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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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Compliance automation

Asked as “compliance automation platform”, and as “SOC 2 and ISO 27001 automation tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 59 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
34%
Contested · Vanta 29%
34Drata29Vanta15Sprinto22others

34% of first choices, contested.

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 a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Drata34%16%63endorsed leader
02Vanta29%22%67accepted challenger
03Sprinto15%7%44accepted challenger
04Secureframe7%8%53accepted challenger
05Scrut Automation2%9%11accepted challenger
06Scytale2%18%11accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance0%40%15criticized challenger
07Hyperproof0%11%28accepted challenger
08Thoropass0%9%11accepted 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.
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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Drata34%
02Vanta29%
03Sprinto15%
04Secureframe7%
05Scrut Automation2%
06Scytale2%
07Hyperproof0%
08Thoropass0%
09OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance0%

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, 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.
Vanta
22%
15 of 67 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“What to Avoid If Budget Is Tight ... **Vanta** (~$10K–$35K+/yr)” Kimi K2, budget prompt
Drata
16%
10 of 63 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“What to Avoid If Budget Is Tight ... **Drata** (~$7.5K–$15K+/yr)” Kimi K2, budget prompt
OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
40%
6 of 15 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Why avoid (unless you are a massive enterprise): Startups and mid-market companies often find these platforms require weeks of manual configuration” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Secureframe
8%
4 of 53 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“and **Secureframe** are powerful but generally priced for venture-backed startups” Kimi K2, budget prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

78 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1048 links across 227 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Vanta45 answers · 101 citations · 14 models
31 answers · 51 citations · 12 models
vendor site · ComplyJet28 answers · 47 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Sprinto25 answers · 35 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Optro24 answers · 29 citations · 12 models
23 answers · 36 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Cynomi20 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Netwrix20 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Scrut14 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Drata14 answers · 14 citations · 6 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
Drata drata.com34%3909,90025736,413547
Vanta vanta.com29%50040,5001,21972,2601201
Sprinto sprinto.com15%2342,4007926,89643
Secureframe secureframe.com7%2322,4003945,01427
ComplyJet complyjet.com3%389002,025
LowerPlane lowerplane.com3%220082
Scrut Automation scrut.io2%633901010,568349
Scytale scytale.ai2%3612,1002257,411$23,65914
ZenGRC zengrc.com2%62480429,6039
Comp AI trycomp.ai2%11

