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.
certifies the companyvsAuditantrecords the agentBoth get called compliance. They are read by different people, asking different questions, and one cannot stand in for the other.
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?
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.
Ask these of Vanta, of us, and of anyone else in either category. The answers sort the two apart faster than a feature list.
Including the answer that sends some readers to Vanta instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.