How we compare
On the evidence, with dates.
Every number on this site links to the page it came from, and says when we read it.

- 1We read the vendor’s own pricing page
Every price starts there, on the day shown next to it. Most compliance platforms print no price and ask you to book a demo; we say so rather than guess.
- 2Where the site is silent, we cite the vendor’s own list price
Several vendors publish real 12-month prices on their own AWS Marketplace listings. We show those as the starting price and footnote where they came from. Your quote may be lower.
- 3We show the audit apart
A platform gets you ready; an independent firm does the SOC 2 audit, the ISO 27001 certification or the HIPAA assessment, and bills you for it. We show what audit firms publish for that work, with the source, on every page.
- 4We write who should skip it
Each platform gets a plain “pick it if” and “skip it if”, each backed by a page on the vendor’s own site and linked.
- 5We recheck every month
Prices and limits change. Every fact has the date we read it; anything older than a month gets read again.
Money
We are not paid for rankings. If a vendor ever pays for a Featured spot, it carries that label, and a paid first place reads “#1 on this list”, never “Our pick”. Paying never changes a price, a limit or a verdict. Paid links are marked rel="sponsored".
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