Drata
8,500 organisations and the only inline agent kill switch in GRC: Drata's MCP Proxy evaluates a tool call before it executes, where every competitor still dashboards it afterwards. Read the fine print though. It is Limited Availability, Anthropic-only, and an anonymised slice of your data trains a model shared with other customers.
PRICING
| Foundation | Quote only | one framework, teams up to roughly 50, standard integrations; observed ~$7,500-$15,000/yr |
| Advanced | Quote only | multiple frameworks, custom controls, open API access, user access reviews; observed $15,000-$25,000/yr |
| Enterprise | Quote only | unlimited frameworks, multi-entity workspaces, Audit Hub Pro, Vendor Risk Pro, dedicated CSM; observed $25,000-$100,000+/yr |
| Trust Center (SafeBase) | Quote only, separate SKU | acquired February 2025, priced apart from the platform; observed $5,000-$20,000+/yr |
Renewal escalation is the most consistent buyer complaint across G2 and Reddit, and SpendHound's tracked contracts show ~16% year-on-year increases on both SMB and enterprise plans. Independent buyers' guides put total hidden cost, meaning implementation, per-framework fees and renewal escalators, at 20-35% above the initial quote. Negotiate a multi-year cap and price the second framework before you sign.
checked 2026-08-07 · vendor pricing page
Element scores
Strengths
Drata is the first GRC vendor to ship runtime enforcement rather than a policy document about runtime enforcement. AI Agent Governance puts a proxy at the point every agent tool call passes, compiles plain-English policy into machine-enforceable rules, and stops a violating action inline. You can simulate any policy against a year of real historical traffic before turning it on, which is the difference between governance you can deploy and governance you have to gamble on. The protocol surface is the strongest in the category: hosted MCP in three regions with OAuth 2.1 and SSO, 26 write actions rather than read-only queries, and scoping that inherits the user's existing Drata role instead of gating everything behind an admin. Underneath sits the operational depth that made the company, with a documented REST API across 38 resource groups, hundreds of integrations and continuous control monitoring.
Honest dings
Two things to price in. First, Drata pools anonymised customer data into a shared model to solve the cold-start problem for smaller customers. It is disclosed, it is anonymised, and it is a materially different bargain from the competitors who refuse to touch customer data at all. Ask where your data sits in that pipeline before you sign. Second, the headline product is not really shipping yet: AI Agent Governance is Limited Availability, covers Anthropic only, and OpenAI, Vertex AI and Bedrock are still in development, so a mixed AI estate gets partial coverage at best. Beyond that, no model is named, no model can be chosen, and the only official disclosure is a 2024 blog post. There is no eval surface you can run against Drata's own AI. And the commercial pattern is well documented: tracked contracts rose about 16% year on year on both SMB and enterprise plans, with implementation and per-framework fees adding another 20-35%.
Sources
Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).
- drata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management… — Official 04/08/2026: 8,500+ organisations, AI Agent Governance in Limited Availability, Drata Sensor / MCP Proxy / Telemetry architecture, Anthropic first with OpenAI, Vertex AI and Bedrock in development, plain-English policy compiled to enforceable rules, simulation against a year of historical traffic (accessed 2026-08-07)
- drata.com/products/mcp-server — Official product page: OAuth 2.1 with Google/Microsoft/Okta SSO, 26 write actions across control, evidence, risk, personnel, vendor, monitoring and task objects, least-privilege role scoping, semantic search, audit logging (accessed 2026-08-07)
- developers.drata.com/developer-portal/v2/recipes/mc… — Official developer docs: hosted MCP endpoints for US, EU and APAC, OAuth scope table, admin-only configuration, 20-prompt starter library, still labelled Beta behind an early-access form (accessed 2026-08-07)
- drata.com/products/ai — Official: 13 named AI features including Agentic TPRM Assessment, AI Questionnaire Assistance, Test Failure Insights, AI-generated cloud tests, policy-to-control mapping; built-in support for ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and AIUC-1 (accessed 2026-08-07)
- drata.com/blog/building-our-ai-product-philosophy — Official 19/03/2024: tenant-specific ML models, per-customer vector databases in the RAG stack, pooled anonymised shared model for cold start, Amazon Bedrock model families, content-moderation guardrails, synthetic data generation, region-specific generative AI for GDPR (accessed 2026-08-07)
- drata.com/about/news/drata-expands-trust-management… — Official 10/06/2026: AI Agent Governance declared as a category, 30% growth in AI-governance security questions with only 11% of vendors confident answering them (accessed 2026-08-07)
- drata.com/products/integrations — Official integration catalogue across 26 categories; page says 'hundreds of tools' without publishing a count (accessed 2026-08-07)
- soc2auditors.org/insights/drata-review — Independent: G2 4.7/5 across 1,331 reviews (read 24/07/2026), $100M ARR and 7,000 customers February 2025, SafeBase acquisition, automation coverage 50-60% on custom or on-prem stacks versus 70-80% cloud-native, renewal price creep as the recurring complaint (accessed 2026-08-07)
- soc2auditors.org/insights/drata-pricing — Independent: Vendr median $24,869/yr across 225 tracked purchases, range $9,649-$60,000, retrieved 24/07/2026 (accessed 2026-08-07)
- vendr.com/marketplace/drata — Independent procurement data: $24,868 average contract value, 127 deals handled, 23.22% average savings, separate auditor fees $8,000-$25,000 SOC 2 Type II and $15,000-$40,000+ ISO 27001, custom integrations $2,000-$10,000 (accessed 2026-08-07)
- spendhound.com/marketplace/drata-pricing — Independent: 95 SMB and 46 enterprise tracked customers, SMB average $25,648/yr and enterprise $63,009/yr, year-on-year increases of 15.63% and 15.88% (accessed 2026-08-07)
- orbiqhq.com/comparisons/drata-pricing — Independent: three quote-only tiers Foundation/Advanced/Enterprise with observed bands, hidden costs 20-35% above initial quote, SafeBase rebrand, EU data residency (accessed 2026-08-07)
- itbrief.co.uk/story/drata-launches-ai-agent-governa… — Independent coverage: device-level sensor, proxy evaluating each agent tool request against policy, on-device masking before transfer, Anthropic as first and deepest integration (accessed 2026-08-07)
- helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/10/drata-ai-agent-gover… — Independent coverage of the June launch: inline sensors inventory every agent in minutes, mapped to owner, identity, permissions and scope (accessed 2026-08-07)
- tracxn.com/d/companies/drata/__QumpBZB3TgJmF5ugibDw… — Independent company record: San Diego HQ, founded 2020, $328M raised across 4 rounds, $2B post-money December 2022, 675 employees as of 30/06/2026 (accessed 2026-08-07)
- compyl.com/blog/best-ai-grc-platforms-compared-2026 — Independent comparison (competitor-authored, treat directionally): 1,200+ automated hourly tests as Drata's monitoring differentiator, narrower integration catalogue than Vanta, VRM agent scoped more narrowly than Vanta's general agent (accessed 2026-08-07)