Welcome offer: 50% off your first 3 months
New customers only. Applied automatically at checkout.
Comparison · Last verified 10 August 2026
VendorLens vs Conveyor: focused document portal or AI customer-trust platform?
Conveyor pairs a hosted Trust Center — free tier included, with clickwrap and DocuSign NDAs, watermarking and granular document access — with AI questionnaire automation on its Enterprise tier. VendorLens is the narrower document portal: NDA-gated downloads, watermarking and an audit trail, with every tier priced on the site.
Both products have a free tier
- Both products have a genuinely free, permanent trust center — this is not a free-versus-paid comparison.
- Conveyor’s Free tier currently lists limits including up to 15 documents and 15 knowledge-base Q&As, so the practical question is whether your document set fits inside them.
- VendorLens’s free Community plan covers a hosted trust page with NDA-gated documents, watermarking and an audit trail; paid tiers add custom domains, e-signature integrations and branding at published prices.
- The other real question is AI: if answering questionnaires is your recurring cost, that is Conveyor’s core strength and VendorLens does not compete on it.
Who compares these two, and why
The decision is rarely features versus no features. It is document volume, and whether AI questionnaire automation is part of the job.
Teams drowning in questionnaires
Security reviews arrive as spreadsheets and portals, and the recurring cost is answering them. AI assistance is the point, not the trust page.
Teams with a document set to publish
The SOC 2 report, policies and pen-test summary exist. The job is gated distribution with an audit trail, and volume may exceed a free tier’s document cap.
Teams weighing free tiers
Both vendors offer one. You are working out which free tier’s limits you would outgrow first, and what the next step costs.
VendorLens and Conveyor side by side
Both ship hosted trust centers with NDAs, watermarking and document access controls. The real differences are free-tier limits, AI depth and how the paid step is priced.
| Criterion | VendorLens | Conveyor |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free Community plan, permanent: a hosted trust page with NDA-gated documents, watermarking and an audit trail | Free tier, permanent: positioned as a simple Trust Center with listed usage limits |
| Document allowance | Documents grouped by category; allowances are published per plan on the pricing page rather than negotiated | Free tier currently lists up to 15 documents; Enterprise lists unlimited usage |
| Knowledge base / Q&A | Author-written trust-center content sections and FAQs published next to the evidence; no AI questionnaire-answer library and no questionnaire completion | Free tier currently lists up to 15 knowledge-base Q&As; Enterprise lifts the limit |
| NDA options | Clickwrap acceptance on all plans; DocuSign and SignNow envelopes on the Pro plan; every request approved manually by your team | Clickwrap NDAs and DocuSign NDAs are both documented, with granular document access controls |
| Watermarks | All plans: requester name and email burned into downloaded PDFs; custom watermark text on the Pro plan | Watermarking is documented as part of the Trust Center |
| Custom domain | Pro plan: your own subdomain, e.g. trust.yourcompany.com, at a published price | A custom URL is listed as an Enterprise-tier capability |
| Questionnaire automation | Outbound only — questionnaires go out to your suppliers (Vendor Assessments, Beta); inbound ones are not completed for you | Core strength: questionnaire automation is central to the product, with broader coverage on Enterprise |
| AI capability | None — deliberately a document workflow, not an AI product | AI-driven answering and customer-trust automation, expanded on the Enterprise tier |
| Analytics | Per-document view and download logging with requester identity, plus an audit log of trust-page changes — all plans | Trust Center analytics are part of the product, with more depth on Enterprise |
| Enterprise controls | Team access, role-based permissions and per-request approval — no SSO or bespoke enterprise contracting | Enterprise tier lists integrations and enterprise controls |
| Pricing transparency | Fully published and self-serve at every tier: free, $99/mo and $299/mo | Free tier is published; Enterprise pricing is not publicly stated, so that step requires a conversation |
| Best fit | Lean teams whose documents already exist, who want more documents and richer gating than a free tier allows at a published price | Teams whose main cost is answering questionnaires, or who fit inside the free Trust Center limits |
Which VendorLens plan includes each capability is published on the pricing page.
Which one fits your team
Choose Conveyor when
- Questionnaires arrive at volume and AI answering would remove real work from your team.
- You want an AI-assisted answer library that drafts questionnaire responses for you.
- Your document set fits comfortably inside the free Trust Center limits and you want to start at zero cost.
- You need broader customer-trust automation, integrations and enterprise controls from one vendor.
- A sales-led Enterprise conversation is fine for your procurement when you outgrow the free tier.
Consider VendorLens when
- You have more documents — or want richer gating — than a free tier’s document cap allows.
- You want the next step up to have a published price rather than an Enterprise quote.
- A document-centric NDA workflow with watermarking, expiring links and an audit trail is the whole requirement.
- You want a custom domain at a listed monthly price rather than as an enterprise-tier capability.
- Security reviews land on a founder or an operations lead who wants the portal live today.
See what that looks like in practice on the Security document portal and vendor due-diligence portal pages.
What VendorLens does not do
- VendorLens has no AI. There is no automated questionnaire answering and no AI-generated content anywhere in the product.
- No AI questionnaire-answer library — VendorLens publishes documents, certifications, subprocessors and FAQs your team writes.
- Not for inbound questionnaires: VendorLens sends questionnaires to your suppliers, but it does not auto-answer the questionnaires your customers send you.
- No compliance automation — no control monitoring, evidence collection or audit-readiness workflow.
- Vendor Assessments (Beta) sends supplier questionnaires, collects answers and evidence, scores inherent and residual risk and records approval decisions — but it stays lightweight: no continuous monitoring, no security ratings and no enterprise TPRM programme management.
Conveyor free tier, limits and pricing: common questions
See the focused option before you decide
Open the live demo trust portal, request a gated document, then start free if it fits. Every tier is priced on the site — no quote required.