Vanta ISO 27001 Cost: What the AWS Marketplace Listing Publishes

Vanta publishes package list prices on AWS Marketplace. The lowest is the Essentials Package at from $14,000 for 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract. The shape of that listing is the interesting part: Vanta prices packages by employee band, not by named framework, so there is no ISO 27001 line to read off it. Below is every dimension the listing publishes, the point at which the published bands run out, and the costs the listing is silent about.

Updated July 2026. AWS Marketplace list prices checked July 2026.

Lowest published package

from $14,000

Essentials Package, 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract

Published dimensions

Each priced separately, each per 12-month contract

Dimensions with a stated band

Only Essentials Package names an employee range

What Vanta publishes on AWS Marketplace

Each row below is a separate named dimension on the listing, with its own list price on a 12-month contract. AWS publishes these as independent line items and publishes no combined figure for any set of them.

Published dimension	List price	Unit / band as stated on the listing
Essentials Package	from $14,000	1-20 employees, per 12-month contract
Plus Package	from $21,500	1-20 employees, per 12-month contract
Professional Package	from $23,000	1-20 employees, per 12-month contract
Trust Center	from $6,000	1-20 employees, per 12-month contract
Third-Party Risk Management	from $13,600	per 12-month contract

The listing hedges its own figures. Verbatim: “Pricing is tiered based on company size and program complexity.” That wording is why every figure above is written as “from”. They are starting points on a list surface, not quotes for your scope.

Read off Vanta's AWS Marketplace listing, checked July 2026. List prices on that surface, not a quote. AWS shows no price-effective date.

The band is the whole story

Essentials Package is the only Vanta dimension that names an employee range: 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract. That single detail governs how much of the listing is useful to you. Inside 20 employees, the listing answers the question. Outside it, the listing stops answering.

Plus Package ($21,500) and Professional Package ($23,000) both carry list prices, and neither carries a stated employee band. So the listing tells you what those packages cost and does not tell you who they are for. You cannot self-select a package from the published information, and we cannot select one for you.

This is where most ISO 27001 budgeting goes wrong. The published bands run out at 20 employees, and the honest response is to say so rather than to fit a per-employee curve through three points that were never a curve. Vanta publishes no per-employee rate, no headcount tiers above 20, and no band boundaries for the higher packages. A 60-person or 300-person organisation gets its number from Vanta, not from a list price.

The ISO 27001 line specifically

The listing prices packages by employee band rather than naming a separate ISO 27001 framework line.

That is a genuine structural difference from the rest of the market, not a gap in our reading. Drata and Secureframe both publish a framework dimension you can point at and say “that one is ISO 27001”. Vanta does not. ISO 27001 is inside the package, so the marginal published cost of adding ISO 27001 to a Vanta subscription is not a number that exists on the listing. Anyone quoting you one has not got it from this surface.

What the listing does not tell you

Anything above the band ceiling

The published employee range stops at 20. Two of the three packages state no band at all. Above 20 people the listing is not a pricing source for you, and no amount of arithmetic on it makes it one.

What you would actually pay

AWS Marketplace list prices coexist with private offers: a negotiated price agreed with the vendor and transacted through the same Marketplace contract. A private offer can differ from list in either direction. The list price is the public anchor, not the settled price.

The certification audit

No dimension on this listing is an audit fee. The certificate comes from an accredited certification body after Stage 1 and Stage 2, quoted per engagement. See what drives the audit quote.

The cost the platform listing cannot price

A platform subscription and a certification audit are different purchases from different suppliers. The audit is quoted per engagement against audit time, and these are the inputs that move it. None of them is headcount on your payroll, which is the number the platform listing is priced against.

Number of persons doing work under the organisation's control, within the ISMS scope

The primary input. ISO/IEC 27006-1:2024 counts people doing work under the organisation's control within the ISMS scope regardless of whether they are members of the organisation, so contractors and freelancers inside the scope count toward the total.

