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Screenata vs Comp AI
Comp AI is an open-source compliance platform with a sales team and a bundle: the audit and a penetration test are typically inside the quote, and its hub pages promise audit-ready in 24 hours. Screenata sells no audit. Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the rest of the evidence while your team works as deterministic, replayable procedures, and files it signed for the auditor you choose. $5,988/year per framework, published. Comp AI is cheaper with the audit inside; that is the trade.
Side by side
Comp AI closes the task. Screenata signs the evidence.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Comp AI doesn’t do.
Deterministic, replayable, signed
Comp AI's browser automations are natural-language instructions an LLM re-runs each time, so the same task can produce a different artifact next quarter with no record to replay. Screenata records the evidence while your team does the task, saves it as a procedure that replays the same way, and files it with a capture-time timestamp and a signed manifest. Patent pending. That is the answer to an auditor's question: how do you know this ran the same way last quarter?
Populations and samples for Type II
Comp AI has no population or sampling model; tasks close when a user marks them done or a check passes. Screenata pulls complete populations from the source systems and lets the auditor pick the sample, which is what a Type II examination actually tests.
An auditor we do not sell
Comp AI's price works because the audit is inside it. The AICPA's April 2026 ethics guidance lists tool-provider bundles that set the audit fee, tool-driven deadlines, and referral concentration as independence threats CPA firms must evaluate. Screenata sells no audit, takes no referral fee, and gives the firm you choose a read-only Auditor Center. The question a buyer's security reviewer asks is who chose the auditor; ours has a short answer.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Comp AI reads.
Do
Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team does the task, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the finding and drafts the fix.
Verify & sign
After a human applies the change, Vera re-verifies and files a signed, traceable artifact. She escalates judgment calls rather than acting unattended, which is what keeps auditors comfortable.
Comp AI
Automate → task done → bundled audit
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Comp AI, in detail
The questions people ask about Comp AI.
Open source
Open-source and self-hostable, what that means
Comp AI publishes its platform under AGPL, which means you can self-host it for free and read the code. Screenata's connectors and check definitions are open source and its evidence format is a published open spec with a free verify CLI; the platform is commercial. If self-hosting the whole platform is the requirement, Comp AI is the honest choice. If the requirement is evidence a third party can verify, the open part that matters is the manifest format.
Comp AI pricing
The bundle, explained
Comp AI publishes no rate card — its pricing page says it prepares your number on a call — and the quote typically includes the audit and a resold penetration test. That is why it can be cheaper than a platform plus a separately priced audit. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, and the audit is a separate engagement with the CPA firm you choose, at that firm's price. Specialist firms typically quote small companies $5,000–$10,000 for a Type I and $7,000–$15,000 for a Type II.
- Comp AI: quote-only, audit and pentest inside, auditor chosen by the vendor by default
- Screenata: $5,988/year per framework, published, audit priced by your auditor
- Ask any bundle who the auditor is and who sets the fee — the AICPA now asks the same
The honest version
When Comp AI is the better fit.
- You want an open-source, self-hostable platform under AGPL
- You want one price with the audit and a pentest inside it
- You need the certificate, and your customers will not read the report
Screenata is built for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, wants policies grounded in real infrastructure, and would rather operate compliance from Slack and the terminal than a dashboard. More on who we’re for.
Screenata
$5,988/year per framework ($499/mo), published; audit priced by the auditor you choose
Every module included, per framework. Published, not sales-gated. The audit is priced by the auditor you choose; we sell no audit and take no referral fee.
Comp AI
Self-host free (AGPL); managed by quote, audit typically inside
Third-party figure, not a vendor list price. Ranges scale with frameworks and headcount; see the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Source: Comp AI pricing page (no rate card), fetched 2026-09-03.
Year one, all in
What year one actually costs.
Sources: Vendr marketplace pages (anonymized transaction data, fetched 2026-09-03); vendors’ own pricing pages and documentation where published; Vanta’s August 2026 screenshot figure; Drata “SOC 2 By the Numbers” 2026. Ranges scale with headcount and framework count; none is a vendor list price unless the vendor publishes one.
Questions
Screenata vs Comp AI, answered.
Is Screenata a good Comp AI alternative?
For a company whose customers will read the SOC 2 report, yes. Comp AI sells a certificate at a bundle price with the audit inside. Screenata records evidence while your team works as deterministic, replayable procedures, signs it, pulls complete populations for Type II, and leaves the audit to a CPA firm you choose. $5,988 a year per framework, published.
Is Comp AI really open source, and is Screenata?
Comp AI's platform is AGPL and self-hostable. Screenata's connectors, check definitions, and evidence-signing format are open source, with a free CLI to verify any evidence pack; the platform itself is commercial.
How much does Comp AI cost compared to Screenata?
Comp AI publishes no rate card and quotes on a call, typically with the audit and a penetration test inside the number. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, plus whatever the auditor you choose charges for the audit. The line items are not the comparison; the comparison is whose report survives a customer's security review. In a bundle, the auditor is chosen and paid through the vendor whose tooling produced the evidence. With Screenata, you choose and pay the auditor, and the evidence is signed so they can verify it outside the platform.
How is Screenata different from Comp AI if both use AI?
Comp AI's browser automations are natural-language instructions an LLM re-interprets on every run, and tasks close when a user clicks done or a check passes. Screenata records evidence while the work happens, replays it the same way each cycle, signs it at capture, and keeps complete populations for the auditor to sample. Same word, different evidence.
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