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Screenata vs Scrut Automation
Scrut Automation is a risk-first GRC platform: a broad framework catalog, 24/7 control monitoring, configurable templates, and a flat pricing model without per-framework fees, sold by quote.
Side by side
Scrut monitors. Vera records.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Scrut Automation doesn’t do.
Evidence with provenance, recorded while you work
Scrut monitors controls and organizes what you upload. Vera records the evidence integrations cannot reach while your team does the task, with a capture-time timestamp badge and a signed manifest verifiable outside the platform.
Policies grounded in infrastructure
Screenata writes policies from scans of your GitHub, cloud, and identity provider, flags commitments your systems cannot back, and traces each sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact. Scrut starts from configurable templates.
A proposal for your scope
Scrut's flat model is a real advantage for multi-framework programs, but it is quote-based.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Scrut Automation 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.
Scrut Automation
Monitor → flag → upload the rest
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Scrut Automation, in detail
The questions people ask about Scrut Automation.
Scrut pricing
What Scrut costs
Scrut does not publish a rate card. Its model is flat: one price regardless of how many frameworks you enable, which is attractive for programs running four or more. For one to three frameworks the two models land in a similar place; the difference is that ours is on the pricing page.
Scrut's risk-first model
Configurability vs recorded evidence
Scrut is built to be configured: a risk register you shape, templates you tailor, a catalog of 60+ frameworks to map. Screenata is built to produce evidence: policies from scans, checks nightly, and the non-API residue recorded while the work happens. If your program is risk-led and you want to configure it yourself, Scrut fits. If the pain is evidence that never finishes, Screenata is for that.
The honest version
When Scrut Automation is the better fit.
- You run many frameworks and want one flat price without per-framework fees
- Risk management is the center of your program and you want a configurable risk register
- You have a compliance owner who will configure and drive the platform
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.
Scrut Automation
Quote, flat.
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: Scrut Automation (median contract value), 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 Scrut Automation, answered.
Is Screenata a good Scrut Automation alternative?
For teams whose pain is evidence rather than configuration, yes. Scrut is a risk-first, configurable GRC platform with a broad catalog and a flat quote.
How much does Scrut cost compared to Screenata?
Request a scoped quote
What can Screenata do that Scrut can't?
Record evidence while your team does the actual work, with a capture-time timestamp and a signed manifest verifiable outside the platform; write policies from infrastructure scans; and trace a policy sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact.
Connect and see
Compare on your own systems, not a feature grid.
Connect GitHub and cloud read-only. Vera generates policies and a control matrix from your real infrastructure in minutes, and we ship new capabilities every week.