SOC 2 Platform Pricing Compared: What Each Vendor Actually Publishes
The GRC platforms are widely described as quote-only. Seven of them publish real, public list prices on AWS Marketplace. This page reproduces every published dimension, with the employee band it is scoped to attached, and is explicit about which comparisons those sources support and which they do not.
AWS Marketplace list prices, checked July 2026. Every figure read off the vendor's own listing.
Read this before the tables
Almost every platform comparison on the web puts seven headline numbers in one column and calls the smallest one the winner. That is not possible from these listings, and the reason is simple: they are not scoped to the same thing.
- The bands differ. Vanta's cheapest package covers 1-20 employees. Drata's platform fee covers a 100-FTE organisation. Comparing those two figures compares different products at different company sizes.
- Some numbers are floors, not prices. Vanta, Sprinto and Scytale all carry starting-price wording on their own listings. A floor and a fixed price cannot be ranked against each other.
- Nobody publishes a total. Where a vendor lists a platform fee and a framework fee, those are separate line items and the listing publishes no combined figure. Any single number for what a platform costs is somebody's arithmetic, so there are none on this page.
- A list price is not a selling price. Several listings also offer a private offer. What a vendor lists is a public fact; what it sells at is not something anyone outside the deal knows.
What each listing publishes
Before any price, this is the shape of each source: the band it covers, how hedged it is, and whether the vendor also invites a negotiated offer. This table is the reason the price tables further down are split rather than combined.
| Platform | Band the listing states | Pricing posture | Private offer too |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanta | 1-20 employees | Starting cost | Yes |
| Drata | 100 FTE capacity | Fixed | Yes |
| Secureframe | Up to 100 employees | Fixed | No |
| Sprinto | Up to 100 employees | Framework line is a floor | No |
| Scytale | Not published | Starting price, get quote | Yes |
| Scrut Automation | Up to 20 employees | Fixed | No |
| Strike Graph | Not published | Fixed | No |
Read off each vendor's AWS Marketplace listing, checked July 2026. Strike Graph publishes the most granular rate card of the seven and no employee band at all, which is why it cannot be placed in either comparison below.
The comparison at around 100 employees
Three vendors publish a platform dimension scoped to roughly 100 employees. Because the band is the same, these three can honestly be read against each other, and it is the single most useful comparison on this site.
| Platform | Platform fee | First framework |
|---|---|---|
| Secureframe | $7,500 | $7,500 |
| Sprinto | $7,500 | from $2,000 |
| Drata | $25,000 | $7,500 |
AWS Marketplace list prices per 12-month contract, checked July 2026. Sprinto's framework line is worded as a starting price on its listing, so it is a floor; the other two are fixed. Separate line items, no published totals.
Drata's published platform fee is more than three times what Secureframe and Sprinto list at the same band, and its framework line is the highest of the three as well. On the published numbers there is no line at this band on which Drata is the cheaper option. That is a statement about list prices only: all three vendors either offer a private offer or invite a quote. It is still worth knowing before a sales call, because the published gap is wide enough that parity should not be assumed.
The comparison at around 20 employees
Two vendors publish a dimension scoped to roughly twenty employees. That makes exactly one other honest comparison available, and it is the relevant one for a seed-stage team.
| Platform | Dimension, as listed | Listed price |
|---|---|---|
| Vanta | Essentials Package, 1-20 employees | from $14,000 |
| Scrut Automation | Compliance Automation, up to 20 employees | $15,000 |
AWS Marketplace list prices per 12-month contract, checked July 2026. Vanta's is worded as a starting cost, so it is a floor; Scrut's is fixed.
The two figures are close, with Vanta's the lower and the more hedged. The trade is between a floor that may move and a fixed number that probably will not, which for a seed-stage team budgeting a year ahead is not a trivial difference in either direction.
