Preparing for SOC 2 with Sprinto

Sprinto is the entry point of the category and it is priced like it. That makes it the one worth pricing first if a platform is going to be part of your first audit at all.

Last reviewed 2026-08-27Written by Jacob Masse, TrazTech Inc.

Sprinto is a compliance automation platform aimed at small and mid-size software companies. It connects to your cloud, identity provider, code repository and device management, runs continuous checks mapped to the Trust Services Criteria, and holds the evidence for your auditor. Reported Canadian cost is roughly $8,000 to $20,000 CAD a year for a small team on one framework, billed in United States dollars, which puts it consistently below the other two platforms this site covers.

What the lower price still buys

The core automation is not the compromise. Continuous configuration testing, user list reconciliation, device posture and evidence storage with dates are all present, and for a straightforward cloud application they cover the same ground the more expensive products do. The category has converged on this and it is no longer where the products differ.

Tiered alerting rather than a wall of red. Failed checks are graded, which matters more than it sounds. The common failure with these platforms is a dashboard of a hundred findings that a small team stops reading by week three, at which point the continuous monitoring has stopped being continuous in any useful sense.

Operational controls, not only technical ones. Sprinto pushes further than the others into tracking the manual and periodic items: whether the review happened, whether the training was completed, whether the vendor was reassessed. It still does not perform them. It does chase them, and a chased control is more likely to exist than one on a calendar nobody looks at.

Policy templates with acknowledgement tracking. The same mechanical benefit the others give: version history, approval records and a timestamped acknowledgement per person, which are three of the cheapest findings to collect and the easiest to forget.

What it does not do, which is the same list

The boundary is identical across every platform in this category. The marketing across all three blurs it.

It does not decide your scope. Which products, environments, data stores and acquired systems fall inside the audit is your decision, and it is the one that determines everything downstream. No software has an opinion on it.

It does not write your policies. Templates are a structure. Every cadence in them becomes a control your auditor tests, so the edit pass is where the actual work is and it stays with you.

It does not close a control gap. Being told that offboarding has no timestamped record is useful. Changing how departures are handled so the record exists is a process change in your company.

It does not produce the judgement-based evidence. The access review decision, the vendor assessment, the tabletop, the risk assessment, the incident write-up, the penetration test and its remediation. On a first audit that is a large share of the request list. The evidence tracker separates the automated items from the manual ones so you can see the split before you buy.

It does not issue the report. Only a licensed CPA firm does. Any platform introduction to an audit firm is a shortlist, and GetSOC2 covers comparing Canadian firms on fee and fit for the same scope.

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Reported pricing, converted to CAD

Sprinto publishes no prices and quotes run through a sales call. The bands below are from third-party procurement datasets of signed contracts, converted from United States dollars at roughly 1.35.

Two things to put in the contract rather than discover later. Reported renewals carry an annual uplift in the region of 5 to 10 per cent, so price the second and third years rather than the first. And the pricing moves with headcount bands, so growth through a band during the term changes the renewal shape.

The threshold is still about thirty people

A lower price moves the line but does not remove it. What any platform replaces is manual evidence collection, and below about thirty staff that work is a few hours a month: one cloud account, one identity provider, a handful of hires and departures a year, a change population a saved query answers. At $8,000 to $11,000 CAD the entry tier is a smaller share of a first audit budget than the alternatives, which is why a twenty person company that has decided it wants a platform should price this one first.

It is still not free of hidden cost. Every platform needs someone to connect the integrations, resolve the checks, and keep the manual items moving. That is real hours in a small team, and a subscription nobody has time to work is the worst of both outcomes: the fee is paid and the evidence still is not there.

Where Sprinto stops being the answer is at the top of the range rather than the bottom. A larger organization with several product lines, a complicated control set inherited from another framework, or a compliance function with several people in it will get more from Drata's ownership model and workflow depth, or from Vanta's integration breadth and buyer-facing tooling. Below that, the difference between the three is mostly price.

How to run the purchase

1. Score your controls first. A platform automates evidence for controls that exist and does nothing for controls that do not, so run the scorecard before any demo.
2. Take the Sprinto quote first, because it is the lowest anchor of the three and every other conversation is easier with it in hand.
3. Get one competing quote. Reported discounts of 15 to 25 per cent on multi-year terms exist because buyers ask, and the price is negotiated rather than listed.
4. Ask for the figure in Canadian dollars. All three bill in USD, and across a three-year term the exchange rate is a real line item.
5. List the systems in your scope and ask which are not integrated. Each one is a manual evidence stream the subscription does not remove.
6. Price the second and third years, not the first. The renewal uplift and the headcount band are where the surprise lives.

Canadian specifics

Sprinto is not a Canadian company and your evidence is not hosted in Canada, so it becomes a subprocessor in your own vendor register, assessed like any other and with its own audit report on file. If you hold personal information about people in Quebec, Law 25 requires an assessment before that information moves outside the province, and an evidence store holding user lists and HR records is a transfer that needs one.

The shipped policy set is written to American practice. It will not contain the PIPEDA obligation to report breaches creating a real risk of significant harm, the requirement to keep a record of every breach for 24 months whether reportable or not, the accountability requirement to name a person responsible, or anything from Law 25. The policy checklist lists what has to be added.

One practical point that has nothing to do with compliance: support and implementation run largely from a time zone most of a day away from Canada. Teams report that as a non-issue for scheduled work and an irritation when something is blocking during a Canadian business afternoon. Ask about coverage hours during the sales process rather than after.

The position

If a Canadian company between roughly thirty and a hundred and fifty people has decided it wants a compliance platform for a first SOC 2, Sprinto is the one to price first, because the core automation is comparable and the entry cost is materially lower. Use the quote to price the other two rather than treating it as the floor.

Below thirty people the answer is still to buy nothing yet, run one cycle of the evidence routine out of a spreadsheet, and put the money into remediation or a readiness assessment. The readiness scorecard is the fastest way to find out whether a platform would even help, because a platform automates evidence for controls that exist and does nothing at all for controls that do not. Sprinto's plans and product detail are at sprinto.com.

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