Foundation
USD 7,500 to 15,000 a year
- One framework
- Core cloud integrations including AWS, GCP and Azure
- Policy templates
- Trust center
Watch out for
- Employee-count bands
- Limited framework choice
- Standard support
Drata quotes on employee-count bands and framework count, and publishes none of it. Here is every tier drawn to scale, the year-one total added up including the fees that arrive after the licence, and the same program costed on CSFaaS.
The short answer
Entry plans from USD 7,500, median contract around USD 25,000. Implementation, per-framework fees and premium support commonly add 20 to 35 percent before the auditor invoices you.
The bands
Drata is also quoted by sales, on employee count and framework count. Entry plans for small teams start near USD 7,500 a year, the mid tier lands between USD 15,000 and USD 25,000, and enterprise contracts run from USD 25,000 to USD 100,000. Procurement data puts the median contract around USD 25,000.
Every band below is a negotiated quote, not a list price. The width of each bar is the part Drata will not tell you until you are in a sales cycle.
Teams under 50 people starting their first framework.
Growing companies between 50 and 200 people.
Organisations above 200 people with a formal GRC program.
USD 7,500 to 15,000 a year
Watch out for
USD 15,000 to 25,000 a year
Watch out for
USD 25,000 to 100,000+ a year
Watch out for
The part nobody totals
A licence is not a budget. Here is the same program costed line by line, with the money that goes to your auditor kept out of both vendor columns because it is the same number either way.
A 50 to 200 person company on the Advanced tier, running two frameworks, onboarding in year one.
What Drata charges
Left out for want of a public figure: premium support.
The same scope on CSFaaS
The same either way, whoever you buy from
These go to your auditor and your penetration tester, not to a platform vendor. They are the same number whichever tool you pick, so they are deliberately outside both totals above. Any comparison that puts them in one column and not the other is selling you something.
The same scope, priced here
Free for 2 users, then EUR 79 per user per month. Every framework, every module and the full API are included at every size, so the only variable is how many people need a login.
Drata prices on your company headcount. CSFaaS prices on the people who actually open the platform. A 200 person company usually runs its GRC program with a compliance lead, a handful of control owners and an auditor, not 200 licences.
People who need a seat
10 users, minus the 2 free seats, is 8 billable at EUR 790 a seat a year. Every framework, every module, the REST API and the MCP server are included at every size. Past roughly 60 platform users, ask us for an Enterprise quote: at that scale SSO, advanced connectors and a dedicated instance matter more than the seat count.
Side by side
Sixteen criteria in three groups, including the four we lose. Filter to just the rows where the answers are not the same.
The pricing model decides the long-run cost far more than the sticker does.
| Criterion | Drata | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Published priceCan you find out what it costs without talking to a salesperson? | No. Sales call required (No) | Yes. EUR 79 per user per month (Yes) |
| What the price scales onThe single biggest cost difference between these tools. | Company headcount and frameworks (No) | People who actually log in (Yes) |
| Cost of the second framework | USD 3,000 to 10,000 a year (No) | EUR 0. All 40+ included (Yes) |
| Free tier | No (No) | 2 users, whole product, forever (Yes) |
Mapping a regulation is not the same as scoring against it. A European program is won or lost here.
| Criterion | Drata | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|
| CyFun (Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals)The NIS2 assurance route Belgian and Benelux organisations are actually asked for. | Not offered (No) | Basic, Important and Essential 2025, EN and FR, official workbook in and out (Yes) |
| NIS2 | Yes, through framework mapping (Yes) | Yes, as a gradable 220-element framework (Yes) |
| DORA | Yes (Yes) | Yes, EN, FR and ES, 170 elements (Yes) |
| ISO 27001 and SOC 2 criteria | Yes, the core of the product (Yes) | ISO 27001:2022 and AICPA TSC 2017 (Yes) |
| Framework content in French and Spanish | English-first (No) | Interface and framework text in EN, FR and ES (Yes) |
Four of these rows go against us. They are the reasons to buy theirs, which is why they are in the table.
| Criterion | Drata | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Automated evidence collection from cloud and SaaSWhere the incumbents are genuinely ahead of us. | Hundreds of integrations, every plan (Yes) | Enterprise plan only (No) |
| Endpoint agent and security awareness training | Yes (Yes) | No (No) |
| Hosted public trust center | Yes (Yes) | No. Policy share links only (No) |
| Full read and write REST API on every plan | Advanced tier and above (Partial) | Yes, every seat, free tier included (Yes) |
| MCP server, connect your own AI assistantBring Claude or ChatGPT to your own workspace, scoped by your own permissions. | No (No) | Yes, included with every seat (Yes) |
| Audit and penetration test | Partner network, paid separately (Partial) | Through DarkProtect, quoted separately (Partial) |
| Data portability | Export tooling (Partial) | Total read coverage over the API, on every plan (Yes) |
Why European teams move
The gap nobody else covers
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 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.
The counterpoint
Buy theirs if
You want Vanta-class automation at a slightly lower entry price and your obligations stop at SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Drata over CSFaaS, written by us.
Questions
None of the vendors on this page publish a price list, so every figure is a range 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.
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