OneTrust vs Vanta: A Scored Comparison

Vanta scores 82 and OneTrust 64 on rubric v0.9. Vanta sits in the Strong band (70 to 84) and OneTrust in the Adequate band (55 to 69). Pick Vanta if the job is passing and keeping a SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA audit. Pick OneTrust if privacy and consent programs already run on OneTrust and security compliance should sit on the same contract.

Vanta leads on five of the eight criteria and OneTrust on none, and the two tie on three. The widest gap is trust and questionnaires, where OneTrust earns no credit. Scores as of 11 October 2026.

What the scores share

Both score 5 of 5 on automated evidence. Vanta claims more than 400 integrations and OneTrust cites 500 or more pre-built system connectors, and both document an API. Both score 5 of 5 on vendor risk management, and both let auditors review evidence inside the platform.

Both offer custom frameworks. Both score 1 of 5 on pricing transparency, and neither prints a dollar figure for any plan or package.

Where the scores split

Product scope

OneTrust sells privacy automation and consent management, and its Tech Risk & Compliance line holds Compliance Automation and IT Risk Management. Third-party risk is a separate package. A Third-Party Management Suite adds Dow Jones screening for sanctions and watchlists.

Vanta’s products fall into compliance, risk and customer trust, with a Personnel and Access area for background checks, training, device monitoring and access reviews.

The rubric measures compliance automation, so packages outside it carry no points. A team that wants consent management or sanctions screening from the same vendor as its SOC 2 program finds that combination at OneTrust.

Trust and questionnaires

Vanta scores 4 of 5 (weight: 10 points). It sells a trust center product with a connected domain, an AI chatbot and unlimited viewer seats, and AI questionnaire automation that drafts answers from a company’s knowledge base. Plus allows 25 questionnaires a year and Professional 144, which holds the score at 4.

OneTrust earns no credit and scores 0 of 5: neither a trust center nor questionnaire tooling is credited to Tech Risk & Compliance. This is the widest gap on the page, worth 8 points of the total.

Framework coverage

Vanta scores 5 of 5 (weight: 15 points). It claims 35 or more frameworks and covers all ten frameworks in the site’s matrix: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 42001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP and CMMC.

OneTrust scores 4 of 5. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, NIST CSF and CMMC 2.0 earn credit. ISO 42001 sits in OneTrust’s separate AI Governance package, and FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 earn no credit. That one level is a 3-point difference in the weighted total.

Audit path

Vanta scores 3 of 5 (weight: 15 points). Its named network has more than 100 audit firms, including A-LIGN, Schellman, Frazier and Deeter, Insight Assurance and Prescient Security, and Vanta says auditors working in the platform get access to test source data.

OneTrust scores 2 of 5. A named network of audit firms earns no credit. That one level is a 3-point difference in the weighted total.

Customisation

Vanta scores 4 of 5 (weight: 10 points). It sells custom frameworks as a dedicated product and includes custom monitoring tests on its Professional plan.

OneTrust scores 3 of 5. It earns no credit for custom automated tests. That one level is a 2-point difference in the weighted total.

User sentiment

Vanta scores 5 of 5 (weight: 10 points), with 4.6 from 2,734 reviews on G2. OneTrust scores 4 of 5, with 4.5 from 109 reviews of Tech Risk & Compliance. The rubric’s top level needs 200 or more reviews.

Which one to buy

Vanta fits a team whose goal is a SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA report and a program that stays audit-ready. It has the named audit network, the trust center and questionnaire tooling, and 2,734 G2 reviews against OneTrust’s 109.

Vanta ranks 2nd of seven at 82, with 4.6 from 2,734 G2 reviews. The ranked alternatives to Vanta are Sprinto, Drata, Secureframe, Scrut and Thoropass.

OneTrust fits a team whose privacy or consent work already runs on OneTrust and that wants security compliance on the same contract. Its vendor risk management scores 5 of 5 through a package priced apart from Tech Risk & Compliance.

OneTrust ranks 6th of seven at 64, with 4.5 from 109 G2 reviews of Tech Risk & Compliance.

OneTrust was founded in 2016 and is based in Atlanta. It claims 14,000 or more customers. Vanta was founded in 2018 and says more than 16,000 companies use the platform.

OneTrust sells by quote and prices Tech Risk & Compliance by admin users and asset inventory. Vanta lists four plan names, and the compliance software pricing study lists its AWS Marketplace figures. OneTrust is outside that study.

Sprinto’s 84 tops the SOC 2 software ranking, and Drata scores 76. The OneTrust vs Drata comparison sets OneTrust against the third-ranked platform.

Conclusion

Vanta 82 and OneTrust 64 are 18 points apart. Vanta gains 18 points on trust and questionnaires (8), framework coverage (3), audit path (3), customisation (2) and user sentiment (2), and OneTrust gains none. Automated evidence, vendor risk management and pricing transparency score the same for both vendors.

For a compliance program built on SOC 2 or ISO 27001, Vanta fits better. For a company that already runs its privacy and consent work on OneTrust, OneTrust fits better. Vanta scores 82, second in the OneTrust alternatives ranking behind Sprinto at 84.