Tenant Monitor vs Vanta vs Drata
Tenant Monitor is not a Vanta or Drata replacement, and this page will not pretend it is. Vanta and Drata automate a full compliance program toward a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit. Tenant Monitor does one focused job: continuous Microsoft 365 posture and license monitoring, at a fraction of the price. Here is exactly where each fits.
Competitor prices and figures verified July 2026. Every number below is footnoted to source.
The short version
- Different jobs, not competing products. Vanta and Drata are compliance-automation platforms. They collect audit evidence across your whole stack and carry you through a certification. Tenant Monitor monitors one Microsoft 365 tenant and tells you when its posture drifts.
- Tenant Monitor does not certify anything. It shows a live DORA / NIS2 / ISO 27001 control-objective gap map from read-only signals, and marks anything it cannot observe as unknown. That is a monitoring surface, not an audit artifact. Aligned to control objectives, never certified.
- The price gap is the point. Vanta and Drata start around $625-1,000+/mo and climb from there, plus a separate audit fee. Tenant Monitor is €149/mo (€119/mo billed annually, €1,428/yr), self-serve, cancel anytime. You are paying for a narrower, focused job.
Feature by feature, scope by scope
Three honest columns: what a compliance-automation platform does, what Tenant Monitor does today, and what is on the Tenant Monitor roadmap. The roadmap column is never counted as a shipped feature.
| Capability | Vanta / DrataCompliance-automation platforms | Tenant MonitorToday - €149/mo | Tenant Monitor - short-termRoadmap, not today |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it watches | |||
| Systems coveredThe estate each tool is built to see. | Your whole SaaS and cloud stack, through deep integrations across cloud, identity, HR and ticketing. | Microsoft 365 continuous, read-only. Google Workspace one-off snapshot. Deep on the tenant, not the whole stack. | On the roadmap: a multi-tenant Fleet view (same scope, many tenants). |
| How you connectWhat it takes to get a first result. | Agents and API integrations with guided onboarding. A setup project, not a five-minute task. | Read-only Microsoft Graph or Google OAuth, or a CSV that runs in your browser. First scan in minutes, no agent. | On the roadmap: a browser extension for wider shadow-SaaS discovery. |
| What it does with the data | |||
| The job it is built for | Run a full compliance program: collect audit evidence across the stack, manage policies and controls, and get you through a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit. | Continuous Microsoft 365 posture and license monitoring, with drift alerts. One focused job, done well. | Not planned. This is a job for Vanta and Drata, not for Tenant Monitor. |
| Security posture | Continuous control monitoring across every connected system. | MFA, Conditional Access and admin posture, risky sign-ins, and live Microsoft Secure Score for the tenant. | - |
| License and cost wasteWhere the money leaks. | Not what they are built for. Vanta and Drata are compliance platforms, not license-cost or FinOps tools. | Dead, inactive and duplicate licenses priced against retail, plus an exact Pax8 CSP benchmark and a recoverable-spend number. | - |
| Shadow IT and Shadow AI | Vendor and access reviews inside the compliance program. | 35 named AI vendors and third-party OAuth apps scored by permission risk, with a revoke list and an AI-inventory register. | On the roadmap: a browser extension for wider shadow-SaaS discovery. |
| Compliance and audit | |||
| Framework coverageWhat the tool maps your posture onto. | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and more, with auditor-ready evidence for each. | A live control-objective gap map: observed signals mapped to DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001 control families. Controls it cannot observe are marked unknown, never passed. | - |
| Gets you audited or certifiedThe line that matters most. | Yes. The platform is built to carry you through the audit, with auditor collaboration and evidence collection. | No. Tenant Monitor does not produce audit evidence and does not certify anything. If you need SOC 2 or ISO 27001, you need Vanta or Drata (and an auditor). | Not planned. This is a job for Vanta and Drata, not for Tenant Monitor. |
| Policies, controls, vendor risk, trust center | Core to the product. | Not included. Tenant Monitor monitors posture; it does not run a policy-and-controls program. | Not planned. This is a job for Vanta and Drata, not for Tenant Monitor. |
| Price and buying | |||
| Price | €149/mo, or €119/mo billed annually (€1,428/yr). Flat rate, one tenant.3 | - | |
| How you buy | Custom quote, sales process, annual contract. No self-serve checkout.1 | Self-serve Stripe checkout, charged from day one. Cancel anytime, no sales call. | - |
| Who stands behind it | The platform, your team, and an external auditor. | Built and run by one named founder, Michal. No bench, no offshore. You always know who is behind it. | - |
The Vanta and Drata columns summarize each platform's publicly documented positioning as of July 2026. Both are full compliance-automation platforms; this table is scoped to where their capabilities overlap or contrast with Tenant Monitor, not an exhaustive feature list. Load-bearing figures are footnoted to source below.
