Securie vs Vanta
Vanta is a compliance-automation platform — it monitors SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / GDPR controls and collects evidence for audit. Securie is a security-scanning platform — it produces sandbox-verified findings + signed attestations on every PR and deploy. They cover different categories. Most teams targeting SOC 2 run both. This page is the honest comparison.
Teams comparing Securie and Vanta are usually answering the wrong question. The right question is not 'which one do we pick' but 'which surfaces does each cover, and where do they overlap.' Vanta is a compliance-automation platform; Securie is a security-scanning platform. They cover different categories with limited overlap.
The overlap that does exist is in evidence shape. Securie produces signed attestations per scan that map to compliance controls (Vulnerability Management, Secure SDLC, Continuous Monitoring); Vanta collects evidence across the full SOC 2 surface and ingests scanner output as one input. The two are complementary by design — Vanta needs scanners as inputs; Securie produces strong evidence for the scanner-input slice.
The procurement reality is that most teams targeting a formal SOC 2 audit run BOTH. Vanta automates the audit-prep workflow across cloud accounts, identity, ticketing, MDM, and policies; Securie produces the security-scanning evidence Vanta ingests. The honest comparison is not 'which one wins' but 'how do they fit together.' This page covers the category mismatch, the overlap, and the integration story honestly.
Vanta and Securie are NOT substitutes. Vanta is a compliance-automation platform that monitors your existing tools (cloud accounts, GitHub, Google Workspace, MDM, identity provider, ticketing) and produces SOC 2 / ISO / HIPAA evidence. Securie is a security-scanning platform that produces sandbox-verified findings on every PR + deploy + post-merge with cryptographically signed attestations. Most teams targeting SOC 2 run BOTH — Vanta as the compliance-automation layer, Securie as the security-scanning layer that produces evidence Vanta ingests.
Feature comparison
| Securie | Vanta | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Security scanning + attestation | Compliance automation + evidence collection |
| What it scans/monitors | Your code (every PR), your deploys (Vercel/Netlify/etc.), your runtime (eBPF sidecar, future) | Your existing tools (GitHub, AWS, GCP, Google Workspace, Okta, MDM, Stripe, etc.) — collects evidence rather than scanning code |
| Sandbox-verified findings | Yes — every finding reproduced as a working exploit | No — Vanta is not a security scanner; it ingests scanner output as evidence |
| Auto-fix PR | Yes — sandbox-regression-tested patches | No — out of scope |
| SOC 2 evidence collection | Produces signed attestations + Production-Readiness Cert (Solo Founder tier+) usable as evidence | Vanta's flagship — automates collection across the full SOC 2 control set |
| Compliance frameworks supported | SOC 2 evidence pack (Startup tier); EU AI Act readiness; SOC 2 Type II in progress for Securie itself | SOC 2 Type 1 + Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017/27018, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, more // TODO: verify current Vanta-supported framework matrix |
| Auditor management | Auditor portal with signed-URL attestation bundles per scan | Yes — Vanta operates a marketplace of auditors and integrates audit-engagement workflow |
| Trust page | Public Production-Readiness Certificate per tenant (Solo Founder tier+) | Vanta Trust — managed trust-page product (separate SKU) // TODO: verify current pricing |
| Pricing | Free / $12 / $49 / $299 / Enterprise capped-envelope monthly | Annual contract; ~$8K-15K/year early-stage; Enterprise tier // TODO: verify vanta.com/pricing — Vanta no longer publicly lists pricing |
| Procurement target | Engineering-led; 2-minute GitHub App install for self-serve tiers | Compliance/legal-led; multi-week implementation; designed for the SOC-2-buying motion |
Where the difference shows up in practice
An auditor asks for evidence that every code change is scanned for vulnerabilities
Vanta: Vanta surfaces the integration with your security scanner. The evidence record shows scanner runs are happening on a recurring basis. Auditor sees the integration is active; if they ask for sample findings, Vanta retrieves them from the scanner.
Securie: Securie produces a signed in-toto + DSSE + Sigstore-rekor attestation per scan. Auditor verifies the attestation chain cryptographically — the public-key endpoint at /.well-known/securie/attestation-keys.json + the rekor UUID per scan + the auditor-portal signed-URL bundles together prove every commit was scanned. The attestation is auditor-replicable evidence, stronger than a 'scanner integration is active' record.
An auditor asks for evidence of access reviews on the production database
Vanta: Vanta integrates with your identity provider (Okta, Google Workspace) and your cloud account (AWS, GCP). The evidence record shows scheduled access reviews completed by named reviewers, with screenshots / audit logs attached. This is Vanta's core capability.
Securie: Out of scope. Securie does not monitor identity provider access or cloud-account IAM at the audit-evidence level. Securie's identity-gov crate covers customer-app IAM scanning (drift detection on what the customer app's code declares as required vs what cloud actually grants), not the auditor-evidence surface. For access-review evidence, Vanta is the right tool.
A new SOC 2 prospect asks for a Trust Page
Vanta: Vanta Trust (separate SKU) generates a public trust page listing your active controls, integrations, and downloadable artifacts. The page lives at trust.your-domain.com and updates automatically as evidence is collected.
