| soc2audit.ai | Drata | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | An AI copilot that walks you through each phase in order: gap assessment, remediation, evidence, then the audit. | A compliance automation platform: continuous control monitoring across connected tools, with dashboards to track and fix failing controls. |
| Built for | Startups and small teams doing SOC 2 for the first time, without a dedicated compliance manager. | Companies from startup to enterprise; Drata reports 8,500+ customers. |
| Gap assessment | About 100 guided questions produce a plain-English gap report mapped to the Trust Services Criteria, plus a remediation plan. | Control status comes mainly from automated tests on connected systems. |
| Policies, risks, access and vendor reviews | The AI drafts your policies, pre-populates a risk register, runs user access reviews from your user lists and researches your vendors. You review and approve. | Policy management, risk management and Third-Party Risk, with AI agents for vendor assessments. |
| Security questionnaires | Upload an inbound security questionnaire and the AI drafts answers from your program. | Questionnaire Automation with Drata AI drafting responses. |
| Integrations | Read-only connections to AWS, GitHub, Microsoft 365 and Okta feed live checks into your evidence. | Connects to "hundreds of tools", per Drata. |
| Frameworks | Built for SOC 2 Type I and Type II, with controls mapped to ISO 27001, HIPAA and CJIS. | SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, FedRAMP, CMMC and custom frameworks. |
| How the audit fits | An AICPA-licensed CPA firm from our partner network, or your own firm, works inside the platform with scoped, read-only access. | You engage an audit firm; check with Drata for how auditors access your evidence. |
| Pricing | An annual subscription quoted for your company through a partner, a distributor or our team, with no per-user fees. The audit fee is quoted separately by the CPA firm. | Not published. Pricing comes from sales. |
| Security services | Penetration testing, vulnerability management and virtual CISO from Cybersecurity Services, LLC, the company behind soc2audit.ai. Optional and never bundled. | Software only; security testing comes from separate vendors. |
If you need many frameworks at once, automated tests across a large and varied tech stack, or a platform your enterprise procurement team already knows, Drata is likely the better fit.
soc2audit.ai is built for the many companies that are not there yet: teams facing their first SOC 2 request from a customer, without a compliance manager, who want to know exactly what to do next and what it will cost.
Yes, if you are doing SOC 2 for the first time and want to be told what to do next. soc2audit.ai guides you from gap assessment to a signed report, drafts the policies and reviews for you, and brings the CPA audit partner into the platform. Drata is a broader automation platform that suits teams who already run a compliance program.
No. soc2audit.ai connects read-only to AWS, GitHub, Microsoft 365 and Okta today, and covers the rest of SOC 2 through guided evidence collection. If automated tests across a large and varied stack matter most, Drata has the bigger integration library.
Yes. Your existing policies and evidence remain yours, and you can bring your current audit firm into soc2audit.ai as an audit partner. Book a walkthrough and we will map out the move with you.
An independent AICPA-licensed CPA firm, on either platform. No software platform can issue a SOC 2 report. soc2audit.ai prepares you and gives the auditor scoped, read-only access inside the platform.
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