Sources and provenance
- 1.Vanta and Drata entry pricing is roughly $7,500-12,000/yr (about $625-1,000+/mo), custom-quoted with no self-serve checkout, scaling to $30-80k/yr. SecureLeap, Sprinto, CostBench. Independently verified July 2026. Vendors publish no rate card; figures are third-party reported and move over time.
- 2.The external audit itself is a separate cost, roughly $10,000-$50,000, on top of the platform fee. SecureLeap, CostBench. Audit fees are paid to the auditor, not the platform. Verified July 2026.
- 3.Tenant Monitor is €149/mo, or €119/mo billed annually (€1,428/yr). ITSailor published price. Self-serve Stripe checkout, charged from day one. Flat rate, one tenant.
- 4.Syskit Point lists 10 / 20 / 30 per user per year (Management / Security / Governance) with a 100-user minimum. Syskit pricing page. Numeric tiers and the 100-user minimum verified July 2026. The page geolocates its currency symbol, so treat the figure as currency-agnostic. At the Governance tier (30/user/yr = 2.50/user/mo), a flat €149/mo breaks even near 55-60 seats.
Also worth knowing
The closer comparison: Syskit Point
Vanta and Drata are a different category. The tool that actually sits near Tenant Monitor is Syskit Point, the one tenant-governance product priced for smaller estates: 10 / 20 / 30 per user per year (Management / Security / Governance), with a 100-user minimum.4 Against the flat Tenant Monitor rate, the two break even near 55-60 seats. Below that, a flat €149/mo tends to be cheaper; above it, per-seat pricing can win, but Syskit is tenant governance only, without the license-cost and shadow-AI lenses Tenant Monitor layers on top.
So which should you pick?
The honest answer depends on the job you need done, not on which tool is cheaper.
Pick Vanta or Drata
You need to pass a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit. You want evidence collected across your whole stack and an auditor in the loop. This is exactly what they are built for.
Consider Syskit Point
You run 100+ Microsoft 365 seats and want deep tenant governance. Compare on seat count: per-seat pricing can beat a flat rate at scale.
Pick Tenant Monitor
You want continuous Microsoft 365 posture and license monitoring without a $625-1,000+/mo platform bill or a sales call. Start with the free scan, then keep it watched from €149/mo.
Straight answer
“I will not tell you Tenant Monitor replaces a compliance platform. It does one job - keep your Microsoft 365 tenant honest between audits - and it does that at a price you can approve without a meeting.”
The questions buyers actually ask
Is Tenant Monitor a replacement for Vanta or Drata?
No, and it does not try to be. Vanta and Drata are compliance-automation platforms that collect audit evidence across your whole stack and carry you through a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit. Tenant Monitor does one focused job: continuous Microsoft 365 posture and license monitoring, with one-off Google Workspace snapshot scans and a control-objective gap map. Different jobs, different price brackets.
Does Tenant Monitor get me SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified?
No. Tenant Monitor does not produce audit evidence and does not certify anything. It shows you where your live posture meets or misses DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001 control objectives, and marks anything it cannot observe as unknown rather than passing it. If certification is the goal, you need a compliance platform like Vanta or Drata and an external auditor.
Why is Tenant Monitor so much cheaper?
It does less, on purpose. Tenant Monitor monitors one tenant, self-serve, with no auditor and no policy-and-controls program to run. That is why it is €149/mo instead of a $625-1,000+/mo platform fee plus a separate audit fee. The right question is not which is cheaper, but which job you need done.
What does the DORA / NIS2 / ISO 27001 gap map actually give me?
A read-only, honest picture of which control objectives your tenant currently meets. Each signal maps to a named control family, and controls that cannot be evidenced from a directory read are shown as unknown, not silently passed. It is a starting point and a monitoring surface, not an audit artifact.
How does Tenant Monitor compare to Syskit Point?
Syskit Point is the one tenant-governance tool priced for smaller estates: 10 / 20 / 30 per user per year with a 100-user minimum. Against the flat Tenant Monitor rate, the two break even around 55-60 seats. Below that Tenant Monitor tends to be cheaper; above it the Syskit per-seat model can win, but Syskit is tenant governance only, without the license-cost and shadow-AI lenses Tenant Monitor adds.
Run the free scan, then decide which of the three you need.
A table is an argument. Your own tenant is evidence. Scan it first and the choice between a monitor and a compliance platform gets easier to make.