Chiaro

Chiaro SOC 2 Type I audits typically range from $2K to $6.66K. Type II audits range from $3K to $8.51K. This is below average for specialist firms — the specialist tier average is $20.241K–$59.606K. Final pricing depends on your organization's scope, number of trust service criteria, and system complexity.

The 2–3 week range is Chiaro's audit execution and report-delivery window once evidence is available. It is the fieldwork-to-report window, not the full engagement. A SOC 2 Type II also requires an observation period, typically 3–12 months depending on scope, before that window begins, while a Type I is a point-in-time assessment with no observation period. Actual timelines depend on readiness, scope, and evidence availability. They offer accelerated timelines for organizations that are audit-ready.

Chiaro has deep expertise in AI, B2B SaaS, SaaS, Startups, Technology, Healthcare. They are best suited for Solo founders and AI-native startups of 1-20 people facing their first enterprise security review, particularly teams shipping with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor who want readiness, evidence collection, and the audit to run inside the tools they already use. Teams above 20 are scoped individually.

Chiaro holds 5 accreditations: CPA Firm, CPA, AICPA, AICPA Peer Review, SOC 2.

Chiaro uses Chiaro - proprietary MCP-native platform (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok Build) for their audit engagements. Reports are delivered via Type I in 2-3 weeks from kickoff to signed report; Type II issued about 2 weeks after the observation window closes.

Chiaro is a specialist SOC 2 audit firm founded in 2026 with 0 years of experience. Chiaro is the trading brand of Y Assurance PLLC, a Texas-registered CPA firm (Firm Registration No. C12398) founded in 2026 by Yuanlun Yin, a dual-licensed CPA in California and Texas who spent five years at Deloitte leading more than thirty SOC 2 engagements across the US and Canada. Two things separate it from the rest of the low-cost end. First, the complete audit methodology is published under CC BY 4.0 at github.com/Chiaro-HQ/methodology: 86 controls, 355 test attributes mapped to 61 Trust Services Criteria, the evidence accepted against each, and the deviation rules with worked examples, released before the first engagement ran under it. Second, Type II testing defaults to complete populations rather than samples, so every change, termination, and access review in the observation window is tested, with completeness corroborated by recorded, re-runnable retrieval commands and reconciliation against an independent second source. Where full retrieval is genuinely impracticable a sampling lane applies, selection is derived deterministically from a hash of the banked population so neither firm nor client can steer or re-roll the draw, and the report discloses per control which lane ran. Pricing is a published grid rather than a quote: fees scale by team size, chosen trust criteria, and observation window, and the calculator producing those numbers runs publicly on the firm's own site. Buyers evaluating independence should note that the same legal entity sells the readiness and control-monitoring platform and signs the attestation. AICPA rules permit that combination with documented safeguards under ET 1.295.040, but unlike Thoropass (which separates the CPA work into Laika Compliance, LLC) or A-LIGN (a distinct assurance practice), there is no separate attest entity here. They are best suited for organizations that need ai, b2b saas, saas expertise.

Chiaro is headquartered in Austin, TX, USA. They serve clients across the United States and can conduct SOC 2 audits remotely.

Compared to the 69 specialist firms in our directory, Chiaro's SOC 2 Type II pricing ($3K–$8.51K) is below average (tier average: $20.241K–$59.606K). They hold 5 certifications vs. the tier average of 4. Their minimum timeline of 2 weeks is faster than the tier average.

Chiaro is best suited for Solo founders and AI-native startups of 1-20 people facing their first enterprise security review, particularly teams shipping with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor who want readiness, evidence collection, and the audit to run inside the tools they already use. Teams above 20 are scoped individually. Their key differentiator is: Chiaro is the trading brand of Y Assurance PLLC, a Texas-registered CPA firm (Firm Registration No. C12398) founded in 2026 by Yuanlun Yin, a dual-licensed CPA in California and Texas who spent five years at Deloitte leading more than thirty SOC 2 engagements across the US and Canada. Two things separate it from the rest of the low-cost end. First, the complete audit methodology is published under CC BY 4.0 at github.com/Chiaro-HQ/methodology: 86 controls, 355 test attributes mapped to 61 Trust Services Criteria, the evidence accepted against each, and the deviation rules with worked examples, released before the first engagement ran under it. Second, Type II testing defaults to complete populations rather than samples, so every change, termination, and access review in the observation window is tested, with completeness corroborated by recorded, re-runnable retrieval commands and reconciliation against an independent second source. Where full retrieval is genuinely impracticable a sampling lane applies, selection is derived deterministically from a hash of the banked population so neither firm nor client can steer or re-roll the draw, and the report discloses per control which lane ran. Pricing is a published grid rather than a quote: fees scale by team size, chosen trust criteria, and observation window, and the calculator producing those numbers runs publicly on the firm's own site. Buyers evaluating independence should note that the same legal entity sells the readiness and control-monitoring platform and signs the attestation. AICPA rules permit that combination with documented safeguards under ET 1.295.040, but unlike Thoropass (which separates the CPA work into Laika Compliance, LLC) or A-LIGN (a distinct assurance practice), there is no separate attest entity here.