The European alternative to Vanta
Compeas is a Swedish alternative to Vanta: a GRC platform built in Sweden and hosted in the EU, for organisations governed by European rules. This page sets out where we are the better choice — and, just as plainly, where we are not.
Start here, if SOC 2 is why you came
Vanta built its business on SOC 2, an American audit standard, and it does that job well. Compeas supports SOC 2, both Type 1 and Type 2. SOC 2 has its own controls in the platform, linked to the ISO 27001 controls so that the same evidence covers both.
SOC 2 is new for us as of September 2026, while Vanta has worked with it for many years. If SOC 2 is your only framework and your customers are in the US, Vanta is a reasonable choice. If you need SOC 2 alongside ISO 27001 and NIS2, and want your data to stay in Europe, the rest of this page is written for you.
The report is always issued by an independent auditor. Compeas gives you and the auditor the evidence. How SOC 2 works in Compeas.
Your GRC platform is itself a supply chain risk
There is an argument for a European GRC platform that has nothing to do with flags, and it is the one that should decide this for you.
A GRC platform is not an ordinary SaaS tool. It holds your risk register, your gap analyses, your incident records, your unremediated findings, and the evidence behind every control. In one place, it is an accurate map of where your organisation is weak.
NIS2 Article 21 makes supply chain security an explicit management duty, and management is personally accountable for it. DORA goes further for financial entities, with a register of ICT third-party providers and concentration risk to assess. Under both, the platform you use to manage third-party risk is itself a third party you have to assess.
That assessment is harder when the provider is American. The CLOUD Act reaches data held by US providers regardless of where the servers sit, which is why an EU region on a US platform does not settle the question — and why each transfer needs a documented assessment that you maintain, review, and defend to a supervisory authority.
With Compeas that analysis is short. Swedish company, Swedish infrastructure, customer data in the EEA, Swedish and EU law. There is no transfer to assess.
Side by side
| Compeas | Vanta | |
|---|---|---|
| Company domicile | Sweden (EU/EEA) | United States |
| Governing law | Swedish and EU law | US federal and state law |
| Customer data location | The EU, within the EEA | See Vanta’s own documentation |
| Framework the product grew from | EU regulation — NIS2, ISO 27001 | SOC 2 |
| SOC 2 | Yes, Type 1 and Type 2, since September 2026 | Yes, the core of the product |
| NIS2 in each country’s national version | Yes, for ten countries, as a first-class framework | See Vanta’s own documentation |
| Price | SEK 240,000 per year per organisation, SEK 120,000 the first year. Not per user | See Vanta’s pricing page |
| Single sign-on | Included in the price | See Vanta’s pricing page |
| Platform and support languages | English and Swedish | English |
Last verified 31 August 2026. We describe our own product in detail and link to Vanta’s documentation for theirs, rather than restating capabilities and prices that change without notice — we would rather leave a gap than become the source of a stale claim about a competitor. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
What we do not do
Every comparison page ever written concludes that its author wins. Here is the part that usually gets left out.
- SOC 2 is new for us. Support arrived in September 2026. Vanta has longer experience with SOC 2 specifically, which is worth weighing if SOC 2 is your only framework.
- DORA — planned, not delivered. We write about it and our CEO’s book covers it, but it is not a framework you can run in the product today.
- Fewer integrations. Vanta has been building its connector library for longer and it is broader. If your evidence collection depends on a long tail of US SaaS tools, check our list before you commit.
- We are smaller. That cuts both ways — you will reach someone who can change the product, but you are not buying the safety of the biggest name in the category.
What you can run in Compeas today
- NIS2 in your country’s national version — Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Bulgaria: the national obligations, your country’s incident reporting deadlines, and the supply chain controls Article 21 requires.
- ISO 27001 — ISMS implementation through to certification audit, with the Statement of Applicability maintained as you go.
- SOC 2 — Type 1 and Type 2, with its own controls against the Trust Services Criteria, linked to ISO 27001.
- NIST CSF 2.0 — govern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover.
- GDPR — records of processing, data protection controls, and the evidence behind them.
Controls are managed once and mapped across every framework you run, so ISO 27001, NIS2 and SOC 2 do not become three parallel programmes with three sets of evidence. See how the framework engine works.
What Compeas costs
One price per organisation, and here it is. All amounts exclude VAT. The same details are on the pricing page.
- First contract year: SEK 120,000. An introductory price, because the first year goes into building up your work in the platform.
- After that: SEK 240,000 per year.
- Three-year agreement after the first year: SEK 540,000, which is SEK 180,000 per year.
What is included
- Three frameworks. GDPR is always included, and you choose two more. Most customers choose ISO 27001 and NIS2.
- Compeas Auditor Tool. Your auditor follows the work in real time, and auditors and advisors do not consume paid seats. Bringing your auditor into the platform should reduce your costs, not add to them.
- Onboarding and training. You do not pay extra to get started.
- One hour of advice a month from our CISO.
- All your users. The price is per organisation, not per user. Compliance is a team sport. Charging by the head pushes organisations to give fewer people access to the system that is supposed to make risk visible.
- Single sign-on. SSO is a security control. Putting it behind a higher tier prices smaller organisations out of a control they should have, and we are not going to sell security by withholding it.
Two things cost extra: more than three frameworks, and additional instances for a group that needs to keep its companies apart. Ask us and you will get a number, not a discovery call about your budget.
Compare like for like
We publish our price. Vanta’s pricing page shows four plans and a button for personalised pricing, but no amounts (checked 21 September 2026). That makes a comparison hard, so make it on your terms: ask for a quote that covers the same scope.
- Three frameworks, not one.
- All your users, including when you grow.
- Single sign-on.
- Onboarding and training.
- Access for your auditor.
- Ongoing advice from a CISO.
- The price in years two, three and four, not just the first.
Our answer to that question is SEK 240,000 per year, and SEK 120,000 the first year.
Try it first
Before you decide, you try the platform against your own requirements for 14 days, free of charge. Leave your details and we set up the trial together with you.
Swedish public sector
The first year plus a three-year agreement comes to SEK 660,000 excluding VAT. The Swedish direct award threshold is SEK 700,000 under the Public Procurement Act (LOU) and SEK 1,200,000 under the Utilities Procurement Act (LUF). Whether you can make a direct award is for you to decide, based on your own aggregation of similar purchases during the financial year.
Common questions
Does Compeas support SOC 2?
Yes, both Type 1 and Type 2, since September 2026. SOC 2 has its own controls linked to ISO 27001, so the same evidence covers both. The report is issued by an independent auditor.
Where is our data stored?
On infrastructure in the EU, with all customer data remaining within the EEA. There is no third-country transfer for you to assess or document.
Why does it matter that a GRC platform is European?
Because it holds the map of where you are weak. NIS2 Article 21 makes supply chain security a management responsibility, so the platform you manage third-party risk with is itself a third party you must assess.
Can we migrate from another GRC platform?
Yes. Policies, risk registers and control evidence can be brought across and mapped onto the frameworks you run. Tell us your current setup and we will say honestly how much carries over.
See it against your own requirements
Bring the frameworks you actually have to comply with, and we will show you what the work looks like in Compeas.