How much does Drata cost?

No published pricing; sold through sales. AI Agent Governance is in limited availability by application and its pricing is not disclosed.

What are the best alternatives to Drata?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Drata among security and SOC agents are Zeron, Cyware, BlinkOps, SentinelOne. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Drata support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Drata publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: Public API v2 at public-api.drata.com with bearer API keys, cursor pagination and resource groups for frameworks, controls, evidence, risks, assets, personnel, vendors, custom data and policies; plus a generally available MCP server at regi. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Drata have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Drata publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: The trust center at trust.drata.com lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and FedRAMP among others, alongside role based access control and MFA. MCP access is limited to the intersection of OAuth scopes and the u. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Can Drata be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Drata publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: US, EU and APAC deployments with regional endpoints (mcp.drata.com, mcp-euc1.drata.com and mcp-apse2.drata.com; EU and APAC API variants), and data residency across multiple regions listed on the trust center. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Drata

Q: Who is Drata for?

enterprise security teams, mid-market, organizations subject to the EU AI Act, companies deploying agents at scale, regulated industries

Also known as: Drata AI Agent Governance, Drata GRC+A

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Security / SOC agentindependentVerified 2026-09-28

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Trust management platform with its own compliance agents and AI Agent Governance: a Sensor and MCP Proxy inventory agents and evaluate each tool call, block violations inline, route recommended actions for approval, and keep a tamper-evident evidence feed; public API and MCP server in US, EU and APAC.

Drata is a trust management platform that began in compliance automation and now also governs AI agents. The compliance platform unifies controls, evidence, risks and policies across 30+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, the EU AI Act, AIUC-1 and others) and connects to hundreds of tools for evidence collection.

Drata ships agents of its own: the Agentic TPRM Assessment agent retrieves vendor documents, evaluates them against the customer's criteria, generates follow-up questions and corresponds with vendors, and the AI Questionnaire agent answers security questionnaires from the customer's Knowledge Base, Trust Center content and an answer library, with human review before responses are final.

AI Agent Governance, in limited availability since August 2026, discovers every AI agent in the environment, including shadow agents, through the Drata Sensor on managed devices and an MCP Proxy that evaluates each tool call against policy; violations are blocked inline, drift is flagged as it happens, and recommended actions go to a person for approval or, where authorized, are enforced automatically. Policies are written as plain-English intent, can be simulated against a year of historical traffic, and advance through a Trust Ladder from Training to Recommendation to Active.

Telemetry flows into a tamper-evident evidence feed. Full coverage ships for Anthropic agents, with OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock in development. A public API v2 and a generally available MCP server with 35+ tools run in US, EU and APAC regions.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://drata.com

Subcategory

AI agent governance and agentic trust management

Funding status

Private, San Francisco. CEO Adam Markowitz. Reported to serve more than 8,500 organizations worldwide.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

discovering shadow AI agents across the enterprisereal time policy enforcement on agent actions before executiontamper evident evidence trails for auditors and regulatorscontinuous compliance automation across frameworksEU AI Act and ISO 42001 readiness

Target customers

enterprise security teamsmid-marketorganizations subject to the EU AI Actcompanies deploying agents at scaleregulated industries

Deployment options

SaaS on AWS in US, EU and APAC regionsDrata Sensor on managed devicesMCP Proxy in the agent tool-call path

Integrations

The Drata Sensor watches AI activity on managed devices, including desktop, browser and local-model AI, and the MCP Proxy sits on every agent tool call. Full lifecycle governance ships for Anthropic, with OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock in development. The compliance platform connects to hundreds of tools for evidence collection. A public API v2 and an MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot) expose controls, evidence, risks, vendors and policies.

In practice

A security team integrates the sensors and gets a full inventory of every agent an employee has created, including ones nobody registered, mapped to owner, identity, permissions and scope within minutes.

A compliance lead writes an agent policy in plain English, tests it against a year of historical traffic to see exactly what would have been blocked, then switches enforcement on with no surprises.

An organization preparing for EU AI Act enforcement produces a tamper evident record of every agent decision as a single evidence trail for auditors and regulators.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://drata.com/ https://drata.com/about/news/drata-expands-trust-management-platform-to-support-governance-of-enterprise-ai-agents https://drata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agents https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/10/drata-ai-agent-governance/ https://securitybrief.co.uk/story/drata-launches-ai-agent-governance-for-enterprises https://itbrief.co.uk/story/drata-launches-ai-agent-governance-for-anthropic-users

