OneTrust vs Drata: A Scored Comparison

Drata scores 76 and OneTrust 64 on rubric v0.9. Drata sits in the Strong band (70 to 84) and OneTrust in the Adequate band (55 to 69). Pick Drata if the job is passing and keeping a SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA audit. Pick OneTrust if the job is third-party risk, or if privacy and consent programs already run on OneTrust. Its vendor risk management earns 5 of 5, a point above Drata’s 4.

OneTrust sells compliance automation as one product inside a suite that also covers privacy, consent, AI governance and third-party risk, and Drata describes itself as an agentic trust management platform. Drata leads on five criteria, OneTrust leads on two, and the two tie on one.

What the scores share

Both score 1 of 5 on pricing transparency. OneTrust lists its Tech Risk & Compliance package with capabilities and a pricing basis. Drata lists plan names on two tracks, GRC Platform and Assurance Platform. Neither prints a dollar figure on its website, and both route buyers to a sales call. Both document a public API, and both let teams build custom connections.

Where the scores split

The sections below cover product scope, the seven criteria where the scores differ, and how each vendor meters its price.

Product scope

OneTrust’s pricing page lists nine packages. Three cover consent and preference management. Two cover privacy automation, including the data map and data subject request handling. One covers AI governance. The Third-Party Management Suite adds ethics and compliance screening with Dow Jones databases for politically exposed persons, sanctions and watchlists.

Drata’s product navigation lists nine products: Agentic Platform, Enterprise GRC, Compliance Automation, Trust Center, AI Questionnaire Assistance, Third-Party Risk Management, AI Agent Governance, Drata AI and Integrations. None is a consent platform or an ethics screening product.

The rubric measures compliance automation, so packages outside it carry no points. A team that wants a cookie banner, a privacy request queue or sanctions screening from the same vendor as its SOC 2 program can find that combination on OneTrust’s price list, and Drata’s product list carries none of the three.

Automated evidence

OneTrust scores 5 of 5 (weight: 20 points, the heaviest criterion). It claims 200 or more pre-built integrations for Tech Risk & Compliance and 500 or more pre-built system connectors for its integrations gallery on the same page, with continuous controls monitoring, APIs, SDKs and a visual integration builder. The rubric scores the larger figure.

Drata scores 4 of 5. It describes its catalog as hundreds of tools and gives no number, which the rubric counts at 200, and it documents a public API and custom connections. That one level is a 4-point difference in the weighted total.

Vendor risk management

OneTrust scores 5 of 5 (weight: 10 points). It says its Third-Party Risk Management package, sold separately from Tech Risk & Compliance, builds the third-party inventory, tiers risk and sends assessments. OneTrust also says the product can “continuously monitor third-party risk and trigger reassessments”, screening cyber risk ratings and breach activity from RiskRecon, SecurityScorecard and HackNotice.

On the AI step, OneTrust says the product will “Use AI to ingest external risk evidence and generate questionnaire response.”

Drata scores 4 of 5, with credit for automated review of vendor security documents, a vendor inventory, risk tiering and assessments sent from the platform. The fifth point is for continuous monitoring of vendor risk after onboarding, which OneTrust earns.

Audit path

Drata scores 3 of 5 (weight: 15 points). Drata says its Auditor Alliance counts more than 175 audit firms, including A-LIGN, Coalfire and Armanino. Auditors handle evidence requests and approvals in the Audit Hub, and Drata says an in-house team of former auditors supports customers during audits.

OneTrust scores 2 of 5. OneTrust says teams can invite auditors to review their compliance in the platform, and Drata auditors also review evidence in its Audit Hub. A named network of audit firms earns no credit. Neither earns audit path credit for buying the audit with the platform.

Trust and questionnaires

Drata scores 4 of 5 (weight: 10 points). Its trust center is built on the SafeBase acquisition, and AI Questionnaire Assistance drafts answers to a customer’s security questionnaires from the approved Knowledge Base, with a person approving each answer.

OneTrust earns no credit on this criterion: neither a trust center nor questionnaire tooling is credited to Tech Risk & Compliance, so it scores 0 of 5. This is the widest gap on the page, worth 8 points of the total.

Customisation

Drata scores 4 of 5 (weight: 10 points). Custom Connections and Tests arrive with the Advanced plan, and the tests are no-code. Custom frameworks are a paid add-on on the Advanced and Enterprise plans.

OneTrust scores 3 of 5. OneTrust says teams can auto-populate their own custom framework. It earns no credit for custom automated tests.

Framework coverage

Drata scores 5 of 5 (weight: 15 points). All ten frameworks in the site’s matrix have a separate page on drata.com: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 42001, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP and CMMC.

OneTrust scores 4 of 5. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR sit on its Compliance Automation page, PCI DSS and CMMC 2.0 have separate onetrust.com pages, and NIST CSF appears in a Tech Risk & Compliance data sheet. FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 earn no credit, and ISO 42001 sits in the separate AI Governance package.

Pricing basis

The two meter their prices differently. OneTrust prices Tech Risk & Compliance by admin users and asset inventory, and moves a customer to the next tier when usage consistently exceeds the current one. Drata sizes by headcount. Its Foundation plan covers up to 50 employees, and its AWS Marketplace listing sizes capacity for 100 employees at $25,000 for 12 months, with each framework at $7,500. Orders on that listing are non-cancellable.

User sentiment

Drata scores 5 of 5 (weight: 10 points), with 4.7 from 1,397 reviews on G2. OneTrust scores 4 of 5, with 4.5 from 109 reviews of Tech Risk & Compliance. The rubric’s top level needs 200 or more reviews.

Which one to buy

Drata fits a team whose goal is a SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA report and a program that stays audit-ready. It has the larger named audit network, no-code custom tests, a trust center with AI questionnaire answering, and the higher review count. Enterprise GRC covers governance across business units, and the Assurance Platform track sells the trust center and questionnaire assistance on their own plans.

Drata ranks 3rd of seven at 76, with 4.7 from 1,397 G2 reviews. The ranked alternatives to Drata are Sprinto, Vanta, Secureframe, Scrut and Thoropass.

OneTrust fits a team whose larger job is third-party risk. Automated evidence and continuous vendor monitoring are the two places it scores above Drata. It also fits a company that already runs consent or privacy requests on OneTrust and wants security compliance on the same contract.

OneTrust ranks 6th of seven at 64, with 4.5 from 109 G2 reviews of Tech Risk & Compliance. Its vendor risk package is priced apart from that product.

OneTrust was founded in 2016 and is based in Atlanta. It claims 14,000 or more customers. Drata was founded in 2020 and claims 8,500 or more customers.

Both vendors quote through sales; the compliance software pricing study lists Drata’s AWS Marketplace figures. A like-for-like comparison still needs a quote from each.

Sprinto’s 84 tops both the SOC 2 software ranking and the compliance management software ranking. Vanta, at 82, sits six points above Drata, and the gap traces to integration count and vendor risk.

Rubric v0.9 gives automated evidence 20 points, the most of any criterion.

Conclusion

Drata 76 and OneTrust 64 are 12 points apart. Drata gains 18 points on trust and questionnaires (8), framework coverage (3), audit path (3), customisation (2) and user sentiment (2), and OneTrust gains 6 points on automated evidence (4) and vendor risk management (2). Pricing transparency scores the same, at 1 for both vendors.

For a compliance program built on SOC 2 or ISO 27001, Drata fits better. For third-party risk, or for a company that already runs its privacy and consent work on OneTrust, OneTrust fits better.