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Polestead vs Vanta

These are mostly different jobs. Vanta automates proving your own compliance. Polestead manages the risk your vendors create for you. They overlap in exactly one place: the trust center — and ours is free at full depth.

Vanta
Polestead
Primary job
Automating your own certifications — SOC 2, ISO 27001 — with continuous control monitoring.
Classifying and assessing your vendors by your exposure, plus regulatory incident response (CIIC).
Vendor risk
A module — vendor inventory and reviews in service of your audit.
The entire product — whole-register classification across six access vectors, depth scoped by tier.
Trust center
Included with paid platform plans.
Free at full depth — NDA gates, subprocessors, answer library, custom domain, access controls with a visitor log.
Deployment
US-headquartered multi-tenant SaaS.
On-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed single-tenant SaaS.
Choose Vanta if…

Your problem is getting and keeping your own certifications with minimal effort. It's excellent at that job — and many Polestead customers run both.

Choose Polestead if…

Your problem is the risk your vendors create for you — classification, assessment, and regulator-ready incident response — with deployment your jurisdiction demands. Or just start with the free trust center.

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FAQ

Common questions.

How is Polestead different from Vanta?+

Vanta automates proving your own compliance; Polestead manages the risk your vendors create for you, plus regulatory incident response.

Do they overlap?+

Mainly on the trust center. Polestead’s is free at full depth for publishing; many teams run both products.

Where does my data live?+

On-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed SaaS.