Sprinto and Vanta are compliance automation platforms that pull evidence from your cloud, code and identity systems and map it to control requirements. Neither publishes a numeric price in any currency, verified on both vendors’ own pricing pages on 2026-08-14. The difference that actually decides this one is the framework list. Sprinto’s published list names DPDPA (India) and RBI SAR. Vanta’s does not, and instead names HITRUST, FedRAMP, Cyber Essentials and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. If India-specific frameworks are on your roadmap, Sprinto has them in the product today. If your world is US enterprise SOC 2, Vanta’s recognition in that procurement conversation is worth something real. Neither one performs the penetration test.
Key findings
- Neither publishes a price. Sprinto’s pricing page contains no figure with a currency symbol anywhere on it, checked 2026-08-14. Vanta routes to a Get personalized pricing button.
- Sprinto uses two tracks, not one ladder. Compliance automation plans are Foundation and Growth. Mature GRC buyers get modules: Continuous Compliance, Enterprise TPRM, Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Trust Management, with AI Governance, Privacy Management and Unified Commitments listed as coming soon.
- Vanta uses four linear tiers: Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise.
- Sprinto’s framework list names DPDPA (India) and RBI SAR. It also names SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, UK-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA (Canada), PDPA (Singapore), Australian DPA, DORA, NIS 2, EU AI Act and NIST 800-53. Vanta’s names SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF, Cyber Essentials, FedRAMP and custom frameworks.
- Sprinto states support levels publicly. 24x5 email on Foundation, 24x5 priority plus Slack and Teams and weekend cover for priority issues on Growth. Vanta does not state comparable detail on its pricing page.
- Neither performs the penetration test. Both give you a control that expects the report.
Cybersecify is a founder-led penetration testing firm based in Bengaluru. We do not resell, refer or take commission from any compliance automation platform, and we hold no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification ourselves. We deliver audit-prep and the independent test that sits alongside whichever platform you buy. Being on the India side of this market is why we can be specific about the DPDP and RBI part of the comparison rather than hand-waving at it.
How we sourced this
Everything below about tier names, frameworks and the absence of pricing was read directly off each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-08-14, and the sources are listed at the end. For Sprinto we checked the page programmatically for any string matching a currency figure and found none, which is a stronger statement than we could make from a screenshot.
We could not verify an annual cost for either platform, in rupees or dollars, at any headcount. Not as a range, not approximately. Both companies keep it behind a sales conversation. Any comparison quoting you a number for either one is repeating something it cannot source, and on a purchase this size that should bother you.
The framework list is the whole decision
Both platforms do the same core job: connect to your systems, collect evidence continuously, map it to controls, hand your auditor a package. Watch both demos and you will see the same product with different colours.
Then look at what each company has decided to model, because that reveals who they built it for.
Sprinto’s select framework list on its pricing page includes DPDPA (India) and RBI SAR, sitting alongside SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, UK-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA (Canada), PDPA (Singapore), Australian DPA, DORA, NIS 2, the EU AI Act, CSA STAR, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53 and CMMC. That is a company that thinks its customer is a growth-stage software business selling across several jurisdictions at once, and India is explicitly one of them.
Vanta’s list on its pricing page names SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Cyber Essentials, FedRAMP and custom frameworks. That reads as a company anchored on the US enterprise and healthcare market, with a UK framework and an AI governance lane added.
Neither list is better. They are different bets. Yours only has to match one of them.
| Sprinto | Vanta | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan structure | Two tracks: Foundation and Growth, plus GRC modules | Four tiers: Essentials, Plus, Professional, Enterprise |
| Price published | No figure in any currency | No, routes to sales |
| DPDPA (India) | Listed | Not named on the page checked |
| RBI SAR | Listed | Not named on the page checked |
| PDPA Singapore, Australian DPA, PIPEDA | Listed | Not named on the page checked |
| HITRUST, FedRAMP, Cyber Essentials | Not named on the page checked | Listed |
| NIST AI RMF | Not named on the page checked | Listed |
| ISO 42001, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR | Listed | Listed |
| Support stated publicly | Yes, 24x5 email on Foundation, priority plus weekend cover on Growth | Not stated in comparable detail |
All rows verified on the vendors’ own pricing pages, 2026-08-14.
Modules versus tiers, and why it changes your quote
There is a structural difference here that nobody talks about and that shows up in your invoice.
Vanta sells four tiers. You sit on one. Everything in that tier is included, everything above it is not, and growth means moving up.
Sprinto sells two plans on the automation track and then a set of modules for mature GRC teams, with named add-ons for Additional Frameworks, Professional Services, Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Trust Management, Enterprise Vendor Risk Management, AI Governance, Unified Commitments and Zones for multiple business units.
