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Comparing Vanta? Here is the European alternative
Tidal Control is a compliance platform built and hosted in Europe, covering more than 30 frameworks including ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2 and DORA.
Everything stated below about Vanta comes from Vanta's own pricing page at vanta.com/pricing, retrieved 23 September 2026. Tiers and wording change, so read the source before you decide anything.
Three things you can check yourself
Each point below is checkable on both sides. Nothing here rests on our word for what another vendor does.
A published price against a sales call
Tidal Control lists Essential at 299 euro, Professional at 589 euro and Scale at 1,999 euro per month, with lower annual rates, at tidalcontrol.com/pricing. Vanta's pricing page names four tiers, Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise, and asks you to "Get personalized pricing" instead of publishing a figure.
Who actually performs the audit
Tidal Control works with accredited auditors, and more than 50 audits have passed this way at an average of 0-2 findings. Vanta's pricing page offers "Access to Vanta's auditor network" from Professional upward, and the "Ability to bring your own auditor".
Where your evidence lives
Tidal Control is built and hosted in Europe, so controls, risks, policies and evidence stay under EU jurisdiction. Vanta's pricing page states nothing either way about data residency, so ask any vendor you shortlist for it in writing and read their trust centre.
What the entry tier leaves out
Vanta's pricing page places "Access to Vanta's auditor network" and the "Ability to bring your own auditor" at Professional and above, not at Essentials. Questionnaire automation also steps up by tier, from 25 a year on Plus to 144 on Professional. Tidal Control does not tier the auditor relationship: accredited auditors apply on every subscription.
The frameworks this usually comes down to
Buyers weighing these two platforms are normally running more than one framework at once.
ISO 27001
The information security baseline, and the certification most European buyers start from.
SOC 2
The report American customers ask for, run from the same platform as your EU obligations.
NIS2
The EU directive on network and information security, with its own reporting duties.
DORA
Digital operational resilience for financial entities and their ICT suppliers.
Testimonials
What our customers say
With a single click, one Tidal test checks dozens of disks for encryption. Doing that manually would take a lot of time.
Frequently asked questions
Vanta does not publish a price. Its pricing page lists four tiers, Essentials, Plus, Professional and Enterprise, and asks you to "Get personalized pricing" (vanta.com/pricing, retrieved 23 September 2026). Tidal Control publishes its subscription prices at tidalcontrol.com/pricing, so you can work out the cost before speaking to anyone.
With Tidal Control, no: accredited auditors apply on every subscription. Vanta's pricing page lists auditor network access from the Professional tier upward (vanta.com/pricing, retrieved 23 September 2026), so check which tier your quote covers.
Yes. SOC 2 sits alongside ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and more than 30 other frameworks on one platform, so an American customer asking for SOC 2 and a European regulator asking for NIS2 are served from one set of controls.
Tidal Control works with accredited auditors and the platform assembles the evidence they ask for. Vanta's pricing page offers access to its auditor network from the Professional tier and the option to bring your own (vanta.com/pricing, retrieved 23 September 2026). Confirm the current arrangement with either vendor before you sign.
Tidal Control is built and hosted in Europe, and your compliance data stays under EU jurisdiction. We do not make a claim about where any other vendor stores data. Ask for a written answer and read the trust centre of every platform on your shortlist.
About three months on the standard path: one day of setup, two weeks of planning, nine weeks of implementation and two weeks for certification.
The statements about Vanta were taken from vanta.com/pricing on 23 September 2026. Pricing pages change without notice, so treat the source as authoritative and this page as a pointer to it.