Securie: Securie's Production-Readiness Certificate (Solo Founder tier+) generates a public verifiable URL listing the 50-control checklist evaluated against the codebase + infrastructure, valid 30 days, re-evaluating on every push. This is a security-readiness evidence page, narrower than Vanta Trust's compliance-frameworks scope, and complementary — a team running both could link the Production-Readiness Certificate from the Vanta Trust page.
A leaked OpenAI API key in source code
Vanta: Vanta is not a secret scanner. The evidence collection records that you have a secret scanner integrated; the scanner itself is what catches the key.
Securie: Securie's secret_scanner specialist catches the key + live-validates against the OpenAI API + opens an auto-rotation PR (Indie tier and up). The finding ships as a sandbox-verified attestation Vanta would ingest as evidence under the Vulnerability Management control.
The deeper tradeoff
Vanta and Securie are in fundamentally different categories. Vanta is a compliance-automation platform — its product is to monitor the tools you already use (cloud accounts, GitHub, identity provider, ticketing, MDM) and produce evidence for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA audits. The product does not scan your code; it monitors that you have a code scanner running and ingests its output as evidence. Vanta's value is wall-clock savings on audit prep — what historically took 6-12 months of manual evidence collection takes 6-12 weeks with Vanta.
Securie is a security-scanning platform. The product produces sandbox-verified findings on every PR, deploy-time gating on every push, post-merge stick-rate sampling, and signed attestations with optional Sigstore-rekor publication. The output is auditor-replicable cryptographic evidence per scan. Securie's value is per-finding precision — every finding is a reproduced exploit, not a pattern match.
The overlap is shallow but real. Securie's signed attestations map to SOC 2 controls in the Trust Services Criteria (Vulnerability Management, Secure SDLC, Change Management, Continuous Monitoring). Vanta ingests these attestations as evidence. The integration is direct: a Securie tenant on the SOC 2 path can configure Vanta to ingest the per-PR attestations, satisfying multiple controls automatically. At time of writing the integration is roadmap rather than shipped; operators stitching the two manually export attestation bundles and attach them to Vanta evidence records.
The non-overlap is wide. Vanta covers controls Securie does not touch — employee onboarding evidence, access review evidence, vendor management evidence, business continuity evidence, security training evidence. Securie covers code surfaces Vanta does not scan — Supabase RLS misconfigurations, leaked secret detection, broken-auth specialist findings, AI-feature security. The two product surfaces are mostly disjoint with a small productive overlap.
For teams targeting a formal compliance audit, the procurement decision is typically: Vanta as the compliance-automation primary, Securie as one input under the scanner-evidence controls. For teams not yet at the audit-prep stage, Securie alone covers the highest-frequency security-scanning surface that procurement teams ask about most aggressively (the answer to 'is your app secure?' is the security-scanner output, not the compliance-platform setup).
The procurement-shape difference also matters. Vanta sells annual contracts in the $8K-15K range for early-stage; the buyer is typically the compliance / legal function or the founder navigating a first SOC 2 audit. Securie sells capped-envelope monthly subscriptions from $0 to $299 for self-serve tiers; the buyer is typically the engineering function or the founder shipping AI-built apps. The two procurement motions intersect for teams targeting both surfaces — the engineering team buys Securie for scanning, the compliance function buys Vanta for audit prep, and the two products' outputs flow together for the audit.
Pricing
Free ($0) · Indie ($12) · Solo Founder ($49) · Startup ($299, includes SOC 2 evidence pack). Capped-envelope monthly.
Annual contracts only; pricing not publicly listed; typical early-stage range $8K-15K/year. // TODO: verify current pricing — Vanta has historically been quoted via sales call.
Migration playbook
Step 1: Stop framing the decision as 'either-or' — it isn't
What: Vanta and Securie cover different categories. Pick based on what you need: compliance-automation (Vanta), security-scanning (Securie), or both. The procurement choice is not a substitution.
Why: The category mismatch is structural. Replacing Vanta with Securie produces a coverage gap on compliance-automation surfaces; replacing Securie with Vanta produces a coverage gap on security-scanning surfaces. Both gaps are visible to a serious auditor.
Gotchas: If a team is evaluating Securie as a Vanta replacement specifically to save money, the right path is usually to defer Vanta until you have an active SOC 2 prospect, run Securie standalone in the meantime, and add Vanta when the prospect signs.
Step 2: If you do not have an active SOC 2 prospect: Securie alone is enough for now
What: Install Securie for scanning + attestation. Defer Vanta until a customer requires formal SOC 2. Securie's Production-Readiness Certificate (Solo Founder tier+) handles the procurement-question 'is your app secure?' surface that early-stage teams hit most often.
Why: Vanta's $8K-15K annual cost is hard to justify before an active SOC 2 prospect requires it. Securie's capped-envelope monthly is sized for the pre-audit phase.
Gotchas: Watch for prospects who ask for SOC 2 evidence specifically — that is the trigger to start Vanta, even at small scale. Plan ~6 weeks from Vanta start to SOC 2 Type 1 readiness.
