Better together, not either-or.
Vanta automates your compliance program; its access reviews certify access at audit time. Driply manages access the rest of the year, requests, approvals, and a live record, and hands Vanta clean evidence.
Vanta is a compliance-automation platform. It continuously monitors your controls and automates evidence for frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with access reviews as one feature for certifying access at audit time.
Driply is the dedicated system for managing access the rest of the year: one-step requests and approvals in Slack, an append-only record of every grant and revoke, automatic expiry, and tool owners. The two solve different jobs and overlap only at access reviews, which is why most teams run them together, with Driply feeding Vanta a clean, continuous access trail.
- Primary jobDriply:Manage and record day-to-day access decisions.Vanta:Automate the compliance program across frameworks.
- Access requests & approvalsDriply:Core, one-step requests and one-click approvals in Slack.Vanta:Not its focus; centered on monitoring and evidence.
- Live access recordDriply:Append-only, updated continuously as access changes.Vanta:Periodic review campaigns and point-in-time snapshots.
- Access reviewsDriply:Automatic access expiry + a live record to review against (the overlap).Vanta:Access-review campaigns as part of the compliance suite.
- Compliance breadthDriply:Access evidence only, not a full compliance program.Vanta:Broad: frameworks, continuous monitoring, vendor risk, trust center.
- Cost & seat trackingDriply:Tracks what each tool charges per seat type, separately from what a person may do, plus spend and renewals.Vanta:Not a software-spend or seat-tracking tool.
- Delegated approvalsDriply:Tool owners approve and manage access for their own tools.Vanta:Reviews are run by admins as certification campaigns.
- Pricing & entryDriply:Self-serve; free for 10 people / 20 tools.Vanta:Sales-led compliance platform.
Driply documents and proves access. It doesn’t provision or revoke inside your tools, and by design never writes to them. You stay in control of the actual access.
Manages access, not just certifies it
Vanta’s access reviews confirm access at a point in time. Driply runs the requests, approvals, and expiries that change access day to day, so the state Vanta reviews is already accurate, not reconstructed for the campaign.
A continuous trail, not a snapshot
Because every grant, approval, and revoke lands in an append-only log as it happens, Driply gives you a complete history between review cycles, exactly the evidence an auditor wants, ready to export.
Where your team already works
Access requests live in Slack with web parity, so the people who need access and the owners who approve it never leave their workflow. Adoption stays high, and the record stays true.
Vanta and Driply are better together
This isn’t a rip-and-replace. Vanta is a broad compliance platform, frameworks, continuous monitoring, vendor risk, security questionnaires, a trust center, and if you need to run a compliance program, you still want it. Driply doesn’t do any of that, and isn’t trying to.
Where they meet is access reviews. If your only access tooling is a periodic review campaign, you’re certifying access at audit time but not managing it the rest of the year, requests still happen in DMs, expiries get forgotten, and the trail gets rebuilt under deadline. Driply runs that day-to-day flow and keeps a live, append-only record, then complements Vanta as the authoritative source of access-decision evidence. Run both: Vanta for the program, Driply for the access.
The result, Vanta runs the compliance program; Driply runs, and proves, the access underneath it.
Questions, answered.
- Is Driply a Vanta alternative?
- Only for the access slice. For managing day-to-day access, requests, approvals, expiry, and a live record. Driply is a dedicated alternative to relying on periodic access-review campaigns. For the broader compliance program, Driply complements Vanta rather than replacing it.
- Does Driply do compliance automation like Vanta?
- No. Driply is focused on access: who has it, who approved it, and proving it. It doesn’t monitor controls across frameworks, manage vendor risk, or host a trust center, that’s Vanta’s domain.
- Can I use Driply and Vanta together?
- Yes, that’s the common setup. Driply manages and records access continuously and exports clean evidence; Vanta automates the wider compliance program and runs the formal review campaigns.
- Why not just use Vanta’s access reviews?
- Access reviews certify access at a point in time but don’t run the day-to-day request/approval/expiry workflow or keep a continuous decision record. Driply does both, so the access Vanta reviews is already accurate.