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The best Drata alternatives in 2026
The main Drata alternatives are Vanta, Secureframe, Sprinto, Scrut Automation, Thoropass, Oneleet, Comp AI, Scytale, and Delve, plus Screenata, which we make. Vanta is the closest like-for-like swap. Thoropass and Comp AI change the model by putting the audit inside the price, Oneleet adds its own penetration testers, and Scrut charges one flat price across frameworks. Screenata is built for the evidence Drata's integrations never reach: recorded while your team works, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose.
At a glance
10 Drata alternatives, side by side.
| Tool | Best for | Price | Auditor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screenata | 5 to 50 person teams that need SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 for customers who will actually read the report. | Request a scoped quote | Your choice. We sell no audit and take no referral fee |
| Vanta | Teams that want the biggest integration catalog and the brand auditors and partners already know. | Quote. | Your choice, via Vanta's auditor network |
| Secureframe | CMMC or FedRAMP programs, or teams that want compliance experts on call. | Quote. | Your choice, via Secureframe's auditor network |
| Scrut Automation | Programs running many frameworks that want one flat price and a configurable risk register. | Quote, flat. | Your choice, via Scrut's auditor network |
| Sprinto | Teams comparing quote-based platforms on total contract value, with someone to work the task queue. | Quote. | Your choice, via Sprinto's auditor network |
| Thoropass | Companies that want one vendor for the platform and the audit, or need SOC 1 or HITRUST alongside SOC 2. | Quote, with the audit inside the price | Thoropass's own CPA firm |
| Oneleet | Teams that want penetration testing, code scanning, and MDM from one vendor with its own testers. | Quote. | Your choice; external CPA firms via Oneleet's auditor portal |
| Comp AI | Teams that want to self-host the platform, or want one price with the audit inside and need the certificate more than the report. | Self-host free (AGPL); managed by quote, audit typically inside | Bundled audit by default; optional in the quote |
| Scytale | Teams that want named advisors inside the subscription, or need SOX ITGC. | Not published; tiered bundles with advisory, quote only | Your choice, via Scytale's auditor network |
| Delve | Teams that want 24/7 concierge access or EU AI Act mappings, once they have checked how its evidence and auditor arrangements work today. | Not published; demo-gated quote | Referred through Delve's network |
Why teams look past Drata
What usually starts the search.
The price is a quote
Drata doesn't publish pricing.
The evidence outside integrations is still uploaded
Drata's own 2026 report says customers take 602 to 829 days to reach peak SOC 2 readiness, and most never reach 100%. Evidence collection is the part that stalls.
It assumes a team to run it
Drata is built for a dedicated GRC or security team that works the platform daily. A small company without a compliance owner ends up driving it anyway, or paying someone to.
The alternatives
Each one, and who it suits.
- ( 01 / 10 )
Evidence platform run by an agent · ours
Screenata
An evidence platform run by an agent. Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team works, and signs every artifact so your auditor can verify it outside the platform.
- Best for
- 5 to 50 person teams that need SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 for customers who will actually read the report.
- Price
- Request a scoped quote
- Auditor
- Your choice. We sell no audit and take no referral fee
- ( 02 / 10 )
GRC platform
Vanta
The broadest GRC platform: the largest integration catalog, 35+ frameworks, an auditor partner network, and AI agents in preview.
- Best for
- Teams that want the biggest integration catalog and the brand auditors and partners already know.
- The closest swap: the same dashboard model with a larger catalog, in the same Vendr price band. It fits if the product is the reason you're leaving, not the upload work.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Vanta's auditor network
- ( 03 / 10 )
GRC platform
Secureframe
A GRC platform with in-house compliance experts, Comply AI remediation guidance, and real depth in federal frameworks like CMMC and FedRAMP.
- Best for
- CMMC or FedRAMP programs, or teams that want compliance experts on call.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Secureframe's auditor network
- ( 04 / 10 )
GRC platform
Scrut Automation
A risk-first GRC platform with 60+ frameworks, 24/7 control monitoring, configurable templates, and one flat price regardless of framework count.
- Best for
- Programs running many frameworks that want one flat price and a configurable risk register.
- Vendr's median Scrut contract sits below Drata's small-company band, and the price stays flat as you add frameworks.