Agentic Index coverage score

10.5 / 14 capabilities · 75%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
An MCP Proxy sits where every agent's tool call passes and evaluates each request, the Drata Sensor watches desktop, browser and local-model AI on managed devices, full lifecycle coverage ships for Anthropic with OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and AWS Bedrock in development, and the compliance platform connects to hundreds of tools for evidence collection; the TPRM agent retrieves vendor documents and corresponds with vendors. Sourcedrata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Drata runs several agents of its own, each carrying out work in several steps: the Agentic TPRM Assessment agent, which retrieves vendor documents, evaluates them, generates follow up questions and corresponds with vendors; the AI Questionnaire agent; and AI Agent Governance. How the agents coordinate is not detailed. Sourcedrata.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Full
The questionnaire agent answers from the customer's internal Knowledge Base, its Trust Center content and an answer library built from prior approvals, over a platform that unifies the customer's controls, evidence, risks and policies: a maintained store of the customer's knowledge that the agents draw on. Sourcedrata.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
Governance surfaces "recommended actions for manual approval or, where authorized, enforcing them autonomously", policies advance through a Trust Ladder (Training, Recommendation, Active), and the questionnaire agent's answers are reviewed by a person before they are final. Approval comes before actions commit, and violations on the customer's agents are blocked inline. Sourcedrata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
The trust center at trust.drata.com lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and FedRAMP among others, alongside role based access control and MFA. MCP access is limited to the intersection of OAuth scopes and the user's Drata role. Sourcetrust.drata.comread 2026-09-28
Observability & Auditability	Full
The MCP Proxy evaluates each agent tool call against policy, monitoring logs every action with a trust score per agent and flags drift as it happens, and on device telemetry flows into a durable, tamper evident evidence feed, so every tool call the customer's agents make leaves a record. Sourcedrata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
The claim that the platform "continuously learns based on human approvals and edits" describes learning, not a memory store with a stated scope. The answer library and Knowledge Base are knowledge the agents draw on, the tamper evident evidence feed is an audit record, and the simulation against historical traffic tests policy, so none of them is agent memory. Sourcedrata.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Deployment & Data Residency	Full
US, EU and APAC deployments with regional endpoints (mcp.drata.com, mcp-euc1.drata.com and mcp-apse2.drata.com; EU and APAC API variants), and data residency across multiple regions listed on the trust center. Sourcedevelopers.drata.com/developer-portal/v2/mcp-serverread 2026-09-28
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Full
Customers adopt named prebuilt agents (Agentic TPRM Assessment, AI Questionnaire Assistance, AI Agent Governance), each of which keeps doing its own job if another is removed, plus packaged coverage for 30+ frameworks with prebuilt controls. Sourcedrata.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
The MCP Proxy evaluates each tool call as it passes, violations are blocked inline before execution, and drift (OAuth expansion, API changes, behavior outside scope) is flagged as it happens, so work starts on events with no user launching it. Sourcedrata.com/products/agent-governanceread 2026-09-28
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
No provider, model choice or routing is named for Drata's own agents. Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex AI and Bedrock appear as platforms whose agents Drata governs, and Claude or ChatGPT can reach Drata through its MCP server, but neither describes the models Drata's agents run on. Sourcedrata.com/products/airead 2026-09-28
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
Public API v2 at public-api.drata.com with bearer API keys, cursor pagination and resource groups for frameworks, controls, evidence, risks, assets, personnel, vendors, custom data and policies; plus a generally available MCP server at regional endpoints with OAuth and 35+ tools that create, update and delete controls, evidence, risks and vendors. Sourcedevelopers.drata.com/openapi/reference/v2/overviewread 2026-09-28
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Every policy can be simulated against a year of real historical traffic before enforcement is switched on, and the Trust Ladder moves a policy from Training to Recommendation to Active. That amounts to a dry run of the governance configuration; no red teaming or scored tests of the customer's agents themselves are published. Sourcedrata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
No browser or computer use by Drata's agents; the Sensor observes browser and desktop AI on managed devices, which is monitoring rather than an agent operating an interface. Sourcedrata.com/about/news/drata-extends-trust-management-platform-to-continuously-monitor-and-govern-ai-agentsread 2026-09-28

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Pricing

Contact sales

not disclosed

What is public

Nothing on price on the vendor site.

Billing mechanics

Not publicly disclosed; sold through sales.

Cost watchouts

Inference, not stated by the vendor: an independent audit firm's fee for the attestation itself sits outside any compliance platform subscription.

Variable cost rationale

Inference, not stated by the vendor: with no billing unit published, cost depends on scope (frameworks, company size, and how AI Agent Governance is licensed).

Additional watchouts

Establish how AI Agent Governance is metered before committing, since it is in limited availability with no published pricing.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

None retrieved

Key ambiguities

No rate card or billing unit is published, and how AI Agent Governance is licensed (per agent, per action or as a module) is not disclosed.

Missing data

All pricing and the licensing model for AI Agent Governance.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-28

Official pricing page

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Alternatives to Drata

The closest documented capability profiles to Drata among security and SOC agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Zeron10.5 / 14Matches Drata across all 14 documented capabilities
Cyware10.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Drata
BlinkOps10.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
SentinelOne10.5 / 14Adds documented Model Flexibility & Routing
Vanta9.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Drata
ContraForce11.0 / 14Adds documented Model Flexibility & Routing

Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded

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