Secureframe vs Vanta

Secureframe is a compliance automation (GRC) platform founded in January 2020 by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen. It is based in San Francisco, lists more than 200 employees across hubs in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Denver, Toronto and London, and has raised $79 million, most recently a $56 million Series B led by Accomplice in February 2022. The platform covers infrastructure monitoring, evidence collection, policy and risk management, vendor reviews and a Trust Center across more than 30 security, privacy and federal frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC and FedRAMP. Its AI features (Comply AI and Trust AI) draft questionnaire answers, suggest control mappings, score risks, pull answers from vendor SOC 2 reports, generate infrastructure-as-code fixes and check uploaded audit evidence. Its MCP server lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read compliance data. **AI compliance coverage** Secureframe added NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 support in May 2024; its framework pages describe policy templates, pre-built tests, continuous monitoring and AI risk management for each. It says it added full support for the EU AI Act in September 2025, but has no dedicated EU AI Act page describing what is included. **Who it's for** Startups and mid-market companies, including defense contractors through its Defense plan, that want a published starting price. The case studies we found cover security and privacy frameworks, not AI governance.

Vanta is a compliance automation and trust management platform founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco. It says 16,000 companies use it and that it passed $300 million in annual recurring revenue in April 2026. It has raised $504 million since 2021; its latest round was a $150 million Series D led by Wellington Management in July 2025 at a $4.15 billion valuation, and Fortune reported no newer round as of April 2026. The platform connects to more than 400 tools to collect audit evidence, run continuous control tests, manage policies, risks and access reviews, and publish a Trust Center. Vanta says its AI answers more than 80% of security questionnaire questions. In November 2025 it launched an agent-based Agentic Trust Platform for evidence, questionnaires, vendor oversight and risk, and its agent can be used inside Claude and Cursor through an MCP server. It bought Riskey, a third- and fourth-party risk monitoring company, in July 2025. More than 100 audit firms work in the platform. **AI compliance coverage** Vanta has dedicated products for ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF (launched in preview in January 2024 with 60 pre-built requirements and 10 risk scenarios) and the EU AI Act (announced in October 2024). The ISO 42001 product includes policy and document templates, mapped controls, automated tests, AI risk scenarios and access to accredited ISO 42001 auditors who review evidence in the platform. The EU AI Act product classifies AI systems by role and risk level, inventories AI use, and provides templates, AI-drafted policies, impact assessments and post-market monitoring records. **Who it's for** Startups through enterprises that need SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA and want AI frameworks on the same platform. It manages governance evidence; it does not test models.