In principle a modular model means you pay for the one extra capability you need rather than a whole tier. In practice it means the quote has more lines and the total is harder to predict two years out. Neither shape is dishonest. But since neither vendor publishes numbers, you cannot compare the shapes without getting both quotes, and you should ask Sprinto explicitly which of your requirements land in the base plan and which land in add-ons before you compare totals.
Where Vanta is genuinely the better choice
If your compliance roadmap is SOC 2 and nothing else, and your customers are US enterprises, buy Vanta and stop reading comparisons. Recognition in a security review is not a product feature, but it is real, and it costs your team fewer questions.
If you are on a HITRUST or FedRAMP path, Vanta names both and Sprinto’s select framework list does not. That is decisive.
If AI governance is your next framework and you want the NIST AI Risk Management Framework specifically rather than ISO 42001, Vanta names it. Both platforms name ISO 42001, so if that is the standard your customer asked for, this argument goes away.
Where Sprinto is genuinely the better choice
If DPDP Act readiness is on your roadmap, or an RBI expectation applies to you or your fintech customers, Sprinto has DPDPA (India) and RBI SAR modelled today. Building an unmodelled regulation as a custom framework during your first audit cycle is work you should not sign up for.
If you sell across several privacy regimes at once, Sprinto’s list is broader on that axis: UK-GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, PDPA Singapore, Australian DPA and ISO 27701 all appear on it.
If support hours in your timezone matter, Sprinto states them publicly and Vanta does not. Published commitments are easier to hold a vendor to than verbal ones.
If you want to know how compliance sequencing works for an Indian SaaS company more broadly, we have written that up separately in SOC 2 vs ISO 27001 vs DPDP: which compliance first.
The gap both platforms leave you
Neither the AICPA Trust Services Criteria nor ISO/IEC 27001:2022 contains a clause telling you to buy a penetration test. The Trust Services Criteria are organised into five categories: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is Edition 3, published October 2022, and specifies requirements for an information security management system.
The test happens regardless, because auditors ask for evidence of independent technical testing, enterprise security questionnaires name the report, and investors ask during diligence. We would rather tell you that plainly than pretend a regulation compels it.
What a platform integration can establish is that your controls are configured. MFA on, buckets private, access revoked at offboarding, dependencies patched. Genuinely useful, genuinely worth monitoring continuously.
What it cannot establish is whether your application logic holds. Whether a user in one tenant can reach another tenant’s records by editing an identifier. Whether a multi-step workflow that validates every step in isolation can be walked out of order. Whether an AI feature with tool access can be argued into calling a tool outside its intended scope. Those are the findings that stop an audit or lose a deal, and every one of them requires a person with a hypothesis.
That is the scope conversation we have at kickoff, and it looks nothing like a platform onboarding. We test against OWASP WSTG v4.2 for web surfaces and the OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 for APIs, and map each finding to the relevant Trust Services Criteria so your auditor is not doing that work for you.
What to do next
- List every framework anyone has asked for, including the ones a customer mentioned in passing, and check each against both published lists. A framework missing from a list is a custom project.
- Ask Sprinto which of your requirements sit in the base plan and which are add-ons, and get the total in writing.
- Ask both for the billing entity and currency on the invoice, and the renewal number, not just the first-year number.
- Compare support commitments against your team’s actual working hours.
- Book the penetration test on its own track with runway for remediation and a retest.
If you want a second opinion before you sign, book a call. For the test, our pentest plans start at INR 74,999 for one scope over five business days including a free retest, with the Growth plan at INR 1,79,999 covering two scopes plus SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence mapping. Our audit and compliance service covers how readiness and testing sequence together, and the sample report shows exactly what your auditor receives.
Related reading: Vanta vs Drata vs Secureframe vs Sprinto 2026, DPDP Act Compliance Checklist for SaaS Startups, SOC 2 Readiness for Indian Startups.
Sources
- Sprinto pricing page, checked 2026-08-14: https://sprinto.com/pricing/ (plan names Foundation and Growth, GRC modules, select framework list including DPDPA India and RBI SAR, support levels, add-ons, no numeric price in any currency)
- Vanta pricing page, checked 2026-08-14: https://www.vanta.com/pricing (tier names, framework list, no published price)
- AICPA, Trust Services Criteria categories, checked 2026-08-14: https://www.aicpa-cima.com/topic/audit-assurance/audit-and-assurance-greater-than-soc-2
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Edition 3, published 2022-10, checked 2026-08-14: https://www.iso.org/standard/27001