Where Raize fits next to Vanta, Drata, and Secureframe
The incumbent GRC platforms are excellent if you have the budget. Raize is built for the segment that does not. Here is how the trade-offs actually land.
We get asked the comparison question every other call, so here is the honest version. The three incumbents — Vanta, Drata, Secureframe — are all good products. None of them is going away. The interesting question is not "which is best" but "which fits the team you are right now."
Pricing
The three incumbents land between £20k and £60k per year for a team of 30, depending on framework count and add-ons. Raize Growth is £785/month flat for unlimited frameworks and 10 connectors. That is the headline reason teams under 50 engineers move to us; for teams over 200 the price gap closes and other factors dominate.
Framework coverage
All four cover SOC 2 and ISO 27001 well. Raize ships HIPAA and PCI DSS in the same flat tier where the incumbents tend to put them behind a sales conversation. NIST 800-53 and GDPR are first-class for all four.
Evidence connectors
Raize ships 13 connectors today (AWS, GitHub, Okta, Google Workspace, Azure AD, Slack, Datadog, Jira, Cloudflare, Sentry, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Snowflake), each running multiple checks. The incumbents ship more — typically 80-120. If your stack lives outside our 13 you will hit a gap.
Auditor relationships
Vanta and Drata both have deep partnerships with the major auditor networks and can broker the entire engagement. Raize does not. You bring your own auditor. We give them a read-only portal, machine-readable exports, and a list of supported audit firms — but the commercial relationship is yours.
The trust center
All four ship a public-facing trust center. Raize's is included in every paid tier. Incumbents typically put per-tenant branding behind their highest tier.
When the incumbents win
- You are over 200 engineers and need 50+ connectors out of the box.
- You want the auditor relationship brokered as part of the platform purchase.
- You have a dedicated GRC team of 3+ who will use it daily and need the deeper enterprise admin surface.
When Raize wins
- You are under 50 engineers and the difference between £25k and £10k matters this year.
- You want one platform that handles SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA + PCI DSS without buying tier upgrades.
- You want to keep the auditor relationship in your own commercial control.
- You want continuous monitoring as the default behaviour, not a premium feature toggle.
Want to see the platform?
10-day trial at /pricing. All 13 connectors and all 6 frameworks enabled.