A Vanta, Drata and Sprinto alternative that proves the work instead of collecting it¶
Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof and TrustCloud connect to your cloud, your identity provider and your repositories, and collect evidence from them on a schedule. Kanonik never connects to your systems at all. Your own AI does the compliance work through the connections it already has, and Kanonik makes every result verifiable: checked by a server-side Verifier, approved by a named person, and sealed into a record your auditor can confirm offline.
Collecting evidence and proving the work are different jobs¶
A screenshot of a configuration proves the setting existed at that moment. It does not prove the control was assessed correctly, that a person stood behind the assessment, or that nobody edited the record afterwards. The automation platforms are built for the first job. Kanonik is built for the second.
Your AI, not our integrations¶
Kanonik holds no credentials to your AWS, Okta or GitHub. The AI client you already pay for (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Bedrock or Azure OpenAI) reaches your systems through its own connections, loads a signed Kanonik skill, and proposes the work. There is no integration catalogue to maintain, no standing tokens in a vendor's cloud, and nothing of yours to revoke the day a vendor has an incident, because the reading happens on your side.
Every proposal is checked before a person sees it¶
A two-tier Verifier runs server-side inside every commit: deterministic rules first, then a second model on Kanonik's own credentials, separate from the model that wrote the draft. Confidence is scored, and anything below the floor goes to a person for review rather than landing quietly.
A chain the auditor verifies without trusting anyone¶
Every change is an event on an append-only hash chain with a signed root, kept for seven years. The Auditor Export is a signed bundle with an open-source verifier; the auditor recomputes the chain offline, on their own laptop. The auditor of record gets free read-only access on every plan.
Runs where you want it¶
Kanonik is one Helm chart on any Kubernetes. Use the hosted service, run it in your own cloud account, or run it in your own data centre. Self-hosted and air-gapped deployments are on the Enterprise plan. The automation platforms are hosted services only; that is a fair trade for many teams and a hard stop for some.
Priced for the teams the automation platforms were not built for¶
Independent buyer guides put the compliance automation category at a $7,000 to $25,000 a year software budget for companies of 50 to 500 people, and renewal increases are the most common complaint across every vendor in it. Kanonik starts at $99 a month for the full product and $399 a month for Pro. Extra users are $9.99, additional frameworks $499 one-time, and the base price never rises at renewal. It changes only by a sealed public event.
Both plans open with a 14-day trial; a card is taken at signup and first charged on day 15. There is no usage meter.
Frameworks are versioned packages: ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA today, authored once and projected onto every framework you activate. We add new ones in days, and more are on the way now.
Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof and TrustCloud are trademarks of their respective owners. Kanonik has no business relationship with any of them and does not connect to, import from, or write to their platforms.
Who this is for¶
The automation platforms sell a hosted service that gathers evidence for you, trains your staff, runs a trust centre and manages the audit relationship. If you want a vendor to do all of that, that is what they are for. Kanonik is for the team that already does its compliance work with an AI assistant, wants to keep control of its own systems and its own model, needs a record that holds up when someone who was not in the room comes to check it, and would rather pay a line item than run a procurement project.
Questions teams leaving compliance automation ask us¶
Is Kanonik an alternative to Vanta or Drata?¶
For a lean team whose compliance work is done with an AI assistant, yes. The difference is architectural. The automation platforms connect to your systems and collect evidence; Kanonik never connects to your systems. Your own AI does the work, and Kanonik checks, gates and seals every change so the result can be proven rather than promised.
Does Kanonik collect evidence from my cloud or identity provider?¶
No. Kanonik holds no credentials to your source systems and ships no connectors to them. Your AI client reaches them through its own tools. Kanonik records what your AI proposed, what the Verifier found, who approved it, and what changed.
How does the price compare with compliance automation platforms?¶
Solo is $99 a month or $990 a year with one user and one framework; Pro is $399 a month or $3,990 a year. Additional users are $9.99 a month and additional frameworks $499 one-time. Published buyer guides put the automation category at roughly $7,000 to $25,000 a year. The Kanonik base price never rises at renewal.
Can my auditor accept a Kanonik record?¶
The Auditor Export is a signed bundle the auditor verifies offline with an open-source tool: the hash chain, the chain-root signature, and every Verifier verdict. The person who approved each change is on the record. The auditor of record gets free read-only access on every paid plan. Kanonik itself is engineered to the FedRAMP Moderate standard from the first commit: FIPS-validated cryptography in every security-critical path, NIST 800-53-aligned audit logging, a signed supply chain.
Can we run Kanonik ourselves?¶
Yes. Kanonik runs as a single Helm chart on any Kubernetes, in any cloud or your own data centre, including air-gapped. Self-hosted deployment is on the Enterprise plan.
Does Kanonik replace my existing GRC platform or work alongside it?¶
It replaces it for the teams it is built for. There is no connector, import or write-back to Vanta, Drata, Sprinto or any other platform. Your AI can read your existing exports through its own tools and propose the equivalent record in Kanonik, and every proposal passes the Verifier and your approval first.
Runs ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA today, in any cloud or your own data centre. Solo is $99 a month, Pro is $399, and the base price never rises at renewal. Try Kanonik free for 14 days at kanonik.ai.