Looking for a Vanta alternative? Here is an honest comparison.

Vanta (San Francisco, founded 2018) is a compliance automation platform. Its third-party risk management product, which Vanta previously called Vendor Risk Management, discovers vendors automatically (including shadow IT and AI tools), scores inherent risk, runs AI security reviews against vendor trust centres, SOC 2 reports and DPAs, and monitors for breaches. Vanta’s help centre says the Vendors page is included on all plans, while some third-party risk features are available only as an add-on. Prices are not published.

• Automatic vendor discovery, including shadow IT and AI tools
• AI security reviews of vendor trust centres, SOC 2 reports and DPAs
• Vendor risk sits next to the rest of your compliance programme

Choose Vanta if

• Your compliance programme already lives in Vanta and its vendor features cover what your auditor asks for
• You want vendors discovered automatically from the systems Vanta is connected to

Choose Vendorapp if

• You want vendor management as its own system of record: register, risk ratings, sanctions screening, contracts and renewals in one place
• You want published pricing and a free plan rather than a quote and add-ons
• You do not use Vanta, or you only need the vendor-risk part of a compliance platform

Or use both

The two can work side by side. Vanta runs your wider compliance programme and flags the vendor control; Vendorapp holds the vendor register, screening and contracts, and you export its reports into Vanta as evidence for that control. Vendorapp does not have a direct Vanta integration today.

• Smart Lookup: add a vendor by name or website from 22M+ indexed companies
• Vendorapp Intelligence exposure and ESG risk ratings, plus your own inherent and residual scores
• Sanctions and watchlist screening, including OFAC, UN, EU, UK OFSI and DFAT lists
• Contracts and DPAs with key terms extracted and renewal alerts
• Breach and incident alerts between reviews
• Audit trail and evidence export for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA and similar frameworks

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