What Scrut publishes
Scrut's AWS Marketplace listing carries one dimension, priced flat, with an explicit scope attached to it.
Scrut Automation on AWS Marketplace: the published dimensions
checked July 2026
Every figure below is priced per 12-month contract, read off the listing itself.
| Dimension, as listed | Listed price |
|---|---|
| Compliance Automationorganisations up to 20 employees | $15,000 |
Listed on AWS Marketplace (prodview-fz4mb7o7dzj4i), checked July 2026. AWS shows no price-effective date on the pricing tab, so the check date is the provenance. These are the dimensions the listing publishes separately; it publishes no combined figure, so add only the lines your own scope needs. A marketplace list price is a real public fact; what the vendor actually sells at is not something we know.
Two features of that listing are worth naming, because they are rare in this category. There is no starting-price wording, so the figure is a price rather than a floor. And there is no private-offer path, where Vanta, Drata and Scytale all offer or invite one. Within its band, this is the most straightforward published number in the comparison. Scrut's own site at scrut.io covers what the product does.
The band is the whole story
The dimension is scoped to organisations of up to 20 employees. That is a small company: a seed-stage team, a pre-Series-A engineering group, not a mid-market SaaS. And it is the only figure Scrut publishes. There is no listed mid-market tier, no listed enterprise tier, no published per-employee rate, and no separate framework line.
So for the large majority of companies buying SOC 2 automation, Scrut's published pricing says nothing at all. That is not a criticism of the vendor, which is entitled to quote above its listed band like most of the category does. It is a limit on what this page can honestly tell you, and it is worth stating plainly rather than filling with an estimate: if you are a 90-person company, the published Scrut number is not yours and there is no other one.
Against the other listing at the same band
One other platform publishes a dimension scoped to roughly twenty employees, which makes exactly one honest comparison available.
| Vendor | 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. These two are comparable because both listings scope their dimension to roughly the same employee band. Vanta's is worded as a starting cost, so it is a floor; Scrut's is fixed. Secureframe, Sprinto and Drata are absent because their published dimensions are scoped to around 100 employees.
At this band the two published figures are close, and Vanta's is the lower of the pair. It is also the more hedged, being worded as a starting cost where Scrut's is flat, so the comparison is not quite symmetrical: Scrut's number is more likely to be what a small buyer actually pays, and Vanta's is more likely to move. Whether that trade is worth a thousand dollars is a judgement only a specific buyer can make.
What the published listings do not support is a claim that Scrut is a cheap alternative to the category leaders. At the only band where a comparison exists, it is not the cheaper of the two, and above that band it publishes nothing to compare.
Where Scrut still belongs on a shortlist
If you are a sub-20-person company, Scrut is one of the few vendors that will tell you a real, fixed, checkable number before you talk to anyone, and that is worth something on its own. Certainty is a feature. A seed-stage team can put $15,000 in a budget and be reasonably confident it will survive contact with a sales process, which is not true of a starting price.
Beyond that band, put Scrut in the same quote process as everyone else. Ask what the price is at your headcount, what it includes, what a second framework costs, and what the renewal escalator is, because the listing answers none of those and no public source does either.
What the listing does not tell you
Almost everything except the one number. There is no published price above 20 employees, no published framework line, no statement of what Compliance Automation includes, and no renewal terms. The single dimension is precise about the one case it covers and silent on the rest, and this page is not going to fill that silence with an estimate.
The audit is not on the listing, correctly, because Scrut does not sell one. The SOC 2 examination is a separate CPA engagement quoted against your scope, and no firm publishes a rate card. The audit firms guide covers what actually moves that number.