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Junglewise vs Vanta
Vanta is a compliance automation platform: it collects evidence, monitors controls, and gives you policies, a Trust Center and questionnaire automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and other frameworks. Junglewise is a security service: it watches your code and AWS account, drafts the fixes, and from the Team plan up has an engineer who makes the judgment calls. One gets you through the audit; the other does the work the audit checks for. Plenty of teams use both.
| Vanta | Junglewise | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical price | Vanta: Quote only. Buyers under 50 people on one framework report $12,000 to $28,000 a year, about $1,000 to $2,300 a month. The audit is billed separately. | Junglewise: Team $499 a month, with evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reviews; Advisor $4,499 with audit support. |
| What it is for | Vanta: Getting and keeping a compliance report: policies, evidence collection, control monitoring, a Trust Center and questionnaire automation. | Junglewise: Keeping your code and cloud secure: monitoring, triage and fixes, with evidence for reviews drawn from what it already watches. |
| Your AWS account | Vanta: More than 100 tests of your configuration against controls, with vulnerabilities from Amazon Inspector tracked against remediation deadlines. | Junglewise: GuardDuty threat findings, CloudTrail activity and Security Hub, with fixes such as deactivating a leaked access key applied when you approve. |
| When a test fails | Vanta: Remediation guidance, and generated code for some failing tests. Your team makes the change. | Junglewise: Junglewise drafts the fix as a pull request or a cloud change and applies it when you approve. |
| The pen test your auditor asks for | Vanta: Through partners, including autonomous pen tests from XBOW, with the report brought into Vanta as evidence. | Junglewise: Run by Junglewise on the plan's credits, with an audit-grade report: scope and authorization, methodology, CVSS-scored findings and a ledger of every action the test took and whether it was rolled back. |
| A person to ask | Vanta: GRC experts for guidance; auditors and vCISO services through partners. | Junglewise: On Team, a security engineer for the judgment calls. On Advisor, a named strategy lead for board reporting, questionnaires and audits. |
Vanta publishes no prices, so the range is from Vendr's buyer data and the features from Vanta's own pages, checked September 2026, for a 6 to 10 person startup. Junglewise prices exclude VAT. Sources: Vanta pricing, Vanta for startups, Vanta AWS integration, XBOW on its Vanta partnership, Vendr on Vanta.
Which fits
The honest answer depends on your team
Vanta is the better fit when
- A customer contract needs a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report, and you want a platform auditors already know.
- You need a public Trust Center, policy templates, device monitoring or vendor risk management.
- You are working towards several frameworks at once.
Junglewise is the better fit when
- Your next problem is the security itself: leaked keys, open ports, vulnerable dependencies.
- You want failing checks fixed for you, not only reported.
- You need the pen test your auditor asks for, without buying one from a separate firm.
- You want a security engineer to answer customers' questionnaires with you.
Questions
- Does Junglewise replace Vanta?
- Not for the audit itself. Junglewise does not run a Trust Center, write your policies or monitor laptops. Many teams use both: Vanta to organize the audit, and Junglewise to do the security work the controls describe, run the pen test the auditor asks for, and keep watching between audits.
- Which should a startup buy first?
- If a customer needs a SOC 2 report this quarter, a compliance platform and an auditor. If nobody is watching your cloud and code yet, start there: the controls an auditor tests are easier to pass when the work is already being done.
- Is there a free way to try Junglewise?
- The domain scan is free and needs no account. Team has a free 14-day trial with the engineer included.
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