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Compliance Everywhere vs.
Vanta.
Vanta is the category leader in compliance automation, 16,000 customers strong, and if you need ten frameworks it is probably the right call. The comparison worth making is narrower: what does the subscription actually contain? Vanta automates the paperwork and sells the penetration test separately, through partners. We fold the test in, every month, and manage the laptops too.
Side by side
| Criterion | Vanta | Compliance Everywhere |
|---|---|---|
| What the subscription includes | Compliance automation: controls, monitoring, evidence collection | The SOC 2 controls your agent builds over MCP, a pentest of your running app every month, device management for every laptop, and a public Trust Center |
| Penetration testing | Not included. Sold separately via partners (XBOW, Doyensec, Prescient) | Included monthly, in house. The human pentest auditors expect: $1,500, one time |
| Published pricing | Quote-based, no public price list. Observed contracts $7,500 to $57,000/yr, ~$20,000 median (Vendr procurement data, not Vanta's list) | Public: $299/mo under 10 people, $499/mo at 10 or more. Annual $2,990 / $4,990 |
| The audit / attestation | Auditor network; the audit firm bills you separately | Independent AICPA-member US CPA, billed to you directly, estimated on the pricing page. No fee split, which is what keeps the opinion independent |
| Frameworks | 35+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP...) | SOC 2 Type I and II today; ISO 27001 from November 9; FDA, FCC, OSHA, UL, FedRAMP and GDPR next |
| Scale and maturity | $300M ARR, 16,000+ customers, $4.15B valuation, hundreds of integrations | Seed stage, founder-led, a small integration surface (GitHub, AWS, Google Workspace, Slack, MCP) |
| Best for | Larger companies, multi-framework programs, procurement that wants the category leader | Startups under 10 people that need a signed SOC 2 plus real testing without three more vendors |
On the pricing row, note whose numbers those are. Vanta's ranges come from Vendr's tracked buyer contracts, not from Vanta, because Vanta does not publish prices. Ours are on the pricing page. And credit where due: Vanta partnering with XBOW to bundle autonomous pentests is the compliance leader agreeing that a compliance program without real testing is incomplete. We just think it should be one subscription, not a platform fee plus a per-test SKU.
Checked on October 14, 2026. Competitor facts come from their public pages and from Vendr's buyer-reported contract data; ours from the pricing page. Tell us if something changed: [email protected].
Which one
The paperwork, or the paperwork and the test.
Pick Vanta when
- You need frameworks we do not automate yet: ISO 42001, GDPR, FedRAMP, or a multi-framework program across hundreds of employees.
- You want the category leader: 16,000+ customers, the largest auditor and integration network, and a platform procurement has already heard of.
- You already have a pentest vendor you trust, so compliance automation alone is the gap.
- Trust-center and questionnaire tooling at enterprise depth matters more to you than testing.
Pick Compliance Everywhere when
- You want the pentest, device management and the compliance program in one subscription instead of a platform fee plus a separate testing SKU. Even Vanta now sells AI pentests, through its XBOW partnership, as an extra.
- You are under 10 people: $299 a month with the monthly pentest included, against a quote-based platform fee plus a per-test charge.
- Your auditor or your customer asks "show me the pentest report", and you would rather hand them exploit-validated findings from last month than a scan summary.
- You want public pricing you can budget without a sales call, and an agent that does the work instead of a checklist you fill in.