Secureframe ISO 27001 Cost: A Framework That Costs What the Platform Costs
Secureframe's AWS Marketplace listing publishes two dimensions and prices them identically: $7,500 for the dimension it calls “Access the Secureframe Platform”, covering up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract, and $7,500 for “First Framework”, choice of any framework, per 12-month contract. The software and the framework carry the same figure, and the framework line is deliberately generic. Here is the full reading, and the two things the listing declines to tell you.
Updated July 2026. AWS Marketplace list prices checked July 2026.
What Secureframe publishes on AWS Marketplace
Two named dimensions, each with its own list price on a 12-month contract. AWS publishes them as independent line items and publishes no combined figure.
| Published dimension | List price | Unit / band as stated on the listing |
|---|---|---|
| Access the Secureframe Platform | $7,500 | up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract |
| First Framework | $7,500 | choice of any framework, per 12-month contract |
Read off Secureframe's AWS Marketplace listing, checked July 2026. List prices on that surface, not a quote. The listing carries no starting-price wording against either dimension. AWS shows no price-effective date.
Two dimensions, no published total
An ISO 27001 programme on Secureframe needs both rows: platform access on its own runs no framework, and the framework dimension is not software. Our own arithmetic on the two published figures gives $15,000 for the pair. That is a sum we have computed. Secureframe does not publish it, AWS does not display it, and it holds only inside the published band.
The ISO 27001 line specifically
The First Framework dimension is described as a choice of any framework, so ISO 27001 sits at that figure rather than a framework-specific one.
So searching this listing for the words “ISO 27001” and finding no price against them is the correct result, not a dead end. Secureframe has published one framework figure and made it framework-agnostic. ISO 27001 is inside First Framework at $7,500, on the same terms as any other framework you might have chosen instead.
What the listing does not tell you
What the second framework costs
The dimension is called First Framework. The name implies a second one, and the listing never prices it. There is no additional-framework dimension, no per-framework rate, nothing to infer from. Sprinto and Scytale both publish an additional-framework figure. Secureframe does not, so a two-framework programme cannot be costed from this listing at all.
Anything above 100 employees
Platform access is published for up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract. That band is generous next to Vanta's published 1-20 range, and it still ends. At 101 people the listing describes someone else, and there is no published per-employee rate that would let anyone extend it honestly.
What you would actually pay
AWS Marketplace list prices coexist with private offers: a price negotiated with the vendor and transacted through the same Marketplace contract, which can sit either side of list. The published figure is the public anchor, not the settled price.
The certification audit
Neither dimension is an audit fee. The certificate comes from an accredited certification body after Stage 1 and Stage 2, quoted per engagement, and no certification body publishes a rate card. See what drives the audit quote.
What the subscription is priced against, and what the audit is priced against
Secureframe's platform dimension is priced against employees: up to 100 of them. The certification audit is priced against audit time, and audit time is driven by a different set of inputs. The two costs move independently, which is why a cheap subscription band tells you very little about your audit quote.
ISMS scope
What the certificate actually covers: which services, systems, teams and locations sit inside the boundary. A tightly drawn scope is the single largest lever a buyer controls.
Complexity and risk of the ISMS
Criticality of the information handled and the risk associated with the ISMS. Two organisations with identical headcount can attract different audit time on this basis.
Sites
Where scoped activities physically happen, and whether multi-site sampling applies.
Full treatment on the audit cost page. For the choice between running this in-house, with a consultant, or on a platform, see DIY vs consultant vs platform.
Secureframe against the other four, on published entry price
All five platforms publish list prices on AWS Marketplace. Their lowest published platform dimensions line up like this. Read the band column alongside the price: these dimensions cover different headcounts and different bundles, so this compares what each vendor publishes rather than the products themselves.
| Platform | Lowest published platform dimension | List price | Band as stated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secureframe | Access the Secureframe Platform | $7,500 | up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract |
| Sprinto | Starter Platform | from $7,500 | up to 100 employees, per 12-month contract |
| Scytale | Software Platform | from $7,500 | bundles one framework, per 12-month contract |
| Vanta | Essentials Package | from $14,000 | 1-20 employees, per 12-month contract |
| Drata | Platform Fee | $25,000 | capacity for a 100 FTE org, per 12-month contract |
Secureframe sits in a three-way tie at the bottom. Its $7,500 platform dimension matches the entry platform figures Sprinto and Scytale publish, sits below Vanta's $14,000 entry package, and sits well below Drata's $25,000 platform fee.
The tie breaks on what each figure buys, and Secureframe does not obviously win that. Scytale's figure bundles a framework and Secureframe's does not, so on the published surface a single-framework ISO 27001 programme reaches for a second Secureframe dimension where it reaches for nothing extra at Scytale. Sprinto's framework line starts lower than Secureframe's. Against Drata the comparison inverts: Drata publishes a much higher platform fee and a framework fee that never changes with the framework, while Secureframe publishes a much lower platform fee and no price at all for a second framework.