Vanta vs Delve vs Screenata

Vanta and Delve bracket two generations of compliance tooling. Vanta is the mature, template-first GRC dashboard: the largest integration catalog, deep market presence, and a proven playbook for SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Delve is the AI-native, YC-backed (W24) newcomer betting that onboarding and evidence can be driven by AI, with an unusually wide framework catalog that reaches into AI-governance standards like ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and NIST AI RMF. The axis is maturity-and-ecosystem versus AI-native speed and framework breadth, an established platform against a newer, model-driven one.

Vanta wins on trust and reach: an enormous connector library, ubiquity with auditors and buyers, and years of hardening make it the low-risk default. Delve wins for teams that want AI-native onboarding and the broadest catalog, especially anyone who needs emerging AI-governance frameworks that older platforms haven't prioritized. The honest tradeoff is proven breadth versus frontier coverage and speed: Vanta is the safer, more universally recognized choice, while Delve trades some maturity for a faster, AI-first experience and frameworks the incumbents are slower to add.

Screenata is also AI-driven, so the contrast with Delve isn't "AI or not", it's the model. Vera writes policies deterministically from your real infrastructure (an overpromise detector rejects claims your systems can't support), then chains each claim to a cryptographically signed, RFC 3161-timestamped artifact verifiable outside the platform. Pick Vanta for ecosystem maturity, Delve for AI-native onboarding and the widest framework catalog including AI governance, and Screenata if you want an agent that runs the program from Slack, email, and PRs with grounded policies and signed evidence, at $499/month per framework.