms such as ServiceNow and RSA Archer. However, most alerting connections to third-party platforms will require development support for custom integrations available via the standard webhook connector available in the platform.
Star rating
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Star rating
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Star rating
Notable customers include: Quora, Autodesk, Gusto, and Chili Piper.
5 stars
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
Star rating
Features most of their customers as belonging in the mid-market segment, such as Mixpanel, WalkMe, and Zerto.
Star rating
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
Star rating
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
Star rating
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
5 stars
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Star rating
5, based on 2 reviews.
Star rating
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
Star rating
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Star rating
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
5 stars
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Star rating
Reviews many important breach vectors to assess the supply chain attack surface, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility, man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. However, threat and risk intelligence enabling greater visibility into supply chain data leakages, compromised corporate identities, and brand fraud is not currently supported.
Star rating
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
Star rating
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Security rating
X
950
/ 950
X
950
/ 950
X
950
/ 950
X
950
/ 950
X
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Star rating
Provides security certification and framework compliance services along with broad risk visibility. Does not provide security ratings, data leak detection, continuous monitoring, or external scanning.
Usability and the learning curve
Star rating
Simple dashboard for viewing compliance progress with audit standards and other key risks.
Community support
Star rating
Offers a Vanta Academy for customers, website blog, webinar series, eBooks, and help education resources.
Release rate
Star rating
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
Pricing and support
Star rating
Vanta pricing is not publicly available but have many lower-level offerings as part of various packages.
API and extensibility
Star rating
Vanta uses Connectors API to allow developers to send information to Vanta or pull data from third-party services.
Third-party integrations
Star rating
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
Customers
Star rating
Notable customers include: Quora, Autodesk, Gusto, and Chili Piper.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
Star rating
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Star rating
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
Security rating
X
950
/ 950
Capabilities
5 stars
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
Usability and the learning curve
5 stars
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
Community support
5 stars
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Release rate
4 stars
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Pricing and support
5 stars
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
API and extensibility
4 stars
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Third-party integrations
4 stars
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Customers
5 stars
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
5 stars
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Predictive capabilities
5 stars
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Capabilities
Star rating
Helps organizations automate their third-party risk assessment and vendor compliance due diligence processes.
Usability and the learning curve
Star rating
A fully cloud-based service with minimal installation criteria required. The Panorays platform is an easy-to-use navigation interface and reporting functionality.
Community support
Star rating
Panorays engages their user community with regular blog posts on topics covering relevant security incidents, new feature updates, and industry developments. Panorays also offers live and recorded webinars to help viewers align their programs to best security practices.
Release rate
Star rating
Panorays’ support pages do not currently appear to document release notes about changes to the platform’s functionalities.
Pricing and support
Star rating
Public-facing pricing is not available. Prospective customers must engage with a Panorays representative to receive pricing quotes for different subscription tiers, with higher tiers allowing for a greater number of monitored vendors and customer users.
API and extensibility
Star rating
Offers a JSON-based REST API, that customers can use to build the connections needed to transmit Panorays elements into third-party applications.
Third-party integrations
Star rating
Offers out-of-the-box integrations with a limited number of third-party platforms such as ServiceNow and RSA Archer. However, most alerting connections to third-party platforms will require development support for custom integrations available via the standard webhook connector available in the platform.
Customers
Star rating
Features most of their customers as belonging in the mid-market segment, such as Mixpanel, WalkMe, and Zerto.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
Star rating
5, based on 2 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Star rating
Reviews many important breach vectors to assess the supply chain attack surface, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility, man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. However, threat and risk intelligence enabling greater visibility into supply chain data leakages, compromised corporate identities, and brand fraud is not currently supported.
Security rating
X
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Star rating
170,000 supported organizations.
Usability and the learning curve
Star rating
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Community support
Star rating
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
Release rate
Star rating
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Pricing and support
Star rating
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Star rating
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Third-party integrations
Star rating
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Customers
Star rating
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
Star rating
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Star rating
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
Security rating
X
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Star rating
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Usability and the learning curve
Star rating
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Community support
Star rating
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
Release rate
Star rating
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Star rating
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Star rating
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
Third-party integrations
Star rating
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Star rating
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
Star rating
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Star rating
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Security rating
X
950
/ 950

Vanta Pricing

Vanta pricing has not been released publicly. Users note that Vanta pricing models have been quickly pricing them out of the competition.

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Vanta Features

Vanta’s main offerings are:

  • Helping businesses establish and demonstrate compliance with security regulations and frameworks, such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and USDP
  • Vendor risk management using acquired third-party service, TrustPage, to ensure third parties are also meeting compliance requirements
  • Automated questionnaire, documentation, and security review management
  • Vanta Trust Reports demonstrating current security postures and security compliance progress to prospective and existing customers and vendors

Vanta Use Cases

Vanta is a U.S. startup based in San Francisco, CA, offering security monitoring, cybersecurity assessment, and certification solutions services for businesses. They help organizations achieve compliance with auditing standards and security frameworks through automated processes and some risk visibility.

Vanta's capabilities are heavily focused on providing security certification and framework compliance services, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or HIPAA. They also offer simple risk management services but do not incorporate data leaks, security ratings, or risk scoring for external or internal attack surfaces into their assessment and security monitoring.

Vanta Demo / Trial

Vanta offers a customized demo to allow potential customers to get full visibility into the Vanta platform.

Vanta API

Vanta uses Connectors API to pull security information and allow for compliance automation.

Vanta Reviews

The general sentiment of Vanta users based on multiple review sources is summarized below.

Key Pros:

1. Automated compliance and integration 

Vanta offers an impressive range of integration options with other process management services, reducing manual efforts associated with common compliance tasks.

2. Comprehensive support for compliance frameworks 

Vanta supports compliance across a wide range of cybersecurity and privacy frameworks, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, making it versatile for different compliance contexts.​

3. Customer support 

Users are very pleased with the responsiveness of Vanta's customer support team during implementation and throughout ongoing use of the platform.

Key Cons:

1. Steep learning curve

Some users have raised concerns about the length of time requrired to leartn how to navigate the Vanta platform. .

2. High Cost

Users have expressd concerns about Vanta's steep pricing not aliginig with its offered value, with some claming that it could take up to a year for investment returns to materialize. 

3. Integration limitations

While Vanta does support an impressive range of integrations, some users have mentioned the platform was unable to integrate with some of the tools and services required in their daily workflows.

4. UI issues

While Vanta attempts to continuously improve its user interface, some concerns have been raised about the negative impact of some updates. There have been reported instances of some updates causing inconvenient disruptions during certain processes. 

Vanta Reviews

Gartner Peer Insights

Overall ratings for the IT VRM Solutions market. Accurate as of January 2024

UpGuard

5 stars
4.4, based on 160 reviews. Named a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for IT VRM Solutions

Vanta

4, based on 3 reviews.

G2

Accurate as of January 2024

UpGuard

5 stars
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.

Vanta

4.6, based on 859 reviews.

Glassdoor

Accurate as of January 2024

UpGuard

5 stars
4.6

Vanta

4.2
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