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Screenata vs Scytale
Scytale is a compliance platform bundled with human advisory: experts who guide the program alongside automated monitoring, across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 42001, and SOX ITGC, sold as tiered bundles by quote. Screenata replaces the advisor retainer with an agent: Vera runs the checks, records the rest of the evidence while your team works, and drafts the policies and questionnaires, at a published $5,988/year per framework, with the auditor your choice.
Side by side
Scytale advises. Vera records.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Scytale doesn’t do.
An agent instead of an advisor retainer
Scytale's price includes people who guide you. Screenata's includes an agent who does the work: checks nightly, evidence recorded while your team works, policies and questionnaires drafted, and only judgment calls escalated. If you have a vCISO, they run Screenata for you at partner rates.
Policies from reality, with a proof chain
Screenata writes policies from infrastructure scans, flags unprovable commitments, and traces each sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact verifiable outside the platform.
Published pricing, no quote required
Scytale sells tiered bundles by quote. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included and no advisory tier to choose.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Scytale 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.
Scytale
Monitor → advisor guides → upload
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Scytale, in detail
The questions people ask about Scytale.
Scytale alternatives
Guided service vs an agent that records the work
Scytale's model is a platform plus advisors, which suits a team that wants people to lean on. Screenata's model is a product that does the hands work — the evidence integrations never reach is recorded while your team does the task, with provenance an auditor can check — and a partner channel of vCISO firms who run it for clients that want a person too. Same buyer, different shape: retained advice, or a product with the option of a partner.
The honest version
When Scytale is the better fit.
- You want named human advisors included in the subscription
- You need SOX ITGC alongside your security frameworks
- You prefer a guided service over a product your team or vCISO operates
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
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.
Scytale
Not published; tiered bundles with advisory, quote only
Typical GRC platform model: annual commitment, with additional frameworks and headcount priced on top.
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 Scytale, answered.
Is Screenata a good Scytale alternative?
For teams that would rather run a product, or have their vCISO run it, than retain advisors, yes. Screenata records evidence while your team works, timestamped, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose, for $5,988 a year per framework, published.
How much does Scytale cost compared to Screenata?
Scytale does not publish pricing; it sells tiered bundles that include advisory, by quote. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included.
What frameworks does Scytale cover?
Scytale lists SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 42001, and SOX ITGC. Screenata runs SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR through a NIST 800-53 hub so one test proves a control across frameworks; it does not cover SOX ITGC today.
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