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Screenata vs Vanta
Vanta is the broadest GRC platform in the market: the largest integration catalog, 35+ frameworks, an auditor partner network, and AI agents in preview. Screenata starts from the residue Vanta's own data describes — of 650,000 images uploaded to Vanta in six months, 36% were screenshots. Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly and records the rest while your team works, timestamped, signed, and traceable to the run. You pick the auditor. $5,988/year per framework, published.
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Side by side
Vanta tests and uploads. Vera records.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Vanta doesn’t do.
The evidence that survives Vanta's automation
Vanta published it themselves in August 2026: of 650,000 images uploaded in six months, 36% were screenshots, because the evidence sits outside any API. That residue is the part of the audit nobody automated. Screenata records it while your team does the task — deterministic, replayable, timestamped — instead of an agent re-navigating on request or a person uploading afterwards.
Evidence your auditor can verify outside the platform
Every artifact Vera files carries a signed manifest with an RFC 3161 timestamp and a trace from the policy sentence to the claim, the test, and the run. Your auditor checks it with a free CLI, without a Screenata login. Vanta links evidence to controls and exports it.
A published price with the modules inside it
Vanta does not publish pricing. Vendr's transaction data puts 1–50 employee companies at $12–25K a year for one framework, with vendor risk, questionnaires, and trust center sold as modules at $3–15K each. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, every module included, no implementation fee.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Vanta reads.
Do
Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team does the task, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the finding and drafts the fix.
Verify & sign
After a human applies the change, Vera re-verifies and files a signed, traceable artifact. She escalates judgment calls rather than acting unattended, which is what keeps auditors comfortable.
Vanta
Test → flag → upload the rest (agent in preview)
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Vanta, in detail
The questions people ask about Vanta.
Vanta pricing
What Vanta actually costs
Vanta does not publish list pricing. Vendr's anonymized transaction data reports $12–25K a year for companies with 1–50 employees on a single framework, $30–70K for 50–200 employees on two or three frameworks, and $100K+ at scale. Vendor risk management typically adds $5–15K, questionnaire automation and the trust center $3–8K each, and onboarding fees of $2–10K are common but often waived on multi-year terms. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with all of those modules included. Additional frameworks are scoped separately and reuse the first one's evidence.
- Vanta: quote-based, per framework and headcount, modules sold separately
- Screenata: $5,988/year per framework, published, modules included, no onboarding fee
- Neither Vanta nor Screenata sells the audit — you choose the firm either way
Vanta's own numbers
Screenshots and hours, from Vanta's data
Two figures Vanta published in 2025 and 2026 describe the problem Screenata is built for. First, 36% of the 650,000 images uploaded to Vanta over six months were screenshots — evidence outside an API, on the most integrated platform in the market. Second, Vanta's State of Trust survey of 3,500 leaders found teams spend about ten hours a week on compliance tasks, roughly twelve working weeks a year, and 64% say they spend more time proving security than improving it. Vanta's answer is an agent that captures screenshots on request, in preview, with an approval per capture. Screenata's is to record the evidence while the work happens, so it is produced rather than chased.
Vanta competition
Where Screenata sits among Vanta alternatives
Most Vanta alternatives are the same shape at a lower price: a dashboard, templates, integration tests, and uploads for the rest. Screenata is a different bet: the evidence integrations never finish is recorded while your team works, with provenance an auditor can check, and the agent does the hands work. If you are leaving Vanta on price alone, there are cheaper dashboards. If you are leaving because the screenshot pile never shrank, that is what Screenata is for.
The honest version
When Vanta is the better fit.
- You want the largest integration catalog and the most recognized brand with auditors and partners
- You have a compliance owner who will run the platform daily
- You need a long tail of frameworks beyond SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR
Screenata is built for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, wants policies grounded in real infrastructure, and would rather operate compliance from Slack and the terminal than a dashboard. More on who we’re for.
Screenata
$5,988/year per framework ($499/mo), published, every module included
Every module included, per framework. Published, not sales-gated. The audit is priced by the auditor you choose; we sell no audit and take no referral fee.
Vanta
Quote. Vendr data: $12–25K/yr, 1–50 employees, one framework
Third-party figure, not a vendor list price. Ranges scale with frameworks and headcount; see the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Source: Vendr marketplace: Vanta pricing (anonymized transaction data), fetched 2026-09-03.
Year one, all in
What year one actually costs.
Sources: Vendr marketplace pages (anonymized transaction data, fetched 2026-09-03); vendors’ own pricing pages and documentation where published; Vanta’s August 2026 screenshot figure; Drata “SOC 2 By the Numbers” 2026. Ranges scale with headcount and framework count; none is a vendor list price unless the vendor publishes one.
Questions
Screenata vs Vanta, answered.
Is Screenata a good Vanta alternative?
For a company whose customers will read the SOC 2 report, yes. Vanta is the broadest platform with the biggest catalog. Screenata is built for the evidence Vanta's own data says survives automation: a third of uploaded images are still screenshots. Vera records that evidence while your team works, timestamped, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose, for $5,988 a year per framework, published.
How much does Vanta cost compared to Screenata?
Vanta does not publish pricing. Vendr's transaction data reports $12–25K a year for 1–50 employee companies on one framework, with vendor risk, questionnaires, and trust center sold as modules at $3–15K each and onboarding fees of $2–10K. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included and no onboarding fee.
Can Screenata get me audit-ready faster than Vanta?
Screenata does not promise a timeline, and neither should anyone: the AICPA now treats quick-turn SOC 2 engagements as a quality concern. What shrinks with Screenata is the hand work — the screenshots, populations, and questionnaires that Vanta's own figures say remain after integrations — not the auditor's calendar.
Does Vanta's AI agent do what Screenata's recorder does?
Not the same thing. Vanta's agent, in preview, navigates an app and captures a screenshot for you to approve, re-deriving the path each time. Screenata records the evidence while your team does the real task, saves it as a procedure that replays the same way next quarter, and files it with a timestamp badge and a signed manifest. Deterministic and replayable is the difference an auditor asks about.
Does Screenata fix problems, or just flag them like Vanta?
Vera opens the finding, drafts the fix, and re-verifies once a human applies it. She does not change production settings on her own; that is a deliberate limit, and one auditors prefer.
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