What Scytale publishes
Scytale's AWS Marketplace listing carries a public pricing table with several dimensions on it. It also carries a label describing that pricing as a starting price, and a request-a-private-offer path. Both halves are true at once and the second one governs how the first should be read.
Scytale on AWS Marketplace: the published dimensions
checked July 2026
Every figure below is priced per 12-month contract and the listing labels its own pricing as a starting price, so read these as floors rather than as prices.
| Dimension, as listed | Listed price |
|---|---|
| Software Platformbundles one framework | from $7,500 |
| Additional Framework | $2,100 |
| Consulting | $4,000 |
Listed on AWS Marketplace (prodview-l5sznzy35k5m6), 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. Lines marked from are worded as a starting price on the listing itself. The listing also offers a private-offer path, so a negotiated price may differ from the list dimensions above. A marketplace list price is a real public fact; what the vendor actually sells at is not something we know.
Scytale's own site at scytale.ai is worth reading alongside the listing for what the product covers, though the marketplace dimensions above are the pricing reference.
The bundled framework is a real structural difference
Every other platform in this comparison that publishes prices splits the platform from the first framework: Secureframe lists $7,500 and $7,500, Sprinto lists $7,500 and from $2,000, Drata lists $25,000 and $7,500. Scytale bundles one framework into the platform line and prices only the frameworks after that separately, at $2,100 each.
For a company doing SOC 2 and nothing else, that means the published floor is a single line rather than two, which is genuinely easier to reason about. For a company with a multi-framework roadmap, the additional-framework line at $2,100 is the number to weigh, and it is the second lowest published framework line in the category after Sprinto's floor. Both are floors, so neither can be treated as a settled comparison against Drata's fixed flat framework fee.
Why this page will not rank Scytale on price
Scytale's platform figure sits at the same level as Secureframe's and Sprinto's, but two things stop that being a like-for-like. Scytale's listing does not publish an employee band for its platform dimension, where Secureframe's and Sprinto's both say up to 100 employees. And Scytale's figure includes a framework where theirs do not. So the same number is buying a different thing for an unstated number of people.
Add the starting-price label on top and there is no honest way to place Scytale in a price ranking from the listings alone. What you can do is read the floor, note that a framework is inside it, and take that into a quote. Anyone presenting a confident Scytale-versus-Vanta price verdict is doing arithmetic the sources do not support.
The consulting line is worth asking about
Scytale publishes a Consulting dimension at $4,000. No other platform listing in this comparison publishes anything like it. The listing does not say what it covers, so this page will not guess, but the existence of the line is itself informative: advisory work is being sold as a discrete product rather than bundled into a customer success relationship.
What it is definitely not is the audit. No GRC platform sells the SOC 2 examination, which is an attestation engagement performed by a CPA firm under AICPA standards. If a consulting line and an audit fee get conflated in a budget, the budget is wrong by the entire cost of the audit. See audit firms for what that separate engagement actually involves.
What the listing does not tell you
The platform dimension has no published employee band at all, which is the largest gap in this listing and the reason it cannot be placed in the 100-employee comparison that the platforms page sets out. Which framework the bundled one can be, what the platform includes, and what moves any of these figures above their floor are all unpublished. So is the renewal escalator, as with every vendor in the category.