Renewal coming up and the quote keeps climbing? devguard runs the same ISO 27001 and SOC 2 work in a Swiss-hosted workspace you own, with on-premise possible, full export whenever, and no consulting conflict. Here is how the two compare, honestly.
Vanta is a capable, well-known platform. Most teams who come to us are not unhappy with the category, they are unhappy with one specific thing.
The trigger is usually the renewal. The first-year price was easy to approve. The second-year quote, less so. When the number climbs faster than the value, it is reasonable to ask what else is out there.
The second reason is where the data lives. Vanta is hosted in the United States. For a Swiss or EU company whose customers ask exactly where their evidence sits, that answer invites more questions. devguard is hosted in Switzerland, with an on-premise option, so the answer is short.
The third is shape. A bolt-on for every standard, a separate line on the invoice, a methodology you adopt rather than bring. devguard is one control set you map every framework to, with your own methodology and one price scoped to you.
The honest version. We compare only on things you can check, and we mark anything that varies rather than claim a clean win.
| Capability | devguard | Vanta |
|---|---|---|
| Frameworks, from one control set | ||
| ISO 27001 | ||
| SOC 2 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Swiss nFADPSwiss data-protection law | ◐ | |
| One control set mapped to every framework | ◐ | |
| Bring your own custom framework | ◐ | |
| Hosting and data control | ||
| Swiss data residency | — | |
| On-premise deployment | — | |
| Full data export, no lock-in | ◐ | |
| Evidence and automation | ||
| Evidence linked to the control it satisfies | ||
| GitHub, GitLab, Jira and Slack integrations | ||
| Automated cloud evidence collectionAWS, Azure, GCP — the incumbents lead here; we connect to your dev tools instead | ◐ | |
| How it is run and sold | ||
| Your methodology across mandates | ◐ | |
| One price, no per-framework add-ons | ◐ | |
| Scoped, founder-run onboarding | ◐ | |
Swiss-hosted, with on-premise deployment possible. Our subprocessors are listed publicly on the trust page, and your data exports in full whenever you ask.
Map your controls once and point ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and the rest at the same set. Adding a standard reuses what you have instead of starting another binder.
Coverage, policies, risks, audits and reports are one product, not a separate invoice each. The price is scoped in a conversation, not a surprise at renewal.
We sell software, not audits or certificates, so we never compete with the consultants and auditors you already trust.
A short, founder-run call maps what you already have in Vanta, the controls, policies and evidence, against what your next audit actually needs. No generic onboarding queue.
Your existing controls and evidence move into devguard with you, mapped to the control set, so you start from where you are rather than from an empty workspace.
From there the ISMS lives in devguard, hosted in Switzerland and on-premise if you need it. You own the data and can export it in full whenever you ask.
It is a fair question to ask before switching, so here is the straight answer. Your auditor certifies your ISMS, not the tool you keep it in, and what they need is evidence they can accept, mapped to the controls it satisfies. That is exactly what devguard produces. Your data stays yours: Swiss-hosted, exportable in full at any time, with no lock-in, so the cost of being wrong about us is bounded rather than open-ended.
Yes. devguard runs the same core work, controls, policies, risks, evidence, audits and reports, for ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and other frameworks from one control set. The differences are hosting in Switzerland with on-premise possible, a single scoped price instead of a bolt-on per standard, and that we sell no consulting, so we never compete with your auditor.
No. Moving in is a scoped, founder-run onboarding where we bring your existing controls and evidence across with you, rather than asking you to rebuild from an empty workspace. You keep the work you have already done.
No. devguard sits where your ISMS work lives and connects to the tools you already use, so switching is a migration of your evidence and controls, not a teardown of your stack.
We do not publish a head-to-head price, because the honest number depends on your scope. What we can say is that the ISMS core is one price rather than a base plan plus a module for each framework, and that price is agreed in a conversation, not re-quoted upward at renewal.
In Switzerland, with on-premise deployment available. Our subprocessors are listed publicly on the trust page, and your data is exportable in full at any time, with no lock-in.
It replaces it. devguard is the workspace your ISMS lives in, so you would move your controls, policies, evidence and audits across rather than run both in parallel.
Tell us what you run today and what renewal looks like. We will show you honestly whether a Swiss-hosted workspace is worth the move for your scope.