ISMS scope

What the certificate actually covers: which services, systems, teams and locations sit inside the boundary. A tightly drawn scope is the single largest lever a buyer controls.

Complexity and risk of the ISMS

Criticality of the information handled and the risk associated with the ISMS. Two organisations with identical headcount can attract different audit time on this basis.

Full treatment on the audit cost page, including why certification bodies publish no rate card.

Vanta against the other four, on published entry price

All five platforms publish list prices on AWS Marketplace. Their lowest published platform dimensions line up like this. Read the band column before the price column: these dimensions cover different headcounts and different bundles, so this is a comparison of what each vendor publishes and not a like-for-like product ranking.

Platform	Lowest published platform dimension	List price	Band as stated
Secureframe	Access the Secureframe Platform	$7,500	up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract
Sprinto	Starter Platform	from $7,500	up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract
Scytale	Software Platform	from $7,500	bundles one framework, per 12-month contract
Vanta	Essentials Package	from $14,000	1-20 employees, per 12-month contract
Drata	Platform Fee	$25,000	capacity for a 100 FTE org, per 12-month contract

Vanta sits in the middle. Its $14,000 entry package is above the $7,500 that Secureframe, Sprinto and Scytale each publish, and well below Drata's $25,000 platform fee.

The bands undercut the ordering, which is why the ordering alone is not advice. Vanta's figure buys a package for 1-20 employees. Secureframe and Sprinto publish their entry platform figures for up to 100 employees, and Drata prices its platform fee for capacity for a 100 FTE org. Ranked by band rather than by price, Vanta's entry dimension covers the smallest organisation of the five.

Per-vendor detail: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Scytale.

Frequently asked questions

What does Vanta publish for ISO 27001 on AWS Marketplace?

Vanta lists five named dimensions on its AWS Marketplace listing, each on a 12-month contract (checked July 2026). The lowest is the Essentials Package at $14,000 for 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract. The listing prices packages by employee band rather than naming a separate ISO 27001 framework line. So there is no published ISO 27001 line item to read off the listing: ISO 27001 sits inside whichever package your employee band puts you in.

Is $14,000 the price for a Vanta ISO 27001 programme?

It is a floor for one band, not a price for a programme. The listing states: "Pricing is tiered based on company size and program complexity." The Essentials Package figure covers 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract, so it answers the question only if your headcount is inside that band. The Plus Package and Professional Package dimensions carry list prices ($21,500 and $23,000) but the listing states no employee band against either, so it cannot tell you which one your organisation would land on.

What does Vanta cost above 20 employees?

The listing does not say. Essentials Package is the only Vanta dimension with a stated employee band (1-20 employees, per 12-month contract). Above that band the published figures stop describing your scope, and pricing runs through Vanta directly or through an AWS private offer. We do not extrapolate a per-employee rate from the published bands, because the listing publishes no per-employee rate to extrapolate from.

Does the Vanta listing include the ISO 27001 certification audit?

No. Nothing on the Vanta listing is an audit fee. ISO 27001 certification is issued by an accredited certification body after a Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit, and that body quotes separately, per engagement. Certification bodies do not publish rate cards, so the audit is a quote-only cost that sits alongside any platform subscription.

What else does the Vanta listing price separately?

Two dimensions sit outside the three packages: Trust Center at $6,000 and Third-Party Risk Management at $13,600, both 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract. They are listed as their own dimensions rather than as package inclusions, so on the evidence of the listing alone they are separate purchases.

Is Vanta the cheapest platform on published entry price?

No. On the lowest published platform dimension, Vanta's $14,000 Essentials Package sits above Secureframe, Sprinto and Scytale, which each publish a $7,500 entry platform dimension, and below Drata, whose published platform fee is $25,000. These dimensions cover different bands and different bundles, so the ordering is a comparison of published list dimensions and not of like-for-like products.