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Screenata vs Vanta
Vanta is the established GRC platform, a dashboard a compliance person works inside, with broad integrations and a large customer base. Screenata is the compliance person: an agent that reads your infrastructure, writes the policies, and operates the program continuously across the surfaces your team already uses. The difference is operational: where Vanta flags a failing control and waits, Vera collects the evidence and drafts the remediation herself.
Side by side
Screenata and Vanta, line by line.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Vanta doesn’t do.
Policies from infrastructure, not templates
Vanta starts from template language and monitors for drift. Screenata reads your IdP, cloud, and repos first, then writes policies that match what it found, and flags commitments you can't prove.
An operator, not a dashboard
Vanta surfaces tasks for a human to work through. Screenata runs scheduled agents that scan, collect evidence, and brief you in Slack, the daily work happens without anyone opening a tab.
A pricing model built for small teams
$499/month per framework, month to month, sized for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, not a multi-year enterprise contract.
The operational layer
Vanta detects. Vera does the work.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Vanta reads.
Do
Vera collects ~70% of evidence automatically across 500+ checks, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the remediation ticket 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
Detect → flag → wait for a human
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Vanta, in detail
The questions people ask about Vanta.
Vanta pricing
What Vanta actually costs
Vanta doesn't publish list pricing; quotes are sales-gated and scale with employee count and the number of frameworks. Reported figures put a startup SOC 2 subscription in the $10–80K/year range depending on scope, typically on an annual contract, with extra frameworks and headcount priced on top. Screenata is $499/month per framework, month to month, with all integrations included.
- Priced per framework, so ISO 27001 or HIPAA is an add-on
- Annual commitment is the norm; a consultant is often still needed
- Screenata: $499/month per framework, all integrations and agent operations included
Vanta competition
Where Screenata sits among Vanta alternatives
Most Vanta alternatives (Drata, Secureframe, Scrut, Thoropass) are the same shape, a GRC dashboard your team drives. Screenata is the outlier: an agent that does the work, not a monitor that reports it. If you're comparing Vanta to another dashboard, you're choosing a driver; if you want the program run for you, that's the agent-first category.
The honest version
When Vanta is the better fit.
- You have an in-house security or compliance team that wants a dashboard to drive
- You're a larger organization with an established procurement process and budget
- You need the broadest possible catalog of niche integrations on day one
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
$499/month per framework
One plan, everything included. SOC 2 + HIPAA, all integrations, all agent operations. Cancel anytime.
Vanta
$10–80K/year (est.), annual contract
Typical GRC platform model: annual commitment, with additional frameworks and headcount priced on top.
Questions
Screenata vs Vanta, answered.
Is Screenata a good Vanta alternative?
For small teams, yes. Screenata is an AI agent that writes SOC 2 policies from your real infrastructure, automates about 70% of evidence across 500+ checks, and runs the program from Slack, email, and the CLI, for $499/month per framework, month to month. Vanta is a GRC dashboard your team drives, typically on a $10–80K/year annual contract. If you have a dedicated compliance team that wants a dashboard, Vanta fits; if you're a 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, Screenata does the work for you.
How much does Vanta cost compared to Screenata?
Vanta doesn't publish pricing; reported quotes run roughly $10–80K/year on an annual contract, with additional frameworks and headcount priced on top. Screenata is $499/month per framework, month to month, with all integrations and agent operations included.
What can Screenata do that Vanta can't?
Screenata writes policies from infrastructure scans instead of templates, flags commitments you can't prove with an overpromise detector, and traces every policy claim to a testable control and a signed evidence artifact your auditor can verify outside the platform. It operates from Slack, email, the CLI, and your PRs rather than a dashboard you have to open.
Can Screenata get me audit-ready faster than Vanta?
Screenata targets 4–6 weeks to audit-ready versus a typical 2–3 months, because it generates policies and a control matrix directly from your real infrastructure and collects evidence continuously with scheduled agents.
Does Screenata fix problems, or just flag them like Vanta?
When Vera finds a gap she can't resolve on her own, she opens the remediation ticket, drafts the fix, and re-verifies after a human applies it, she doesn't silently mark the control complete. Vanta flags a failing control and waits for someone to act. Production changes always stay under your team's control.
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