Is Vanta free? What it actually costs in 2026
No free tier. It is a paid product.
No public pricing — quote only, sold as an annual contract and commonly bundled with an audit. That opacity is itself the most-cited complaint: buyers cannot compare without entering a sales cycle, and renewal quotes rise with headcount and framework count.
When paying is still the right call
Stay if you need a report by a date. That is the honest line: none of the alternatives below produce a SOC 2 report, because a SOC 2 report is issued by an auditor, not by software. Stay if the compliance work is not yours to own — a five-person team without a security engineer will spend more in salaried hours reconstructing evidence than the platform costs. And stay if a customer contract names a trust portal or continuous monitoring as a requirement, which is increasingly common in enterprise procurement and is a feature, not a control.
What you are locked into
Policies, evidence history, vendor reviews and the trust page live in Vanta's platform. Cloud connections are read-only and easy to revoke, but the audit trail and policy documents are the sticky part — export them before a renewal decision, not after.
If you would rather not pay: Prowler
Prowler
Open-source cloud security posture scanning with framework check packs.
Free / self-host; optional paid hosted Prowler Cloud
See all 5 Vanta alternatives comparedCompare the free options head-to-head
Pricing is verified against the vendor's published figures and dated above. Vendors change prices — confirm current numbers with Vanta before you commit. More compliance automation & security posture decisions on Macrostack.