Vanta TPRM alternative, Drata TPRM alternative and ServiceNow vendor risk alternative for teams of 5 to 200

Yes, in the sense that matters commercially. Vanta's own vendor risk page states the product is available as a standalone product or as an add-on to an existing Vanta plan. For a company already paying for Vanta compliance automation, that means third-party risk generally arrives as an additional line item rather than something included in the plan you already bought.

Vanta does not publish a price for it, or for anything else. There is no rate card on the vendor risk page and no figure on the pricing page, so the only way to get a number is a sales conversation scoped to your vendor count and existing contract. Complies publishes the whole range instead: $79, $199 and $499 a month, with vendor risk included from $199.

Vendor risk management usually means assessing and monitoring the suppliers you buy from, focused on security and data handling. Third-party risk management is the broader term, covering any external party you depend on, including partners, contractors, resellers and subprocessors, and often extending past security into financial, operational and regulatory risk. In most software you will find the two words used interchangeably.

Yes, and the honest comparison depends on vendor count. Complies includes vendor risk in the Growth plan at $199 a month billed yearly, published, with no separate TPRM contract. That is materially cheaper than a compliance platform plus a TPRM add-on. The trade is real: you do not get automatic discovery, continuous breach monitoring, or AI reading your vendor SOC 2 reports.

Drata ships a third-party risk product it calls Agentic TPRM, with AI criteria generation, vendor source sync, AI risk summaries, a risk register, a third-party directory and executive reporting. Its product page does not state whether that is included in every plan or sold separately, and it publishes no pricing, so confirm the packaging in writing before you assume it is bundled.

You can. Vanta explicitly sells its TPRM standalone, and dedicated platforms built only for third-party risk exist. Whether you should depends on overlap: if you are also running SOC 2 or ISO 27001, the vendor evidence is required by those frameworks anyway, so keeping it in the same control library avoids collecting it twice. Two tools means two registers that will drift apart.

There is no threshold in any framework, but the practical break point is around the time a spreadsheet stops being answerable. Below roughly 15 vendors most teams can genuinely stay current by hand. Past 30 the failure is never that a review was impossible, it is that nobody noticed a SOC 2 report expired, which is a tracking problem rather than an assessment problem.

No specific tool is required, but the requirement itself is not optional. SOC 2 criterion CC9.2 expects you to assess and manage risks from vendors and business partners, and ISO 27001 covers the same ground in A.5.19 through A.5.22. Auditors routinely raise findings for a critical vendor with no security review on file, so what you need is a documented, dated program, in whatever holds it.

For a team of 5 to 200 with a vendor register rather than a vendor problem, Complies is the one designed for that shape: vendor risk included from $199 a month at a published price, tiering, artifact tracking and renewals chased before they lapse. For teams whose real issue is vendor volume or shadow IT, the better alternatives are Vanta TPRM itself or a dedicated third-party risk platform.

Not if you export before you cancel. The parts worth preserving are the vendor list with tiers, the current artifacts, the renewal dates and the record of who reviewed what and when. All of that exports as data. What does not transfer is tool-specific scoring, which is usually worth rebuilding anyway because inherited risk scores are rarely tuned to how your own company uses each vendor.