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by ITSECOPSIf your compliance bill is tied to your headcount, every new hire quietly raises it. The comparison below shows what changes when the platform is licensed once and lives in your own tenant.
Secureframe in 2026: pricing model, hosting and what buyers report
Pricing model. Secureframe quotes on employee count first and frameworks second. That makes the first year predictable and the third year expensive: reviews describe "renewal price creep" as headcount grows, plus 5 to 10% uplifts. Audits are separate, reported at $15,000 to $50,000 depending on scope.
Hosting and AI. Vendor cloud with no residency commitment stated publicly. Comply AI (2023) and AI Evidence Validation (May 2025) read your evidence and policies to suggest remediation and validate uploads.
What Secureframe does well. Fast SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for startups, a large integration library, good personnel and device management for distributed teams, and helpful AI drafting for teams with no compliance background.
Where SECORA is different
Headcount is irrelevant to the bill. SECORA’s one-time deployment fee is set by frameworks and estate, not by how many people work for you or how many need to log in. Every employee can acknowledge policies and every owner can upload evidence without a licence conversation.
Personnel and device compliance from your own Microsoft data. Users sync from Entra ID with department and manager; device posture, MFA coverage and stale accounts come from your tenant through read-only Graph scopes. Evidence recipes tell HR exactly which export to attach to the onboarding and offboarding controls.
Policies you can defend line by line. Templates merged with your scoping answers, approvals recorded by version, and a consistency check across policies, procedures and answers. No generative text an assessor can pick apart.
Side by side: SECORA vs Secureframe
| Capability | SECORA | Secureframe |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Your Microsoft 365 tenant or SharePoint Server | Secureframe cloud |
| Pricing model | One-time deployment per organisation | Employee count + frameworks; median $20,000 a year |
| Cost when headcount grows | Unchanged | Increases at renewal |
| Annual price escalator | None on the platform | 5 to 10% reported |
| AI processing of evidence and policies | No | Yes (Comply AI, AI Evidence Validation) |
| Personnel compliance | Entra ID sync, department scope, policy acknowledgement evidence | Yes, integrated HR and device checks |
| Sign-in | Entra ID, your Conditional Access | Secureframe accounts or SSO |
| Integrations | Microsoft native + collector for AWS, Azure, Google, GitHub, SIEMs | Large native library |
| Multi-client edition | Yes | Partner programme |
| Exit | Nothing to export | Export and lose history |
Choose SECORA if you are growing headcount on Microsoft 365 and want compliance cost decoupled from hiring, with evidence that never leaves your tenant. Choose Secureframe if you are a small cloud-native team that wants AI-drafted policies and a broad SaaS integration library from day one.
The cheapest seat is the one you never have to buy.
Three-year cost: Secureframe against SECORA
Take the Secureframe figure that matches your quote, set your headcount and frameworks, and the GRC cost calculator models three years of subscription with the usual renewal uplift against a one-time SECORA deployment plus optional maintenance. In the brochure scenario (one-time deployment at 1.2× the first-year subscription, 15% maintenance renewal from year two, 8% SaaS uplift with seat growth) the three-year total is roughly half. Your quote depends on scope, frameworks and estate size.
Moving from Secureframe to SECORA
- Export policies, control statuses, risk register and evidence from Secureframe.
- Discovery: frameworks, departments, estate, branding, dashboard layout.
- Deploy in your tenant and sync users from Entra ID with department and manager.
- Seed and migrate: policy library re-generated from your scoping answers (the Secureframe PDFs become reference material), inventory imported, evidence re-uploaded and mapped once.
- Hand-over with the compliance calendar and first board report.
How SECORA works in your tenant
SECORA is a signed SharePoint Framework (SPFx) package. ITSECOPS uploads it to your Microsoft 365 App Catalog (or a SharePoint Server you host), provisions a Compliance site with the GRC lists and an evidence library, applies permissions and seeds your frameworks. From then on your team signs in with Entra ID, under your MFA and Conditional Access, and every control, policy, risk, task and piece of evidence is a SharePoint record in your own Microsoft geography.
- Controls with family roll-ups, owners, priorities, SPRS weights, linked policies and evidence counts, mapped across every framework you select.
- Policies and procedures generated from 29 client-neutral templates, merged with your scoping answers, approved by email and exported as client-branded PDFs.
- Evidence library with a freshness clock per file, 55 evidence recipes that tell owners the exact report and menu path, and automated evidence from Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Sentinel.
- Risk register with a 5×5 heatmap, mitigation tracking and control mapping.
- Compliance calendar that turns 45 recurring duties into dated tasks with owners and reminders sent through Microsoft Graph.
- Scoping questionnaire, consistency check, roadmap, inventory, append-only audit trail and one-click board report.
What SECORA costs
SECORA is licensed per organisation. You pay a one-time deployment fee that covers installation in your tenant, framework configuration, policy library seeding, dashboard customisation and hand-over, with twelve months of maintenance, updates and support by ITSECOPS included. There are no per-user, per-month or per-framework charges, and an optional maintenance renewal is available from year two. Because there is nothing to export at exit (the lists are already yours), there is no lock-in either. Model your own numbers in the three-year GRC cost calculator or request a written quote.
Sources: Vendr: Secureframe pricing data · SOC2Auditors: Secureframe review · Secureframe: AI Evidence Validation. Competitor figures are observed contract data or published estimates, not list prices; verify with the vendor.
Frequently asked
Yes. Approved policies are published as branded PDFs; acknowledgement evidence is collected per department and mapped to the awareness and HR controls in every framework, with the users register synced from Entra ID.
Primarily by employee count, then by frameworks, with observed contracts from $12,000 to $80,000 plus and a $20,000 median. Audit fees are separate.
In your own Microsoft 365 tenant or SharePoint Server: SharePoint lists for controls, policies, risks, tasks, inventory and the audit trail, and a versioned document library for evidence. SECORA has no cloud of its own and no vendor database.
No. SECORA is licensed per organisation with a one-time deployment fee and twelve months of maintenance included. Invite every control owner, department head and external auditor without changing the bill.
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