The Best SOC 2 Compliance Companies in 2026

There’s no worse feeling than having a prospect fall in love with your demo, agree on the pricing, and then go completely silent because you don't have a SOC 2 report.

Prospects will trust you more when you're compliant, especially regarding the security of their customer data, but achieving compliance can be a financial and time drain for service providers. Thankfully, you don’t have to go through it alone — there are a range of tools and organizations that can help you get audit-ready fast and stay compliant for the long-term.

When you choose the right compliance partner, getting an unqualified SOC 2 report for your SaaS company stops feeling like three-month fire drill for your leadership and engineers and becomes something that just happens on autopilot.

Below are the best SOC 2 compliance companies to help you prepare for and successfully navigate the audit process.

Compliance Automation Tools & Hybrid Solutions

These companies help you automate evidence collection and get audit-ready fast.

1. Workstreet

We’re a team of security experts trusted by over 2,000 of the world’s fastest-growing companies like Cursor, Granola, and Clay. We unlock enterprise trust at startup velocity without draining your internal resources, ensuring robust information security. SOC 2 automation platforms are powerful, but they still need a human to manage them, ensure controls are in place, and set you up to navigate the audit. At Workstreet, we’re that team.

As Vanta’s #1 MSP, we provide a done-for-you service by managing not just the software but the entire compliance process so your team can focus on building your product, not on compliance.

Offering:

• Vanta implementation and ongoing trust program management (Vanta's #1 MSP)
• Government compliance (e.g., CMMC, FedRAMP)
• Continuous control monitoring
• Turnkey SOC 2 compliance (plus support for 35+ frameworks including HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR)
• Privacy services (vCPO, data subject requests, data mapping, consent management)
• Virtual CISO (vCISO) and Virtual CPO (vCPO) leadership
• Ongoing compliance, risk, and vendor management
• Penetration testing

2. Vanta

Vanta is a leader in the compliance automation market and with over 14,000 customers. Its software has an enormous library of integrations. Vanta can run over 1,200 automated tests and integrates with 400+ tools like AWS, Azure, Okta, and GitHub via API to streamline your compliance.

Customizable to your specific needs, Vanta’s AI can help map controls, generate polices and help you get audit-ready fast. It also offers continuous monitoring and alerts you to any issues in real-time, ensuring your systems stay SOC 2 compliant.

Designed for fast-moving startups, Vanta also helps you map SOC 2 controls to other frameworks like ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA so you don’t have to start from scratch.

Features

• 400+ pre-built integrations
• Continuous monitoring
• Covers 20+ frameworks
• Risk management automation
• Questionnaire automation
• Trust Center
• Access reviews

3. Drata

Drata helps you automate SOC 2 compliance, manage risks, and accelerate security reviews so you can build trust. Their UI stands out with a focus on turning your compliance into a sales asset. Drata’s Trust Center also lets you build a public page to showcase security posture, which can help you close deals faster.

Features

• Continuous control monitoring
• Extensive framework support
• Adaptive automation
• Automated security questionnaire assistance
• Trust center (SafeBase by Drata)
• Integrated risk management
• Automated access reviews

4. Secureframe

Secureframe aims to simplify and automate SOC 2 compliance so you can save time and achieve compliance without stress. Its product offers all-in-one compliance automation covering policies, employee training, cloud security, and risk management — all backed by a team of security experts.  

Features

• Continuous monitoring & automated tests
• AI for security questionnaires
• Automated risk management
• Vendor risk management
• Personnel management & training
• Secureframe trust center
• Multi-framework support
• Guided onboarding & expert support

5. Sprinto

Sprinto helps brands make trust accessible, frictionless and fast with regulatory compliance and risk visibility through AI-native GRC. They focus on speed-to-compliance. Whether you’re a startup, a mid-market or already an enterprise, their software adapts to any system size seamlessly, updates internal controls and evidence automatically, and keeps you continuously audit-ready.

Features

• Continuous monitoring
• Integrated risk assessments
• Automated evidence collection
• Auditor-ready console
• Smart policy management
• Security training & tracking
• Multi-framework support

6. Scrut

Scrut helps simplify SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 preparation with prebuilt controls and automated evidence gathering. It also provides real-time, transparent visibility into your compliance posture and is backed by a team of SOC 2 experts to help you stay on top of compliance.

