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Secureframe streamlines compliance workflows. SimpleAudit uses AI to generate your compliance program from scratch, so there is less workflow to manage.
| Feature | SimpleAudit | Secureframe |
|---|---|---|
| AI Policy Generation | Comply AI for remediation and risk | |
| Conversational AI Interface | ||
| Automated Evidence Collection | ||
| Employee Onboarding | ||
| Risk Register | ||
| Vendor Management | ||
| Access Reviews | ||
| Multiple Frameworks | SOC 2 (more planned) | |
| Published price |
No platform on this page includes the audit. The CPA firm that signs your SOC 2 report is a separate purchase. Our row uses our audit partner's starting price; for the others, add the fee your auditor quotes.
| Option | Platform, first year | Audit | First-year total |
|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleAudit Starter | $480 | Type 1 from $5,000 | from $5,480 |
| Secureframe | $7,733–$32,575 | + your auditor's fee | Depends on your auditor |
From $40/mo (Starter, billed annually at $480). Essentials is $199/mo billed annually. Our row is the lowest first-year cost: Starter ($480 a year) plus a SOC 2 Type 1 from MJD Advisors, a peer-reviewed, US-based CPA firm, from $5,000. Starter covers the Security criteria only, for one user and one audit preparation. It gets you audit-ready, but the audit tools (audit window tracking, the audit package export, audit documents and auditor fields) are on Essentials, so on Starter you hand your evidence to the auditor yourself. A Type 1 is the option when a prospect needs a report in under about 3 months. Our recommended path is a security-only SOC 2 Type 2 with a 3-month observation window: MJD prices it from $7,500, and with Essentials ($2,388 a year), which runs the audit, the first year starts at $9,888. MJD Advisors is SimpleAudit's audit partner.
Secureframe's range is Vendr's buyer data across company sizes (read 2026-09-29); the median contract is $20,000. Secureframe publishes no prices.
Teams choose SimpleAudit when they want a SOC 2-focused tool that generates their compliance program through AI, not templates.
G2 reviewers describe a steep learning curve and many controls to configure at the start, plus manual work for tools Secureframe does not integrate with.
Source: G2 reviews of Secureframe, read 2026-09-29
Secureframe publishes no prices; every quote goes through sales. Vendr's buyer data shows contracts from $7,733 to $32,575 a year.
Source: secureframe.com and Vendr buyer data, read 2026-09-29
Secureframe's 2026 launches went to defense and federal work: Secureframe Defense for CMMC (March) and a FedRAMP 20x Moderate authorization (June). If SOC 2 is your single goal, you inherit breadth you don't need.
Source: secureframe.com/newsroom, read 2026-09-29
Secureframe is a capable platform, and for the right buyer its breadth is the whole point: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC and FedRAMP from one console. The question worth asking before you commit is whether that breadth is an asset or an anchor at your stage. For a team whose only near-term requirement is a SOC 2 report to close a deal, a multi-framework engine is capability you will not touch for a year or more.
Look at where Secureframe is investing. Its 2026 launches went to federal and defense buyers: Secureframe Defense for CMMC in March and a FedRAMP 20x Moderate authorization in June. Those are real strengths for a defense supplier. For a five-person SaaS company, they are a sign that the roadmap is aimed at someone else.
Then there is budgeting. Secureframe does not publish pricing, so every path to a number runs through a sales call. Vendr's buyer data shows contracts from $7,733 to $32,575 a year, with a median of $20,000, before the audit. For a founder who needs to decide fast because a customer is waiting, a quote cycle is friction at exactly the wrong moment.
So when does it make sense to switch, or to not start with Secureframe at all? When SOC 2 is your single goal and speed-to-report matters more than future framework coverage. At the pre-seed and seed stages, you are usually buying compliance to unlock one customer segment, not to stand up a multi-framework program. Secureframe earns its price once you genuinely need three or four frameworks at once and have someone to own the platform. Until then, the breadth you are paying for is the burden you are managing.
Secureframe’s core advantage is a multi-framework engine — SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI all in one platform. If you only need SOC 2 as your single goal (common at the pre-seed stage), that breadth becomes weight. SimpleAudit picks depth over breadth: one framework, deeply understood, explained in plain language for founders and ops leads.
SimpleAudit's AI starts from a conversation about how your business actually runs and writes policies that already fit, so there are fewer placeholders to hunt down before your auditor reads them.
From $40/mo (Starter, billed annually at $480). Essentials is $199/mo billed annually. The price is on the website. No discovery call, no quote by email, no contract negotiation before you can see a number.
Secureframe is right for a team that needs several frameworks from one platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC and FedRAMP among them) and has an engineer to connect its integrations. It is the strongest fit of the tools we compare for federal and defense suppliers: it launched a CMMC product in March 2026 and holds a FedRAMP 20x Moderate authorization. That buyer is usually at Series A or later. If SOC 2 is your only requirement this year, you would be paying for breadth you will not use.
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