Auditant vs Vanta

They certify the company. We record the agent.

Vanta is the clearest name in the category, and the honest answer is that Auditant is not a substitute for it. Here is exactly where each one answers, and where neither does.

Two different questions

A certificate, and a record.

Both get called compliance. They are read by different people, asking different questions, and one cannot stand in for the other.

Assurance tooling

Proves your organisation is well run.

Policy libraries, control mapping, vendor questionnaires, evidence collection for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, checked by an accredited auditor on a cycle. Bought by security and compliance leads who need a certificate. Vanta lives here.

Answers: is this company trustworthy?

A system of record

Proves what a specific agent did.

Every model call, tool call, decision and approval, written as it happens into a record where a later edit is computable. Bought by whoever has to answer a regulator, an auditor, or a customer's security review about one agent's actions. Auditant is this.

Answers: what did it do, and who allowed it?

If you run AI agents against production data and don't yet have SOC 2, get Vanta first — it answers the question most customers ask before they ever ask the second one.

Side by side

Five questions, answered by both.

Ask these of Vanta, of us, and of anyone else in either category. The answers sort the two apart faster than a feature list.

What gets certified?
VantaYour company's controls, against SOC 2, ISO 27001 and similar frameworks.
AuditantNothing is certified. Every action an agent takes is recorded and sealed.
Who does the checking?
VantaAn accredited third-party auditor, on an annual or continuous cycle.
AuditantAnyone, with an offline verifier — no auditor engagement required to check a record.
What happens when an agent does something wrong?
VantaNot in scope — SOC 2 attests to controls, not to a specific agent action.
AuditantThe record shows exactly what happened, who approved it, and when.
How often is the evidence current?
VantaAs of the last audit window, typically a point in time or a rolling period.
AuditantAs of the last action. Every entry is written as it happens.
What do you hand a customer's security team?
VantaA SOC 2 report — the standard answer to 'is your company trustworthy'.
AuditantA record that answers 'what did your agent do to our data' — a different question.
Asked honestly

What people actually want to know.

Including the answer that sends some readers to Vanta instead.

What it costs →
01Do we need Auditant if we already have SOC 2 through Vanta?
Probably yes, if you run AI agents that act on customer data or systems. SOC 2 says your company's controls are sound in general. It does not say what a specific agent did to a specific customer on a specific day, and a customer's security questionnaire increasingly asks exactly that.
02Is this a replacement for Vanta?
No. If you need SOC 2 or ISO 27001, you still need Vanta, Drata or Sprinto — that certification is a different, real thing Auditant does not do. Most companies running AI agents in regulated contexts end up needing both.
03Why compare against Vanta specifically?
Because they are the largest, clearest name in AI-adjacent compliance, and the question we hear most is whether Vanta already covers this. It does not — SOC 2's control objectives predate agentic AI and were never built to log per-action evidence.
04Could Vanta add this themselves?
They could build an agent-recording product. As of today their indexed search footprint (2,029 terms, mostly SOC 2 and SIEM) shows no sign they have — this is a different engineering problem from control-framework attestation, and it starts from a different design: prevention before an action executes, not review after.
05What if we're not sure which one we need yet?
If the question in front of you is "can we pass our customer's security review", that is Vanta's job. If it is "prove what our agent did last Tuesday", that is this. Most teams eventually need an answer to both questions.
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