What do you like best about the product?

It’s easy to use, does exactly what I need it to do and has integrations to all major tools companies use.

What do you dislike about the product?

The AI can be a bit glitchy when it comes to reading data from Excel sheets and forms.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It saves us a lot of time on our compliance activities and greatly streamlines the audit process.

What do you like best about the product?

Automations and checks keep compliance efforts simple and manageable for our small team.

What do you dislike about the product?

Despite automations, there is a lot of constant communication and reminders that add some stress to our small team.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta is helping us maintain compliance and answer questions we don’t even know to ask!

What do you like best about the product?

What stands out most about Vanta is how much it automates what used to be painfully manual compliance work, especially for frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA.

From a UI/UX perspective, the dashboard is clean and actually actionable. Instead of digging through spreadsheets or static checklists, you can immediately see what’s passing, what’s failing, and what needs attention. The way controls are mapped to real systems (like Google Workspace, AWS, etc.) makes it easy to understand compliance status at a glance. For example, rather than manually verifying user access reviews, Vanta continuously monitors them and flags gaps—saving hours of audit prep.

On integrations, this is where Vanta really delivers value. It connects seamlessly with tools we already use (cloud providers, HR systems, version control, device management, etc.), which means evidence collection happens automatically in the background. A concrete example: instead of pulling screenshots or logs for an audit, Vanta maintains a live audit trail tied directly to those integrations. That alone eliminates a huge amount of back-and-forth during audit season.

In terms of workflow improvement, the biggest gain is moving from reactive to proactive compliance. Previously, audit prep was a scramble—now it’s more of a steady-state process. Tasks are assigned, tracked, and reminded within the platform, so nothing falls through the cracks. This has reduced audit readiness time significantly and lowered stress across teams.

For performance, it’s reliable and runs continuously without much intervention. The real-time monitoring means issues are caught early rather than discovered weeks later during a manual review.

Looking at pricing and ROI, while Vanta isn’t the cheapest tool, the time savings and reduced audit overhead more than justify the cost. When you factor in fewer hours spent on evidence gathering, fewer external audit delays, and less internal coordination, the ROI becomes pretty clear.

Support and onboarding are also strong. The onboarding process is structured and guided, which is helpful if you’re new to compliance frameworks. Their support team is responsive and knowledgeable, especially when it comes to mapping controls or troubleshooting integrations.

One unexpected benefit has been how it improves internal accountability. Because controls and tasks are visible across teams, it encourages better security hygiene company-wide—not just within compliance or IT.

Lastly, on the AI/intelligence side, Vanta’s automation and smart alerts act as a kind of lightweight intelligence layer. It surfaces risks and gaps without requiring deep manual analysis, which is especially useful for smaller teams that don’t have dedicated compliance experts.

Overall, Vanta turns compliance from a one-time, high-stress project into an ongoing, manageable process—and that shift alone has been the biggest value.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some areas where Vanta could improve:

UI/UX: While generally clean, certain workflows (like navigating control details or audit evidence) can feel a bit buried, requiring too many clicks to find what you need quickly.
Integrations: Not all integrations are equally deep—some require manual follow-up or don’t capture as much evidence as expected. Expanding native integrations or improving data depth would help.
Performance: Occasional lag when loading dashboards or refreshing large datasets can slow things down slightly.
Pricing/ROI: The cost can be high for smaller teams, especially if you’re not using the full breadth of features. More flexible pricing tiers would make it more accessible.
Support/Onboarding: While generally helpful, more proactive guidance or clearer documentation for complex controls would improve the onboarding experience.
AI/Intelligence: Automation is strong, but the “intelligence” layer could go further—like offering more predictive insights or clearer recommendations instead of just flagging issues.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta is solving the problem of manual, time-consuming compliance management, especially for frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA, and turning it into a continuous, automated process.

Before using Vanta, compliance meant pulling screenshots, tracking evidence in spreadsheets, chasing team members for confirmations, and scrambling before audits. Vanta centralizes all of that—automatically collecting evidence from integrated systems, mapping it to controls, and keeping everything audit-ready in real time.

