Drata Pricing With Product Features

Drata is a leading GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) automation platform for startups, scaling businesses, and enterprises. It automates complying with regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR.

Drata’s pricing starts at around $15,000/year for startups and can scale up to $100,000+ annually for larger enterprises, depending on company size, frameworks, and complexity.

In this blog, we’re breaking down Drata’s pricing structure so you can make an informed decision about choosing the right GRC platform. 

What are Drata’s pricing tiers?

Drata’s pricing structure accommodates businesses of various sizes and compliance needs. It is affected by multiple factors like team size, security requirements, and chosen compliance frameworks. Below is a detailed breakdown of Drata’s pricing:

1. Essential

Drata’s pricing starts at $7500/year, which is called the essential plan. This plan is especially for smaller organizations with basic compliance needs.

The Essential plan includes most of the features of compliance automation, governance, and risk assessment. However, it does not include features related to third-party risks, configurations, and advanced trust center pages. 

2. Foundational 

Drata’s foundational plan starts at $15,000/year. It is the most popular plan for Drata’s customers and is suited for medium-sized businesses requiring more advanced features. 

The Foundational plan contains all features of the Essential plan, along with OpenAPI, user access reviews, and better configurations. 

3. Advanced

The Advanced plan follows custom-based pricing and is usually best for enterprise customers requiring various configurations and features. 

Depending on the package, add-ons, and services selected, the price range is between $10,000 and more than $50,000 on average. 

Drata product features as per the pricing plan

Based on the product plan page on Drata, we’ve collated the features provided in each module:

Compliance Automation

Compliance automation replaces manual checklists with continuous monitoring and evidence collection. It helps you stay audit-ready and move faster on frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Pre-mapped Frameworks	✔	✔	✔
Automated Evidence Collection	✔	✔	✔
Multiple Control Owners	✔	✔	✔
Export Raw JSON Evidence	✔	✔	✔
Audit Hub	✔	✔	✔
Policy Templates	✔	✔	✔
Compliance as Code	✔	✔	Code pro
Open API	❌	✔	✔

Governance

Governance isn’t just about setting roles and policies — it’s about creating accountability. Drata makes this easier with built-in workflows that assign ownership, streamline reviews, and keep compliance activities on track.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Role-based access control	✔	✔	✔
Task and policy management	✔	✔	✔
Review & approval workflows for controls	✔	✔	✔
Internal notes and commenting	✔	✔	✔
Ticketing management	✔	✔	✔
Personnel tracking	✔	✔	✔
SSO	✔	✔	✔
Event tracking	✔	✔	✔
User Access Review	Add-on	✔	✔

Risk

Drata’s risk management helps identify, score, and track threats so teams can act before they escalate. The structured scoring is powerful, though deeper automation and predictive insights are better supported in advanced tiers.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Pre-loaded risk library	✔	✔	✔
Risk register	✔	✔	✔
Custom risks	✔	✔	✔
Control mapping	✔	✔	✔
Inherent and residual risk scoring	✔	✔	✔
Insights dashboard	❌	❌	✔
Custom risk scoring	❌	❌	✔
Risk tasks	❌	❌	✔
Pre-mapped controls	❌	❌	✔

Third-party Risk

Vendor monitoring and streamlined assessments make Drata strong in managing third-party risk. However, coverage relies on the depth of assessments configured, which may need effort to fully align with complex vendor ecosystems.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Vendor security questionnaires and responses	✔	✔	✔
Vendor profiles	✔	✔	✔
Vendor bulk upload and updates	✔	✔	✔
Vendor insights dashboard	❌	❌	✔
Automated vendor impact analysis	❌	❌	✔
AI summarized vendor questionnaire responses	❌	❌	✔

Trust Center

Transparency builds trust, and trust drives growth. Drata’s Trust Center gives customers instant visibility into your security posture, helping you close deals faster while cutting down on questionnaires.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Live view of security posture	✔	✔	✔
Clickwrap NDA support	✔	✔	✔
Private document access requests	10 per year	10 per year	300 per year
Custom Trust Center URL	❌	❌	✔
Automated access approvals	❌	❌	✔
Custom FAQ	❌	❌	✔
Live announcements	❌	❌	✔
Docusign NDA integration	❌	❌	✔

Configurations

Configurations in Drata give you flexibility to design compliance your way — with custom controls, frameworks, and fields. Advanced options like multi-instance management and workspaces are available, but may require add-ons depending on your plan.

Feature	Essential	Foundation	Advanced
Custom tests through Adaptive Automation	Limited	✔	✔
Custom controls	✔	✔	✔
Multi-Instance Management	Add-on	Add-on	Add-on
Custom frameworks	❌	✔	✔
Custom fields & formulas	❌	✔	✔
Workspaces	❌	❌	Add-on

How do you choose the appropriate pricing tier?

While choosing an appropriate pricing tier, you may have to pay for features you don’t need. Or worse, you may miss out on the ones you need. A rigid pricing structure may not always align with your exact compliance and security requirements.

Sprinto offers a more flexible approach. Instead of pre-set plans, you get a custom pricing structure where you pick the features and frameworks that fit your business needs. There are no unnecessary costs and no locked-out capabilities—just compliance automation that works for you.

For example, SOC 2 Type 1 audits, which evaluate your controls at a specific point in time, typically cost between $5K and $25K, while Type 2 audits, assessing controls over a period of time, can range from $7K to $50K.

There are no unnecessary costs and no locked-out capabilities—just compliance automation that works for you.

Get a tailored quote today. Talk to us.

A more cost-effective path to GRC

The average contract size of Drata’s customers is usually around $34,385/year, as per Vendr. Although the price seems to be different in the above tables, several additions like set-up costs, support costs, etc, add up to the final amount. 

A ballpark of $35K for compliance automation seems quite a high amount, especially for small businesses. The challenges in Drata’s platform are not just limited to cost but also integrations. For SMBs, integrations are the key to a successful security strategy. 

Drata may not be the ideal choice for small startups and businesses. What’s the alternative? Sprinto is much cheaper since you pay for only what you require without any redundant costs.

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