Drata is a strong compliance platform, and for a US company chasing SOC 2 it is a reasonable default. It is not the only option, and for a European program it is often not the right one. Seven alternatives, with real pricing, real strengths and the trade-offs each one asks you to accept.
Alternatives
The Drata alternatives worth a shortlist
Ranked by how often they actually win against Drata, not by who pays us. Every entry lists what it costs, who it suits and where it falls short.
CSFaaS
Recommended
The EU-native GRC platform. 40+ frameworks in one seat price, with CyFun, NIS2 and DORA treated as first-class citizens.
Pricing
EUR 0 to EUR 79 per user per month. Published, no sales call.
Best for
European teams that need CyFun, NIS2, DORA or ISO 27001 run properly, without paying per framework or per employee.
Strengths
Published price: free for 2 users, then EUR 79 per user per month
All 40+ frameworks included. No per-framework fee, ever
CyFun 2025 at Basic, Important and Essential, with the official CCB workbook in and out
NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0, GDPR and SOC 2 criteria in the same catalogue
Interface and framework content in English, French and Spanish
Full read and write REST API plus an MCP server on every seat, free tier included
Trade-offs
xAdvanced automated evidence connectors are an Enterprise feature, not a standard one
xNo endpoint agent, no security awareness training, no hosted trust center
xAudits and penetration tests come through DarkProtect and are quoted separately
Fast first-certification tooling aimed at startups.
Pricing
USD 6,000 to USD 25,000+ per year
Best for
Early-stage startups certifying for the first time.
Strengths
Quick to implement, often the fastest route to a first SOC 2
Competitive pricing against Vanta and Drata
Good handholding for teams with no compliance function
Trade-offs
xLess mature than the two leaders on complex programs
xSmaller integration library
xAudit fees still separate
Thoropass
Formerly Laika. Platform and audit sold together.
Pricing
USD 14,500 to USD 50,000 per year, audit included
Best for
Small businesses that want the platform and the audit from one supplier.
Strengths
Audit is included rather than brokered, which removes the biggest surprise cost
Streamlined process for small businesses
One vendor for the platform and the opinion
Trade-offs
xLess automation than the leaders
xSmaller integration library
xUsing the same vendor for tooling and audit is a governance question worth asking
Eramba
Open-source GRC with a flat licence and no per-seat fee.
Pricing
Free, or EUR 2,500 to EUR 5,000 per year flat
Best for
Teams with engineering capacity who would rather spend hours than euros.
Strengths
By far the lowest licence cost of any tool here
Flat pricing with unlimited users and unlimited modules
Open source, self-hostable, no vendor lock-in on your data
Genuinely deep GRC feature set including risk, compliance and audit management
Trade-offs
xYou run it. Hosting, upgrades and backups are your problem
xDated interface and a real learning curve
xNo automated evidence collection from cloud providers
xFramework content is largely yours to load and maintain
OneTrust
The enterprise privacy and GRC suite, priced like one.
Pricing
USD 50,000 to USD 300,000+ per year for a GRC program
Best for
Large enterprises running a formal privacy program alongside GRC.
Strengths
The deepest privacy and data-governance feature set on the market
Very strong for GDPR programs at enterprise scale
Broad module catalogue covering consent, privacy, ethics, ESG and GRC
Trade-offs
xExpensive, and the module model means the number moves as you add scope
xLong, complex implementations
xSubstantial overkill for anyone below enterprise scale
Side by side
Every alternative, one table
Sixteen criteria across the whole shortlist, including the rows where CSFaaS is the weaker option. Eight columns do not fit on any screen, so scroll the table sideways to reach them all.
Drata alternatives compared across pricing model, EU framework coverage and platform capability.
Criterion
CSFaaS
Vanta
Secureframe
Sprinto
Thoropass
Eramba
Onetrust
Published priceCan you find out what it costs without talking to a salesperson?
Yes. EUR 79 per user per month
xNo. Sales call required
xNo. Sales call required
xNo. Sales call required
xNo. Sales call required
Yes. Flat licence, published
xNo. Sales call required
What the price scales onThe single biggest cost difference between these tools.
People who actually log in
xCompany headcount and frameworks
xCompany headcount and frameworks
xCompany headcount and frameworks
~Company size and audit scope
Nothing. Flat fee
xModules, admins and data volume
Cost of the second framework
EUR 0. All 40+ included
xFrom USD 5,000 per year
xAround USD 7,500 per year
xQuoted separately
xQuoted separately
~Free, if you build the content
xPriced per module
Free tier
2 users, whole product, forever
xNo
xNo
xNo
xNo
Community edition, self-hosted
xNo
CyFun (Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals)The NIS2 assurance route Belgian and Benelux organisations are actually asked for.