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (cynomi.com, drata.com, netwrix.com, optro.ai, scrut.io, 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 a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which SOC 2 and ISO 27001 automation tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top compliance automation platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best compliance automation platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a compliance automation platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which compliance automation platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Drata
Three alternativesHyperproof, Secureframe, Thoropass
Drata, VantaChanged
Three alternativesHyperproof, Secureframe, Sprinto
Vanta
Five alternativesCynomi, Drata, Scytale, Secureframe, Thoropass
Sprinto
Three alternativesEramba, Scrut Automation, SimpleRisk
no first choiceagainst: ISMS.online, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
GPT-5.4 miniVanta
Three alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, Secureframe
VantaHeld
Two alternativesDrata, Secureframe
no first choiceSecureframe, Sprintoagainst: Drata, Vantano first choiceagainst: Scytale, Secfix
Gemini 3.5 FlashDrata, Vanta
Three alternativesSecureframe, Sprinto, Thoropass
Drata, VantaHeld
Two alternativesSecureframe, Thoropass
Drata, Vanta
Four alternativesAnecdotes, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto
Sprinto
Six alternativesComp AI, Eramba, Openlane, Screenata, Scrut Automation, Thoropass
against: Drata, Vanta
no first choiceagainst: Archer, Diligent, Drata, OneTrust Certification Automation, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Perplexity SonarDrata, Vanta
Two alternativesHyperproof, LogicGate Risk Cloud
VantaChanged
Two alternativesHyperproof, Sprinto
Drata, Vanta
Six alternativesAuditBoard, Hyperproof, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Secureframe, Sprinto, Thoropass
Sprinto
One alternativeScrut Automation
against: Drata, Vanta, ZenGRC
no first choiceagainst: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
Grok 4.20Drata
Two alternativesSecureframe, Vanta
DrataHeld
Two alternativesSprinto, Vanta
Vanta
Six alternativesDrata, Hyperproof, Scrut Automation, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto
against: OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
ComplyJet
Three alternativesDrata, Secureframe, Sprinto
against: Hyperproof, Prowler, Vanta
no first choiceagainst: AuditBoard, BRIDGE, Drata, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Scrut Automation, Vanta, myosh
Mistral SmallVanta
Five alternativesDrata, LogicGate Risk Cloud, Secureframe, Sprinto, Thoropass
against: Orbiq
Scrut Automation, VantaChanged
Two alternativesCakewalk, Sprinto
Hyperproof
Three alternativesDrata, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Scytale
ZenGRC
One alternativeSprinto
no first choiceagainst: Hyperproof
DeepSeek V4 FlashDrata
Seven alternativesHiComply, Hyperproof, ISMS.online, Orbiq, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
VantaChanged
Two alternativesDrata, Secureframe
Vanta
Four alternativesDrata, Hyperproof, Secureframe, Sprinto
against: Anecdotes, Scytale
Sprinto
Three alternativesComplyJet, Drata, Secureframe
against: Vanta
Drata, Secureframe, Vanta
One alternativeHyperproof
against: MetricStream, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
against: Drata, Vanta
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceDrataChangedVanta
One alternativeConsilien
Sprinto
Two alternativesVanta, ZenGRC
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashVanta
Three alternativesDrata, Secureframe, Sprinto
DrataChanged
Two alternativesSecureframe, Vanta
Drata, Vanta
Two alternativesAuditBoard, Secureframe
against: ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Scytale
Two alternativesZenGRC, monday service
against: Vanta
Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesHyperproof, Secureframe, Sprinto
against: Archer, MetricStream
against: Archer, AuditBoard, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Kimi K2Drata
Two alternativesSecureframe, Vanta
DrataHeld
Three alternativesSecureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
Drata, Vanta
Three alternativesLogicGate, Scytale, Secureframe
Comp AI
Two alternativesProwler, Scytale
against: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
no first choiceagainst: OneTrust Certification Automation, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Thoropass
GLM 4.7 FlashXDrata, Secureframe
Three alternativesHyperproof, Orbiq, Vanta
SprintoChanged
Two alternativesDrata, Vanta
against: ComplyJet
Drata, Secureframe, Vanta
Five alternativesAuditBoard, ComplyAdvantage, Lockstep, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, TrustArc
ComplyJet, LowerPlane
Five alternativesCookieYes, Probo, Prowler, Sprinto, TrustCloud
against: AuditBoard, Drata, Hyperproof, Vanta
Drata, Secureframe, Vantanothing named
MiniMax M2.5Drata, Vanta
Two alternativesSecureframe, Sprinto
DrataChanged
Three alternativesSecureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
Vanta
Six alternativesDrata, Hyperproof, OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance, Scytale, Secureframe, Sprinto
Sprinto
Three alternativesDrata, Strike Graph, Vanta
no 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. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:41yes148 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:39yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:41yes919 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:40yes193 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:40yes257 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:48yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:24yes2424 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:25yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:32yes1523 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:02yes1823 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 13:16yes2184 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:35yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:55yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:33yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:54yes1628 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:32yes204 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:44yes208 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:33yes95 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:19yes2428 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:06yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:28yes522 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:17yes1716 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 13:10yes18106 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:12yes1023 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:50yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:43yes39 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:36yes1928 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:25yes194 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:30yes249 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:45yes2510 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 12:29yes2337 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:12yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:32no041 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:42yes1523 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:51no015 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:47yes1818 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:33yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:39yes45 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:09yes1425 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:00yes194 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:35yes236 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:09yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 13:14yes2036 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:20yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:52yes1534 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:22yes1927 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:05yes2555 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 13:02yes929 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 12:57no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:13no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:23yes1026 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 13:43yes195 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:40yes167 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:32no02 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 12:24yes1939 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:33yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:26yes982 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:03yes1421 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:37yes1346 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:52yes511 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:16yes1810 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:02yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:28yes2522 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:59yes224 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:46yes2112 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:07yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:37yes2442 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 12:27yes51 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 11:11no032 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 12:02yes2340 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:49yes2246 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:57yes516 s

Noise floor in this category

Flips between the edition run and its calibration repeat. Six prompts per model is a small sample; the index-wide floor is the number to trust.

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Claude Haiku 4.5
1 of 4 flipped
GPT-5.4 mini
2 of 3 flipped
Gemini 3.5 Flash
3 of 4 flipped
Perplexity Sonar
2 of 4 flipped
Grok 4.20
3 of 5 flipped
Mistral Small
3 of 4 flipped
DeepSeek V4 Flash
3 of 5 flipped
Llama 4 Maverick
2 of 4 flipped
Qwen 3.7 Flash
2 of 5 flipped
Kimi K2
3 of 5 flipped
GLM 4.7 FlashX
4 of 5 flipped
MiniMax M2.5
2 of 4 flipped

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
Scrut read as Scrut Automation
ServiceNow read as ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Unresolved, counted raw
BRIDGE
ComplyAdvantage
CookieYes
LegalZoom
Lockstep
NAVEX One Compliance Essentials
OSS tools
Openlane
Screenata
Secfix
TrustArc
TryComp AI
Valiido
myosh
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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