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§ 01

Pricing

Compliance software cost, stated plainly, for the team that owns the risk

Compliance software pricing, stated plainly: Starter at $149 a month or $894 a year, for up to 300 runs of the compliance scan a month with sector notes and the regulatory change watch. Enterprise at $298 a month or $1,788 a year for up to 3 people on one register, bought the same way. No free tier: the scan gives you one free run, then a plan.

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Starter

One compliance owner, one register checked every day

$74.50$149/mo

billed yearly, $894 per year

billed monthly

  • Up to 300 compliance scans a month (30 a day): any sector, region and framework mix
  • Obligation register per scan, from our rulebook map
  • Sector-specific meaning written for each obligation
  • What changed lately: a grounded watch list with primary sources
  • Your register saved once and checked against the sources every day
  • An email when the daily check finds a change on it, with the source that published it
  • Mark policy and control gaps yourself, with the update drafted for your review
  • An audit trail of every check, alert and policy update, exportable as CSV
  • Nothing you run through a scan is stored
  • Email support
Buy Starter, yearly Buy Starter, monthly

Enterprise

A compliance team of up to 3 on one register, double the scans

$149.00$298/mo

billed yearly, $1,788 per year

billed monthly

  • Everything in Starter, for up to 3 people: you and two colleagues you add on your account
  • Each colleague signs in with their own link and works on the same register, watch list and policies
  • Change alerts emailed to all three
  • The audit trail records who did what: every status, draft and change to the team
  • Up to 600 compliance scans a month (60 a day), shared by the team, with sector notes and the change watch
  • Billing stays with the plan owner, one invoice for the team in the billing portal
  • Email support
Buy Enterprise, yearly Buy Enterprise, monthly

Every line above is what the scan does today. No free tier: the compliance scan gives you one free run, then asks for the plan. Already paid? Sign in.

§ 02 Against the incumbents

Where the money goes today, and what it buys

Option Public price picture Built around Regulatory change watch
Vanta / Drata Sales-quoted; commonly reported thousands to tens of thousands per year Control monitoring and audit readiness for security frameworks Not the product; framework snapshots update, the rulebook watching stays yours
ServiceNow GRC / Archer Six figures with implementation, plus the team to run it Enterprise workflow: registers, assessments, issues Possible to build, with consultants and content subscriptions
Consultant + annual audit Commonly $30k+ per year for a mid-market team Point-in-time review and remediation lists Manual, between engagements it stops
ComplianceOfficer $149 per month or $894 per year, published above The regulations themselves, checked daily against your register The core of the product, across all your frameworks

Competitor figures are public ballparks stated in good faith, not quotes; their sales teams price per company. For the numbers buyers actually paid, we keep a compliance software pricing comparison with median annual contracts from recorded purchases across ten vendors. Fuller comparisons: Vanta alternative and Drata alternative.

§ 03 What the plan replaces

$894 a year against the hours the tracking eats

A dedicated compliance hire runs around $120k per year before tooling; a consultant retainer plus audit prep commonly adds $30k. Starter is $894 a year for the scanning and change-watching part of that work, so the person you already have spends their time on judgment rather than on tracking what moved. Teams of up to three who work on one register take Enterprise at $298 a month or $1,788 a year, bought on this page.

  • § 01 A compliance hire ~$120,000/yr
  • § 02 Consultant + audit prep ~$30,000/yr
  • § 03 Starter, billed yearly $894/yr
  • § 04 Who still makes the calls your team and counsel
§ 04 Cost drivers

What actually moves the price of compliance software

Almost nobody in this category publishes a price, which makes budgeting hard and makes the first quote feel arbitrary. It is not arbitrary. Four or five variables do nearly all the work, and knowing which one you are heavy on tells you in advance whether you are going to be quoted at the bottom or the top of a vendor's range.