- Price
- Quote, flat.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Scrut's auditor network
- ( 05 / 10 )
GRC platform
Sprinto
A compliance automation platform with continuous monitoring, a broad framework catalog, a task queue for evidence integrations don't reach, and an auditor network.
- Best for
- Teams comparing quote-based platforms on total contract value, with someone to work the task queue.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Sprinto's auditor network
- ( 06 / 10 )
Audit firm + platform · formerly Laika
Thoropass
An audit firm with a platform: its own AICPA-registered CPA practice sells the software, the readiness work, and the audit together.
- Best for
- Companies that want one vendor for the platform and the audit, or need SOC 1 or HITRUST alongside SOC 2.
- Changes the model rather than the tool: the firm that helps you prepare also issues the opinion.
- Price
- Quote, with the audit inside the price
- Auditor
- Thoropass's own CPA firm
- ( 07 / 10 )
Security + compliance platform
Oneleet
A security platform with a human-run compliance program: in-house penetration testing, code scanning, MDM, and a Security Program Manager.
- Best for
- Teams that want penetration testing, code scanning, and MDM from one vendor with its own testers.
- Price
- Quote.
- Auditor
- Your choice; external CPA firms via Oneleet's auditor portal
- ( 08 / 10 )
Open-source compliance
Comp AI
An open-source (AGPL) compliance platform with a sales team. The managed quote typically includes the audit and a resold penetration test.
- Best for
- Teams that want to self-host the platform, or want one price with the audit inside and need the certificate more than the report.
- Price
- Self-host free (AGPL); managed by quote, audit typically inside
- Auditor
- Bundled audit by default; optional in the quote
- ( 09 / 10 )
GRC platform + advisory
Scytale
A compliance platform bundled with human advisors, across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 42001, and SOX ITGC.
- Best for
- Teams that want named advisors inside the subscription, or need SOX ITGC.
- Price
- Not published; tiered bundles with advisory, quote only
- Auditor
- Your choice, via Scytale's auditor network
- ( 10 / 10 )
AI-native compliance
Delve
An AI-native compliance platform with concierge support and a wide catalog that includes AI governance. In March 2026 it was publicly accused of fabricated evidence and rubber-stamp audits, which it denies, and Y Combinator removed it from its directory in April 2026.
- Best for
- Teams that want 24/7 concierge access or EU AI Act mappings, once they have checked how its evidence and auditor arrangements work today.
- Price
- Not published; demo-gated quote
- Auditor
- Referred through Delve's network
Updated 2026-09-15. Vendr figures are anonymized transaction data (fetched 2026-09-03), not vendor list prices. All comparisons.
Screenata vs Drata, in detail
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 scoped proposal, and your auditor
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. Additional frameworks are scoped separately and reuse the first one's evidence.
- Drata: quote-based, headcount and scope tiers, implementation sold separately
- Request a scoped quote
- 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
Request a scoped quote
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.
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
Drata alternatives, answered.
What is the best alternative to Drata?
It depends on why you're leaving. For the same kind of platform with a larger catalog, Vanta. For in-house experts or CMMC and FedRAMP, Secureframe. For one flat price across many frameworks, Scrut Automation. For the platform and the audit from one vendor, Thoropass. For a bundled pentest and security tooling, Oneleet. For evidence recorded while your team works and signed for the auditor you choose, Screenata, which we make.
How do Drata alternatives compare on price?
Most don't publish a price. Comp AI is free to self-host under AGPL. Thoropass and Comp AI's managed plan put the audit inside the quote, so compare those on a different question: does the vendor that prepares your evidence also provide your auditor?
Is Vanta better than Drata?
They are more alike than different. Both are dashboards your team drives, both are template-first, and both automate infrastructure checks and flag the rest for a person. Vanta has the broadest integration catalog and market presence; Drata is prized for an autopilot you can configure to your own control language.
Can I switch from Drata and keep my auditor?
Yes, with any platform that leaves the audit to a firm you choose: Vanta, Secureframe, Sprinto, Scrut Automation, Oneleet, Scytale, and Screenata. Thoropass audits through its own CPA firm, and Comp AI bundles an audit by default. Evidence from your current observation window belongs to that window, so plan the switch around your audit cycle.
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.
How much does Drata cost compared to Screenata?
Drata does not publish pricing.
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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