Vanta vs Drata: A Scored Comparison

Vanta scores 82 and Drata 76 on rubric v0.9, six points apart. Both sit in the Strong band (70 to 84). The gap traces to two criteria. Vanta leads on evidence automation because it states an integration count of 400 or more, where Drata says “hundreds” and the rubric counts that at 200. Vanta also leads on vendor risk: its TPRM Agent monitors vendors continuously after onboarding, while Drata runs recurring reviews and reassessment schedules. On the other six criteria the two score the same.

Pick Vanta if you want to check your stack against an integration list before a sales call. Pick Drata if you want no-code custom tests or a larger named network of audit firms. Scores as of 11 October 2026.

Where they are the same

Vanta and Drata score identically on six of the eight criteria. Both cover all 10 frameworks in our matrix: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 42001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and CMMC. Neither lists a price, and both route buyers to a sales call. Neither delivers the audit itself; both name partner audit firms and let auditors review evidence inside the platform. Both have a trust center product and AI-assisted questionnaire tools. Both offer custom frameworks and custom automated tests.

On the rubric, both score 5 on framework coverage, 3 on audit path, 1 on pricing transparency, 4 on trust and questionnaires, 4 on customisation, and 5 on user sentiment. A buyer evaluating only those criteria will find little to separate the two platforms.

The 3 out of 5 on audit path credits a named partner network and auditor review inside the platform. The audit itself is still a separate engagement with an outside firm, and a separate bill. Budget for it on either platform.

Where they genuinely differ

Integration count

Vanta lists 400 or more integrations, including more than 40 AWS resources, more than 30 Azure resources and more than 25 GCP resources.

Drata describes its catalog as “hundreds of tools” and gives no number.

On the automated evidence criterion (weight: 20 points), Vanta scores 5 out of 5 and Drata scores 4 out of 5. At the rubric’s weighting, that is a 4-point difference in the weighted total.

Vendor risk

Vanta scores 5 out of 5 (weight: 10 points). It builds a vendor inventory, discovers vendors automatically, runs AI-powered security reviews, and its TPRM Agent monitors vendors for breaches, emerging threats and material changes after onboarding. The agent is sold as an add-on.

Drata scores 4 out of 5, with credit for automated review of vendor security documents, a vendor inventory and assessments sent from the platform. Its Third-Party Risk Management product adds recurring reviews and automated reassessment schedules, which the rubric does not count as continuous monitoring. That one level is a 2-point difference in the weighted total.

Audit partner networks

Both platforms name the audit firms they work with. Vanta’s partners include A-LIGN, Schellman, Frazier and Deeter, Insight Assurance and Prescient Security, and Vanta says more than 100 audit firms support its customers. It also says auditors get access to the test source data inside the platform, so they need no screenshots.

Drata says more than 175 audit firms belong to its Auditor Alliance, among them A-LIGN, Coalfire and Armanino. Auditors work on evidence requests and approvals in its Audit Hub, and Drata says an in-house team of former auditors supports customers during audits.

Both score 3 out of 5 on audit path. The difference is the size of the network each vendor reports.

Custom tests and frameworks

Drata’s Adaptive Automation is a no-code custom test builder, available from the Advanced plan. It lets teams write control logic without writing code. Custom frameworks are a paid add-on on both the Advanced and Enterprise plans.

Vanta sells custom frameworks as a dedicated product and includes custom monitoring tests on its Professional plan. It maps a single control to several frameworks, which is control-level mapping.

Both score 4 out of 5 on customisation (weight: 10 points). The difference is which plan carries each feature, so check the plan before you count on it.

Questionnaire answer caps

Vanta caps its AI-powered questionnaire answering by plan: 25 a year on Plus and 144 on Professional. Drata’s Assurance Platform names 10 questionnaires on its Foundation plan.

The cap matters if you answer more than two questionnaires a month. For Drata’s higher plans, ask sales what the limit is before you sign.

G2 reviews

Vanta has more G2 reviews: 2,734 at a 4.6 average. Drata has fewer reviews (1,397) but a slightly higher average (4.7). Both scores place in the 5 out of 5 band on the rubric’s user sentiment criterion, so neither gains an advantage in the total score from this difference.

Who should pick which

Choose Vanta if the breadth of documented integrations or continuous vendor monitoring is the first question you need answered. Its integration count is 400-plus. Vanta also names specific questionnaire caps per plan, which helps teams forecast how many questionnaire responses they can automate at a given tier.

Choose Drata if you want no-code custom tests or the larger audit network. Adaptive Automation lets teams write control logic without writing code, and the Auditor Alliance gives a wider pool of firms to choose from. Note that custom frameworks are a paid add-on on Drata’s Advanced and Enterprise plans.

If neither of these criteria separates the vendors for your team, the full scorecards show each platform’s performance across all eight criteria. Both are in the Strong band and rank in the top three of the GRC software ranking. Sprinto, at 84, scores above both and leads the Drata alternatives.

For companies preparing for a first SOC 2 Type II audit, either platform covers the framework and connects to an auditor. The choice between them at that stage is more likely to turn on connector coverage for your specific tech stack. Vanta lists its cloud provider resources in detail. Drata gives its catalog as hundreds of tools without a count.

For teams that already hold SOC 2 and are expanding to additional frameworks, both cover all 10 frameworks in the matrix. Drata’s custom frameworks, an add-on on its Advanced and Enterprise plans, let teams add frameworks that fall outside the standard catalog. Vanta sells custom frameworks as a dedicated product.

Conclusion

Vanta and Drata are close, and the 6-point gap comes from two criteria. Vanta leads on evidence automation with 400-plus integrations and on vendor risk with continuous monitoring. On the other six criteria they score the same, including audit path and customisation. Both sit in the Strong band. Both cover every framework in the matrix. Neither lists a price; the compliance software pricing study lists AWS Marketplace figures for six platforms, Vanta and Drata among them.

The decision between them is likely to come down to whether Vanta’s integration breadth better matches your current tech stack, or whether Drata’s no-code test builder and larger audit network suit your team. Scores as of 11 October 2026.