Direct answer
What is Drata?
Drata is an agentic trust management platform that automates evidence collection, control monitoring, questionnaire drafting, and vendor risk assessments across major compliance frameworks.
Drata is an enterprise trust management and compliance platform that automates governance, risk, and compliance workflows. The platform connects with an organization's infrastructure to continuously monitor security controls, identify configuration issues, and collect auditor-ready evidence across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, FedRAMP, and CMMC. Autonomous AI agents assist with security questionnaire intake and drafting, third-party vendor risk assessments, and documentation verification. Drata also includes an AI Agent Governance solution to discover internal enterprise AI agents and enforce corporate policies before actions execute, alongside customer-facing Trust Centers to share verified security postures with prospective buyers.
Combines continuous multi-framework control monitoring with autonomous AI agents that handle security questionnaires, third-party vendor evaluations, and enterprise AI agent governance.
Product capabilities
Key features
Enterprise GRC & Framework Mapping
Enables organizations to map controls once and cross-map across multiple frameworks, centralizing controls, risks, policies, and evidence into one system.
Continuous Compliance Monitoring
Automatically collects evidence and monitors more than 100 security controls across environments, providing guided remediation to resolve issues before audits.
AI Questionnaire Assistance
Employs AI agents that continuously learn from an evolving knowledge base to triage, process, and draft answers for customer security questionnaires.
Agentic Third-Party Risk Management
Automates vendor risk assessments by generating evaluation criteria from existing questionnaires, retrieving documents from trust centers, and conducting vendor follow-ups.
AI Agent Governance
Discovers active AI agents in the enterprise environment, enforces organizational policies prior to action execution, and records auditor-grade proof of decisions.
Trust Center
Provides a customer-facing portal to publish verified security postures, share compliance attestations, and reduce manual sales diligence requests.
Practical fit
Who should use Drata?
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 Audit Readiness
Automating evidence gathering and control monitoring across cloud infrastructure to reduce audit duration and prep time.
Security Questionnaire Triage and Completion
Drafting responses to prospect security questionnaires using answers referenced from an internal knowledge base.
Autonomous Third-Party Vendor Reviews
Scanning vendor security postures and evaluating documentation pulled from third-party trust centers.
Internal AI Agent Policy Enforcement
Tracking and governing autonomous AI agents operating within internal systems to satisfy auditor and board requirements.
Editorial assessment
Pros and limitations
Where it is strong
- Automates continuous evidence collection across more than 100 security controls.
- Supports cross-mapping across major standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, and HIPAA.
- Provides autonomous AI agents to draft security questionnaires and review third-party vendor risk.
- Includes integrated Trust Center capabilities to share security posture directly with buyers.
Where to be careful
- Public pricing is not disclosed on the vendor website and requires engaging sales for a quote.
- Requires connecting company infrastructure and tools for automated monitoring to function effectively.
Commercial context
Drata pricing
Pricing is not published on the official website as of September 2026. Interested organizations must contact sales or schedule a demo to obtain customized pricing based on frameworks, company size, and required modules.
Pricing, limits, taxes, model access, and regional availability can change. Verify the purchase-critical details on the official pricing page linked under Sources.
Transparent ranking
Why Drata scores 73.8
Each factor is scored on a 100-point scale, then combined using the public ToolsRank weights. Engagement and momentum stay at a neutral baseline until measured signals exist, so no tool can gain or lose position from numbers nobody recorded.
Compatibility
Languages, platforms, and integrations
Languages
- English
Integrations & surfaces
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Community
Reviews and questions
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Frequently asked
Drata FAQ
What compliance frameworks does Drata support?+
Drata supports frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, FedRAMP, and CMMC, along with custom organizational frameworks.
How does Drata gather audit evidence?+
The platform integrates directly with cloud providers and enterprise tools to monitor controls in real time and automatically collect evidence, eliminating manual screenshotting.
What is Drata's AI Agent Governance feature?+
AI Agent Governance is a capability that discovers AI agents operating in an enterprise environment, applies compliance policies before actions execute, and retains audit records of those decisions.
Does Drata offer transparent public pricing?+
No, Drata does not list public pricing tiers on its website; access is available by contacting sales or booking a demo.