episki vs Drata
Autonomous GRC vs a continuous-monitoring dashboard
Drata monitors controls and renders a clean dashboard. episki automates the program itself — agents draft policies, answer security questionnaires, manage vendors, and keep your audit evergreen, with humans approving the work that matters.
Why teams evaluate Drata alternatives
Drata built a polished, real-time compliance dashboard on top of automated evidence collection. For teams that want continuous monitoring with a clean visual posture view, it works well — and its integration coverage across cloud and SaaS platforms is broad.
Teams look for alternatives when they want the program to run, not just be watched:
- Work that runs itself — a dashboard tells you a control is failing; episki's agents draft the policy, narrative, or remediation task to fix it, and a human approves.
- Simpler, flat pricing — Drata's tiering by framework count and company size makes budgeting unpredictable. episki is a flat platform price with unlimited frameworks and users.
- Built-in AI governance — episki ships a dedicated AI Governance module and maps ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act out of the box.
Where episki is different
Legacy GRC automates evidence and renders it on a dashboard. episki automates the program. Agents draft policies, answer questionnaires, map controls across frameworks, and recommend tasks — and the AI authors deterministic recipes that then run without AI in the loop, so the output is reproducible and defensible in front of an auditor. A human always approves the work that matters.
Everything is connected underneath: programs, assessments, controls, tasks, risks, and evidence link together, and a fast, keyboard-first editor makes the daily work of writing and reviewing feel like a modern tool.
When Drata might still be the better fit
Drata is a strong choice for teams that prioritize a clean, real-time monitoring dashboard with broad automated evidence collection, operating primarily in a well-defined framework like SOC 2 or ISO 27001. If continuous visual posture monitoring is your single most important requirement, Drata's dashboard is mature and compelling.
episki vs Drata: feature comparison
See how the platforms compare across the capabilities that matter most to security and compliance teams.
| Feature | episki | Drata |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Autonomous GRC — agents run the program; humans approve the work that matters | Automated evidence collection with real-time compliance dashboards |
| Pricing model | Platform $750/mo (or $7,500/yr) + optional modules; unlimited users, frameworks, and vendors. Only AI tokens are metered, and every model call is attributed to a surface and an operation so you can see what consumed them | Tiered pricing based on framework count and company size |
| AI capabilities | Agents draft policies, answer questionnaires, map controls, and recommend tasks — AI authors deterministic recipes auditors can accept | AI-assisted control mapping and recommendations |
| Controls & evidence | Continuous controls that produce a verdict — every check evaluates the evidence it collected and writes pass, fail, or inconclusive against the control, and a failing check raises a finding. Empty or undecodable evidence returns inconclusive and attests nothing | Automated evidence collection with 100+ integrations |
| Risk management | Risk module — qualitative and quantitative scoring, treatments, and acceptance wired to controls and evidence | Built-in risk management with scoring and treatment plans |
| AI governance | AI Governance module — agent and use-case registry with allowlists and safety floors, AI risk treatments wired to controls and evidence, and ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act mapped. episki governs its own agents through the same module | ISO 42001 support, and AI Agent Governance in limited availability as of August 2026 |
| Framework coverage | 34+ pre-built frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 42001) plus custom — all unlimited | SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and 15+ frameworks |
| Integrations | AWS (multi-account, multi-region, and Organizations), GitHub, Google, Microsoft, Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear, Supabase, Vercel, and Netlify — each writing evaluated control coverage, not just collected files | 100+ integrations across major cloud and SaaS platforms |
| Exception handling | An approved exception can satisfy a specific check for named records — it requires a recorded approver and justification, and it expires, so the control returns to failing on its own when the acceptance lapses | Findings can be accepted or excluded; the acceptance is not itself an expiring, approver-bound object tied to the check |
| Scope & boundaries | Programs report against individual boundaries, with scope rules on cloud account, region, resource, and tag — so a PCI CDE or a single business unit is a real boundary, not a saved filter | Framework-level scoping, with boundaries usually separated into their own workspace |
| Remediation workflow | Bi-directional Jira, Linear, and GitHub sync — remediation lives in the tracker your engineers already use, and status flows back without anyone copying it | Ticketing integrations that push tasks outward |
| API & agent access | REST API, a published entity-ontology catalog with a drift checksum, and a hosted MCP server (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, 20 tools) whose writes route through the same API as the UI — an agent's write is indistinguishable from a hand-made one in the audit log | REST API, webhooks, and an MCP server in beta |
| Editor experience | Notion-like, keyboard-first editor for policies, narratives, and responses | Structured forms and workflow-based interface |
Why teams switch from Drata to episki
Real differences that affect how fast your team ships audits and proves trust.
Automate the program, not just the monitoring
Drata is excellent at monitoring controls and showing you a dashboard. episki goes further — agents draft the policies, narratives, and questionnaire answers behind those controls, and a human approves. The work advances between audits, not just the status indicators.
- Agents draft policies, narratives, and questionnaire answers from your evidence
- AI authors deterministic recipes; the recipes then run without AI in the loop, so auditors can trust the output
- Continuous controls and evergreen evidence linked to programs, tasks, and risks
One flat platform price, expand by module
episki charges a flat $750/mo for the Compliance Platform with unlimited frameworks, users, and vendors. Add Risk, TPRM, Trust, or AI Governance only when you need them — no tier upgrade for adding your second or third framework.
- Adding a framework never triggers a higher pricing tier
- Unlimited users and vendors; only AI tokens are metered
- Annual prepay gives two months free; Operator Partner discounts for vCISO and MSP firms
A verdict you can defend, not just a green check
Most platforms tell you evidence was collected. episki tells you what it proved. Every check evaluates its own evidence and writes pass, fail, or inconclusive — and the ways a check can quietly pass without proving anything are closed by design.
- Empty, undecodable, or partially collected evidence returns inconclusive and attests nothing
- A failing check raises a finding with the offending records attached, not a dashboard tile
- An approved exception can satisfy a check for named records — but it needs an approver and it expires, so an accepted risk is never a permanent carve-out
episki vs Drata — frequently asked questions
Yes — especially for teams that want the program to run itself rather than just be monitored. episki's agents draft policies, answer questionnaires, map controls, and recommend tasks, with humans approving. It links programs, assessments, controls, tasks, risks, and evidence into one connected graph and adds a dedicated AI Governance module.
episki uses one flat platform price — $750/mo (or $7,500/yr) — that includes unlimited frameworks, users, and vendors, plus optional modules you add only when you need them. Drata uses tiered pricing based on framework count and company size, which can make budgeting unpredictable as you add frameworks or grow.
episki runs continuous controls with evergreen evidence and ties them to programs, tasks, and risks. Where it differs is what happens next — instead of only surfacing a gap on a dashboard, agents draft the remediation, the policy, or the narrative to close it, and a human approves. Drata's real-time monitoring dashboard is mature and a genuine strength if a visual posture view is your primary need.
episki ships 34+ pre-built frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO 42001, EU AI Act, and more) plus custom frameworks, all unlimited and with cross-framework control reuse. Adding a framework never triggers a higher pricing tier.
Drata is a strong fit if a clean, real-time monitoring dashboard with broad automated evidence collection is your top priority and you operate primarily in a well-defined framework like SOC 2 or ISO 27001. Its visual posture view and integration coverage are mature.
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