What changed after the OneTrust acquisition
Tugboat Logic was one of the early entrants in GRC automation for SOC 2, alongside Vanta, with a focus on policy automation and evidence collection. OneTrust acquired it in September 2021 and folded it into its wider compliance platform as OneTrust GRC. The product is described on the OneTrust site at onetrust.com/products/grc.
The substantive change for a buyer is not the branding. It is that a standalone product competing on SOC 2 became one module of an enterprise suite, sold through an enterprise motion. Someone searching for Tugboat Logic today lands on a OneTrust product page and enters a sales process, where the original product had a lighter-touch motion. That is a change in what is being sold and to whom, and it is the thing to reason about.
There is no published price, and this page will not invent one
OneTrust publishes no price list for OneTrust GRC. There is no per-module rate, no published employee band, and no AWS Marketplace list-price listing of the sort that seven of the dedicated SOC 2 platforms carry. Pricing is quoted per customer.
That is a real and unsatisfying answer, and it is the honest one. A range attributed to a named vendor's product that the vendor has never published is a number we would have made up, however carefully it was hedged, and it would be wrong in a direction nobody could check. The useful thing this page can do instead is tell you which of the alternatives publish real numbers, so you can walk into the OneTrust conversation with a benchmark rather than a blank.
The alternatives that do publish
For a buyer whose actual requirement is SOC 2, the dedicated platforms are the comparison set, and several of them publish list-price dimensions you can read before you talk to a salesperson.
- Secureframe and Sprinto each list a platform dimension at $7,500 for up to 100 employees.
- Vanta lists Essentials at $14,000 for a 1-20 employee band, worded as a starting cost.
- Drata lists a platform fee of $25,000 at a 100-FTE capacity, plus $7,500 flat per framework.
- Strike Graph publishes the most granular rate card of the group, with Scale at $18,000.
All AWS Marketplace list prices per 12-month contract, checked July 2026. Each is scoped to the band its own listing states, and those bands differ, so the figures are not interchangeable. The platforms comparison sets out which of them can honestly be read against each other.
When OneTrust GRC is still the right answer
The case is about footprint, not price. If you already run OneTrust for privacy or consent, which is common in companies with substantial GDPR or CCPA obligations, then the GRC module joins an existing platform, an existing contract and existing data. Subject access requests, third-party risk records and control evidence sit in one system rather than being reconciled across two.
If your compliance workload genuinely spans privacy, consent, third-party risk, ethics and ESG, that native integration is a real argument and no dedicated SOC 2 platform answers it. If your workload is SOC 2 and a couple of adjacent frameworks, you are buying one module of a suite you will not use, from a sales process, when several alternatives will tell you a price up front. That is the whole decision.
For existing Tugboat Logic customers
Nothing is urgent. Legacy contracts continue to be supported and the SOC 2 deliverable is unchanged. The renewal is the decision point, and the question to answer first is the fit question above: are you using the wider OneTrust platform, or only the GRC module?
If it is only the GRC module, put the renewal quote beside the dedicated platforms, using their published dimensions as the benchmark. If you are using OneTrust more broadly, the cross-module case is real and the renewal is likelier to hold up. Either way the audit is a separate line: no GRC platform sells the SOC 2 examination, which is a CPA engagement quoted against your scope. See the audit firms guide for what sets that number.