Every published dimension, in full
The complete set, vendor by vendor, exactly as each listing words it. These are not comparable across vendors for the reasons set out above, but each is a real, checkable, public number for the thing it describes.
Vanta
starting price- Essentials Package1-20 employeesfrom $14,000
- Plus Package$21,500
- Professional Package$23,000
- Trust Center$6,000
- Third-Party Risk Management$13,600
Vanta publishes package prices on AWS Marketplace, with Essentials scoped to a 1-20 employee band and described on the listing as a starting cost. The listing also offers an express private offer.
Drata
fixed- Platform Feecapacity for a 100 FTE organisation$25,000
- Each compliance frameworkflat per framework: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, MS SSPA, NIST CSF$7,500
Drata publishes a platform fee and a flat per-framework fee on AWS Marketplace as two separate line items. The listing publishes no combined figure. It also offers a private-offer path.
Secureframe
fixed- Access the Secureframe Platformup to 100 employees$7,500
- First Frameworkchoice of any framework$7,500
Secureframe publishes a platform fee scoped to 100 employees and a first-framework fee on AWS Marketplace as two separate line items. Custom pricing is available through the listing contact.
Sprinto
fixed- Starter Platformup to 100 employees$7,500
- First Compliance Frameworklisting words this as starting at $2,000 eachfrom $2,000
Sprinto publishes a Starter platform fee scoped to 100 employees and a first-framework fee on AWS Marketplace. The framework line is explicitly worded as a starting price, so it is a floor.
Scytale
starting price- Software Platformbundles one frameworkfrom $7,500
- Additional Framework$2,100
- Consulting$4,000
Scytale publishes a platform price that bundles one framework on AWS Marketplace. The listing labels its own pricing as a starting price and invites a quote, so every figure here is a floor.
Scrut Automation
fixed- Compliance Automationorganisations up to 20 employees$15,000
Scrut publishes a single fixed dimension on AWS Marketplace, scoped to organisations of up to 20 employees. The listing carries no private-offer redirect.
Strike Graph
fixed- Scale$18,000
- CMMC Bundle$14,000
- MedDev$12,000
- Tier 1 framework$3,000
- Tier 2 framework$5,000
- Tier 3 framework$8,000
Strike Graph publishes the most granular rate card of the seven platforms on AWS Marketplace: a Scale price, two named bundles, and three framework tiers. Usage above the included allowance is listed at $1 per unit.
All figures priced per 12-month contract and read off each vendor's own AWS Marketplace listing, checked July 2026. AWS shows no price-effective date on the pricing tab, so the check date is the provenance.
The platforms that publish nothing
Two products in this category carry no list price, and in one case the reason is structural rather than evasive.
Thoropass
Bundles a CPA audit into the platform contract, delivered by its in-house AICPA-registered firm. A SOC 2 examination is priced per engagement under AICPA standards and no CPA firm publishes a rate card, so a product with an audit inside it cannot carry a list price. Compare it against a platform plus a separately contracted firm, with the audit fee counted on both sides.
OneTrust GRC, formerly Tugboat Logic
Acquired by OneTrust in 2021 and now one module of an enterprise suite, sold through an enterprise motion with no public price list and no marketplace listing. For a buyer whose requirement is SOC 2 alone, the question is fit before price: it is one module of a platform built for a much wider compliance workload.
What none of these prices include
Every figure on this page buys software. None of them buys a SOC 2 report. The examination is an attestation engagement performed by a CPA firm under AICPA standards, contracted separately, and it is the line most likely to be missing from a budget built off platform pricing alone.
No CPA firm publishes a rate card, so unlike the platform line the audit fee cannot be looked up at any price. It tracks your system boundary, the criteria in scope, Type 1 or Type 2, the observation window, and how ready your evidence is. The audit firms guide covers what actually moves it and how to run a three-quote process.
The listings are also silent on renewal escalators, on what each package includes, and in most cases on what happens above the stated band. Those are the questions to take into a sales call, because no public source answers them.