Drata
Automated security compliance
Overview
Drata automates compliance evidence collection and continuous control monitoring for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and other frameworks, competing head-on with Vanta. The $250M SafeBase deal added customer trust centres; AI agents for vendor risk and AI-agent governance followed in 2025–26.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 4 Sep 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Automated evidence collection
- Continuous control monitoring
- Auditor-ready reporting
- Additional frameworks at add-on pricing
- Trust Center (from SafeBase)
- Risk and vendor management
- Custom controls and frameworks
- AI agents incl. vendor-risk management
- Dedicated support
Use cases
Drata remains one of the two default choices (alongside Vanta) for continuous compliance automation: connect your cloud, identity and dev stack and it collects evidence and monitors controls for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI and more. Since the $250M SafeBase acquisition it also runs customer-facing trust centres, and through 2025–26 it has pushed hard into AI agents — vendor-risk review first, AI-agent governance announced June 2026. G2 reviewers rate it 4.8 across 1,100+ reviews, ahead of Vanta's 4.6. Pricing is quote-only and enterprise-shaped: third-party figures put entry around US$7,500/year, and renewal increases are the most-cited complaint. It automates evidence, not judgment — policies and the audit itself remain human work. Highly relevant to ASEAN companies selling into SOC 2/ISO-demanding Western markets.
What people say
Renewal-pricing surprises are the loudest complaint in Drata's otherwise glowing review base — a 4.8 on G2 across 1,100+ reviews as of Q2 2026, ahead of Vanta's 4.6 across roughly 2,400.
The head-to-head with Vanta frames most buying decisions. Third-party pricing surveys put Drata's entry point around $7,500/year for a single framework versus Vanta's roughly $10,000, and additional frameworks run about $1,500 each against Vanta's $5,000 — average contract value lands near $13,500. Vanta counters with more integrations (400+ to Drata's 300+) and about twice the customer count. Drata itself publishes no prices; everything is quote-based, segmented by Startup, Growth and Enterprise stages.
The platform has moved well past evidence collection. The $250M SafeBase acquisition added customer-facing trust centres (the SafeBase brand was folded into Drata in March 2026), an autonomous vendor-risk-management agent shipped in August 2025, and in June 2026 Drata announced AI Agent Governance — tooling to discover, monitor and govern the AI agents running inside your own company, which it's betting becomes the next enterprise security category.
Reviewers' actual friction points: a learning curve when implementing custom controls outside the standard frameworks, and those renewal quotes. And no automation platform writes your policies or sits the audit for you — budget human time for both. For ASEAN startups selling into markets that demand SOC 2 or ISO 27001, Drata cuts the evidence-gathering grind dramatically; just negotiate multi-year pricing up front, because the second-year quote is where buyers get stung.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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