| Company headcount | SOC 2 Type II full package (from) | What determines the final price |
|---|---|---|
| 1–20 employees | $10,000 | Additional services selected |
| 21–100 employees | $15,000 | Additional services selected |
| 101+ employees | Custom quote | Scope and additional services |
The full SOC 2 Type II package — complete implementation plus the audit, run entirely in spreadsheets with no GRC platform — starts at $10,000 for companies with 1–20 employees and from $15,000 for companies with 21–100 employees; companies with 101 or more employees receive a custom quote. Final pricing depends on the additional services you select.
Agency is a master reseller of Vanta and Drata, has served 1,000+ companies, is rated 4.9/5 on G2, and operates a U.S.-based team.
GRC platforms automate evidence collection, and for many teams that automation earns its subscription. But a platform is also a recurring cost with its own implementation, upkeep, and integration maintenance — connectors need fixing, alerts need triage, and the work the platform surfaces still lands on a person.
Spreadsheet-based SOC 2 trades software spend for employee time. Your team member owns concrete artifacts in workbooks Agency provides and maintains: the control matrix, the evidence index, the owner tracker, the exception log, policy acknowledgments, and audit-request responses. For a stable stack and a single framework, that trade often wins. For fast-growing teams with many integrations or multiple frameworks, platform economics usually win — see Drata pricing through Agency and Vanta pricing through Agency for that path. Honest answer: it is a math problem, not a doctrine.
Full implementation — readiness assessment, policies, controls, and the evidence workbooks — plus the mechanics of a real Type II: observation-period planning, evidence cadence across the window, and the audit itself.
An independent licensed CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination and issues the SOC 2 report. The CPA firm independently determines engagement acceptance, scope, testing, findings, and report issuance. Audits are performed by independent U.S.-based, AICPA-member CPA firms in Agency’s Platinum Tier approved auditor network.
Small teams that need the SOC 2 report, not another subscription — from $10,000 all-in.
Established teams that prefer employee-run evidence over integration upkeep — from $15,000 all-in.
Larger organizations where scope drives the number — custom-quoted.
Three things: additional services (penetration testing, extra reports), scope complexity (systems and Trust Services Criteria in the audit boundary), and additional frameworks run alongside SOC 2. The headcount band sets the floor; the Order Form states exactly what your number includes.
Published “from” prices are the lowest currently available price for the defined qualifying scope — the headcount bands shown — not a typical or guaranteed price. Final pricing is confirmed in your Order Form/SOW, and per the published program terms, a fully executed MSA and Order Form/SOW are required before any benefit under the Program can be claimed.
10-person company: full SOC 2 Type II implementation plus the audit, from $10,000 — policies, controls, evidence workbooks, observation period, and the CPA examination in one package.
50-person company: the same full package from $15,000 (≈+50% over the 1–20 band), with the final number set by the additional services selected.
If you run many SaaS integrations, expect ISO 27001 or HIPAA within a year, or want continuous-monitoring dashboards your customers can see, buy the platform — the automation pays for itself. Through Agency that means Drata from $6,500 per year or Vanta from $7,200 per year for companies with 1–20 employees, with Agency’s Best Price Guarantee behind either. The spreadsheet package is the right call when the stack is stable and SOC 2 is the only report on the roadmap.
SOC 2 audits are GRC-platform agnostic: auditors accept spreadsheet evidence, and firms that publish on this hold the same position. The platform route prices as subscription + implementation + audit, bought separately; the spreadsheet route is one package from $10,000 for companies with 1–20 employees, audit included, plus your team member’s evidence time. Over three years the winner depends on integration count and framework roadmap — run both numbers before you sign either.
Through Agency, the full spreadsheet-based package — complete SOC 2 Type II implementation plus the audit — starts at $10,000 for companies with 1–20 employees and from $15,000 for companies with 21–100 employees, with custom quotes at 101+. Final pricing depends on additional services selected.
Yes. SOC 2 audits are GRC-platform agnostic: the CPA firm examines your controls and evidence over the observation period, not your tooling. Structured workbooks — a control matrix, evidence index, owner tracker, and exception log — satisfy the same requirements a platform does.
For companies with 1–20 employees, from $10,000 covers full implementation — readiness, policies, controls, and the evidence workbooks — plus the Type II observation-period mechanics and the audit itself, performed by an independent licensed CPA firm that issues the SOC 2 report. Additional services move the final price.
Yes. Auditors evaluate whether evidence is complete, current, and traceable to controls — not which software produced it. Agency’s workbooks are structured so every control maps to its evidence, owner, and status, which is exactly what the audit-request process asks for.
Often, for stable single-framework teams: the package is from $10,000 all-in for companies with 1–20 employees, while the platform route through Agency prices Drata from $6,500 per year and Vanta from $7,200 per year plus implementation and audit. Many integrations or multiple frameworks flip the math toward the platform.
One person on your team owns continuous evidence uploads into the workbooks Agency provides and maintains — concretely: the control matrix, evidence index, owner tracker, exception log, policy acknowledgments, and audit-request responses. Agency defines what each control needs and reviews what comes in.
Yes. The policies, controls, and evidence history carry over — Agency operates Vanta and Drata daily and can migrate the program onto either without starting over. Through Agency, Drata starts at $6,500 per year and Vanta at $7,200 per year for companies with 1–20 employees.
One package, one number — confirmed against your scope in about one business day.
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