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Compliance automation for enterprise buyers

Asked as “compliance automation platform”, and as “SOC 2 and ISO 27001 automation tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 40 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
48%
Clear leader
48Vanta18Drata05HiComply30others

48% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Vanta48%23%65endorsed leader
02Drata18%28%60criticized challenger
03Hyperproof5%7%29accepted challenger
04Secureframe2%28%40criticized challenger
05OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance2%25%20criticized challenger
06Scrut Automation2%14%14accepted challenger
07ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management2%38%16criticized challenger
Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12Archer0%50%10criticized challenger
13Sprinto0%43%21criticized challenger
11Thoropass0%40%10criticized challenger
09MetricStream0%27%11criticized challenger
10Scytale0%23%13accepted challenger
08AuditBoard0%9%23accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01Vanta48%
02Drata18%
03Hyperproof5%
04Secureframe2%
05OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance2%
06Scrut Automation2%
07ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management2%
08AuditBoard0%
09MetricStream0%
10Scytale0%
11Thoropass0%
12Archer0%
13Sprinto0%

What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Drata
28%
17 of 60 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Examples: *Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe* ... often unsuitable for large enterprises as a sole solution.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Vanta
23%
15 of 65 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“the search results indicate significant red flags for large enterprises, specifically regarding scalability, support, and flexibility.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Secureframe
28%
11 of 40 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Tools like Secureframe often rely on their own lightweight endpoint agents ... is a security risk and an administrative headache.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Sprinto
43%
9 of 21 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Examples: *Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe* ... often unsuitable for large enterprises as a sole solution.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

65 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1057 links across 269 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Vanta52 answers · 105 citations · 12 models
34 answers · 41 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Optro34 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
31 answers · 40 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Drata18 answers · 27 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Sprinto17 answers · 23 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Consilien16 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Guideflow15 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 31 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Cynomi13 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Strac13 answers · 13 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best compliance automation platform”, “compliance automation platform”, “compliance automation platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Vanta vanta.com48%38140,5001,21972,2601201
Drata drata.com18%3689,90025736,413547
Hyperproof hyperproof.io5%1731,6003764,238$5934
HiComply hicomply.com5%2
Secureframe secureframe.com2%2352,4003945,01427
OneTrust onetrust.com
OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance 2%, OneTrust Certification Automation 0%
2%4914,80062454,294 company58
Mitratech Alyne mitratech.com2%1810046,305$10,768106
Scrut Automation scrut.io2%1173901010,568349
Anecdotes anecdotes.ai2%8
Centraleyes centraleyes.com2%42

