Two US-headquartered, SOC 2-first platforms, both sales-quoted, both priced on headcount plus a fee per framework, both landing between USD 10,000 and USD 80,000 a year. They are more alike than either would like. For a European program the more useful question is a different one entirely.
The short answer
Drata usually quotes lower at the entry tier and charges less per extra framework. Vanta has the bigger name, which shortens US security reviews on its own. On everything a European buyer is regulated against, the two are the same answer, and neither of them covers CyFun.
Side by side
Sixteen criteria in three groups, including the four where CSFaaS is the weaker option. Filter to just the rows where the answers are not the same.
The pricing model decides the long-run cost far more than the sticker does.
| Criterion | Drata | Vanta | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published priceCan you find out what it costs without talking to a salesperson? | No. Sales call required (No) | No. Sales call required (No) | Yes. EUR 79 per user per month (Yes) |
| What the price scales onThe single biggest cost difference between these tools. | Company headcount and frameworks (No) | Company headcount and frameworks (No) | People who actually log in (Yes) |
| Cost of the second framework | USD 3,000 to 10,000 a year (No) | USD 5,000 to 15,000 a year (No) | EUR 0. All 40+ included (Yes) |
| Free tier | No (No) | No (No) | 2 users, whole product, forever (Yes) |
Mapping a regulation is not the same as scoring against it. A European program is won or lost here.
| Criterion | Drata | Vanta | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| CyFun (Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals)The NIS2 assurance route Belgian and Benelux organisations are actually asked for. | Not offered (No) | Not offered (No) | Basic, Important and Essential 2025, EN and FR, official workbook in and out (Yes) |
| NIS2 | Yes, through framework mapping (Yes) | Yes (Yes) | Yes, as a gradable 220-element framework (Yes) |
| DORA | Yes (Yes) | Yes (Yes) | Yes, EN, FR and ES, 170 elements (Yes) |
| ISO 27001 and SOC 2 criteria | Yes, the core of the product (Yes) | Yes, the core of the product (Yes) | ISO 27001:2022 and AICPA TSC 2017 (Yes) |
| Framework content in French and Spanish | English-first (No) | English-first (No) | Interface and framework text in EN, FR and ES (Yes) |
Four of these rows go against us. They are the reasons to buy theirs, which is why they are in the table.
| Criterion | Drata | Vanta | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated evidence collection from cloud and SaaSWhere the incumbents are genuinely ahead of us. | Hundreds of integrations, every plan (Yes) | Hundreds of integrations, every plan (Yes) | Enterprise plan only (No) |
| Endpoint agent and security awareness training | Yes (Yes) | Yes (Yes) | No (No) |
| Hosted public trust center | Yes (Yes) | Yes (Yes) | No. Policy share links only (No) |
| Full read and write REST API on every plan | Advanced tier and above (Partial) | Higher tiers (Partial) | Yes, every seat, free tier included (Yes) |
| MCP server, connect your own AI assistantBring Claude or ChatGPT to your own workspace, scoped by your own permissions. | No (No) | No (No) | Yes, included with every seat (Yes) |
| Audit and penetration test | Partner network, paid separately (Partial) | Partner network, paid separately (Partial) | Through DarkProtect, quoted separately (Partial) |
| Data portability | Export tooling (Partial) | Export tooling (Partial) | Total read coverage over the API, on every plan (Yes) |
The short version
Vanta has the largest install base in this category. Auditors know it, enterprise security reviewers know it, and that familiarity is worth real money if your buyers are US enterprises. It also has the broadest integration library and the most polished trust center.
Drata typically quotes lower at the entry tier, from around USD 7,500 against roughly USD 10,000, and charges less for each additional framework. Its risk register and vendor management are a little stronger, and its control mapping across a 30+ framework catalogue is well built.
Both quote by sales with no published price. Both band the price on company headcount. Both charge per framework. Both leave the audit and the penetration test outside the licence. If those four things are what is bothering you, choosing between them fixes none of them.
Both now ship NIS2 and DORA mappings, which is genuine EU coverage and we will not pretend otherwise. Neither grades you against the Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals framework. If a customer or a regulator asks for a CyFun assurance level, this whole comparison is the wrong one.
The bands
Same axis, same scale. The width of every bar is the part you cannot find out without a sales cycle.
Every band below is a negotiated quote, not a list price. The width of each bar is the part Drata will not tell you until you are in a sales cycle.
Teams under 50 people starting their first framework.
Growing companies between 50 and 200 people.
Organisations above 200 people with a formal GRC program.
Every band below is a negotiated quote, not a list price. The width of each bar is the part Vanta will not tell you until you are in a sales cycle.
Early-stage companies taking their first certification.
Scaling companies running more than one framework.
Large organisations with complex programs.
The part nobody totals
The same two-framework program costed line by line on each platform, with third-party audit fees kept out of every vendor column because they are the same number either way.
A 50 to 200 person company on the Advanced tier, running two frameworks, onboarding in year one.
What Drata charges
Left out for want of a public figure: premium support.
The same scope on CSFaaS
The same either way, whoever you buy from
These go to your auditor and your penetration tester, not to a platform vendor. They are the same number whichever tool you pick, so they are deliberately outside both totals above. Any comparison that puts them in one column and not the other is selling you something.
A scaling company on the Growth tier, running two frameworks, onboarding in year one.
What Vanta charges
Left out for want of a public figure: premium support tier.
The same scope on CSFaaS
The same either way, whoever you buy from
These go to your auditor and your penetration tester, not to a platform vendor. They are the same number whichever tool you pick, so they are deliberately outside both totals above. Any comparison that puts them in one column and not the other is selling you something.
The third option
Free for 2 users, then EUR 79 per user per month. Every framework, every module and the full API included at every size, so the only variable is how many people need a login.
The incumbents price on your company headcount. CSFaaS prices on the people who actually open the platform. A 200 person company usually runs its GRC program with a compliance lead, a handful of control owners and an auditor, not 200 licences.
People who need a seat
10 users, minus the 2 free seats, is 8 billable at EUR 790 a seat a year. Every framework, every module, the REST API and the MCP server are included at every size. Past roughly 60 platform users, ask us for an Enterprise quote: at that scale SSO, advanced connectors and a dedicated instance matter more than the seat count.
Why European teams move
The gap nobody else covers
Drata and Vanta both ship NIS2 and DORA mappings now, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What none of them ships is Belgium's CyberFundamentals framework as a gradable assessment: the Basic, Important and Essential assurance levels, the official CCB workbook in and out, and the separate documentation and implementation maturity scores an assessor actually reads.
CSFaaS ships all of it, in English and French, because CyFun is the route most Belgian and Benelux organisations take to demonstrate NIS2 readiness. That is the difference between a framework you can point at and a framework you can be graded on.
The counterpoint
If any of these matter more to you than published pricing and native EU frameworks, buy theirs. We would rather you knew now than after the contract.
Buy theirs if
Your buyers are US enterprises, SOC 2 is the only framework that matters, and you want evidence collected automatically from day one.
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Vanta over CSFaaS, written by us.
Buy theirs if
You want Vanta-class automation at a slightly lower entry price and your obligations stop at SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Drata over CSFaaS, written by us.
Questions
None of the vendors on this page publish a price list, so every figure is a range taken from public procurement data and the vendors' own pages, last checked in August 2026. Treat them as a budgeting guide, not a quote. Your own quote is the only number that counts.
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