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HackZero vs.
Drata.

Drata is a serious enterprise compliance platform, and after buying SafeBase for $250M it owns the best trust-center tooling in the category. The narrower question decides it: what does the subscription contain? Drata automates the evidence and tells you to budget the penetration test separately. We fold the test in, every month.

What a month buys, under 10 people

$299

HackZero

SOC 2 controls + a real AI pentest, monthly

Quote

Drata

Platform only; pentest budgeted separately

Drata publishes no price list. Third-party procurement data (Vendr) shows contracts from $9,649 to $60,000 a year, averaging about $34,385, before the audit and before any pentest.

Side by side

	Drata	HackZero
What the subscription includes	Compliance automation: controls, monitoring, evidence collection	The same SOC 2 controls and monitoring, plus an actual AI pentest of your running app every month
Penetration testing	Not included. Drata's own guidance: budget a third-party test separately ($8,000-$25,000 market rate)	Included monthly. Human-validated engagement $2,999 when a client demands one
Published pricing	Quote-based, no public price list. Observed contracts $9,649 to $60,000/yr, ~$34,385 average (Vendr procurement data, not Drata's list)	Public: $299/mo under 10 people, $499/mo above. Annual $2,990 / $4,990
The audit / attestation	Auditor network; the audit firm bills you separately	Independent AICPA-member CPA, from $2,500, billed to you directly. No fee split, which is what keeps the opinion independent
Trust center / questionnaires	SafeBase, the strongest in the category (a $250M acquisition), typically an enterprise-tier add-on	Not our product. Our answer to a security questionnaire is last month's pentest report
Frameworks	20+ frameworks, deep enterprise and multi-framework support	SOC 2 and HIPAA controls; pentest evidence maps to PCI-DSS 11.4 and ISO 27001 A.8
Best for	Mid-market and enterprise programs, heavy questionnaire volume, multi-framework roadmaps	Teams under ~50 people that need SOC 2 plus real testing without two more vendors

On the pricing row, note whose numbers those are. Drata's ranges come from Vendr's tracked buyer contracts, not from Drata, because Drata does not publish prices. Ours are on the pricing page. The honest summary: if your bottleneck is questionnaires and multi-framework evidence at scale, Drata is excellent. If your bottleneck is proving your product is actually secure, a compliance platform without a test cannot prove it.

Which one

Evidence of controls, or
evidence it holds.

Pick Drata when

You field security questionnaires weekly: SafeBase is the best trust-center tooling in the category, full stop.
You are mid-market or enterprise with a multi-framework roadmap (ISO 27001 + HIPAA + GDPR + more) and a GRC team to run it.
You already have a standing pentest firm and only the automation layer is missing.
Procurement wants an established vendor with enterprise references.

Pick HackZero when

You want the pentest and the compliance program in one subscription, instead of a platform quote plus a separate $8,000-$25,000 test line item.
You are under 10 people: $299 a month, monthly pentest included, no sales call to learn the price.
The thing blocking your deal is a customer asking for proof of security testing, not a missing questionnaire portal.
You would rather show exploit-validated findings from last month than an evidence screenshot of a scanner.

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