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GRC platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “GRC platform”, and as “governance, risk and compliance tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Contested
36% of first choices, contested.
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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.
Small businessVanta22%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketVanta14%ContestedStanding →EnterpriseServiceNow Integrated Risk Management36%ContestedThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management36%25%56criticized default
02MetricStream21%24%51accepted challenger
03Drata9%33%30criticized challenger
04Vanta9%34%29criticized challenger
05AuditBoard4%10%29accepted challenger
06OneTrust4%19%32accepted challenger
07Optro4%0%11accepted challenger
08Hyperproof2%0%10accepted challenger
09Sprinto2%25%12criticized challenger
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
14Archer0%43%37criticized challenger
13IBM OpenPages0%22%18accepted challenger
12Diligent One0%12%17accepted challenger
10LogicGate0%12%17accepted challenger
11Riskonnect0%0%13accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Vanta vs HyperproofVanta vs LogicGate Risk CloudHyperproof vs LogicGate Risk Cloud

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%.

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01ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management36%
02MetricStream21%
03Drata9%
04Vanta9%
05AuditBoard4%
06OneTrust4%
07Optro4%
08Hyperproof2%
09Sprinto2%
10LogicGate0%
11Riskonnect0%
12Diligent One0%
13IBM OpenPages0%
14Archer0%

02What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, 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.
Archer
43%
16 of 37 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“the platforms to be most cautious about are the **heavyweight legacy suites (RSA Archer and MetricStream especially)**” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
25%
14 of 56 labels negative · 10 of 12 models
“Platforms like ServiceNow IRM or Archer may negotiate flexible user pricing, but their implementation consultancies can easily cost $200,000 to $500,000+” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
MetricStream
24%
12 of 51 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“heavyweight legacy suites (RSA Archer and MetricStream especially) — ... high TCO, long implementations, dated UX” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Drata
33%
10 of 30 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Solutions like Vanta or Drata ... are sometimes pushed into enterprise GRC RFPs. They typically lack the workflow depth” Kimi K2, negative prompt

03What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

65 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 901 links across 207 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

expertinsights.com
vendor site · Expert Insights31 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
vanta.com
vendor site · Vanta25 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
metricstream.com
vendor site · MetricStream25 answers · 26 citations · 8 models
orbiqhq.com
24 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
riskonnect.com
vendor site · Riskonnect23 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
apono.io
vendor site · Apono22 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
enzuzo.com
vendor site · Enzuzo21 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
gartner.com
20 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
selecthrtech.com
17 answers · 17 citations · 9 models
riskpublishing.com
14 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
cybersierra.co
13 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
bdemerson.com
13 answers · 13 citations · 4 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.

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-governance-risk-compliance-grc-platforms
31 answers · 10 models
orbiqhq.com/compliance-automation/best-grc-software
24 answers · 9 models
apono.io/blog/top-10-governance-risk-and-compliance-grc-software-solutions
22 answers · 9 models
riskonnect.com/best-grc-software-platforms-2026
22 answers · 8 models
vanta.com/resources/best-grc-software-solutions-for-enterprises
22 answers · 10 models
enzuzo.com/blog/best-grc-software
21 answers · 10 models
metricstream.com/blog/top-governance-risk-compliance-grc-tools.html
20 answers · 7 models
selecthrtech.com/best-grc-2026
17 answers · 9 models
bdemerson.com/article/the-best-grc-software-a-practical-evaluation
13 answers · 4 models
learn.g2.com/best-grc-software
13 answers · 8 models

