Two US-headquartered, SOC 2-first compliance platforms, both sales-quoted, both priced on headcount plus a fee per framework, both landing between USD 10,000 and USD 80,000 a year. The honest answer is that they are more alike than either would like, and that for a European program the more useful question is a different one.
Sixteen criteria across pricing model, framework coverage and platform capability, including the rows where CSFaaS is the weaker option. Scroll the table sideways on a phone.
Drata, Vanta and CSFaaS compared across pricing model, EU framework coverage and platform capability.
| Criterion | Drata | Vanta | CSFaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published priceCan you find out what it costs without talking to a salesperson? | xNo. Sales call required | xNo. Sales call required | Yes. EUR 79 per user per month |
| What the price scales onThe single biggest cost difference between these tools. | xCompany headcount and frameworks | xCompany headcount and frameworks | People who actually log in |
| Cost of the second framework | xUSD 3,000 to USD 10,000 per year | xFrom USD 5,000 per year | EUR 0. All 40+ included |
| Free tier | xNo | xNo | 2 users, whole product, forever |
| CyFun (Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals)The NIS2 assurance route Belgian and Benelux organisations are actually asked for. | xNot offered | xNot offered | Basic, Important and Essential 2025, EN and FR, official workbook import and export |
| NIS2 | Yes, through framework mapping | Yes | Yes, as a gradable 220-element framework |
| DORA | Yes | Yes | Yes, EN, FR and ES, 170 elements |
| ISO 27001 and SOC 2 criteria | Yes, the core of the product | Yes, the core of the product | ISO 27001:2022 and AICPA TSC 2017 |
| Product and framework content in French and Spanish | xEnglish-first | xEnglish-first | Interface and framework text in EN, FR and ES |
| Automated evidence collection from cloud and SaaSWhere the incumbents are genuinely ahead of us. | Hundreds of integrations, every plan | Hundreds of integrations, every plan | xEnterprise plan only |
| Endpoint agent and security awareness training | Yes | Yes | xNo |
| Hosted public trust center | Yes | Yes | xNo. Policy share links only |
| Full read and write REST API on every plan | ~Advanced tier and above | ~Higher tiers | Yes, every seat, free tier included |
| MCP server, connect your own AI assistantBring Claude or ChatGPT to your own workspace, scoped by your own permissions. | xNo | xNo | Yes, included with every seat |
| Audit and penetration test | ~Partner network, paid separately | ~Partner network, paid separately | ~Available through DarkProtect, quoted separately |
| Data portability | ~Export tooling | ~Export tooling | Total read coverage over the API, on every plan |
Vanta has the largest install base in this category. Auditors know it, enterprise security reviewers know it, and that familiarity is worth real money if your buyers are US enterprises. It also has the broadest integration library and the most polished trust center.
Drata typically quotes lower at the entry tier, from around USD 7,500 against roughly USD 10,000, and charges less for each additional framework. Its risk register and vendor management are a little stronger, and its control mapping across a 30+ framework catalogue is well built.
Both quote by sales with no published price. Both band the price on company headcount. Both charge per framework. Both leave the audit and the penetration test outside the licence. If those four things are what is bothering you, choosing between them does not fix any of them.
Both now ship NIS2 and DORA mappings, which is genuine EU coverage and we will not pretend otherwise. Neither grades you against the Belgian CCB CyberFundamentals framework. If a customer or a regulator asks for a CyFun assurance level, this whole comparison is the wrong one.
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. Implementation packages, per-framework fees and premium support commonly add 20 to 35 percent on top of the licence.
Teams under 50 people starting their first framework.
Growing companies between 50 and 200 people.
Organisations above 200 people with a formal GRC program.
Vanta does not publish a price. Every deal is quoted by sales against your employee count, the frameworks you need and the add-ons you take. Public procurement data puts the median contract near USD 20,000 a year, with quotes running from roughly USD 10,000 for a single framework at seed stage to USD 80,000 and beyond for multi-framework enterprise programs. Each additional framework is a separate line item, and the audit itself is never included.
Early-stage companies taking their first certification.
Scaling companies running more than one framework.
Large organisations with complex programs.
Free for 2 users, then EUR 79 per user per month. Every framework, every module and the full API included at every size, so the only variable is how many people need a seat.
The incumbents price 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. You pay for those seats, and the first two are free.
CSFaaS cost by number of platform users. All 40+ frameworks, every module and the API included at every size.
| Platform users | Billable seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | 3 | EUR 237 | EUR 2,370 |
| 10 users | 8 | EUR 632 | EUR 6,320 |
| 25 users | 23 | EUR 1,817 | EUR 18,170 |
| 50 users | 48 | EUR 3,792 | EUR 37,920 |
| 1 or 2 users | 0 | Free | Free |
Yearly figures use the annual rate of EUR 790 per seat, which saves about 16 percent against monthly billing. Past roughly 60 platform users, ask us for an Enterprise quote: at that scale SSO, advanced connectors and a dedicated instance usually matter more than the seat count.
Drata and Vanta both ship NIS2 and DORA mappings now, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What none of them ships 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.
If any of these matter more to you than published pricing and native EU frameworks, buy theirs. We would rather you knew now than after the contract.
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Vanta over CSFaaS, written by us.
A comparison page that only flatters its author is worth nothing. These are the reasons to pick Drata over CSFaaS, written by us.
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.
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