How much does managed compliance cost?

Managed compliance pricing bundles four line items you’d otherwise buy separately: the GRC platform license, the audit fee, penetration testing, and the labor of operating everything in between. Bought piecemeal, that stack typically lands at $25,000–$60,000+ in year one.

Two levers pull the bundled number below the piecemeal one. Partner pricing on the platform is the first — Vanta and Drata come through Agency at negotiated partner pricing, and Drata adds a written commitment: the best available price on Drata — or Agency matches it or pays you $1,000. The second is that engineering hours are shared across a portfolio instead of sitting idle between audits, which is the structural discount no single hire can match.

Normalize everything to an all-in annual figure: platform plus audit plus testing plus labor. The spread between vendors usually hides in the labor column — “advisory” retainers leave execution with your team, and execution is the expensive part. Ask two questions of any quote: who closes failing controls, and what does year two cost once the urgency is gone? Full scope detail lives on Managed Compliance Services. For published numbers: Managed Comply pricing covers the full program — a complete vCISO from $5,000 per month for companies with 1–100 employees — while Express Comply pricing covers the flat-rate single-framework program from $5,000 for a full year for companies with 1–10 employees.