Basic, Important and Essential 2025, EN and FR, official workbook import and export
xNot offered
xNot offered
xNot offered
xNot offered
~Only if you build it yourself
xNot offered
NIS2
Yes, as a gradable 220-element framework
Yes
Yes
Yes
~Limited
~Bring your own content
Yes
DORA
Yes, EN, FR and ES, 170 elements
Yes
~Partial
~Partial
xNot offered
~Bring your own content
Yes
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 criteria
ISO 27001:2022 and AICPA TSC 2017
Yes, the core of the product
Yes
Yes
Yes, audit included
~Yes, bring your own content
Yes
Product and framework content in French and Spanish
Interface and framework text in EN, FR and ES
xEnglish-first
xEnglish-first
xEnglish-first
xEnglish only
~Partial
Multilingual
Automated evidence collection from cloud and SaaSWhere the incumbents are genuinely ahead of us.
xEnterprise plan only
Hundreds of integrations, every plan
Broad integration catalogue
Good coverage
~Smaller library
xNone built in
Enterprise connectors
Endpoint agent and security awareness training
xNo
Yes
Yes
Yes
~Partial
xNo
~Partial
Hosted public trust center
xNo. Policy share links only
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
xNo
Yes
Full read and write REST API on every plan
Yes, every seat, free tier included
~Higher tiers
~Higher tiers
~Higher tiers
~Limited
Yes
~Enterprise
MCP server, connect your own AI assistantBring Claude or ChatGPT to your own workspace, scoped by your own permissions.
Yes, included with every seat
xNo
xNo
xNo
xNo
xNo
xNo
Audit and penetration test
~Available through DarkProtect, quoted separately
~Partner network, paid separately
~Partner network, paid separately
~Partner network, paid separately
Audit included in the price
xNot offered
xNot offered
Data portability
Total read coverage over the API, on every plan
~Export tooling
~Export tooling
~Export tooling
~Export tooling
It is your database
~Export tooling
Why switch
Why teams look past Drata
Four reasons come up in almost every conversation.
Total cost of ownership, not the licence
Drata's licence is the start. Implementation packages, premium support and per-framework fees commonly add 20 to 35 percent in year one, before the auditor sends an invoice. Ask for the fully loaded number before you compare anything.
Headcount bands punish growth
Drata prices in employee-count bands. A hiring quarter can move you up a tier without a single new user touching the platform. CSFaaS bills only the people with a seat.
The API sits behind the mid tier
Programmatic access is how a GRC program stops being a data-entry job. On CSFaaS the full read and write REST API, plus an MCP server for your own AI assistant, are included with every seat, free tier included.
EU frameworks are mapped, not native
Drata covers DORA and maps NIS2, which is real coverage. What it does not do is grade you against CyFun, the framework the Belgian CCB actually assesses. If that is on your roadmap, it decides the shortlist.
The European answer
The best Drata alternative for EU teams
The gap nobody else covers
The SOC 2 platforms do not do CyFun.
Drata ships NIS2 and DORA mappings now, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it does not ship is Belgium's CyberFundamentals framework as a gradable assessment: the Basic, Important and Essential assurance levels, the official CCB workbook in and out, and the separate documentation and implementation maturity scores that an assessor actually reads.
CSFaaS ships all of it, in English and French, because CyFun is the route most Belgian and Benelux organisations take to demonstrate NIS2 readiness. That is the difference between a framework you can point at and a framework you can be graded on.
CyFun 2025 Basic (79 elements), Important (224) and Essential (330), EN and FR
EU NIS2 as a 220-element gradable framework
EU DORA 170 elements, in English, French and Spanish
GDPR and RGPD in French and Spanish, not a translation layer over an English control set
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Drata over CSFaaS, written by us.
Automated evidence collection across hundreds of systems is included on every Drata plan. On CSFaaS, advanced connectors are an Enterprise feature.
Drata ships an endpoint agent and personnel compliance tracking. CSFaaS does neither.
Drata has a hosted trust center product. CSFaaS does not.
Drata has an established auditor partner network for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Drata's SOC 2 tooling is more specialised than ours, because SOC 2 is the product it was built around.
Questions
Drata alternatives, answered
What are the best Drata alternatives in 2026?
CSFaaS for EU-native frameworks and published seat pricing, Vanta and Secureframe for the same SOC 2-first model, Sprinto for speed to a first certification, Thoropass to bundle the audit, Eramba to self-host for free, and OneTrust for enterprise privacy plus GRC.
Why do companies look for Drata alternatives?
Total cost of ownership is the common one: implementation, premium support and per-framework fees add 20 to 35 percent on top of the licence. Headcount-based bands, API access gated behind the mid tier, and the lack of CyFun coverage are the others.
Which Drata alternative is best for NIS2 and CyFun?
CSFaaS. NIS2 ships as a 220-element gradable framework and CyFun 2025 ships at Basic, Important and Essential in English and French, with the official CCB workbook import and export and the documentation plus implementation maturity scoring assessors use. No US-headquartered competitor offers CyFun today.
Is Drata worth the price?
For a US company whose buyers want SOC 2 and who will use the automated evidence collection heavily, yes: that is exactly what Drata is built for and it is good at it. For a European team whose obligations are CyFun, NIS2 or DORA, you are paying enterprise money for the wrong half of the product.
Sources and method
Where these numbers come from
None of the vendors on this page publish a price list, so the figures are ranges taken from public procurement data and the vendors' own pages, last checked in August 2026. Treat them as a budgeting guide, not a quote. Your own quote is the only number that counts.
Free for two users with the entire platform unlocked: all 40+ frameworks including CyFun, NIS2 and DORA, every module, the REST API and the MCP server. No sales call to find the price.