A Sprinto alternative for a first SOC 2 report

You probably landed here because a customer asked for a SOC 2 report and the first platform you looked at wanted a demo before a price. That is normal in this category, and it is also slow when the deal is waiting on you. This page lays out what Sprinto says about itself, what we charge, and where each one fits a small team.

What Sprinto publishes about itself

Sprinto is built as a broad program. Its pricing page reads like a module list, and the headline items on it are about scale rather than about a single report.

• Sprinto states on its pricing page that its plans include 25+ frameworks automated out of the box and 200+ frameworks digitized, and it names ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, NIST 800-171 and CMMC among them. Source, checked 2026-09-28.
• Sprinto states on its pricing page that its plans include continuous monitoring across 300+ integrations. Source, checked 2026-09-28.

That breadth is real value if your roadmap needs it. For one SOC 2 report at a ten person company, much of it goes unused. The criteria you are tested against are the same AICPA Trust Services Criteria either way.² A longer framework list does not change what the auditor reads.

Where the auditor comes from

This is the question that decides your real cost. A compliance platform cannot issue a SOC 2 report, whoever sells it. Only a licensed CPA firm can.¹ So every platform either brings a firm in or leaves you to find one.

• Both Sprinto plans list Sprinto network auditor access and a bring your own auditor option, and its pricing page lists Professional Services as an add-on. Source, checked 2026-09-28.
• Sprinto publishes an auditor directory of 16 firms, which it describes as independent audit firms familiar with the Sprinto platform. Source, checked 2026-09-28.

In practice that means two contracts. You buy the platform from Sprinto, and you engage a CPA firm for the examination. The firm’s fee is its own line. Ask for that figure before you sign anything.

Our setup is different. The examination is performed by an independent partner auditor, a licensed U.S. CPA firm, arranged by us and named before you sign the engagement letter. You can check that firm’s license with its state board in a few minutes.³

What we charge

The price is on the pricing page, and it goes in this order. First comes the free readiness assessment. It takes about 15 minutes, returns a score and your gaps, and needs no card, so you know where you stand before you pay for anything.

Getting audit-ready is $2,000 one time. That buys the gap work, the policies and the evidence package. When you are ready, SOC 2 Type 2 runs at $600 per month on a 12-month term, and your first SOC 2 Type 2 audit is included in the term. You can also pay $6,600 up front for the first 12 months. On that path the first year totals $9,200.

A Type 1 report is optional. Add the examination later for $2,000, or buy it with onboarding for $4,000 in total. The first year with a Type 1 comes to $11,200. The auditor engagement fee sits inside those figures.

One line has no printed number. Any audit after the included one is arranged on request. You ask for a quote, our team negotiates with independent audit firms on your behalf, and the engagement is quoted before it begins. We would rather say that than print a rate we would renegotiate anyway.

The comparison, side by side

Every cell below is either something one of us publishes or a blank we could not fill from a source. We did not guess at any of Sprinto’s figures.

Not published is not an accusation. Sprinto sells by conversation, and plenty of good software does, but it means you cannot fill in that column today without booking a call first.

Where Sprinto is the better buy

A comparison with no reason to buy the other product is an advertisement. Here are four reasons, and each one is a real one.

• You need more than two frameworks. We sell SOC 2 and ISO 27001. That is the whole list. If HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS or CMMC is on your roadmap this year, one platform that covers all of them beats two tools.
• Your evidence lives in many systems. Our direct integrations are AWS, GitHub, Google Cloud and Google Workspace. Everything else is an upload. A wide stack is where a long connector list earns its fee.
• You want to choose the audit firm. Sprinto lists a directory and a bring your own auditor option. If you already have a CPA firm you trust, keep it.
• You are building a full GRC program. Vendor risk, AI governance, risk registers across business units. That is a different job from getting one report, and Sprinto is built for it.

If none of those four describes you, the question narrows to price and speed. Our side of both is public: audit-ready starting at about a week for a focused team. The wider cost picture, with the auditor fee as its own line, is on the SOC 2 cost page. The same test run against another large platform is in the Vanta comparison.

Three questions to send Sprinto

Put these in one email. The answers turn their column in the table into numbers you can compare with ours.

1. What is the all in first year? Platform plus the CPA firm’s fee, as one figure.
2. Is the first Type 2 audit included? Or is it a separate engagement you sign once the platform is running?
3. What does year two cost? Renewal is where this money moves. Get it in writing first.

If the answers favor Sprinto, buy Sprinto. You will have decided on the numbers that land on your card, not on the length of a feature grid.