Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
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Read the blog →What does getting to an audit actually cost? Compare three routes side by side: doing it in-house on your own staff hours, buying a compliance automation platform, or engaging a firm. Every assumption is on screen and editable, and the answer is a range, never a single number.
Pick the one your buyer or regulator is actually asking for.
More people means more access reviews, more interviews and wider scope for the same control.
A single managed cloud is far less evidence surface than several clouds plus your own hardware.
With nobody owning the programme, more of the writing and chasing has to come from somewhere.
A committed date does not change the work. It compresses it, which costs more per week, not less overall.
Editable estimate for a senior engineer or founder hour, including benefits and overhead. Set it to 0 to see cash cost only.
Frequently required as evidence, and frequently forgotten when people budget. Scope dependent either way.
This is an indicative planning range, not a quote. The cash lines use the ranges we publish in how much SOC 2 costs, and the effort model follows the same logic as our quoting engine, but neither knows your actual environment. Scope, effort and price get confirmed on a call. The three routes are also not mutually exclusive: most teams that engage a firm still run a platform underneath it, which is why tooling appears in every column.
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Readiness, remediation, and auditor coordination on a fixed fee.
Explore SOC 2 in 75 Days →Bring these numbers to a call. We will scope the work to your actual environment and quote it, so the cost is predictable and your engineers stay on the product. See our pricing for what the firm route looks like here.
See our pricing Book a free readiness callBecause it prices the hours. Doing it yourself is cheapest on cash out the door, since you only pay the auditor and the tool, but readiness commonly consumes hundreds of hours of founder and senior engineer time, and that time comes off product and revenue. This estimator puts a number on that line instead of leaving it hidden. If you set the internal hourly cost to zero you get the cash-only view.
Neither. A platform such as Vanta or Drata automates evidence collection and control monitoring, which genuinely removes a chunk of manual effort. It does not write your policies, fix your misconfigurations, decide your scope, or issue your report. The report can only come from an independent licensed CPA firm, and someone still has to run the programme that connects the two.
The cash lines use the ranges traztech publishes: roughly ten to forty thousand dollars for the CPA auditor, seven to twenty-five thousand a year for tooling, four to fifteen thousand for a penetration test, and readiness with us from about three thousand a month. The effort model follows the same logic as our quoting engine: a baseline programme length per framework, adjusted for headcount, cloud footprint, whether anyone owns security today, and whether an audit date is already committed.
No. It is an indicative planning range built from published figures and your own inputs, and it is deliberately shown as a range rather than a number. Scope, effort and price are confirmed on a call, after we have looked at your actual environment.
Yes, free with no signup and no payment. It runs entirely in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere unless you choose to give us your email for a copy of the result.
This gives you the shape of the problem. traztech Workspace walks you through every control of whichever frameworks apply to you, in plain English, with an evidence register, policy templates, a risk register, vendor questionnaires, and an audit-readiness score. Start a free assessment and walk every control.
No credit card, no trial clock, no locked features. TrazTech makes money when someone wants help closing the gaps, not from the Workspace itself.
Track record
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.