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Screenata vs Drata
Drata is an enterprise-leaning GRC platform: template libraries, hundreds of integrations, automated control tests, and agents for questionnaires and vendor risk. Screenata starts from the other end of the problem — the evidence integrations never finish. Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly and records the rest while your team works, timestamped, signed, and traceable to the run that produced it. You pick the auditor. $5,988/year per framework, published.
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Side by side
Drata tests. Vera records the rest.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Drata doesn’t do.
The evidence that never finishes
Drata published its own numbers in 2026: customers take 602 to 829 days to reach peak SOC 2 readiness, before the observation period, and most never reach 100% — enterprise accounts cap at 30% average readiness. Evidence collection is the dimension that stalls. Screenata is built for that residue: evidence recorded while your team does the actual work, not uploaded afterwards.
Evidence your auditor can check outside the platform
Every artifact Vera files carries a capture-time timestamp badge, a signed manifest with an RFC 3161 timestamp, and a trace from the policy sentence to the claim, the test, and the run. Your auditor verifies it with a free CLI, without a Screenata login. Drata links evidence to controls and exports it.
A published price, and your auditor
Drata does not publish pricing; Vendr's transaction data puts startups under 50 employees at $12–25K a year, with implementation packages of $5–20K on top. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with no implementation fee. We sell no audit and take no referral fee, so the firm you choose is your decision.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Drata 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.
Drata
Test → flag → a person uploads the rest
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Drata, in detail
The questions people ask about Drata.
Drata's own numbers
What Drata's 2026 SOC 2 report says about the work
Drata's "SOC 2 By the Numbers" (2026) is telemetry from its own customer base, and it is the best case: their methodology notes their customers are compliance-mature, so the figures run high against the market. Time to peak readiness is 602 days for enterprise, 760 for commercial, and 829 for emerging companies — and that is before the 6–12-month Type II observation period. Enterprise accounts cap at 30% average readiness with 5.5% ever reaching 100%; emerging companies average 55% and 17.4%. Readiness is their composite of policy coverage, control implementation, and evidence collection, and evidence collection is the part that never completes. One caution when reading it: "days to peak readiness" measures when an account stops climbing, not when it is done.
- 602–829 days to peak readiness, before the observation period
- Most accounts never reach 100% — evidence collection is the dimension that stalls
- Screenata records that evidence while the work happens, so the residue is produced, not chased
Drata pricing
The number is a quote
Drata does not publish list pricing. Vendr's anonymized transaction data reports $12–25K a year for startups under 50 employees, $20–45K for companies of 50–200, and $60K+ for enterprise, with implementation and readiness packages of $5–20K and 15–25% discounts for multi-year terms. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published on the pricing page, with every module included and no implementation fee. Additional frameworks are scoped separately and reuse the first one's evidence.
- Drata: quote-based, headcount and scope tiers, implementation sold separately
- Screenata: $5,988/year per framework, published, no implementation fee
- Neither Drata nor Screenata sells the audit — you choose the firm either way
Drata agents & MCP
Agents that answer vs an agent that records
Drata's agents draft questionnaire answers and vendor risk reviews, and its MCP server lets an AI client read your Drata data. Vera drafts questionnaires from your live evidence too. The difference is what happens with the evidence integrations cannot reach: Vera records it while your team does the task, so the artifact carries its own provenance instead of being uploaded and described later.
Moving from Drata
Keep your auditor, keep your policies, re-record the evidence
Migration is export-based, and we say so plainly: Screenata does not pull from Drata's API. You bring the policies you already own as PDF or DOCX and Screenata maps them to claims and tests; you bring your auditor's accepted control list to set scope; you reconnect integrations and the native checks re-run overnight. Prior-period evidence belongs to the old observation window, so the artifacts that matter are recaptured, this time with provenance. The auditor relationship you already have comes with you.
The honest version
When Drata is the better fit.
- You have a dedicated GRC or security team that will run the platform daily
- You need enterprise GRC: custom frameworks, multi-entity workspaces, 30+ frameworks
- You want the broadest integration catalog and the most mature partner ecosystem
- You're standardizing a larger organization on one GRC vendor
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, no implementation fee
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.
Drata
Quote. Vendr data: $12–25K/yr, under 50 employees
Third-party figure, not a vendor list price. Ranges scale with frameworks and headcount; see the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Source: Vendr marketplace: Drata pricing (anonymized transaction data), 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 Drata, answered.
Is Screenata a good Drata alternative?
For a company whose customers will actually read the SOC 2 report, yes. Drata is a strong enterprise GRC platform with a broad catalog and a dedicated-team workflow. Screenata is an evidence platform run by an agent: 650+ native checks nightly, and the evidence integrations cannot reach recorded while your team works, timestamped, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose. $5,988 a year per framework, published.
How much does Drata cost compared to Screenata?
Drata does not publish pricing. Vendr's transaction data reports $12–25K a year for startups under 50 employees and $20–45K for companies of 50–200, with implementation packages of $5–20K sold separately. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with all modules included and no implementation fee.
How long does SOC 2 take on Drata?
Drata's own 2026 report says its customers take 602 to 829 days to reach peak readiness, before the 6–12-month Type II observation period, and that most never reach 100%. Note that "days to peak readiness" measures when an account stops climbing, not when it is done. Screenata does not promise a timeline; it removes the hand work that makes the timeline long.
Can I keep my auditor if I move from Drata to Screenata?
Yes. Screenata sells no audit and takes no referral fee, so the firm you already work with — or any registered CPA firm — gets a read-only Auditor Center with the controls, tests, evidence, and signed manifests for each audit cycle.
How does migration from Drata work?
Export-based. Bring your policies as PDF or DOCX and Screenata maps them to claims and tests; bring your auditor's accepted control list to set scope; reconnect your integrations and the native checks re-run overnight. Evidence from a prior observation window is recaptured rather than imported, this time with a timestamp badge and signed manifest. We do not pull from Drata's API.
What can Screenata do that Drata can't?
Record evidence while your team does the actual work — a browser extension or desktop recorder captures the task step by step with a capture-time timestamp and a signed manifest — and trace a specific policy sentence to a testable claim, a control test, and a signed artifact your auditor can verify outside the platform with a free CLI.
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