Comparison

Looking for a Vanta alternative for DORA in Europe?

Vanta is the biggest compliance platform on the market, with over 8,000 customers. But it's US-first and prices for teams of 50+. For EU vendors hit by a DORA questionnaire from their bank, DoraPilot is built for exactly that single use case — at €49/mo instead of $13k/year.

The short version

Pick Vanta if you need a single platform for SOC 2 (your US sales team will ask), ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and DORA all at once; you have at least one compliance person; you have a $13k+ annual budget; you sell mostly to the US market.

Pick DoraPilot if DORA is the urgent thing — a bank sent you a 70-question vendor questionnaire, or you need to submit a Register of Information in xBRL-CSV — and €13k for one form is the wrong order of magnitude. If later you also need SOC 2, you can add Vanta then; running both is common.

DoraPilot doesn't try to replace Vanta. Vanta wins on integrations, ecosystem, and breadth of frameworks. DoraPilot wins on DORA depth, EU residency, and price.

Feature comparison

CapabilityVantaDoraPilot
Primary marketUS-first, EU as secondaryEU-only, DORA-specific
Starting price (annual)~$13,000–$25,000 (Core / Growth tiers)€0 free, paid from €49/mo
DORA Article 30 templatesGeneric ICT clauses, not EU-alignedEU 2022/2554 pre-aligned, signed-off
Register of Information (xBRL-CSV)
Vanta has no xBRL-CSV generator. 94% of Excel RoI submissions were rejected by the EBA dry-run.
 No Yes
Arelle validation No Yes
Integrations (auto-evidence)
Vanta wins on breadth. DoraPilot will integrate only what DORA evidence actually needs.
200+ (AWS, GCP, Okta, GitHub, etc.)Coming Q4 2026 (DORA-relevant only)
EU data residency by defaultConfigurable, US is defaultEU-only (Frankfurt + Dublin)
Best for SaaS team size20-200 employees1-50 employees
Onboarding time4-8 weeks (sales + implementation)Same day (self-serve)
Auditor co-sign workflow Yes Yes
Open public sub-processor list Yes Yes
Free tier No10-question DORA gap check + PDF
Frameworks coveredSOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, NIST CSF, DORA, ...DORA only (with ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + NIS2 + GDPR Art. 32 mappings)

Where Vanta still wins for EU teams

  • You also sell to the US and need SOC 2 Type II as your primary commercial deliverable.
  • You want auto-evidence collection across AWS, Okta, Jira, GitHub, and 200 other tools.
  • You have a $30k+ annual compliance budget and want one vendor for everything.
  • Your auditor specifically works with Vanta's API.

Where DoraPilot wins

  • DORA is the only thing you need to ship in the next 30 days. No SOC 2 today, no ISO. Just respond to the bank.
  • Your Register of Information is due and you have no way to produce xBRL-CSV.
  • EU residency is a hard contractual requirement from your bank customer, with no US fallback allowed.
  • Budget reality:you're a 5-30 person SaaS and €13k/year for one form is unjustifiable.
  • Speed: you can self-serve, draft, and submit the same week.

Running both is fine

Plenty of EU SaaS teams use Vanta for SOC 2 and DoraPilot for DORA. The two don't conflict — different evidence, different artefacts, different audiences. The DoraPilot approach is to be the specialist tool that lives next to your generalist compliance platform, not to replace it.

The bottom line

Vanta is excellent if you can justify its price and need its breadth. For the long tail of EU SaaS teams that need DORA specifically and nothing else, DoraPilot delivers the exact artefacts the bank's third-party risk team wants — Article 30 contract annex, Register of Information entries, policy pack — without the sales cycle and without the price tag.

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