SOC 2 Pricing Calculator: Estimate Audit Costs for 2026
SOC 2 pricing depends on scope, staff count, trust services criteria, products, evidence quality, and timing. GreenHat's calculator gives a directional CAD planning estimate, not a binding quote or market-wide benchmark.
Use the calculator before vendor selection, readiness remediation, audit scheduling, and budget approvals. The output is designed to help founders, finance teams, and security leaders understand how GreenHat models a starting estimate.
Estimate Your Starting Price
Default scope starts at CAD 10,000 for 1-10 staff and adjusts only from the source values shown on this page.
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Starting Price by Staff Band
These starting prices are the same source values used by the calculator. They are visible here so buyers can compare staff bands without opening every dropdown option.
Lean teams validating early audit budgets before ownership and evidence routines are mature.
Small teams adding repeatable control ownership, policy evidence, and customer-ready answers.
Growing SaaS teams with more systems, reviewers, access paths, and operating evidence.
Scaling teams coordinating controls across engineering, finance, people, and vendor owners.
Mid-market readiness planning where subprocessors, evidence owners, and criteria need tighter review.
Larger organizations preparing multiple teams, policies, control owners, and audit timelines.
Enterprise-style programs with broader system boundaries and heavier evidence coordination.
Larger programs that need boundary review before final pricing can be scoped.
| Staff Band | Starting Price | Staff Band Pricing Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1-10 staff | CAD 10,000 | Lean teams validating early audit budgets before ownership and evidence routines are mature. |
| 11-25 staff | CAD 12,500 | Small teams adding repeatable control ownership, policy evidence, and customer-ready answers. |
| 26-50 staff | CAD 15,000 | Growing SaaS teams with more systems, reviewers, access paths, and operating evidence. |
| 51-100 staff | CAD 17,500 | Scaling teams coordinating controls across engineering, finance, people, and vendor owners. |
| 101-200 staff | CAD 20,000 | Mid-market readiness planning where subprocessors, evidence owners, and criteria need tighter review. |
| 201-500 staff | CAD 25,000 | Larger organizations preparing multiple teams, policies, control owners, and audit timelines. |
| 501-1,000 staff | CAD 32,500 | Enterprise-style programs with broader system boundaries and heavier evidence coordination. |
| 1,000+ staff | CAD 40,000+ | Larger programs that need boundary review before final pricing can be scoped. |
Scope Modifiers That Change the Estimate
The calculator starts from a standard SOC 2 scope with Security, Availability, and Confidentiality. Additional effort is added when the environment, criteria, or product boundary increases the amount of control and evidence review.
Hybrid or on-premises scope
+ CAD 3,000Applies when the environment adds infrastructure review beyond a standard cloud-native system boundary.
Privacy trust services criteria
+ CAD 2,500Applies when the report scope includes Privacy in addition to Security, Availability, and Confidentiality.
Processing Integrity trust services criteria
+ CAD 2,500Applies when the audit needs to cover processing completeness, accuracy, timeliness, or authorization assumptions.
Each additional product
+ CAD 2,500Applies for each extra in-scope product beyond the first product boundary.
What Affects SOC 2 Pricing
A useful estimate needs more than a staff count. SOC 2 pricing changes when the audit scope includes more trust services criteria, more products, more subprocessors, weaker evidence, or a longer observation period. Type I work is usually tied to a point-in-time readiness decision, while Type II planning also depends on the report period and how consistently controls operate over time.
Treat this calculator as a planning tool for the conversation before audit scheduling. It helps a team see which assumptions are driving cost so they can clean up scope, assign control owners, and improve evidence quality before requesting final terms.
Pricing Drivers to Review
- Staff count and security ownership
- Trust services criteria in scope
- System boundaries and cloud vs hybrid architecture
- Number of products or platforms included
- Subprocessors and vendor dependencies
- Evidence quality before audit scheduling
- Type I vs Type II timing and report period
Assumptions to Confirm Before Scheduling
- Confirmed product and system boundaries
- Named owners for each control area
- Known subprocessors and vendor dependencies
- Evidence examples ready for review
- Preferred Type I or Type II timing
When to Request a Quote
Request a quote when the system boundary, in-scope products, trust services criteria, report period, evidence owners, subprocessors, and preferred audit timing are clear enough to review. Final pricing depends on actual boundaries, evidence quality, audit scheduling, and whether remediation work is needed before the report period starts.
Readiness and Audit Independence
GreenHat Security can provide readiness advisory, scope review, control ownership mapping, and evidence planning. Independent SOC 2 audit work must remain separated through GreenHat Assurance or another appropriate audit provider. The same client should not receive readiness advisory and independent audit execution from conflicting parts of the GreenHat operating model.