The biggest benefit is time savings and reduced operational burden. Tasks that used to take days or weeks—like preparing for an audit or validating access controls—are now largely automated or continuously monitored. This frees up internal teams to focus on higher-value work instead of administrative compliance tasks.

It also improves accuracy and consistency. Because Vanta pulls data directly from systems (like cloud infrastructure or HR tools), there’s less risk of human error or missing documentation. Everything is standardized and traceable, which makes audits smoother and more predictable.

Another key benefit is proactive risk management. Instead of discovering issues during an audit, Vanta flags gaps in real time—like missing policies, outdated access reviews, or non-compliant devices—so they can be addressed early.

Finally, it enhances cross-team accountability and visibility. Compliance is no longer siloed; tasks and responsibilities are clearly assigned within the platform, making it easier for teams to stay aligned and responsive.

Overall, Vanta transforms compliance from a reactive, stressful process into an ongoing, manageable workflow that saves time, reduces risk, and improves audit outcomes.

What do you like best about the product?

Broad spectrum of features & integrations

What do you dislike about the product?

I cannot currently think of any as it meets my needs

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hardware assignments, company procedures & policies

What do you like best about the product?

Vanta has an effective management of sensitive business data and also very complex regulations and the risk management capability on Vanta is perfect as well as its AI-powerd policy generation and validation of documents this system is excellent.
With this platform is very simple to ensure strong ana even continuous compliance and it still provides great workflow automatiin and for security training and monitoring real time risk across various internal systems Vanta is effective.

What do you dislike about the product?

Vanta has totally nothis to dislike. The platform is very easy from the first training and the deployment process is still very simple but as a new user it can be a little complicated and their support team is very helpful and available.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring evidence, vulnerability management, cost management, Automating workflow and very reliable audit sreamlining and also evaluating evidence to easy sensitive information management solution.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Vanta as my main governance risk and compliance (GRC) tool. Vanta's alert system and test setup is absolutely a game changer. Being able to know when something critical needs review or when a policy should be updated through automated alerts is great, like having the most reliable teammate. Also, the initial setup was very easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

Vanta does a great job alerting about product or documents, it could do better at alerting on general timelines like "your audit was completed on x date, this likely means, if you want to continue to maintain compliance, it's time to reconnect with your auditor"

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vanta organizes our compliance processes, automates alert systems and provides peace of mind by notifying us when critical reviews are needed or policies should be updated.

What do you like best about the product?

I like Vanta for its ease of use and customer support. It's very intuitive to get around the interface. Some AI-assisted tools expedite the creation of documentation, and it's very well structured. The initial setup was as easy as it could have been.

What do you dislike about the product?

The renewal process had a bit of a hang-up where they had some mistakes on our terms.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Vanta for SOC 2 compliance. It's intuitive to navigate, expedites documentation creation with AI tools, and is well-structured.

What do you like best about the product?

I like Vanta for its easy UI/UX, which I find simple to understand and helps me stay organized. The Slack alerts during audit windows are helpful as they notify me when something becomes non-compliant, making it easy to fix issues promptly. I also appreciate the support for lots of third-party integrations, which reduces the amount of work I have to do.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't like the customer success team. I'm unsure who our account manager is and how to contact them. It seems like we're always getting emails from different people, and it's hard to keep track of. Plus, they only email us to try and get us to use or buy new features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Vanta for SOC 2 compliance, connecting with auditors, organizing documents, and using their templates. The easy UI/UX, Slack alerts, and 3P integrations help me stay organized and fix compliance issues easily, reducing my workload.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of use, comprehensive functionality and availability of automated tests. Very efficient process!

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the links in the notifications don't take you right to the related item and you have to look for it but that's not common and nitpicky.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamlining SOC2 compliance audit process. The depth of automated tests for our integrated systems i.e. MS, AWS, Bitbucket etc. saves us having to produce documentation manually for much of the controls. And for the ones we do need manual gathering, everything is still in one place and it's easy to keep track of where you are with all the requirements.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use platform compared to competitors.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes they make changes and move things around that are no longer logical.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

To me Vanta takes over a $75k year compliance person and allows us to easily manage and understand our requirements.