Small business=heldSince September 2026: 10% → 10%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 62, unchanged
7 categories · RankedDrata
413Judge labels
70First choices
75Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
7Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
34% in Compliance automation for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 67 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
9 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 16% of its 63 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Drata →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business3 of 65
8%66 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 67
34%63 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise2 of 54
26%59 labels
accepted challenger
In compliance automation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Drata for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance automation | Security operations | 34% | 1 of 67 | 16% | 63 | endorsed leader | ▼−2Since September 2026: 37% → 35%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| GRC platforms | Security operations | 12% | 4 of 75 | 14% | 50 | accepted challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 5% → 13%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Third-party risk management | Security operations | 2% | 7 of 87 | 0% | 10 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Breach and attack simulation | Security operations | 2% | 11 of 74 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24% | |
| AI governance platforms | Data platform | 0% | 119 of 135 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Credo AI at 18% | |
| Business continuity management | Security operations | 0% | 112 of 114 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by LogicManager at 24% | |
| Cloud security posture management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 35 of 80 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Drata held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Compliance automation · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 37% → 35%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
35%from 37% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 64, unchanged
Enterprise▲+10Since September 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
28%from 18% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 2 of 51, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRC | 5% | 13% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 5% → 13%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 4 of 75 |
| TPRM | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 24 → 7 of 87 |
| BAS | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 11 of 74, unchanged |
| Compliance automation | 37% | 35% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 37% → 35%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 67, unchanged |
| AI governance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 119 of 135, unchanged |
| Business continuity | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 112 of 114, unchanged |
| CSPM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 44 → 35 of 80 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Drata across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Drata across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct78 labels23
Paraphrase84 labels30
Comparative78 labels24not counted in share
Budget-constrained50 labels2
Scale-constrained54 labels15
Negative69 labels5not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative413 labels in all, every segment counted; 70 of the 99 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Drata is the strongest all-around recommendation for mid-market scale, cross-framework automation, and proven audit workflow experience.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compliance automation · direct prompt · first choice
“Drata automates 90%+ of controls and starting from approximately $15,000/year, is often the best value for mid-market companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · GRC · direct prompt · first choice
“Go with Drata if you have a strong engineering team; go with Vanta if you have a standard SaaS-heavy stack and want speed.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compliance automation · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Consider vendors like Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, or similar platforms that specialize in mid-market compliance automation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compliance automation · scale prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Vanta and Drata, which are compliance certification-only platforms that do not offer business continuity planning” Llama 4 Maverick · Business continuity · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid If Budget Is Tight ... Drata (~$7.5K–$15K+/yr)” Kimi K2 · Compliance automation · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Tools like Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · GRC · budget prompt · hard negative
“avoid treating these as BCM platforms” Perplexity Sonar · Business continuity · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Drata, over the 413 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Drata was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Drata, over the 413 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Drata was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Drata. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 390 of the 413 answers that named Drata and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
vanta.com229
orbiqhq.com138
complyjet.com132
sprinto.com110
expertinsights.com96
g2.com88
optro.ai84
riskwatch.com81
drata.comYour site65
learn.g2.com62
1,020 of the 1,085 domain citations in answers naming Drata came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Drata stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Drata stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “compliance automation platform”
7
Position for “compliance automation platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 9,900 a month (“drata”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 257 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 36,413 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,046 · 421 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,548
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
34%
rank 1 of 67 in compliance automation
First choices
70
across its categories
- Named in
- 413 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 390 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on drata.com
962
subdomains included
Content
34
counted in the table below
Documentation
920
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 10 | 8 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 10 | 2 | 2026-08-07 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 5 | 2026-08-26 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 4 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 1 | 2026-08-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-1712020733 pre audit checklist how to prepare for your audit with drata template or tool
- 2026-08-2712141266 disaster recovery checklist simple steps for business resilience template or tool
- 2026-08-2712166173 hipaa checklist template or tool
- 2026-08-2715863587 apra cps 230 set up guidance apra regulated entity vs material service provider comparison
- 2026-08-268168169 soc 2 checklist template or tool
- 2026-08-2612608925 drata pre audit check webinar recording webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page drata.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Drata is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Drata is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Agentic Trust Management Platform
- For
- startups, mid-size businesses, & enterprises
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2SOC 3ISO/IEC 27001:2022ISO/IEC 27017:2015ISO/IEC 27018:2019ISO/IEC 42001:2023HIPAACCPA
- Customers named
- BrexOktaCapital OneVercelTenableZscalerLinkedInT-Mobile
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Drata's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: drata.com, trust.drata.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Drata's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Drata, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Drata by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Drata is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Drata, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Drata is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Drata is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Drata first in Compliance automation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.