Veza vs SailPoint

At a glance

Pick SailPoint if you need a full identity governance program of record: provisioning, access requests, access certifications, role modeling and separation of duties that an auditor will accept. Pick Veza if your hardest question is "who can actually reach this data, and through which nested role, group or policy," across cloud, SaaS and data platforms. Most large enterprises that buy Veza already own a provisioning IGA such as SailPoint, and the two are more often complementary than competing.

The second deciding factor is now ownership. Veza is a ServiceNow product, and SailPoint is a listed company still majority-owned by Thoma Bravo.

Where each wins

Pricing reality (checked 2026-11-05)

Neither vendor publishes a price. Veza's site has no pricing page and its profile lists it as an enterprise subscription, quote-based. SailPoint's former pricing URL returns a 404; it sells three Identity Security Cloud suites (Standard, Business, Business Plus) by quote. In December 2025 it added Navigators, a pre-negotiated commitment that Business and Business Plus customers can draw on for machine identity, agent identity and other advanced capabilities, and a Modernization Flex option for IdentityIQ customers moving to the SaaS suite. Expect SailPoint implementation services to be a significant line item. Model both with the TCO calculator.

Ownership changes

• Veza: ServiceNow announced the deal on 2 December 2025 and closed it on 2 March 2026; its Q1 2026 10-Q puts the price at about 1.2 billion dollars. ServiceNow says Veza's capabilities "will be incorporated into ServiceNow's security portfolio" and will govern what AI agents can reach through AI Control Tower. The release does not commit to standalone sale or to integrations with rival platforms. See our news item.
• SailPoint: returned to Nasdaq as SAIL in February 2025 with Thoma Bravo keeping majority control. It closed the Entro Security acquisition on 29 June 2026 for 122.6 million dollars in cash per its 10-Q, adding secrets and non-human identity discovery to Agentic Fabric (news).

Deployment and architecture

Veza is SaaS. It pulls permission metadata from 325+ integrations and builds a graph of identities, roles, policies and resources, so its native answer is a query: show every path from this identity to this table. SailPoint is identity-centric: an authoritative source (usually HR) drives accounts and entitlements through connectors, and governance runs as campaigns and policies over that inventory. Identity Security Cloud is multi-tenant SaaS; IdentityIQ remains the self-hosted option for estates that cannot use SaaS.

Migration notes

Few teams migrate between these. The realistic moves are adding Veza next to SailPoint (feed graph findings into SailPoint certifications) or consolidating onto ServiceNow, which only makes sense if ServiceNow is already your workflow platform. If you are on IdentityIQ, price Modernization Flex before any rip-and-replace, and compare SailPoint vs Saviynt while you are there.

Who should pick which

• SailPoint: large, regulated enterprises that need least privilege proven through lifecycle automation and defensible certifications, or a self-hosted option.
• Veza: security teams cleaning up data and cloud permissions, especially ServiceNow customers, and anyone whose IGA cannot see past assigned roles.
• Neither alone: mid-market teams without the staff for a SailPoint rollout should look at ConductorOne, Lumos or Omada. ServiceNow shops wanting full IGA should also see Clear Skye. For the wider list, see best IGA tools and how to choose an IGA platform.