Atlan vs Vanta comparison

Atlan and Vanta are both solutions in the Data Governance category. Atlan is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.3, while Vanta is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.8. Atlan holds a 2.0% mindshare in DG, compared to Vanta’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Atlan users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Vanta users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Vanta and Atlan compete in the data governance and compliance market. Atlan has the upper hand due to its extensive features, despite Vanta's appeal in pricing and support.

Features: Vanta automates security compliance processes, offers real-time compliance monitoring, and provides efficient setup. Atlan has advanced data cataloging, robust collaboration capabilities, and extensive platform integrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vanta is known for an easy deployment process and reliable customer support, ideal for businesses seeking quick compliance gains. Atlan's deployment is more complex due to its broader capabilities but benefits from responsive customer service for those managing intricate data operations.

Pricing and ROI: Vanta is cost-effective with faster ROI due to its swift deployment and operational efficiency. Atlan, while having a higher initial setup cost, is viewed as a valuable long-term investment through its comprehensive data governance features.

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Categories and Ranking

Atlan

Ranking in Data Governance

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Metadata Management (4th)

Vanta

Ranking in Data Governance

14th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Compliance Consulting (1st), Compliance Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Atlan is 2.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vanta is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Atlan	2.0%
Vanta	1.2%
Other	96.8%

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Peter Neumann

IT consultant at Pathfinder

Has struggled to meet business needs but supports technical data exploration and transparency

Atlan can be improved by concentrating more on business data since it is developed from developers for developers, and it needs to be more business relevant. For instance, when re-importing data model diagrams, Atlan provides some diagram automation that is not connected to the business glossary, which I consider a significant fault. Atlan needs to improve by focusing more on the business side of data, not only on technical aspects.If you want to focus on technical considerations, it would be beneficial to have an interface with a real business data modeling tool such as Erwin or other business data tools, since data modeling is not the same as Draw.io. Additionally, Atlan can improve its workflows, which are hard to understand. Working with templates, Excel import, export, and running automations is not self-explanatory, and you always need help from Atlan support team. If business people want to use it and run their own reports, it must be easier to customize for their business needs.

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reviewer2585640

Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Compliance workflows have become organized and automation supports ongoing healthcare audits

There are always tons of rooms for improvement for Vanta. I kind of exaggerated a little bit about the policy control. I don't really love the way they handle the revision management of that feature. If I'm on V1 of the policy document and I make some changes to it, then I get rid of V1 and then I re-upload V2. It's not that it keeps a running history of each of the different revisions. A little bit of an issue with that, but workable. I don't really have any negative complaint right now that would be worthwhile expressing. It's just that there's a lot of features. The UI is not super intuitive, but now that I've worked with it for a couple of years, I know how to navigate and get around. Initially, it was a little bit of a struggle understanding how these things would all work.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Overall, I rate Atlan a nine out of ten."

"The best feature of Atlan is its integration with communication platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack, so business users don't have to go into a data catalog to see metadata about data assets."

"Atlan is helpful for identifying datasets and discovering PI data, such as the classification levels of datasets (gold, silver, bronze)."

"They also offer automated lineage embedded in the connectors, allowing us to track where the data is coming from and where it's going. We find it very efficient in cataloging data sources. Additionally, the user-friendly interface is a big plus, making it easy for users to familiarize themselves with the solution. These two features, in my opinion, stand out the most."

"The technical support services are good."

"By switching to Atlan, we have increased our productivity and saved a lot of business time through automation."

"The best feature of Atlan is its integration with communication platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack, so business users don't have to go into a data catalog to see metadata about data assets."

"As a senior analytics engineer, Atlan's ability to show end-to-end data lineage is the most important feature for me."

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"Task management and vendor assurance are the most valuable features. It is also an easy tool to use."

"They integrate into New Relic as a performance monitoring tool."

"The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks."

"Vanta has positively impacted my organization by streamlining the whole HITRUST R2 assessment process."

"The product has provided automated security controls for our cloud provider. It helps to automate security checks. Vanta offers a list of things that can be done to achieve ISO 27001 compliance."

"Vanta provides a necessary repository that any compliance expert will look at and recognize right away."

"The most valuable feature of Vanta would be the time savings from the automation and the continuous compliance monitoring once set up."

"Vanta's integrations and automated tests have streamlined our SOC 2 compliance and provided a single entry point for addressing risks and failed tests."

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Cons

"Working with templates, Excel import, export, and running automations is not self-explanatory, and you always need help from Atlan support team."

"One area that could be improved is the capability to find duplicates of datasets."

"There are some improvements. There is a feature called Playbooks, which basically allows me to automate certain activities that would otherwise be manual. It's a very interesting feature, but there is room to improve it because, depending on the task you automate, the playbooks seem to have a hard time handling the task. So, it could be improved there. Even though it's a great feature, it can evolve further."

"In my experience, it might be less suited for collaboration across teams."

"One of the main areas for improvement is its governance capabilities."

"The challenge is in the lineage, where it requires improvement. Atlas needs to capture areas where organizations use less known applications."

"The product could be improved by offering scheduled email reports for managed assets."

"One of the main areas for improvement is its governance capabilities. Atlan supports only basic out-of-the-box workflows, and it becomes challenging to customize features like how data owners should approve access to data assets."

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"Currently, Vanta's user access review module is still in development, and we've been giving them continuous feedback to help them improve that."

"There are connection problems about 50% of the time because of the automated evidence collection."

"I would tell others looking into using Vanta to use it for HITRUST E1 and I1 assessments, as the R2 assessments are still a work in progress."

"Permissions for platform users have been an issue. We've had to give admin access to Vanta for another team member to view all items."

"There is a delay with customer support and they are unsure of the answers we need."

"Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are published."

"The main area for improvement in Vanta is the user interface's refresh rate."

"Scalability could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay per-user license. It's a different classification model than with other solutions, where they usually charge you for resources. So, that was a better model for us. And because of this difference in models or classification, it was cheaper for us to go with Atlan."

"Vanta is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

University

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlan?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licensing cost is a bit flexible but not affordable for smaller organizations. It might be way out of their budget, but it is very ...

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What needs improvement with Atlan?

Atlan can be improved by enhancing their support process by reducing the resolution time. They have really bad and incomplete documentation, so they should work on the documentation as well, especi...

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What is your primary use case for Atlan?

My main use case for Atlan is to define a flexible set of metadata, including measuring the quality of said data. Atlan is also a partner of ours, so we use it to integrate with our own tool. It al...

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What do you like most about Vanta?

The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks.

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What needs improvement with Vanta?

Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are publis...

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What is your primary use case for Vanta?

My use case involves SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.

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Overview

Atlan is a comprehensive data management platform designed to enhance data democratization, governance, and collaboration across departments in organizations. It offers a centralized data catalog, intuitive user interface, and robust governance framework to ensure data security and compliance. Users appreciate its efficiency in streamlining processes, promoting better communication, and providing insightful analytics, which drive organizational growth and success.

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Vanta helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.

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Care Directives, Shortcut , Nayya, Heizenrader, Treasury Prime

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