What ISO 27001 platforms publish about price (September 2026)
By the Clause Desk · · Updated
One of the six vendors on this site publishes a price. Four publish plan contents and limits without prices, and one has no pricing page. Here is what each says, and how to use plan limits when you ask for quotes.
Who publishes a price?
Secureframe. Its Fundamentals plan is listed as starting at $7,500 a year and includes one compliance framework, 300+ native integrations, infrastructure monitoring, evidence collection, personnel, risk and policy management, a Trust Center, and access to the Secureframe Audit Partner Network. Its Complete and Defense plans are quote-based. That is the only price figure among the six vendors we cover, which is why Secureframe leads our pricing transparency criterion.
Who publishes plans without prices?
Vanta lists four plans: Essentials (one framework, the Vanta AI Agent, automated evidence, a Trust Center and access to expert partners), Plus (adds Questionnaire Automation at 25 a year and Access Management), Professional (144 questionnaires a year, risk management, an advanced Trust Center and custom tests) and Enterprise. It offers personalized pricing after a demo. Drata lists Compliance Automation Foundation for companies of up to 50 FTEs with one pre-mapped framework, limited to SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, HIPAA or GDPR, then GRC Advanced and GRC Enterprise. Sprinto lists Foundation, for startups on their first certification, in detail, and a Growth tier. Scytale lists startup bundles (Build Starter, Build DFY and Build Stronger) and security-team plans (Scale and Enterprise), with a demo on every plan.
Who publishes nothing?
Scrut. Its pricing URL returned Page Not Found when we checked on 29 September 2026. Scrut does offer a Compliance Cost Calculator on its site.
What do the plan contents tell you?
More than the missing prices suggest. Framework limits are the first thing to check: Vanta Essentials, Drata Foundation and Secureframe Fundamentals each list one framework, and Scytale's Build Starter lists one framework plus add-ons. Headcount is the second: Drata Foundation stops at 50 FTEs. Questionnaire allowances are the third: 25 or 144 a year on Vanta's Plus and Professional, 20 a year on Sprinto's Foundation. Services are the fourth: Scytale's Build DFY lists LaunchReady Consulting and a Web App Black Box pen test, and Build Stronger lists StayReady Consulting and a Gray Box pen test, which no other vendor's pricing page lists.
How should you ask for quotes?
Give every vendor the same brief: the frameworks you need this year and next, your headcount, whether you want the certification audit arranged, whether you need a pen test, whether you want hands-on expert help, and how many questionnaires you answer a year. Ask each vendor to name the plan that fits and to confirm the limits in writing. Our cost estimator does the plan matching from published facts, so you arrive at each call knowing which tier to expect.
What about the standard and the audit?
Two costs sit outside any platform price. ISO sells the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for CHF 155. And certification audit fees are set by the certification body, unless a plan explicitly includes the audit. Ask every vendor whether its price includes the audit, and if it does, which certification body performs it.
Why do vendors quote rather than publish?
The pricing pages themselves hint at the reasons. Plans vary by framework count, headcount, add-ons and services, and several vendors bundle consulting, pen testing or audit coordination with the software. A single list price would not cover those combinations. That is a reasonable explanation for quoting, but it moves the work of comparison to the buyer. The way to get it back is to send an identical written brief to each vendor and ask for the same breakdown in return: software, services, audit and any add-ons, each as a separate line.
How does pricing transparency affect our ranking?
It carries 14 percent of the weight on our ISO 27001 weights. Secureframe scores 8.0 for its published starting price. Vanta, Drata and Sprinto score 4.5 for detailed plan contents and limits, Scytale 4.0 for bundle names and contents without limits such as headcount, and Scrut 1.5 because no pricing page was available. If price visibility matters more to you, raise its weight in the cost estimator and watch the order change.
What is the takeaway?
Price transparency is thin across ISO 27001 platforms, but plan transparency is not. Use the published limits to narrow each vendor to one plan before the first call, and compare quotes on the same brief.