Drata's strength is depth of automation and its audit-partner network on the standard frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the set a SaaS company works through on the way to an enterprise deal. Inside that track it is strong, and Lavawall® will not pretend otherwise.
Most organizations do not keep one framework, though. They keep several at once: a control framework, one or more privacy laws, and the rules for their industry. Drata's published structure charges for each of them. Its AWS Marketplace listing reads as a platform fee plus $7,500 per framework, which is the pricing shape that costs the buyer with six frameworks the most.
Lavawall is built for the organization with several requirements at once. It includes every framework rather than metering them, walks each one through a guided wizard instead of a blank template, collects the evidence from your own systems, and comes with the security platform that produces that evidence. It is multi-tenant, so an MSP runs a whole book of clients from one console, and it works exactly the same way for a single organization with a stack of obligations.
Seven requirements, one broker
Take a regulated investment broker in British Columbia. It is not an MSP and not a SaaS startup, and it still carries seven distinct requirements at once.
| Where it comes from | The instrument |
|---|---|
| Sector regulators | BCFSA; CIRO cyber expectations; CSA Staff Notice 33-322 |
| Financial crime | FINTRAC |
| Privacy | BC PIPA; PIPEDA |
| Customer-driven | SOC 2, if they run any client-facing technology |
Seven requirements. On Drata's published rates, each supported framework is another $7,500 on top of the platform fee. On Lavawall, they are all included.
The broker is one shape. A manufacturer, a clinic, a credit union, an accounting firm, and a municipality each carry their own mix, and almost none of them keep just one framework. That is the buyer a per-framework price works against, and the buyer Lavawall is built for.
What Lavawall® does that Drata does not
Every framework included, not $7,500 each
This is the difference you feel first. Drata's published pricing is a platform fee plus a per-framework charge, so the cost climbs with every obligation you take on. Lavawall Complete includes every framework in the catalogue, with a 25-seat floor and no per-framework fee, because the combination is the point. A program with six or seven frameworks is where the two prices diverge the most, and that program is common, not exotic.
Guided wizards, not blank templates
Drata gives you strong automation and a library of controls and policy templates, and the tailoring to your environment is still yours to do. Lavawall walks each framework through a guided wizard that asks about your actual systems, data, and jurisdictions, and builds the assessment and the policies around your answers. A template assumes every organization is the same. A wizard produces something that fits yours.
A native platform, not a rack of connectors
Drata reads your posture through third-party integrations. Lavawall is the platform, not a connector to one: it runs its own agent on your endpoints and its own connectors into Microsoft 365, Entra, Intune, and Google Workspace, so the evidence comes from the same system that runs the control, and there is no third-party token to expire in the middle of your audit. When a source is not connected, Lavawall reports that the check could not run and names what it needed, rather than scoring it as a pass.
The security platform that produces the evidence
Most of compliance is technical controls you have to actually run and prove: patching, configuration hardening, access review, breach detection, backups. Drata checks whether you did them. Lavawall does them. The same console patches Windows, macOS, and Linux, hardens their configuration, detects breaches across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, runs security and attack-surface scans, and gives your team remote support and a help desk. The evidence is a by-product of running the tools, and you are replacing several products at once instead of adding one more on top.
Multi-tenant for MSPs, and for anyone with a stack of obligations
Lavawall is multi-tenant from the start, with parent and child scoping, client onboarding, and per-tenant entitlements, so an MSP runs a city, a clinic, a broker, and a manufacturer from one console. The same design serves a single organization that has to keep several frameworks in one place. You are not paying for an MSP feature you do not use; you are getting a console built to hold more than one obligation.
Business continuity as a working module, not a template
Lavawall runs a business impact analysis with recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), and maximum tolerable downtime (MTD), a dependency graph with single points of failure flagged, and continuity plans generated from that live data. It flags a process whose recovery target is longer than the downtime the business says it can survive: forty-eight hours against a twenty-four-hour tolerance is two numbers that cannot both be true.