Its has prebuilt controls and a content library mapped to the SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria to help your get audit ready as quickly as possible.

Features

• Continuous control monitoring
• Configurability at all levels (custom frameworks, controls, tests, risk formulas)
• Ready-to-use library of frameworks, policies, risk registers, and vendor questionnaires
• Expert assist (setup wizard, teammates, InfoSec team support)
• Integrated risk management (monitor cyber risk, assess third-party risk)
• Streamlined audits (share, track, close audits faster)
• Multi-framework support (60+ frameworks out-of-the-box, custom frameworks)
• Continuous runtime security

7. Strike Graph

Strike Graph takes a right-sized approach to compliance when helping organizations. Rather than forcing you to adopt hundreds of controls you don’t need, they help you design a program that fits your specific risks and then scale it up.

Consider them if you're still an early-stage startup that wants a solid and defensible security posture without over-engineering it. It’s for the founder who wants to do things the right way from the start.

Features

• AI-powered risk assessments
• Right-sized security & control libraries
• Automated evidence collection
• Pre-built policy templates
• Security questionnaires
• Integrated penetration testing
• AI-assisted audits
• Multi-framework mapping

SOC 2 Audit Firms

If you’re ready for your SOC 2 Type I or Type II audit, you’ll need to work with an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) accredited CPA. Here are some of the best-known SOC 2 audit firms:

A-LIGN

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner reputable for handling high volumes of quality reports with ruthless efficiency. Their “A-SCEND” proprietary compliance management tool tells you what to do to keep the whole process from getting stuck.

If you want a good report done quickly and predictably, A-LIGN has it down to an art. They're suitable for well-prepared companies that value fast, efficient, and predictable audit timelines above all else.

Schellman

Schellman is an industry-leading CPA firm focused exclusively on IT Compliance and Cybersecurity but may come with a premium price tag for a big name auditor.

Schellman often used by companies selling to the Fortune 500, major banks, or highly-regulated industries where the auditor's reputation is scrutinize.

BARR Advisory

BARR Advisory is a go-to partner if your organization has high-value data that serves regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. They provide comprehensive compliance programs covering industry standards and compliance requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, and PCI.

They're the best fit for founders who are bothered about a strenuous audit experience and want a partner who feels like an extension of their team. They'll help you identify gaps and provide a roadmap to successful remediation and risk mitigation.

How to Select the Right Vendor

This decision hinges on three variables. Get them right, and you’ll avoid overspending and under-delivering.

Step 1: Define Getting Audit-Ready vs. Audit-Done

Don't conflate readiness platforms (Vanta, Drata) and compliance partners (like Workstreet) with audit firms (A-LIGN, Schellman, BARR). The platform is your internal engine for evidence collection and control monitoring. Audit firms are the external, third-party validator. You are buying two distinct services to solve two distinct problems.

Step 2: The Enterprise Credibility Test

Before you take a single sales call, you need to understand your customer’s third-party risk requirements. If you sell to financial services or other high-compliance sectors, a premium-branded auditor is often a non-negotiable cost of entry. For any other market, it is likely an unjustifiable expense. This single data point should drive your auditor selection.

Step 3: Evaluate the Hidden Costs

Your true cost is a function of the contract price plus your internal resource burn. The primary cost is almost always the engineering hours spent remediating the findings from the readiness platform. A cheaper platform that requires more engineering hours is more expensive. Your analysis must include:

• Engineering hours: The highest cost.
• Re-testing fees: The cost to re-validate failed controls.
• Advisory services: The cost for security guidance, which is rarely included in the platform subscription.

Final Thoughts

Figure out what your customers want first. Then choose a tool and a qualified auditor who can meet the demand without derailing your product roadmap.

If you look at a tool like Vanta and realize your team doesn't have the security leadership and bandwidth to actually manage it, you should consider a hybrid approach. At Workstreet, we can help you bridge the gap between the tool and the finished report you need.

We help startups get audit-ready by combining expert implementation with whatever platform you choose (we're Vanta's #1 MSP). We handle the policy writing and gap remediation so you can focus on shipping product.

Schedule a call with us today, and we’ll be glad to help you.