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ThirdProof vs. Drata
One Module, or the Whole Platform

Drata automates your entire compliance program and includes vendor risk as part of it. ThirdProof does vendor risk only — deeper, faster, and without an annual contract.

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What Drata does well

Drata is a mature compliance automation platform. It continuously monitors your own infrastructure, collects evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and a long list of other frameworks, manages policies and security training, and connects to auditors directly. If your problem is "we need to get certified and stay certified," Drata solves a great deal of it. Third-party risk is one workspace inside that larger platform.

Where the vendor risk module runs out of road

Drata's third-party risk workflow is built around collecting and reviewing what the vendor gives you — questionnaires, SOC 2 reports, DPAs — and tracking that work in one place. That is genuinely useful, and it is still bounded by the same constraint: the vendor decides what you see and when you see it. It organizes the waiting rather than removing it, and it does not independently verify what the vendor claims. It also arrives bundled — you buy the platform, not the module.

What ThirdProof does differently

ThirdProof starts from the other end. Before anyone emails the vendor, it queries 27 public intelligence sources in parallel — sanctions lists, business registries, certification registries, threat intelligence, breach and adverse media history, domain and infrastructure posture, subprocessor chains, regulatory filings — and returns a sourced report in under 10 minutes. Every finding links to where it came from, so the evidence stands on its own rather than on the vendor's word. Anything still genuinely unknowable from public data is called out plainly instead of being quietly assumed.

When to use which

If you need to get your own SOC 2 or ISO 27001 over the line, buy a compliance platform — Drata is a strong one. If the specific thing biting you is vendor due diligence, you don't need to buy a platform to fix it. Plenty of teams run both: the suite for their internal program, ThirdProof for the vendor investigations that feed it. And teams that aren't pursuing certification at all often need only the vendor risk piece.

Drata
ThirdProof
Primary purpose
Full compliance automation platform
Vendor risk assessment only
Vendor assessment method
Vendor-supplied documents and questionnaires
27 public intelligence sources (independent)
Time to first vendor answer
Days to weeks — depends on vendor response
Under 10 minutes
Independent verification of vendor claims
Limited — reviews what the vendor provides
Yes — registry and public-record cross-checks
Sanctions and adverse media screening
Not a core part of the vendor module
OFAC, EU, UN screening plus adverse media
Setup required before first result
Platform onboarding and configuration
None — enter a domain
Commitment
Typically an annual contract
$399/month, cancel anytime
Covers your own SOC 2 evidence collection
Yes — this is its core strength
No — vendor risk only

Common questions

Can ThirdProof replace Drata?+
Only if vendor risk was the reason you were looking at Drata. Drata automates your own compliance program end to end — internal monitoring, policies, training, auditor collaboration. ThirdProof does none of that. What it replaces is the vendor due diligence workflow specifically, and it goes considerably deeper there. If you need certification automation, you need a platform; if you need to know whether your vendors are safe, you don't.
Is ThirdProof cheaper than Drata?+
For vendor risk specifically, substantially. Drata doesn't publish pricing, but buyer reports and third-party reviews consistently put entry points in the five figures annually, with third-party risk bundled into the platform rather than sold on its own. ThirdProof is $399/month with no annual commitment, and your first 5 assessments are free. The honest caveat: you're comparing a focused tool to a much broader platform, so this is only a fair comparison if vendor risk is what you actually need.
We already pay for Drata. Is there a reason to add ThirdProof?+
The common reason is evidence quality. Drata will track that you completed a vendor review; it won't independently confirm that the vendor's certifications are real, that they're clear of sanctions lists, or that nothing has surfaced in adverse media. Teams generate the ThirdProof report, then attach it inside Drata as the supporting evidence for that vendor. You get the audit trail in one place and verified findings underneath it.
Does ThirdProof integrate with Drata?+
Not through a direct integration today. In practice, teams export the ThirdProof PDF and questionnaire and attach them to the vendor record in Drata, which is what auditors want to see anyway — the evidence document itself, with its sources and assessment date.
We're a small team with no compliance hire. Where do we start?+
Start with the vendors that hold your customer data, and assess those before you buy anything. Five assessments are free and take under 10 minutes each, and you'll finish with documented evidence for your most sensitive vendors. That's a real starting point for a program, and it costs nothing to find out whether it's enough for where you are right now.

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