Driver Why it moves the number Watch for
Number of frameworks Most audit-readiness pricing is banded by how many frameworks you monitor Adding a second framework mid-term is often repriced, not prorated
Headcount Employee count is the most common billing unit, since it proxies for scope Contractors and service accounts sometimes count toward the band
Connected systems Evidence automation is priced on integrations, and the useful ones cluster in higher tiers Check your specific cloud and HR systems are in your tier, not the next one
Implementation A one-time onboarding or professional services fee on top of subscription Frequently negotiable, and the first thing to trade against a longer term
The audit itself The auditor is a separate firm and a separate invoice from the software Bundled audit offers still bill the CPA firm's work somewhere

Our pricing is flat rather than per employee: both plans cover every framework, sector and region; Enterprise adds people and scans. Compliance work scales with how many rulebooks apply to you, not with how many people you employ. A 40 person bank carries far more obligation than a 300 person agency. If you want the market context rather than our plans, the compliance software pricing benchmark sets out median annual contracts from recorded purchases across ten vendors, and how much compliance software costs walks the arithmetic.

§ 05 Total cost

The subscription is not the whole bill

Buyers who compare only monthly subscription figures tend to be surprised in year one. The line items that get missed are predictable, so plan for them and the budget holds.

Implementation and data migration come first, usually a one-time fee and a few weeks of someone's attention on your side. Then the audit or examination itself, which is a separate professional engagement no software subscription includes. Then internal time, which is the largest and least tracked cost of all: someone still owns the program, reviews the exceptions and answers the auditor. Software changes how many hours that takes, not whether the role exists.

Where regulated obligations are involved, several rules require a named human regardless of tooling. 31 CFR 1020.210 requires a designated individual responsible for day to day compliance, and 45 CFR 164.308(a)(2) requires a named security official. Budgeting on the assumption that a platform removes that role produces a plan that does not survive contact with an examiner. Our compliance officer cost breakdown works through the loaded-cost arithmetic using federal compensation data.

§ 06 Questions buyers ask

Compliance software cost questions

How much does compliance software cost?

Most compliance software is sales quoted rather than published. Recorded buyer data puts median annual contracts near $20,000 for Vanta and about $25,000 for Drata, while enterprise GRC suites sit around a $45,516 median. Small teams under a single framework often land in the low thousands per year. Our own plan is $149 per month or $894 per year, published above.

How is compliance software priced?

Usually on a combination of employee headcount, the number of frameworks monitored and the number of connected systems feeding evidence. Enterprise GRC suites tend to price on named users or modules instead. Regulatory change feeds are the exception: they are priced on jurisdictions and regulators tracked, because that is what drives their cost, not your size.

What is included in compliance software pricing?

Typically the platform, a set number of frameworks, evidence integrations and support. Usually excluded: the audit or examination itself, which is a separate engagement with a licensed firm, plus implementation fees, premium integrations and any advisory hours. Read the order form for the framework count and the integration list, because those are where tiers actually differ.

Is compliance software worth it?

It pays when the alternative is real hours or a real deadline. If compliance is blocking deals, spanning more than one framework, or consuming a senior person for days each month, tooling is usually cheaper than the time. If you are one team under one framework and nobody is waiting on a report, a well kept spreadsheet and a good auditor genuinely can be enough for longer than vendors suggest.

How much of a compliance software quote is negotiable?

More than most buyers assume, and the flexible parts are predictable. Implementation and onboarding fees are the softest, followed by term length discounts and the framework count bundled into a tier. List price per seat moves least. Buying at a vendor quarter end and being willing to sign multi-year terms are the two levers that consistently move the number.

Does compliance software include the audit?

No. For SOC 2 the report must be issued by a licensed CPA firm, and for ISO 27001 by an accredited certification body, neither of which the software vendor can be. Vendors often introduce partner auditors and sometimes present a bundled price, but the auditor is billing separately for their own work. Budget the audit as its own line item.

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Related registers

§ 99 · Final entry

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Starter is $149 a month or $894 a year, card payment, cancel any time. The compliance scan gives you one free run first.

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