Step 3: If you have an active SOC 2 prospect: run BOTH, with explicit ownership
What: Vanta handles compliance-automation across the full Trust Services Criteria. Securie handles security-scanning evidence under Vulnerability Management + Secure SDLC + Change Management + Continuous Monitoring controls. Configure Vanta to ingest Securie findings + attestation bundles where the integration ships; manually attach where it does not yet.
Why: The two products' outputs flow together for a formal audit. Running only one creates a coverage gap the auditor will surface.
Gotchas: Vanta-Securie direct integration is roadmap. Until shipped, the manual stitching adds engineering effort — budget for it during audit prep.
Step 4: Decide the procurement order based on which surface drives current pain
What: If your current pain is 'we cannot answer prospect security questionnaires' → start with Securie (Production-Readiness Cert + signed attestations). If your current pain is 'we have a SOC 2 audit booked and need to collect evidence across the full surface' → start with Vanta. Add the second when the second surface becomes the bottleneck.
Why: The two products have different time-to-value. Securie's value lands within 24 hours of GitHub App install; Vanta's value lands over 6-12 weeks of audit prep. Sequence the procurement to match the immediate pain.
Gotchas: Avoid running both before either is operational — that is the worst-of-both-worlds (paying for two tools, getting value from neither). Get one operational before adding the second.
Step 5: Re-evaluate the boundary as both products evolve
What: Vanta occasionally extends into security-scanning surfaces (vulnerability-management automation, integrated SAST). Securie occasionally extends into compliance-evidence surfaces (deeper Vanta integration, broader control coverage). Quarterly review keeps the configuration coherent.
Why: Tool boundaries drift over time. Boundary review prevents the configuration from rotting silently.
Gotchas: Watch for vendor-pitch creep — both Vanta and Securie may pitch consolidation. Evaluate based on actual product surface, not vendor narrative.
When to pick Vanta
You are targeting a formal SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA audit and need automation across the full evidence surface — cloud accounts, identity provider, MDM, ticketing system, security training, vendor management. Vanta's evidence collection automation is the reason most YC-backed startups pick it; the wall-clock savings on audit prep are real and large.
When to pick Securie
You need a security scanner that produces sandbox-verified findings + signed attestations on every code change. This is one input to a compliance program (Vanta would ingest these attestations as evidence under controls like 'Vulnerability Management' and 'Secure SDLC'), but it is not a substitute for the rest of compliance automation.
Bottom line
If you are evaluating Vanta vs Securie as substitutes, the framing is wrong. Vanta automates compliance evidence collection across your stack; Securie produces the security-scanning evidence Vanta needs. Pick Vanta if you need SOC 2 / ISO / HIPAA evidence collection automation. Pick Securie if you need a security scanner with sandbox-verified findings and signed attestations. The honest answer for teams targeting SOC 2 is to run both.
FAQ
Can I use Securie instead of Vanta to pass SOC 2?
No, not at the formal-audit level. Securie produces signed attestations + Production-Readiness Certificates that map to specific SOC 2 controls (Vulnerability Management, Secure SDLC, Change Management, Continuous Monitoring), but a formal SOC 2 audit requires evidence across the full Trust Services Criteria — which includes controls Securie does not touch (employee onboarding, access reviews, vendor management, business continuity, training). Vanta automates collection across that full surface. The right framing: Securie produces strong evidence for some controls; Vanta automates collection across all of them.
We are a 1-person company. Do we need both?
Pre-audit: probably not. At 1-person scale, before you have an active SOC 2 prospect, you can write your policies + collect evidence manually (the seven-supabase-mistakes / soc2-for-vibe-coders posts cover the actual playbook). Securie alone covers the security-scanning surface that procurement teams ask about most aggressively. Add Vanta when you have a paying enterprise prospect requiring SOC 2 — that is the moment Vanta's automation justifies its annual cost.
How does Vanta know what Securie found?
Vanta integrates with vulnerability scanners via their respective APIs or SARIF export. Securie produces SARIF-compatible finding output + signed attestation bundles that Vanta can ingest as evidence under the relevant controls (Vulnerability Management, Secure SDLC). At time of writing, the Securie-Vanta integration is roadmap rather than shipped — operators stitching the two today export Securie attestations and attach to the Vanta evidence record manually. Direct integration is on the Series-A roadmap.
What about Drata and Secureframe?
Drata and Secureframe are direct Vanta competitors — same category (compliance automation), different products. The Securie-vs-Vanta framing applies to all three (Drata, Vanta, Secureframe, Tugboat Logic) — they are compliance-automation platforms; Securie is a security scanner. Pick whichever compliance platform fits your procurement; pair with Securie as the scanner-evidence layer.
Is Securie itself SOC 2 certified?
Honestly: SOC 2 Type II is in progress per Securie's own CLAUDE.md launch scope, not certified. The compliance-evidence-collection process for Securie itself is wired (audit logs, change management, vulnerability management — Securie scans Securie), but the formal third-party audit is in process and the Type II report is not yet available. If your procurement requires a SOC 2 Type II report from your security vendor, Securie is on the path but cannot deliver one today; staying with Vanta-certified vendors is reasonable until Securie's audit completes.