Where Raize fits next to Vanta, Drata, and Secureframe

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 typically price per-employee plus per-framework plus add-ons. Raize is a flat monthly fee, quote-based, sized by your team and framework scope — not your headcount. Talk to sales for a number. That predictability is the headline reason teams under 50 engineers move to us; for teams over 200 the 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 19 evidence connectors today (AWS, GitHub, Okta, Google Workspace, Azure AD, Slack, Datadog, Jira, Cloudflare, Sentry, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Snowflake, Google Cloud, Auth0, BambooHR, Jamf Pro, Kandji, and a generic REST connector), each running multiple checks. The incumbents ship more — typically 80-120. If your stack lives outside our set 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 a flat, predictable monthly fee matters more than enterprise breadth 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.