ISO 27001 compliance software: compare the ISMS work each platform documents

What does ISO 27001 software cost?

Published ISO 27001 software prices on this page start at $5,000 a year for ComplyJet Core and $7,500 a year for Carbide Foundation and Scytale's Marketplace floor. Most other platforms are quote-based. None of those figures include the certification-body audit, a consultant, or internal labor.

ComplyJet Core covers one framework; Plus is $8,000 a year for two. Both cap at 50 employees and exclude audits. Carbide's dedicated advisor work starts at $22,000 a year on Insights; Foundation does not include it. Scytale's Marketplace floor is 12 months and one framework; Build DFY and Build Stronger consulting need a separate quote.

A cheaper self-serve plan can leave SoA decisions, internal audit, and management review with your team. Confirm plan inclusion, extra frameworks, and expert help in the order form.

Which ISO 27001 compliance software should you shortlist?

Shortlist Vanta when you need live SoA through corrective-action records, Drata when you will start from an example ISMS plan, and Carbide when you want advisor-guided risk treatment. Then compare ComplyJet, Hyperproof, Scrut, Scytale, and Zania against the records you still need to inspect.

These are screenshots of public marketing pages, included to help identify the products. They are not product tests.

Vanta: live SoA through corrective-action records

Choose Vanta when you need the current SoA, risk register, internal-audit, management-review, and nonconformity records inside the product.

Vanta's ISO page describes auto-generating a Statement of Applicability, an ISO 27005-aligned risk register, guided internal-audit and management-review workflows, and issue management for nonconformities. ISO does not require that specific risk method. Auditor handoff is not documented there. Access to compliance experts is not a named person operating the ISMS. Ask the certification body you will use to walk through evidence access, and compare the written plan, add-ons, and export rights.

Drata: example ISMS plan plus a risk-treatment workflow

Choose Drata when someone can lead implementation and you will start from a documented example ISMS plan rather than assuming every ISO record is already a live workflow.

The current product page describes linking risks to controls and evidence. The example ISMS plan supplies SoA, internal-audit, management-review, and corrective-action templates. A template is not configured automation, a completed review, or auditor acceptance. The example plan tells the organization to engage a certification body; that work stays with you. Current onboarding documentation describes training, in-app technical support, and Compliance Advisors, without promising a dedicated implementation manager.

Carbide: advisor-guided risk treatment and auditor access

Choose Carbide when policy and risk work would otherwise mean hiring a separate adviser, and you want read-only auditor access in the product.

The ISO page describes advisor-guided risk treatment, internal-audit support, and auditor access. Risk treatment is expert help, not a sourced product workflow for the live risk-treatment record. Every tier gets a dedicated CSM, but the Dedicated Security Advisor who does gap analysis, risk assessment, and audit-document preparation is gated to the top two tiers. Foundation from $7,500 a year does not buy that advisor. SoA, management review, and corrective actions are not documented on the reviewed ISO page.

ComplyJet: SoA, risk, internal audit, and an auditor workspace

Choose ComplyJet when you need documented product workflows for Statement of Applicability generation, risk treatment, internal-audit support, and a dedicated auditor workspace, and you want a published price before a sales call.

Management review and corrective actions are not documented on the reviewed ISO page. Core and Plus include Slack support and onboarding sessions and exclude vCISO advisory, penetration testing, and implementation. Audits are extra. The published plans cap at 50 employees.

Hyperproof: SoA, internal audit, and nonconformity follow-up

Choose Hyperproof when you need documented product workflows for generating a Statement of Applicability, running an internal-audit program, and remediating nonconformities.

Risk treatment, management review, and certification-body handoff are not documented on the reviewed ISO page. Pricing is quote-based. Hyperproof partners with professional services firms for hands-on readiness work, which places that work outside the product. Ask what the quoted plan includes versus a separate services engagement.

Scrut Automation: SoA export and auditor collaboration

Choose Scrut when you need to generate, edit, and download an ISO 27001 Statement of Applicability, and when permissioned auditor collaboration, evidence, comments, and findings matter in the demo.

Risk treatment, management review, and corrective actions are not documented in the reviewed Scrut material. Scrut describes hands-on support through post-audit without specifying which policy tasks a consultant takes over or for how long. The $15,000 Marketplace floor is a 12-month Compliance Automation contract for up to 20 employees, not a certification-body fee.

Scytale: risk workflow plus an audit-partner arrangement

Choose Scytale when you want documented risk management in the product and a quoted arrangement that connects you with an audit partner.

The ISO page describes risk management and connecting buyers with an audit partner. The partner arrangement is paid support. It is not an accredited certification body and does not guarantee a certification decision. SoA, internal audit, management review, and corrective actions are not documented on that page. Build Starter is platform-only. Build DFY and Build Stronger add a dedicated consultant for a capped term and still require an internal owner to approve policies and implement controls. Price the software floor and the consulting package separately.

Zania: SoA-aligned workflows and remediation

Choose Zania when you need Annex A and Statement of Applicability-aligned workflows plus remediation, and you can inspect the remaining ISO records in a demo.

Risk treatment, internal audit, management review, and auditor handoff are not documented on the reviewed ISO page. Public pages do not establish the post-sale onboarding model. There is no published price.

Does SOC 2 evidence reuse reduce ISO 27001 work?

SOC 2 evidence reuse can reduce duplicate collection for overlapping controls. It does not decide ISO applicability, risk treatment, internal-audit findings, management decisions, or corrective actions.

Vanta says overlapping SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls can reuse evidence. Scrut markets reuse of controls and evidence across standards. Scytale says it maps overlapping SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls. Hyperproof describes mapping existing ISO 27001 controls onto other frameworks, including SOC 2. Each of those is the vendor's own reuse claim. It does not prove that an ISO operating record is missing, complete, or accepted by a certification body.

What should you check in a demo?

Ask each finalist to open the current SoA, a treated risk, an internal-audit finding, a management-review record, and a nonconformity, then record the source, owner, approval history, and export for each.

Then ask what an external auditor can view, request, comment on, and take out of the product, and what you still arrange outside it. Name which records are native product workflows, templates, paid expert help, or buyer-owned work, and which plan they sit on. If you already run SOC 2, bring the current evidence set and ask which ISO decisions still need owners and dates. Software does not certify the ISMS; an independent certification body audits it and makes that decision.