Vanta vs Drata vs Screenata

Both grew up in the same wave of SOC 2 automation, sell to the same buyer, and share the same architecture: a dashboard your team logs into, template libraries you tailor, connectors that pull config on a schedule, and a task list for whatever can't be automated. The genuine axis of difference is narrow. Vanta optimizes for catalog size and ecosystem gravity, Drata for how much of the autopilot you can bend to your own control language. Neither changes the fundamental shape of the work: your team still owns the day-to-day operation of the program.

Vanta genuinely wins on reach. More integrations means fewer manual evidence gaps, and its market share means auditors, partners, and new hires have all seen it before, which lowers friction everywhere. Drata wins when your environment doesn't fit a template: custom control mappings, tailored workflows, and its Trust Center give a security team room to model compliance its own way, and it exposes an MCP server as a read layer over the dashboard. The cost of both is identical, someone on your side still drives, reviews tasks, and chases evidence week over week.

Screenata isn't a better dashboard; it removes the dashboard as the center of gravity. Vera reads your GitHub, cloud, and identity provider, writes policies deterministically from what she finds, then runs 650+ native checks nightly and records the rest while your team works, with every claim tied to cryptographically signed, RFC 3161-timestamped artifacts an auditor can verify outside the tool.