Can Hayaiti replace Drata entirely?

No. We're not an evidence-automation platform. Replacing Drata with manual screenshots and Word documents is a step backward. We're a complement to Drata — the technical engineering layer underneath the evidence layer.

Can I book my pentest through Drata's marketplace?

You can. Drata partners with several pentest vendors. The marketplace adds a fee + vendor-selection cycle; the underlying pentest work is similar in scope to ours but typically without remediation PRs included. Our model bundles the fix work with the find work.

Will the Hayaiti pentest report upload cleanly to Drata?

Yes — we deliver the report as PDF + structured findings export. Drata's evidence pipeline accepts both. Most auditors want a recent pentest report uploaded as evidence; we deliver in the format they expect.

What about Drata's continuous monitoring?

That's exactly Drata's strength — continuous evidence collection from your stack. We don't do continuous; we do bounded pentests on a calendar. The two scopes are complementary, not overlapping.

How much does Drata cost?

Drata's pricing isn't public; from public patterns + community discussions, expect $7K–$45K+ annually depending on frameworks and company size. They don't publish starting prices. We do (every Hayaiti SKU is on /pricing).

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Hayaiti vs Drata

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The 60-second comparison

Six rows. Same row, same definition. The orange column is us — the grey column is Drata.

Capability

Hayaiti

you are here

Drata

What we do

Manual pentest + remediation PRs

Compliance-evidence collection + auditor matchmaking

Pricing model

Fixed-price pentest SKU

Annual subscription (typically $7K–$45K+ depending on framework + size)

Starting price

$14,995 per pentest · published

Quote-based · no published starting price

Turnaround

21 days, calendar date

Continuous · evidence flows in over weeks

Pentest report

We write it — manual web + API + tenant isolation

Vendor-of-record marketplace · you book a pentest separately

Best for

Bounded pentest engagements with remediation in scope

Continuous compliance posture across SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / PCI / GDPR

Pick Drata for continuous evidence automation, auditor matchmaking, and Trust Center hosting. Pick Hayaiti for the manual pentest + remediation work that goes into Drata as evidence. These categories are complementary, not competitive — Drata sits in the evidence layer, Hayaiti in the technical engineering layer underneath. Run them side-by-side when both are in scope.

We won't oversell. If Dratais the right answer for your situation, we'd rather you know that now — even if it costs us the lead.

If you're still comparing vendors, start with the full comparison matrix . If you're already using Drata, the switching guide below shows how to transition.

Frequently asked

Hayaiti vs Drata — common questions

Real questions we get from teams comparing the two. If yours isn't here, we'll answer it on the 15-minute call.

Vanta and Drata are competitors; either one is a good evidence-automation platform. Pick whichever your team prefers (interface, integrations, sales experience). Hayaiti is a different category — the manual pentest + remediation work. The right pattern: pick one of (Vanta, Drata) for the evidence layer and add Hayaiti for the pentest engagement.

Where Hayaiti wins

What you get with us that you don't with Drata

Specific, not generic. Each one of these maps to a structural difference in how the two models are built — not a marketing adjective.

We're the technical layer; Drata is the evidence layer.

Drata automates evidence collection across your AWS / GCP / IdP / HRIS / EDR / GitHub. They don't run the pentest, write the threat model, or ship remediation PRs. We do that. Two distinct jobs, often used together.

Fixed-price pentest with remediation included.

Booking pentests through Drata's marketplace adds a layer (marketplace fee, vendor selection, scoping cycle). Our pentest SKU is one published line item with the fix work bundled in. For one-off engagements, the unit economics are usually better with us.

Same humans across find + fix + retest.

Drata's marketplace rotates pentesters per engagement. The pentester who found your finding may not be the one available for retest. Our team is fixed: same engineers from initial finding through remediation PR through retest sign-off.

Multi-tenant isolation testing — out-of-scope for evidence platforms.

Drata's automation can confirm that you have access controls in place; it can't tell you whether a tenant can read another tenant's data via an IDOR chain or a missing RLS predicate. A pentest does. Our scope is designed around exactly those SaaS-specific gaps.

We don't bill on a marketplace fee.

Drata's pentest marketplace bundles vendor time with a marketplace platform fee. For organizations doing 1-2 pentests a year, paying for that platform layer in addition to the pentest itself is harder to justify than a fixed-price SKU.

Where Drata wins

And here's where Drata is genuinely the better choice

We're not going to pretend they don't win some shapes of problem. If your situation matches one of these, pick them — we mean it.

Continuous evidence automation

Drata automates the evidence treadmill — connect your stack, evidence flows daily, auditor sees it live. If you're going for SOC 2 Type 2 (continuous), this is what makes that achievable without a dedicated GRC hire.

Auditor partner network

Drata has integrations with most major SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / PCI auditors. The evidence-to-attestation handoff is mostly seamless. We don't have that.

Trust Center as a product

Drata gives you a hosted Trust Center for prospects to review your security posture, with live evidence from your dashboard. Useful for sales acceleration in regulated B2B; we don't ship that as a feature.

Vendor risk management at scale

Drata has a real VRM module — track your sub-processors, automate questionnaire responses, flag gaps in third-party risk. Worth it as you scale; not something we offer.

If any of the above describes your project, the honest move is to evaluate Dratafirst. We'd rather you find the right fit than buy the wrong tool from us.

Migration path

Switching from Drata to Hayaiti

Most of the time you don't need to fully switch — you peel off the SKU-shaped slice and keep what already works. Here's the honest playbook.

1
Don't switch — run them in parallel
Drata and Hayaiti are different categories. Keep Drata for evidence automation; book Hayaiti as the manual pentest work that gets uploaded into Drata's evidence library.
2
Send the latest Drata gap report when scoping with us
If Drata is flagging pentest evidence as stale, or showing gaps in technical controls, we can scope a remediation-focused engagement directly against that gap list. Saves the discovery cycle.
3
Upload our pentest deliverables into Drata's evidence library
PDF report, structured findings export, retest sign-off — all formatted for direct upload. Your Drata dashboard reflects the pentest as completed evidence.

Decision time