There is no Prescient Assurance rate card
Prescient Assurance publishes no SOC 2 fee schedule. Neither does Schellman, A-LIGN, Coalfire, Linford & Co, Johanson Group, or any other CPA firm in this market. A SOC 2 examination is an attestation engagement performed under AICPA standards, scoped and priced per client after a scoping conversation, and fixed in an engagement letter. Any page that hands you a firm-specific fee table is showing you a number nobody published.
This is the actual mechanism, and understanding it is what lets you control the price. The fee is a function of auditor hours. Auditor hours are a function of the scope you define and the state of the evidence you hand over. Both of those are things you decide before you ever ask for a quote.
What actually sets the fee
Five variables move a SOC 2 quote at any firm, boutique or Big 4:
- System boundary. How many products, environments, and supporting systems sit inside the description. Scope creep here is the largest driver of fee variance.
- Trust Services Criteria in scope. Security, the Common Criteria, is the base. Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy each add control points and testing work. See the criteria breakdown.
- Type 1 or Type 2. A Type 1 opines on the design of controls at a point in time. A Type 2 opines on operating effectiveness across a period, which means sampling and testing. See Type 1 vs Type 2.
- Observation window. A longer Type 2 period means more samples to pull and more testing to perform.
- Readiness state. Complete, organised, retrievable evidence takes fewer auditor hours than a scramble. This is the variable you control most directly, and it is why the readiness work pays for itself.
What is verifiable about Prescient Assurance
Prescient Assurance is a CPA firm delivering SOC 2 and other attestation work, positioned in the boutique tier of the audit market. The firm is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and describes its engagement staffing as senior auditors across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. Its positioning is set out on the firm's own site at prescientassurance.com.
That is the extent of what can be sourced to the firm itself. Fees, turnaround times, and staffing arrangements are engagement-specific and are set out in the engagement letter you sign, not on any website. Ask the firm directly and hold the answer against the other quotes on your desk.
Run a three-quote process
The only reliable way to find out what a SOC 2 audit costs your company is to ask three firms the same question. Write the scope down first: the system boundary, the criteria in scope, the report type, the observation window, and the date you need the report in hand. Send that identical brief to each firm.
Then compare like for like. Ask each firm to break out the readiness or gap assessment, the examination itself, how many rounds of report review are included, whether bridge letters are included, and what the year-two renewal looks like. A cheaper headline with the readiness work excluded is not cheaper. Firms vary considerably in what they fold into a single number, and that variation, not a rack rate, is what you are actually shopping.