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Why enterprise leaders choose Vanta over Drata to prove and manage trust
Sammi Reinstein
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Accelerating security solutions for small businesses Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. | A partnership that can scale Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. | Standing out from competitors Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market. |
If you're an enterprise evaluating a GRC platform, you’ve likely realized that spreadsheets aren’t a scalable security strategy.
They’re outdated the moment you fill them out and force your team to spend more time proving security than improving it. Choosing the right platform to manage your GRC program is crucial to building a strong foundation for trust that scales, protects your organization’s reputation, and accelerates growth.
So, the tool you choose to relieve the pain of spreadsheets shouldn’t leave you stuck in the same spot. 😬
Many enterprises discover that Drata’s automation, integrations, and configurability can’t scale with them as they grow. This is where Vanta stands apart.
Built for complexity and scale, Vanta delivers deeper integrations, advanced automation, and enterprise-grade configurability that help large organizations reduce manual work, improve visibility, and maintain clean, audit-ready operations as they grow. That’s why enterprises like Anthropic, Ramp, and Snowflake use Vanta to manage compliance, risk, and customer trust all in one platform.
Vanta vs. Drata for enterprises: A quick comparison
When evaluating trust management platforms, it helps to see how the details compare side by side. The table below highlights the areas that matter most to enterprises—from integration depth to automation and configurability—and shows how Vanta is uniquely equipped to meet the needs of large, complex organizations.
Why enterprises today choose Vanta
Enterprises need platforms that continuously prove trust: integrating across complex stacks, automating at scale, adapting to unique requirements. Vanta delivers a unified platform that brings together compliance, risk, and trust workflows, surfacing the issues that need your attention and automating the rest so global security organizations have the clarity they need to scale with confidence.
Integration depth that scales
Large organizations can’t afford blind spots. Vanta offers 375+ integrations—nearly double what Drata offers—spanning cloud-native, HR, IT, and procurement systems. Enterprises can unify their entire stack into a single source of truth, reducing manual work and accelerating deployments
Advanced automation and AI
Vanta’s AI agent continuously monitors controls, generates policies, and even creates remediation code. It automates questionnaires with an acceptance rate of up to 95%, reducing hours of manual work from already stretched security teams. Drata’s AI, by comparison, is limited to summaries and narrow outputs.
Configurability for complex needs
Vanta delivers fine-grained role-based access controls, adaptive scoping, and custom risk registers. Enterprises can tailor workflows and reporting to their unique regulatory requirements—instead of working around vendor limitations.
True multi-entity support
Where Drata’s cross-workspace evidence sharing risks audit contamination, Vanta enables clean, separated multi-entity Workspaces. Enterprises gain both granular control and consolidated oversight across subsidiaries and business units.
Enterprise results that matter
Vanta isn’t just built for scale—it delivers measurable outcomes that enterprises can track and report on.
- 12,000+ customers across industries, including scale-ups and Fortune 500s
- $535K average annual benefit per enterprise, with a 526% ROI and a 3-month payback period
- 95.5 CSAT score for enterprise support, proving that large organizations both choose and stay with Vanta
What enterprises say:
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Everything is in Vanta—automated tests, manual tests, policies, vendor security assessments, and more.”
Mandy Matthew
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Vanta is our one-stop shop for all things compliance and GRC. We use Vanta to conduct our risk assessments, continuously monitor our controls, user access reviews, as well as conduct our audits with our external auditors.”
Heidi Pilli
With quantifiable ROI and proven results across global organizations, Vanta is the enterprise choice for trust management at scale.
FAQs
Is Vanta just for startups, or is it enterprise-ready too?
Vanta is often seen as a great choice for startups thanks to its ease of use and fast time-to-compliance—but it’s far more than a startup tool. Today, over 12,000 companies, from scale-ups to Fortune 500s, rely on Vanta. With features like multi-entity Workspaces, adaptive scoping, fine-grained RBAC, and AI-powered automation, Vanta is purpose-built to meet the complexity of enterprise environments while still supporting growing teams.
Why do enterprises switch from Drata to Vanta?
Because Drata sells the illusion of being enterprise-ready. Customers discover integration gaps, shallow automation, and limited configurability—challenges that only worsen as they scale. Vanta, on the other hand, is purpose-built for complexity and grows alongside your business.
How does Vanta scale as we grow globally?
Unlike Drata’s cross-workspace evidence sharing, Vanta provides true multi-entity Workspaces, enterprise roll-ups, and clean separation across subsidiaries or regions. This ensures both local control and global oversight, critical for international organizations.
What makes Vanta’s automation better for large teams?
Vanta’s AI agent functions like a 24/7 GRC engineer; automating questionnaires, generating remediation code, and updating risk registers in real time. Enterprises save hundreds of hours annually, while reducing risk exposure at scale.
How does Vanta evolve with enterprise needs over time?
Enterprises don’t stand still, and neither does Vanta. The platform ships hundreds of new enterprise features every year—from custom RBAC and flexible risk scoring to advanced Trust Center innovations. With continuous monitoring and AI-driven automation improving every release, Vanta grows alongside your business. That means enterprises never outgrow Vanta, because it’s designed to evolve as fast as their operations, regulations, and customer expectations.
How does Vanta support complex compliance frameworks?
Vanta offers 35+ frameworks out of the box (vs. Drata’s ~23) and enables custom framework creation. Adaptive scoping keeps evidence accurate across business units and geographies, so multinational enterprises can manage compliance holistically.
What about vendor risk management?
Vanta integrates directly with procurement systems and continuously monitors third- and fourth-party risks, going beyond static questionnaires. This gives enterprises continuous visibility and accelerates procurement without slowing down revenue.
How does Vanta prove trust to customers?
Vanta’s Trust Center network (5,000+ live pages) deflects up to 87% of questionnaires and completes the rest 81% faster with AI-powered automation. Enterprises can scale customer trust processes without scaling headcount.
Get started with Vanta today
When global organizations need a platform that automates at scale, integrates across their tech stack, and adapts to unique regulatory, complex requirements, Vanta is the only true enterprise choice. Drata might work well for smaller teams, but for enterprises where trust is a board-level priority, Vanta is built to deliver.
Request a demo to get started with Vanta today.
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