What "Starting at $7,500/year" buys at Secureframe, line by line
Short answer
Secureframe Fundamentals is published as "Starting at $7,500/year" for one compliance framework, with integrations, monitoring, evidence collection, risk and policy management, a Trust Center and audit partner access. It does not list questionnaire automation, user access reviews, consulting or a pen test, and the figure is a starting price, not a quote for your scope.
By The Cost Desk, Compliance Pricing · Published 2026-08-04 · Updated 2026-09-29 · 3 min read
VENDOR PRICINGPLANS AND LIMITS
Secureframe is the one vendor in our census that prints a number, and that makes its Fundamentals plan the reference point for every cost conversation on this site. This note reads the plan card line by line.
What the card lists
From the Secureframe pricing page, read on 2026-09-29:
- 1 compliance framework
- 300+ native integrations
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Evidence collection
- Personnel management
- Risk management
- Policy management
- Trust Center
- Access to the Secureframe Audit Partner Network
The total line reads "Starting at $7,500/year".
What "starting at" means
A starting price is the lowest figure for the plan before your scope is known. The page does not say which company size or configuration gets that figure. Treat it as a floor for the platform subscription on one framework, and ask sales which inputs move it.
What is not on the card
Several items buyers often need are listed elsewhere or not at all:
- Questionnaire automation is listed on Complete, a quote-based plan, not on Fundamentals.
- User access reviews are listed on Complete.
- SSO and SCIM, custom integrations and advanced third-party risk management are also on Complete.
- CMMC tooling (an SPRS tracker, System Security Plan, POA&M, a managed CUI enclave) is on Defense, also quote-based.
- No consulting service and no penetration test is listed on any Secureframe plan we read.
If your scope includes any of these, the published figure does not describe your plan.
The audit is a separate question
Fundamentals lists "Access to the Secureframe Audit Partner Network". Access to a network of audit firms is not the same as an included audit. The page publishes no audit fee, so keep the audit as a separate budget line until a written quote says otherwise. The platform fee vs audit fee guide explains why SOC 2 involves two bills.
How it compares with the other entry plans
Secureframe's card is the most specific about price and one of the more specific about inclusions. Sprinto's Foundation lists more items, including audit management, bring your own auditor and 20 questionnaires per year, but no price. Drata's Foundation publishes a 50 FTE cap that Secureframe does not. Scytale's bundles list consulting and a pen test that Secureframe does not. Vanta's Essentials lists its AI agent and access to expert partners.
On the price transparency ranking, Secureframe ranks 1 of 7 (it ranks 2 on what the price buys), mostly on pricing transparency, and scores lower on expert services and questionnaire allowance. The Scytale vs Secureframe page sets the two side by side.
Five questions before you rely on the figure
- Which company size and scope does "Starting at $7,500/year" apply to?
- What does a second framework cost: an add-on or a move to Complete?
- Can questionnaire automation be added to Fundamentals, and at what price?
- Is the audit partner's fee billed by the audit firm or through Secureframe?
- What are the renewal terms after year one?
When the figure is enough
If you need one framework, answer few questionnaires, will arrange the audit with a partner firm and do not need consulting or a pen test in the same contract, Fundamentals as published may describe your purchase closely. Run your inputs through the calculator: with one framework and zero questionnaires it shows Fundamentals and the published starting price; with questionnaires or a second framework it moves to Complete and shows QUOTE REQUIRED.
The takeaway
$7,500 a year is a real, published floor for one framework on Secureframe's platform. It is not the cost of SOC 2, because the audit is separate, and it is not the price of a plan with questionnaire automation, which sits on Complete.