Capability comparison
| Capability | Lavawall® | Drata |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 and ISO 27001 automation | Yes | Yes, deep, its core strength |
| Additional frameworks | All included | $7,500 each, published |
| Canadian privacy and sector (PIPEDA, PIPA, BCFSA, CIRO, FINTRAC) | Pre-built frameworks | Custom-framework builder |
| Framework setup | Guided wizard | Automation plus templates to tailor |
| Evidence from your own tenant (M365, Entra, Intune, Workspace, endpoints) | Collected by the console | Via integrations |
| Patching, breach detection, remote support, help desk | Included, same console | Out of scope |
| Business continuity (BIA with RTO, RPO, MTD) | Working module | Not a core feature |
| Multi-tenant for MSPs (parent and child scoping) | Designed in | Limited |
| Auditor network | No, built by an audit firm | Yes, established |
| Published price | On the pricing page | $25,000 + $7,500/framework, AWS Marketplace |
Pricing, published
Drata publishes its numbers on AWS Marketplace, and the structure is the story: a platform fee, and then a charge for every framework you add.
Lavawall® Complete
$89.50 /seat/year
Annual, two months free. A seat is the greater of your managed devices or your Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace licensed users, never both.
Starts at $2,240/year for the first 25 seats, and every compliance framework in the catalogue is included, along with the business-continuity module, your policies, and a Trust Centre.
No per-framework fee: the whole catalogue is in Complete. Volume discounts start at 51 seats.
Drata
US$25,000 + US$7,500 / framework / year
Platform fee at 100 FTE capacity, plus US$7,500 per framework, as published on Drata’s own AWS Marketplace listing (accessed 28 August 2026). Marketplace and direct pricing can differ.
Every framework you add is another US$7,500. The buyer this page is written for has six or seven.
Volume discount, by seat
| 1–50 seats | list price |
| 51–250 seats | 5% off |
| 251–1,000 seats | 10% off |
| 1,001–5,000 seats | 15% off |
| 5,001+ seats | 20% off |
A few scenarios
| Organization | Assumptions | Lavawall / year |
|---|---|---|
| 20-person BC health-tech | 25 seats (the minimum), every framework it needs included | $2,240 |
| 50-person services firm | 50 seats, every framework included | $4,475 |
| 250-seat organization | 250 seats at the 5% volume tier, every framework included | $21,256 |
A seven-framework program on Drata’s published rates is the US$25,000 platform plus seven times US$7,500, about US$77,500 a year. Lavawall® includes every framework in Complete.
For most of these buyers, though, the real alternative to Lavawall is not another compliance platform at all. It is a consultant at $15,000 to $40,000 and a spreadsheet, repeated every year, with nothing left behind between engagements. See the full pricing page for the calculator.
When Drata is the better choice
If your whole program is SOC 2 or ISO 27001 on the standard path, you want the deepest automation for that single track, and the audit-partner network matters to you, Drata is built for exactly that and does it well. Lavawall does not run an auditor network. The moment you are keeping a second and third framework, though, the per-framework price and the single-track focus are working against you, and that is most organizations.
Frequently asked
- Is Lavawall only for MSPs?
- No. Lavawall is multi-tenant, so an MSP can run a whole book of clients from one console, and it works the same way for a single organization that carries several compliance requirements at once. The common thread is not being an MSP; it is having more than one obligation to keep.
- How is Lavawall's pricing different from Drata's?
- Drata's published structure is a platform fee plus $7,500 per framework, so every framework you add costs more. Lavawall Complete includes every framework in the catalogue at no per-framework charge, with a 25-seat floor. The more frameworks you keep, the wider the gap.
- Does Lavawall have an auditor network like Drata?
- No. Lavawall is built by ThreeShield, a CISSP- and CISA-credentialled audit firm, and the platform is used internally for ThreeShield's own compliance, but it does not run an auditor marketplace. If what you most need is an introduction to an audit firm on the standard frameworks, Drata's network is a real reason to choose it.
- When is Drata the better choice?
- If your whole program is SOC 2 or ISO 27001 on the standard path, you want the deepest automation for that single track, and you value the audit-partner network, Drata is built for exactly that.
By region and industry
The comparison changes with your obligation set. These pages start from where you operate and what you make.