Compared honestly, with sources

Raize Orion vs Thoropass

A procurement-stage decision guide. Every cell below cites the Thoropass page it came from, and carries the date we last verified it. If a row looks out of date, email us at hello@raizehq.dev and we'll re-check.

When Raize Orion is the better fit

  • You already have an auditor (or want to choose one freely) and need the software, not a bundled attestation.
  • You need IASME Cyber Assurance or ISO 22301 (neither is on Thoropass's public frameworks list).
  • You need EU data residency by contract.
  • You want a single all-in price per tier that does not climb with team size or framework count.
  • You want a UK-based team and direct founder access, plus a documented NIS2 reporting clock.

When Thoropass may be the better fit

  • You want one vendor for both the compliance software and the audit — Thoropass Assurance is an AICPA-registered CPA firm, so there are no hand-offs to a separate auditor.
  • You need HITRUST or SOC 1 at the depth Thoropass invests (Raize does not ship these today).
  • Your buyer base is US-only and EU data residency is not a procurement gate.

Including this block is intentional — buyers spot one-sided comparisons instantly, and that costs more trust than it earns.

Capability-by-capability

Every row stamped with a per-row "Last verified" date and a source link.

Compliance software + the audit itself

Raize Orion

Compliance software. You bring your own auditor; Raize provides the auditor portal, evidence base and control map. Raize does not perform audits.

Thoropass

Bundles the actual audit delivery — Thoropass Assurance is an AICPA-registered CPA firm, so software + audit come "under one roof"

Note: This is Thoropass's genuine differentiator and may be the deciding factor — if you want one vendor for both the software and the attestation, Thoropass is purpose-built for that. Raize is deliberately auditor-agnostic.

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

Framework catalogue

Raize Orion

10 frameworks incl. IASME Cyber Assurance, ISO 22301, NIS2

Thoropass

SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, NIS2, Cyber Essentials, CMMC L1/L2, 23 NYCRR 500, CIS v8

Note: Thoropass leads on HITRUST and SOC 1 (which Raize does not ship). Raize leads on IASME, ISO 22301 and a documented NIS2 reporting clock.

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

IASME Cyber Assurance

Raize Orion

Bundled — 61 requirements, 13 themes

Thoropass

Not listed on the public frameworks page (Cyber Essentials is listed; IASME Cyber Assurance is not)

Note: If you do not need the UK IASME standard, this row is not material.

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

ISO 22301 (business continuity)

Raize Orion

Bundled — clauses 4–10 as auditable requirements + BIA / BC exercise tooling

Thoropass

Not listed on the public frameworks page

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

NIS2

Raize Orion

Bundled, with a built-in 24h / 72h / 1-month reporting clock (per-source SLAs, anchored on upstream signal time)

Thoropass

NIS2 Directive listed as a supported framework; reporting-clock anchoring + per-source SLAs not documented on the public page

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

Pricing model

Raize Orion

Sales-led, GBP-default. Three tiers, no per-employee scaling.

Thoropass

Not published on the public pricing page — quote-based / sales-led (software + audit bundled). No public figures on Thoropass-owned pages.

Note: Neither vendor publishes full pricing. Third-party dollar estimates exist for Thoropass but are not stated on their own site, so we do not assert them here.

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

Trust Center

Raize Orion

Bundled at every tier (/trust/{slug})

Thoropass

Offered as a product ("a professional, public-facing portal"); bundled-vs-add-on terms not stated publicly

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

EU data residency

Raize Orion

Native (eu-west-2, London) — data does not leave the EU

Thoropass

US-headquartered; no EU/UK data-residency commitment stated on reachable public pages

Note: We could not reach Thoropass's privacy notice at verification; confirm residency directly if it is a contractual gate.

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

Team / support location

Raize Orion

UK-based engineering + support. Direct founder line during launch period.

Thoropass

US-headquartered (New York, NY, per public company directories).

Source Last verified: 2026-06-14

What changes after switching

  • Your evidence base + control catalogue migrates with you — we import existing evidence + policy adoption history under a structured engagement.
  • Auditor portal tokens get re-issued under Raize's scope-bounded model. Your existing auditor sees the same data with a new login URL.
  • Sub-processor list updates from Thoropass's to ours (Supabase, Vercel, Stripe, Resend, Anthropic, Voyage, Sentry, Cloudflare, GitHub). Customers must be informed under your DPA terms.
  • Billing moves to GBP-default, sales-led contract. MSA + DPA on request.
  • 30-day overlap window standard for migration of compliance-in-flight programmes.

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