04How 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.
ModelDirect“What is the best GRC platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which governance, risk and compliance tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade GRC platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best GRC platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a GRC platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which GRC platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5MetricStream
Three alternativesLogicGate, OneTrust, Riskonnect
MetricStreamHeld
Three alternativesDiligent One, IBM OpenPages, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
MetricStream
Two alternativesSAI360, Vanta
against: ArcherMetricStream
Two alternativesOptro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
no first choiceagainst: Anodots
GPT-5.4 miniServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Three alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, OneTrust
against: MetricStreamServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementHeld
Three alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, OneTrust
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Three alternativesArcher, MetricStream, SAP GRC
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
One alternativeOneTrust
against: Intelexno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashOptro
Five alternativesDrata, MetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Optro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementChanged
Two alternativesHyperproof, MetricStream
no first choice
Six alternativesArcher, Diligent One, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Optro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
LogicManager
Four alternatives6clicks, Centraleyes, Workiva, ZenGRC
against: Archer, ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementAuditBoard, Hyperproof
Four alternativesAnecdotes, Drata, OneTrust, Vanta
against: MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Managementagainst: Archer, Diligent One, Drata, MetricStream, Secureframe, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Perplexity SonarServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Four alternativesAuditBoard, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Riskonnect
MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementChanged
One alternativeAuditBoard
MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Six alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, Diligent One, LogicGate, OneTrust, Workiva
OneTrust
Two alternativesMetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
no first choiceagainst: Archer, Drata, IBM OpenPages, LogicGate Risk Cloud, MetricStream, OneTrust, SAP GRC, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Grok 4.1 FastMetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Three alternativesDiligent One, IBM OpenPages, LogicGate
against: Drata, Sprinto, VantaMetricStreamChanged
Four alternativesAuditBoard, LogicGate Risk Cloud, Riskonnect, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
no first choice
Five alternativesArcher, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Two alternativesArcher, MetricStream
against: AuditBoard, Eramba, LogicGate, OneTrust, ZenGRCno first choiceagainst: Archer, Drata, MetricStream, Mitratech Alyne, OneTrust, SAI360, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Mistral SmallDrata, Sprinto, Vanta
Two alternativesMetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementChanged
One alternativeSAI360
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Three alternativesArcher, MetricStream, OneTrust
MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
One alternativeOneTrust
no first choiceagainst: ZenGRCagainst: Archer, LogicGate, MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
DeepSeek V4 FlashDrata, MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
Five alternativesArcher, Hyperproof, LogicGate Risk Cloud, OneTrust, Optro
MetricStreamChanged
Four alternativesArcher, Optro, Riskonnect, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Archer
Seven alternativesDiligent One, IBM OpenPages, LogicGate, MetricStream, OneTrust GRC, Optro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ZenGRC
Two alternativesCentraleyes, Eramba
against: Archer, MetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Managementno first choiceagainst: Archer, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Archer, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Qwen 3.7 FlashDrata, Vanta
Three alternativesAuditBoard, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
against: ArcherServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementChanged
Two alternativesAuditBoard, MetricStream
against: Drata, VantaMetricStream
Six alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, Diligent One, IBM OpenPages, LogicGate Risk Cloud, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
One alternativeOneTrust
against: Microsoft PurviewDrata, Vanta
One alternativeSecuriti.ai
against: Archer, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Managementagainst: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vanta
Kimi K2ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Four alternativesAuditBoard, Diligent One, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream
ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementHeld
Three alternativesArcher, LogicGate, MetricStream
MetricStream
Five alternativesDiligent One, IBM OpenPages, OneTrust, Optro, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
against: ArcherLogicGate Risk Cloud
One alternativeCentraleyes
against: Archer, IBM OpenPages, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Managementno first choiceagainst: IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, OneTrustagainst: Archer, AuditBoard, Drata, MetricStream, SAP GRC, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
GLM 4.7 FlashXOneTrust
Five alternativesAuditBoard, Drata, MetricStream, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Vanta
ServiceNow Integrated Risk ManagementChanged
Four alternativesAuditBoard, LogicGate, MetricStream, OneTrust
against: Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, Vantano first choiceServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Five alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, MetricStream, OneTrust, Riskonnect
against: Drata, Orbiq, Vantano first choiceagainst: Archer, AuditBoard, Diligent One, MetricStream, Mitratech, Resolver, SAI360, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
MiniMax M2.5AuditBoard
Four alternativesLogicGate Risk Cloud, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management, Workiva
MetricStreamChanged
Four alternativesArcher, AuditBoard, LogicGate, ZenGRC
Archer, MetricStream
Three alternativesLogicGate Risk Cloud, OneTrust, ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ZenGRC
One alternativeArcher
against: ServiceNow Integrated Risk Managementno first choiceagainst: Archer, CyberGRX, Drata, MetricStream, Panorays, Secureframe, Vanta
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The 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-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:24yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:31no04 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:52yes1825 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:34yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:53yes3915 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:24yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:26yes1717 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:56yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:40no033 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:26yes9235 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:25yes2054 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:20yes940 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:56yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:36yes24 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:35yes1821 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:07yes204 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:43yes117 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:49yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:27yes1813 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:25yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:09no036 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:52yes2537 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:18yes1376 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:38yes1037 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:19yes911 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:23yes613 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:07yes1729 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:07yes209 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:30yes3016 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:48yes911 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:00yes2426 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:30yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:38yes546 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:29yes2739 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:05yes24102 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:42yes1543 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:31yes1713 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:07yes46 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:59yes1428 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:51yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:22yes3418 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:01yes56 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:43yes2726 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:05yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:54yes1066 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:00yes2480 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:44yes1061 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:52yes2377 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:11yes1814 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:38no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:20yes1127 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:08yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:19yes2014 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:00no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:39yes1519 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:08yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:44no042 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:03yes1536 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:25yes1378 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:26no068 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:24yes159 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:19yes37 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:18yes2529 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:07yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:40yes3015 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:40yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:26yes1923 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:25yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:30yes1393 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:06yes34104 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:55yes2750 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:48yes2060 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Diligent read as Diligent One
Diligent (Diligent One Platform) read as Diligent One
Diligent (formerly HighGear/EthicsPoint) read as Diligent One
ServiceNow read as ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
ServiceNow (Integrated Risk Management) read as ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
Unresolved, counted raw
Anodots
Copla
CyberGRX
Fusion Framework System
Intigra
Securiti.ai
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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