What Drata costs, from the figures Drata publishes

That listing is built differently from most. There is no package with everything in it. You pay a platform fee, then you add a line for each framework you want mapped. The audit is a separate purchase. It has no line here. Below, each piece comes from a page Drata publishes, with the date we read it.

What the AWS listing charges for

Drata is the seller here. So the figures are Drata’s own. Every line is a 12-month contract, and a private offer is available for a custom quote.

• The same Drata listing prices every other framework it shows, including ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS, at $7,500 each for 12 months, adds Trust Center and Risk Management modules on separate lines, and has no line for an audit. Source, read 2026-10-02.
• The drata.com/pricing address redirects to the Drata homepage, which shows no plan or price. Source, read 2026-10-02.

So the smallest SOC 2 purchase on this listing is two lines: the platform fee and the SOC 2 framework. Together they come to $32,500 for twelve months of software. A second framework is another line at the same framework price.

The platform fee is sized for an organization of a hundred people. A team of eight pays the same fee on this listing as a team of ninety. Bigger than that? Private offer.

What the audit adds

A SOC 2 report is issued by a licensed CPA firm,¹ and that firm has to be independent of the company it examines.² So the examination is a separate engagement, with its own fee. Drata publishes its own estimate of that fee:

• Drata estimates the audit fee for a SOC 2 Type 1 at $7,500 to $15,000 and for a Type 2 at $12,000 to $20,000 for small to midsize companies, and puts the total first-year cost at $25,000 for a small startup. Source, read 2026-10-02.

On those numbers, a first year with a Type 1 report lands between $40,000 and $47,500: the two software lines plus the Type 1 range. That uses one company’s figures throughout. The audit firm you hire sets the real fee, and the auditor fee guide covers what moves it.

Where else a Drata figure appears

Drata prints no price for its own software on its own site. The only software prices Drata itself publishes are on its AWS listing. Its own comparison pages do not print prices either:

• Drata’s own page on Vanta alternatives prints no dollar figure for any vendor it lists, and describes both its own plans and Secureframe’s Fundamentals plan as custom pricing. Source, read 2026-10-02.

That page calls Secureframe’s entry plan custom priced, while Secureframe’s own pricing page prints a starting figure for it. Read a vendor’s price on the vendor’s page. The SOC 2 software pricing index does that for eighteen platforms, with a source on every row.

Listing figures are list prices. Contracts are negotiated, and one purchasing service publishes what its own customers paid:

• Vendr, a software buying service, reports that the median buyer pays $25,000 per year for Drata, based on data from 235 purchases. Source, read 2026-10-02.

Treat that as Vendr’s data about Drata, not as a Drata price. It covers purchases Vendr handled, in whatever mix of frameworks and headcounts those buyers had. It is useful as a check on a quote. It is not a number Drata has agreed to.

When Drata is the better buy

Drata earns its price in a few situations. These are the ones we would name.

• You are mapping many frameworks. The listing carries more than a dozen framework lines on one platform. If your roadmap has five of them, that structure fits.
• You need GRC beyond the audit. Risk management and a trust center are separate modules there. We cover SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness, not an enterprise risk program.
• Your team is near a hundred people. The platform fee is already sized for that headcount, so a team that size uses what it pays for.

The Drata comparison covers the product differences. If you are on Drata and thinking about leaving, read how to leave a compliance platform first. The Vanta pricing breakdown does the same exercise for Vanta’s listing, which is built around employee bands instead.

What Polara Labs publishes

Our price list is on our own site. Entry is one payment: $2,000 one time to onboard, or $4,000 one time with the SOC 2 Type 1 examination and the fee for the independent partner auditor inside it. Type 2 is $600 a month on a 12-month term, and your first SOC 2 Type 2 audit is included in the term.

A first year on the onboarding entry is $9,200, with that audit inside it. The trade is scope. We scope Security only, and we support two frameworks.