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Comparing Basenorm? Here is the European alternative
Tidal Control is a compliance platform built and hosted in Europe, covering more than 30 frameworks including ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2 and DORA.
Everything stated below about Basenorm comes from Basenorm's own site at basenorm.com/pricing, retrieved 1 October 2026. Tiers and wording change, so read the source before you decide anything.
What to compare when both publish a starting price
Each point below is checkable on both sides. Nothing here rests on our word for what another vendor offers.
One framework at the entry price, or more than thirty
Tidal Control lists Essential at 299 euro, Professional at 589 euro and Scale at 1,999 euro per month, with lower annual rates, at tidalcontrol.com/pricing. Basenorm's Foundation Layer starts at "From 250 euro / month" and includes "1 primary compliance framework included (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR or NIS2)". Every Tidal Control plan carries more than 30.
What the second framework costs
Basenorm's Assurance Layer covers "Up to 3 compliance frameworks included" and its Regulatory Layer "All current and future frameworks included". Both are priced "On request". On Tidal Control the framework count does not change between plans, so running NIS2 next to ISO 27001 is not a tier upgrade.
Where your evidence lives
Tidal Control runs on Microsoft Azure in the West Europe region, located in the Netherlands, with backups within the EU, so controls, risks, policies and evidence stay under EU jurisdiction. Basenorm's pricing page states nothing either way about data residency, so ask any vendor you shortlist for it in writing and read their trust centre.
Who brings the auditor
Basenorm's Foundation Layer lists an "Auditor read-only workspace" and "Email support", so the auditor is yours to find and brief. Tidal Control brings accredited auditors to the certification itself, with more than 50 audits passed at an average of 0-2 findings.
The frameworks this usually comes down to
Buyers weighing two platforms are normally running more than one framework at once.
ISO 27001
The information security baseline, and the certification most European buyers start from.
SOC 2
The report American customers ask for, run from the same platform as your EU obligations.
NIS2
The EU directive on network and information security, with its own reporting duties.
DORA
Digital operational resilience for financial entities and their ICT suppliers.
Testimonials
What our customers say
With a single click, one Tidal test checks dozens of disks for encryption. Doing that manually would take a lot of time.
Frequently asked questions
At the entry price they are close. Basenorm's Foundation Layer is "From 250 euro / month" and Tidal Control's Essential is 299 euro per month, with a lower annual rate. The difference is scope: Foundation includes "1 primary compliance framework", where every Tidal Control plan carries more than 30.
On Basenorm that means the Assurance Layer, which covers "Up to 3 compliance frameworks included" and is priced "On request" (basenorm.com/pricing, retrieved 1 October 2026). On Tidal Control the framework count is the same on every plan, so there is no tier to move to.
Tidal Control runs on Microsoft Azure in the West Europe region, located in the Netherlands, with backups within the EU, so your compliance data stays under EU jurisdiction. We do not make a claim about where Basenorm stores data. Ask for a written answer and read the trust centre of every platform on your shortlist.
Yes. SOC 2 sits alongside ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and more than 30 other frameworks on one platform, so an American customer asking for SOC 2 and a European regulator asking for NIS2 are served from one set of controls.
About three months on the standard path: one day of setup, two weeks of planning, nine weeks of implementation and two weeks for certification.
The statements about Basenorm were taken from basenorm.com/pricing on 1 October 2026. Vendor pages change without notice, so treat the source as authoritative and this page as a pointer to it.