Compare: compliance automation
Kanonik and the compliance automation platforms.
Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof, and TrustCloud connect to your cloud, your identity provider, and your repositories, and collect evidence from them automatically. Kanonik never touches your systems. 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.
The architectural difference
They automate collection. Kanonik makes the reasoning provable.
A screenshot of a configuration proves the setting existed at that moment. It does not prove that the control was assessed correctly, that a person stood behind the assessment, or that nobody edited the record afterwards. That gap is where Kanonik lives.
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. No 375-integration catalogue, because we are not the thing connecting to your stack.
Every proposal, before a person sees it
A non-bypassable two-tier Verifier runs server-side inside every commit: deterministic rules first, then an independent model on Kanonik's own account, never the one that wrote the draft. Confidence is scored, and anything below the floor goes to human review rather than landing quietly.
A chain they verify without trusting anyone
Every change is an event on an append-only, FIPS-signed hash chain kept for seven years. The Auditor Export is a signed bundle with an open-source verifier; the auditor recomputes the chain offline. Free read-only access for the auditor of record is included on every plan.
Price and terms
Priced for 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 card-required trial. There is no free tier and no usage meter.
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.
Where the automation platforms still win
Automated evidence collection from hundreds of integrations. Built-in employee security training. A trust-center product with questionnaire automation. Auditor networks that already know their exports. If you want a platform that gathers evidence for you and a vendor that manages the audit relationship, that is what they sell.
Where Kanonik wins
You keep control of your own systems and your own AI. Nothing your AI writes can land unverified or unapproved. The record cannot be edited after the fact, by you or by us. And the price is a line item, not a procurement project.
Frequently asked
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. Kanonik replaces the GRC tool for that team. 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 verifies, 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, and 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. Reviewer attribution is on every change. The auditor of record gets free read-only access on every paid plan. Kanonik itself holds no certification and does not claim one.
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. Solo is $99 a month, Pro is $399, and the base price never rises at renewal.
The proof is the product.