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cynomi.com, drata.com, gartner.com, optro.ai, vanta.com). The first result for “best compliance automation platform” is vanta.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best compliance automation platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which SOC 2 and ISO 27001 automation tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade compliance automation platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best compliance automation platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a compliance automation platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which compliance automation platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceDrata, VantaChanged
One alternativeSecureframe
Drata
Three alternativesSecureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
against: Netwrix
HiComply
Two alternativesAuditBoard, Optro
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniVanta
Five alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Hyperproof, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe
VantaHeld
Two alternativesDrata, Secureframe
no first choice
Eight alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Scrut Automation, Scytale, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Thoropass, Vanta
Scrut Automation
Two alternativesDrata, Thoropass
no first choiceagainst: Drata
Gemini 3.5 FlashVanta
Three alternativesAnecdotes, Drata, Optro
VantaHeld
Two alternativesDrata, Hyperproof
against: Optro
Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesAnecdotes, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Optro
Drata
Two alternativesComplyance, Hyperproof
against: AuditBoard, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Anecdotes
Four alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Vanta
against: Archer, Drata, IBM OpenPages, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Scytale, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Sprinto, Vanta
Perplexity SonarVanta
Two alternativesComplyDo, Orbiq
against: Drata, Scrut Automation, Sprinto
DrataChanged
Two alternativesHyperproof, Vanta
Drata, Secureframe, Vanta
Nine alternativesAuditBoard, Hyperproof, IBM OpenPages, LogicGate Risk Cloud, MetricStream, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Optro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Workiva
Mitratech Alyne
One alternativeOneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
against: Drata, Hyperproof, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Vanta, Whale
no first choiceagainst: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Thoropass, Vanta
Grok 4.20Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesAuditBoard, Hyperproof, Secureframe
VantaChanged
Two alternativesAuditBoard, Drata
against: OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
Four alternativesDrata, Hyperproof, Secureframe, Vanta
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Two alternativesArcher, AuditBoard
against: Drata, LogicGate, MetricStream, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, Vanta
no first choice
Four alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Secureframe, Vanta
against: Archer, Drata, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto, Thoropass, Vanta
Mistral SmallVanta
Two alternativesDrata, Sprinto
Secureframe, VantaChanged
Two alternativesDrata, Scytale
MetricStream
Seven alternativesArcher, Drata, Hyperproof, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Vanta
Two alternativesDrata, Hyperproof
no first choiceagainst: Drata, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
DeepSeek V4 FlashVanta
Four alternativesCentraleyes, Drata, Orbiq, Secureframe
VantaHeld
Three alternativesDrata, OneTrust GRC, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
against: Secureframe
Vanta
Eight alternativesAuditBoard, Diligent, Drata, Hyperproof, LogicGate, Scytale, Secureframe, Thoropass
ZenGRC
Two alternativesHiComply, LowerPlane
against: AuditBoard, ComplyJet, Drata, LogicGate, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Sprinto, Vanta
no first choice
Five alternativesCentraleyes, Drata, Secureframe, Thoropass, Vanta
against: Archer, Drata, IBM OpenPages, Integromat, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, RiskWatch, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Sprinto, Thoropass, Vanta, Workato, Zapier
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceVantaChangedno first choice
Two alternativesOrbiq, Vanta
Vantano first choiceagainst: Drata, Secureframe, Vanta
Qwen 3.7 FlashDrata
Five alternativesAuditBoard, InterScan, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, Vanta
VantaChanged
Two alternativesAuditBoard, Drata
Drata, Vanta
Four alternativesAuditBoard, Hyperproof, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
HiComply, LowerPlaneagainst: Drata, Vantano first choiceagainst: Archer, Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
Kimi K2Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesArcher, MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
VantaChanged
One alternativeDrata
Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesHyperproof, Mitratech Alyne, Secureframe
Hyperproof
Two alternativesOneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, episki
against: Drata, Vanta
Drata
Two alternativesHyperproof, Vanta
against: Drata, Hyperproof, MetricStream, OneTrust GRC, Scrut Automation, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Sprinto, Strike Graph
GLM 4.7 FlashXOneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
Seven alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Hyperproof, LogicGate, Mitratech Alyne, Sprinto, Vanta
SureCloudChanged
Two alternativesCompyl, Vanta
no first choice
Eleven alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Hyperproof, LogicGate Risk Cloud, MetricStream, OneTrust Certification Automation, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
against: Archer, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Centraleyes
Two alternativesDrata, Vanta
no first choiceagainst: Drata, Thoropass, Vanta
MiniMax M2.5Vanta
Two alternativesOrbiq, Process Street
no first choiceChangedno first choiceHyperproofagainst: ComplyJet, Drata, Secureframe, Vantano first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:32no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:24yes56 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:10yes1531 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:44yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:57yes3115 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:53yes2013 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:23yes1012 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:00yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:45no038 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:57yes1536 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:25yes2266 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:10yes512 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:46yes1811 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:09yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:05yes2030 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:50yes206 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:44yes3720 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:18yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:56yes2824 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:30yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:07yes1083 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:39yes2045 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:41yes19103 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:33yes556 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:55yes1813 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:20yes614 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:32yes2731 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:12yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:42yes3417 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:17yes1518 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:09yes2426 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:43yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:54no044 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:44yes1524 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:55yes2753 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:58yes1528 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:57yes1710 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:40yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:54yes2052 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:24yes186 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:22yes2314 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:43yes56 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:12yes2524 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:54yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:05yes14109 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:49yes20227 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:13yes29131 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:23yes2163 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:50yes1914 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:19yes29 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:42yes626 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:35yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:21yes1311 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:46no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:24yes3931 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:59yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:07no042 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:29yes1430 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:10yes13134 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:34no013 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:47yes1811 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:49yes46 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:07yes2742 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:17yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 08:43yes2214 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:57yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:10yes2137 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:19yes56 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:46yes535 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:59yes2672 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:51yes2957 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:09no036 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
OneTrust read as OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
OneTrust Tech Risk and Compliance read as OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
Scrut read as Scrut Automation
Unresolved, counted raw
ComplyDo
Integromat
InterScan
Whale
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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