A Secureframe alternative for founders with no security hire

Picture a common setup. Twelve people. A customer wants a SOC 2 report before its contract renews, and the CTO owns the project because nobody else on the team knows the production systems well enough to answer the auditor’s questions. This page is for that CTO, and for whoever signs off on the spend next to them.

What the public sources say

Secureframe does not list prices on its own site, so the only figures we can give you come from places that publish them openly and can be checked by anyone with a browser and a minute to spare. Both are below, each with the date we last read it.

• Secureframe lists three plans on its pricing page and no dollar figure. Each one links to a quote request. Source, checked 2026-07-30.
• Vendr reports a median annual contract value of $20,000 for Secureframe, based on purchases completed through its marketplace. Source, checked 2026-07-30.

That median is the platform alone. The CPA firm bills separately. For a company with a dozen staff, the platform can end up as the largest single line in the SOC 2 spend.

The step you should not pay for

Before any audit, you need to know where you stand. The industry calls this a readiness assessment. Secureframe has written about what it costs when a professional does it.

• Secureframe states that a professional SOC 2 readiness assessment typically costs between $10-17,000, and that cost depends on the size of your organization and the scope of your audit. Source, checked 2026-09-01.

Ours is free. It takes about 15 minutes, and at the end you have a score and a gap list. You can read more on the readiness assessment page, or simply take it now.

Doing it yourself, honestly

Self-serve costs less because you supply the labor. That is the whole trade, and it is worth being clear about before you pick a side. A vendor that runs the project for you has to pay the people who do it, and that cost lands in your quote whether or not you needed the help. A self-serve product removes those people from the price and hands their work to you, with software doing the parts that can be automated. Here is how the work splits.

What you do

You answer questions about your company. You approve policies and adjust them where they do not match reality. You connect your cloud and code accounts, upload what cannot be pulled automatically, and fix the gaps. None of it needs a security degree. It needs a few focused hours a week.

What the software does

It maps your controls to the Trust Services Criteria,² drafts the policies, tracks evidence and flags what is still missing. It keeps the package in the shape an auditor expects. With a focused team that means audit-ready starting at about a week.

What neither of us does

Sign the report. A licensed CPA firm examines your controls and issues the opinion.¹ cybersoftware is not a CPA firm. SOC 2 examinations are performed by independent licensed U.S. CPA firms. You can check any firm’s license with the state board.³

Where Secureframe earns its price

We would rather you buy the right tool than ours, because a customer who outgrows us in three months is a poor outcome for both sides. Secureframe is the better choice in these situations, and there is no shame in any of them.

You want experts in the loop

If you would rather have specialists guide the project than work through a gap list yourself, ask Secureframe what its plans include. A self-serve tool is the wrong shape for that.

Your scope is wide

Many frameworks, many teams, many systems. A bigger platform handles that sprawl better than a lean one.

Your buyer runs a formal procurement

Some enterprise deals need a negotiated master agreement and an account manager. Self checkout is not built for that.

Price and fit, compared

The table keeps to facts that either company has published on its own site or that a public source reports. Where Secureframe has published nothing, we say so instead of estimating a number on its behalf.

Audits go through our preferred pricing program, and we negotiate the fee on your behalf. The software does most of the work, so the auditor only has to verify evidence that arrives prepared. We negotiate the fee on your behalf. The SOC 2 cost page breaks the whole cost into lines.

Where to go from here

Take the free assessment first. It costs you a quarter of an hour and tells you whether a self-serve route is realistic for your team, given the people and the hours you actually have this quarter. If it is, the plans are on our pricing page. If you are still weighing other vendors, see how we compare with Vanta and Drata.