The short version: Drata watches your controls and hands your team the work. ZeroRisk’s agent does the work — pre-fills, drafts, monitors — and hands your team the sign-off. The difference shows up in your calendar.
| ZeroRisk | Drata | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agentic GRC — the agent does the work, you sign | Compliance automation — continuous monitoring, your team works the list |
| Filling assessments | Agent pre-fills every requirement it can, with confidence scores; you confirm in a short interview | Your team answers requirement by requirement |
| Controls & policies | Drafted by the agent per gap — edit inline, adopt in one click | Policy templates in the Policy Center; adapting is on you |
| Continuous monitoring | Evidence freshness tracked; verdicts age honestly — plus daily vendor monitoring | Deep control-test monitoring across a large integration catalog — a real strength |
| Third-party risk | Native: vendors monitored on the same platform and control set, 10,000+ vendor library | Third-party risk management sold as an additional module |
| People & access reviews | Access certifications, equipment and policy attestations — staff confirm via email links, no per-seat licenses | Personnel compliance tracked; typically seat-based |
| Risk register & SoA | Register drafted from your own records, treatment linked to your controls, signed acceptances, Statement of Applicability generated and signed | Risk assessment module; register and SoA maintained by your team |
| EU regulation depth | GDPR, DORA, NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act run by the agent — EU-native company | Broad framework catalog, strongest in SOC 2/ISO |
| Auditor network | Audit-ready export packages any auditor accepts | Established auditor alliance — a real strength |
| Pricing | Transparent, from $149/mo — priced by frameworks, not team size; free gap report first | Quote-based annual contracts |
Comparison reflects publicly available information and our understanding as of August 2026. Spotted something outdated? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
Drata’s continuous monitoring is genuinely good engineering: connect your stack, and failed control tests surface without anyone taking screenshots. If your question is "are my configured controls still passing?", it answers well. But most of a compliance program isn’t config checks — it’s understanding which requirements apply, answering them, writing the policies, keeping evidence fresh, and managing every vendor who touches your data. Automation routes that work to your team; it doesn’t remove it.
ZeroRisk’s agent takes that remainder. It scopes your frameworks around your actual organization (inapplicable requirements go N/A on their own), pre-fills what it can defend with a confidence score, drafts the control and the policy for every gap, and watches your vendors daily. One control counts across every framework — your second certification starts mostly done. And nothing ships without a human signature: AI drafts, people decide, auditors get evidence.