Comp AI Pricing (2026): Cost, Terms & Quote Checklist

How much does Comp AI cost?

Comp AI is quote-only: its pricing page shows no rate card and no dollar range. Comp AI says it prepares your number from your scope and presents it on a 20-minute call. The Order Form sets the fee.

Dollar figures circulate anyway, and none appears on the current pricing page or in the terms:

• Comp AI’s own SOC 2 cost guide (published October 31, 2025, updated January 30, 2026) headlines “Price with Comp AI: $5,000-10,000” against “$15,000+” for others and describes it as covering the platform and audit coordination. Treat it as marketing. Ask Comp AI whether it applies to your frameworks and headcount.
• Comp AI’s pricing page as archived on June 29, 2025 listed Starter at $199 a month and Done For You at $997 a month for companies up to 25 people, with a third-party audit, SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA, and a 12-month minimum term. Larger teams were told to contact sales. The current page shows none of these tiers, so a review quoting $199 or $997 a month is most likely repeating the 2025 page. Ask Comp AI whether any fixed tier still exists.

For market budgeting, use the SOC 2 software pricing comparison. For product fit and open-core trade-offs, read the Comp AI review, and see how Comp AI sits among SOC 2 compliance software compared by buyer fit.

What changes a Comp AI quote?

Comp AI names four inputs: frameworks in scope, company size, timeline, and audit or security needs. Settle all four before comparing proposals.

• Frameworks. Comp AI quotes SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 1, ISO 42001, FedRAMP and others. It says controls map across frameworks, so adding ISO 27001 to an existing SOC 2 program starts about two-thirds done. It publishes no discount for that. Ask for the second framework as its own line.
• Company size. Comp AI ties headcount to the people, devices, and access reviews in scope. Give it your cloud accounts, repositories, and vendors too, since headcount does not describe your technical scope.
• Timeline. A sprint of days to audit-ready and a quarter-long rollout may be quoted differently, so ask how Comp AI prices each. Readiness is not report issuance: a Type 2 report needs an observation period first.
• Audit and security needs. Whether you need the audit itself, penetration testing, or a trust center changes what is included.

Are the SOC 2 audit and penetration test included?

Comp AI’s pricing page says audit and penetration-testing needs change what a quote includes. It does not say either comes with every proposal. Comp AI does not issue the SOC 2 report. A licensed CPA firm does, and Comp AI’s materials describe both bring-your-own-auditor and access to pre-vetted auditors without naming a firm.

If the quote bundles audit work, the Order Form should name the CPA firm, engagement type, Trust Services Categories, observation period, and fee. The SOC 2 audit cost guide sizes the separate audit budget, and who performs and signs the report explains the split. For a penetration test, ask for the provider, in-scope assets, retest, and report date. A scan is not an external penetration test.

What public Comp AI contract terms apply?

Comp AI’s standard terms (last updated January 16, 2026) set a 12-month minimum commitment, non-cancelable and non-refundable fees except where the agreement or law says otherwise, and automatic one-year renewal with a 30-day notice window.

Read the Order Form, standard terms, service-level agreement, and data-processing agreement together.

Does self-hosting make Comp AI free?

No. The AGPLv3 core has no licence fee, but the Docker guide needs three outside services, a host, and someone to run them. The repository describes a 99% AGPLv3 core and a commercially licensed /ee Enterprise Edition. Comp AI does not publish a price for /ee. In the public repository, task automation requires an enterprise API secret.

The Docker self-hosting guide lists Docker, an external PostgreSQL 14+ database with SSL (it names Neon, DigitalOcean and RDS as examples), a Resend account for email, and a Trigger.dev account for background workflows. On each provider’s published plans as of October 20, 2026, the three services cost:

Reading the table:

• All three free plans cost $0, but an always-on database will not fit Neon Free. A 0.25 CU database that never sleeps uses about 180 CU-hours in a 730-hour month (our arithmetic), above the 100 included.
• A paid setup runs about $45 to $92 a month in service fees (our arithmetic). That is Neon Launch at roughly $15 (Neon’s intermittent example) to $22 (its always-on 190 CU-hour, 5 GB example), plus Resend Pro at $20 and Trigger.dev Hobby at $10 or Pro at $50. Trigger.dev bills compute seconds and runs beyond the included credit.
• The host is not priced here. The guide also expects a reverse proxy for HTTPS, secrets rotation, database network restrictions, Docker disk monitoring, migrations, and deployment of the Trigger.dev tasks.
• Engineering time is the larger cost, and it is our assumption, not a measurement. At 4 hours a month for upgrades, migrations, backup checks, and monitoring, and $100 an hour, that is $400 a month, more than four times even the $92 top case for service fees. Comp AI publishes no figure for this work. Replace both inputs with your team’s own.

Self-hosting also does not remediate controls, perform a penetration test, or produce a SOC 2 report. To compare other self-hostable options, see the self-hosted SOC 2 compliance tools.

What should you ask Comp AI to confirm in writing?

Five points that Comp AI’s public material leaves open decide whether a quote, or a self-hosted deployment, is complete. Label each answer included, add-on, usage-limited, customer-owned, unavailable, or unknown. Do not treat a blank as included.