SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA — these are the security certifications a B2B startup gets asked for the moment a bigger customer's procurement team gets involved, and getting one the old-fashioned way means months of screenshotting settings, chasing coworkers for evidence, and rebuilding the same spreadsheet every year for the next audit. A newer category of tool automates that grind: it connects to your actual cloud, HR and identity systems, checks continuously that the required controls are in place, and hands the auditor a clean evidence trail instead of a folder of screenshots. Sprinto and Vanta are two of the best-known players in that category, and they solve the same problem in very similar ways — the differences come down to scale, market position and exactly how the audit relationship works.
The short version: Vanta is the bigger, more established name — 16,000+ customers including technically sophisticated buyers like Cursor, Snowflake and GitHub, a Forrester Wave Leader ranking, and 400+ integrations, plus a Trust Center feature that doubles as a sales tool for enterprise deals. Sprinto is the newer challenger, founded in 2020 but already past 3,000 customers in 75 countries, and it leans harder into direct partnerships with audit firms so the audit itself — not just the evidence collection — is baked into the product. Neither publishes pricing, and independent estimates put both in the same $8k-$30k/year range depending on how many frameworks you need. If you want the platform enterprise buyers already recognize by name, Vanta wins. If you want a leaner challenger that bundles the audit relationship in, Sprinto is worth a serious look.
Sprinto
Sprinto automates evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR by connecting continuously to the tools you already use, instead of a once-a-year scramble to prove your controls actually work. It's built specifically around getting startups and SMEs through their first (or next) enterprise-readiness audit without dedicating someone's full-time job to it.
Price: not published on the site — quote-based. Independent sources place a single SOC 2 program around $8,000-$10,000/year, and a multi-framework program (SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA) between $9,000-$15,000/year, rising to roughly $30,000/year for more complex cases.
Strengths: continuous, automated evidence collection rather than a point-in-time snapshot; direct partnerships with audit firms baked into the workflow; covers multiple frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR) from one program; an established base of 3,000+ customers across 75 countries since 2020.
Limits: pricing is entirely negotiated, so you can't budget without a sales call, and it lands in the same range as Vanta or Drata rather than undercutting them; the compliance-automation market is now crowded and mature, with Vanta and Drata holding most of the brand recognition; overkill if your team doesn't need a formal certification yet.
Pick Sprinto if you want the audit relationship itself, not just the evidence collection, handled inside the platform you're already paying for.
Vanta
Vanta continuously checks whether your actual production systems meet the requirements of a given certification — SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and more — instead of relying on someone manually screenshotting settings for an auditor once a year. It's the most recognized name in the category, and its integration list is built to plug into almost any real-world stack.
Price: no public pricing. Four tiers (Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise), with custom quotes based on company size and the number of frameworks you need.
Strengths: named a Leader in Forrester's GRC Platforms Wave (Q2 2026), an independent analyst ranking that carries real weight in enterprise sales conversations; 400+ integrations for continuous, automated monitoring; a Trust Center feature that functions as a genuine sales-enablement page for B2B SaaS companies fielding security questionnaires; 16,000+ customers including technically sophisticated names like Cursor, Snowflake and GitHub.
Limits: no public pricing here either, so comparing the real cost against competitors requires a sales conversation on both sides; the "hours saved" and efficiency claims in its marketing are vendor-reported, not independently audited; how much value you get scales with how many frameworks and integrations you actually need, which isn't obvious until you're deep into a demo.
Pick Vanta if you want the platform enterprise security reviewers already recognize by name, and the Trust Center's sales-enablement angle matters to your deal cycle.
Side-by-side
| Sprinto | Vanta | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2020, Bengaluru + San Francisco | Not specified, San Francisco |
| Customers | 3,000+ in 75 countries | 16,000+, including Cursor, Snowflake, GitHub |
| Frameworks | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and more |
| Integrations | Not specified publicly | 400+ |
| Notable edge | Direct audit-firm partnerships in the workflow | Forrester Wave Leader (Q2 2026), Trust Center |
| Est. annual price | $8k-$30k depending on frameworks (independent estimate) | Not published, 4 tiers, custom quote |
| Pricing transparency | Quote-only | Quote-only |
Verdict
Pick Sprinto if: you'd rather the audit-firm relationship be part of the product itself, you need more than one framework covered from day one, and you're comfortable being the challenger brand in a room full of Vanta customers.
Pick Vanta if: you want the name enterprise security teams already trust, the Trust Center's sales angle is genuinely useful for your deal cycle, or you'd rather buy from the analyst-recognized leader even at a similar price.
Neither company publishes real pricing, which is the honest catch with this whole category — you will not know your actual cost until you've had a sales call with both. Budget for something in the $8k-$30k/year range once you include every framework you need, and use the demo to test the thing that actually matters day-to-day: how much manual evidence-chasing this genuinely removes from your team's workload, not just the feature list on the pricing page.