Vanta vs Drata vs Sprinto
SOC 2 on autopilot: which compliance agent do you trust? Scores from the RXed AI Periodic Table v1.0 — identical 20-element scale, deterministic overall. How we audit →
At a glance
Scope = elements of the AI stack in the tool’s stated scope (dashed = honestly out of scope, never a penalty). Quality = how well it scores on what it covers. No single number — both axes, always.
The verdict
Vanta (Scope 14/20 · Quality 7/10) is the auditor-familiar default — 16,000 customers, an agent better engineered than most AI products twice its price, and an MCP server your coding agent can pull compliance context from — with G2 reviewers reporting 30-50% renewal uplifts in year two. Drata (Scope 16/20 · Quality 7/10) ships the only inline agent kill switch in GRC — its MCP Proxy evaluates a tool call before it executes, where competitors dashboard it afterwards — but read the fine print: Limited Availability, Anthropic-only, and anonymised customer data pooled into a shared model. Sprinto (Scope 14/20 · Quality 6/10) is the budget pick at a ~$15K median contract with the category's only no-code agent builder — and no MCP server at all, in a category where both rivals run hosted ones. First SOC 2 on a real budget → Sprinto. Agents already in production → Drata. The name your auditor already knows → Vanta.
Where the quality sits
Family mean over covered elements only — a dash means the family is honestly outside that tool’s scope.
| Vanta Scope 14/20 · Quality 7/10 audited 2026-08-06 | Drata Scope 16/20 · Quality 7/10 audited 2026-08-07 | Sprinto Scope 14/20 · Quality 6/10 audited 2026-08-07 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Vanta Inc. | Drata Inc. | Sprinto Inc. |
| Origin | US | US | US |
| Pricing | Not published — four quote-only tiers (Essentials · Plus · Professional · Enterprise). Procurement data from Vendr puts observed annual contracts at $7,500-$56,781 with a ~$20,000 median (roughly €7,000-€52,000, median ~€18,500). Audit fees are separate and run $10,000-$50,000; Trust Center and Vendor Risk Management are paid add-ons. | Not published. Drata's plans page carries no numbers. Procurement data from Vendr puts the median annual contract at $24,869 across 225 tracked purchases, ranging $9,649 to $60,000 (retrieved 24/07/2026), with buyers saving 23% on average. SpendHound's 141 tracked companies show SMB averaging $25,648 and enterprise $63,009, both rising roughly 16% year on year. Prices are quoted in USD; euro equivalents move with the rate, so budget roughly €9,000 to €55,000 at rates around 0.92. The Trust Center (SafeBase) is a separate SKU at $5,000 to $20,000+, and the audit itself is a separate firm at $8,000 to $25,000 for SOC 2 Type II and $15,000 to $40,000+ for ISO 27001. | Not published. The pricing page lists two plans, Foundation and Growth, plus seven add-ons, with no numbers against any of them. Vendr's tracked contracts put the median at $15,000/yr in a $12,750-$16,825 band, but across only about 7 verified purchases, so treat it as a weaker signal than the 225-deal datasets behind Vanta and Drata. Independent buyers' guides converge on $6,000-$10,000 for a startup on one framework and $20,000-$30,000+ at enterprise scope, with additional frameworks at $3,000-$8,000 each. Prices are quoted in USD; budget roughly €5,500 to €28,000 at rates around 0.92. The audit is a separate CPA firm at $15,000-$40,000. |
| Pr Prompts | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Em Embeddings | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Cx Context | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Tr Tracing | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| Lg LLM | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Fc Function calling | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Vx Vector store | — | 5 | — |
| Rg RAG | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Gr Guardrails | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| Mm Multimodal | — | — | — |
| Ag Agents | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Ft Fine-tuning | — | 4 | — |
| Fw Frameworks & harnesses | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Ev Evaluations | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Sm Small models | — | — | — |
| Ma Multi-agent | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Sy Synthetic data | — | — | — |
| Pc Protocols | 8 | 9 | 3 |
| In Interpretability | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Th Thinking models | — | — | — |
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