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Compliance Everywhere vs.
Drata.
Drata is a serious enterprise compliance platform, and after buying SafeBase for $250M it owns the best trust-center tooling in the category. The narrower question decides it: what does the subscription contain? Drata automates the evidence and tells you to budget the penetration test separately. We fold the test in, every month.
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| Criterion | Drata | Compliance Everywhere |
|---|---|---|
| What the subscription includes | Compliance automation: controls, monitoring, evidence collection | The SOC 2 controls your agent builds over MCP, a pentest of your running app every month, device management for every laptop, and a public Trust Center |
| Penetration testing | Not included. Drata's own guidance: budget a third-party test separately ($8,000 to $25,000 market rate) | Included monthly, in house. The human pentest auditors expect: $1,500, one time |
| Published pricing | Quote-based, no public price list. Observed contracts $9,649 to $60,000/yr, ~$34,385 average (Vendr procurement data, not Drata's list) | Public: $299/mo under 10 people, $499/mo at 10 or more. Annual $2,990 / $4,990 |
| The audit / attestation | Auditor network; the audit firm bills you separately | Independent AICPA-member US CPA, billed to you directly, estimated on the pricing page. No fee split, which is what keeps the opinion independent |
| Trust center / questionnaires | SafeBase, the strongest in the category (a $250M acquisition), typically an enterprise-tier add-on | A public Trust Center is included, free. Our answer to a security questionnaire is last month's pentest report |
| Frameworks | 20+ frameworks, deep enterprise and multi-framework support | SOC 2 Type I and II today; ISO 27001 from November 9; FDA, FCC, OSHA, UL, FedRAMP and GDPR next |
| Best for | Mid-market and enterprise programs, heavy questionnaire volume, multi-framework roadmaps | Startups under 10 people that need a signed SOC 2 plus real testing without three more vendors |
On the pricing row, note whose numbers those are. Drata's ranges come from Vendr's tracked buyer contracts, not from Drata, because Drata does not publish prices. Ours are on the pricing page. The honest summary: if your bottleneck is questionnaires and multi-framework evidence at scale, Drata is excellent. If your bottleneck is proving your product is actually secure, a compliance platform without a test cannot prove it.
Checked on October 14, 2026. Competitor facts come from their public pages and from Vendr's buyer-reported contract data; ours from the pricing page. Tell us if something changed: [email protected].
Which one
Evidence of controls, or evidence it holds.
Pick Drata when
- You field security questionnaires weekly: SafeBase is the best trust-center tooling in the category, full stop.
- You are mid-market or enterprise with a multi-framework roadmap (ISO 27001 + HIPAA + GDPR + more) and a GRC team to run it.
- You already have a standing pentest firm and only the automation layer is missing.
- Procurement wants an established vendor with enterprise references.
Pick Compliance Everywhere when
- You want the pentest and the compliance program in one subscription, instead of a platform quote plus a separate $8,000 to $25,000 test line item.
- You are under 10 people: $299 a month, monthly pentest included, no sales call to learn the price.
- The thing blocking your deal is a customer asking for proof of security testing, not a missing questionnaire portal.
- You would rather show exploit-validated findings from last month than an evidence screenshot of a scanner.