ShieldScore vs Drata vs Vanta
Honest side-by-side comparison. Same starting price as Drata. More frameworks at depth. The first compliance platform built so your AI agents can audit directly via MCP.
Pricing
All prices are annual. ShieldScore publishes every tier; Drata and Vanta require a sales call.
| Tier | ShieldScore | Drata | Vanta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $6,000/year | $7,500/year+ | $10,000/year+ |
| Growth | $15,000/year | $15,000/year+ | $18,000/year+ |
| Professional | $30,000/year | $30,000/year+ | $40,000/year+ |
| Enterprise | $48,000/year | Custom | Custom |
Drata and Vanta starting prices are based on publicly-reported anchor prices in 2026; both platforms require a sales call for an exact quote. ShieldScore prices are listed as fixed amounts on our pricing page and at checkout.
Framework depth
Same framework count as competitors, but the catalogs are at different depths. Bolded rows below are frameworks Drata and Vanta don't ship at all.
| Framework | ShieldScore | Drata | Vanta |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 (TSC 2017/2022) | |||
| ISO 27001:2022 | 93 controls | ||
| ISO 27701:2019 (Privacy) | 49 controls | Partial | |
| ISO 42001:2023 (AI governance) | 61 controls | ||
| NIST AI RMF 1.0 | 71 subcategories | ||
| NIST CSF 2.0 (Govern, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) | 85 subcategories | ||
| HIPAA Security Rule + Breach + Privacy | 47 controls | ||
| PCI DSS v4.0 | 59 controls | ||
| GDPR Art. 30 RoPA + Art. 35 DPIA | Full workflows | Partial | Partial |
| DORA (EU fintech ICT risk) | 42 articles | ||
| CMMC Level 2 | 110 practices | Partial | |
| FedRAMP Moderate (Rev 5) | 325 controls | Partial |
Architecture & product differentiators
What you get out of the box that you can't get from Drata or Vanta at any tier.
| Capability | ShieldScore | Drata | Vanta |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (LLM agents can audit directly) | OAuth 2.1 + 12 scope-gated tools | ||
| Integrations | 200 | ~150 | ~180 |
| Per-org Business Unit hard-isolation | |||
| Vendor questionnaire portal (SIG-Lite) | Full lifecycle + reminders | ||
| Trust Center API (RS256-signed JSON) | AWS KMS + JWKS rotation | ||
| Remediation as IaC code (Terraform/Pulumi/Bicep/Ansible) | 6 providers × 6 flavors | Recommendations only | Recommendations only |
| Merkle-chained audit log (tamper-evident) | |||
| AI-native features | 18 | ~4 | ~6 |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | Demo only | Demo only |
| Public price transparency |
Why teams switch
Six concrete reasons you'd pick ShieldScore over Drata or Vanta.
AI-native compliance
Only platform with ISO 42001 (AI governance), NIST AI RMF 1.0, and an MCP server that lets your Claude agent audit directly. If your business is AI, you have one choice.
FedRAMP-ready depth
Full 325-control NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 catalog. Drata has partial coverage. Vanta has none. We don't claim FedRAMP-authorized hosting (we run on commercial Vercel + Railway), but the readiness program is real.
EU fintech (DORA)
Full 42-article DORA catalog covering ICT risk, incident management, resilience testing, third-party risk, and information sharing. Drata and Vanta don't ship DORA at all.
Tamper-evident audit log
Per-org Merkle hash chain on every audit row. SERIALIZABLE transaction writes. Quarterly chain verification with Sentry alerting. No competitor offers this; some don't even keep an audit log of admin actions.
Remediation-as-code
Generate Terraform / CloudFormation / Pulumi / Bicep / Ansible / Kubernetes YAML for any drift finding. AWS / Azure / GCP / Kubernetes / generic. Six providers, six flavors. Drata and Vanta surface findings; we give you the patch.
14-day free trial, public pricing
Sign up, get a credit card, start. No demo gate, no sales call to see a price. Published pricing, four tiers, comparison page (you're on it).
Honest disclosures
Three things ShieldScore does NOT have today, in case they're your blockers. We'd rather you know up front.
SOC 2 Type II report (ours, on us)
ShieldScore itself is in the SOC 2 Type II readiness phase. Type I attestation is in flight with one of three shortlisted firms; Type II observation window starts after Type I closes. If you need a Type II report from your compliance vendor today, Drata and Vanta are your answer for right now and we'd love to talk in 2027 Q2.
EU data residency
Production runs in AWS us-east-1 + Railway (US). EU region is on the 2027 Q1 roadmap. If you require EU data residency today, flag it to hello@shieldscore.ai — your inbound is the signal that moves it up the priority list.
FedRAMP-authorized hosting
We carry the full 325-control NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 catalog and we can help you track FedRAMP readiness for your infrastructure. We have not pursued FedRAMP authorization for ShieldScore's own infrastructure — we run on commercial Vercel and Railway. If FedRAMP-authorized hosting is your gate, that's a future quarter for us.
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