Compare
Comparing Drata? 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 Drata comes from Drata's own plans page at drata.com/plans, retrieved 23 September 2026. Tiers and wording change, so read the source before you decide anything.
Where an entry plan stops
Each point below is checkable on both sides. Nothing here rests on our word for what another vendor does.
A published price against a sales call
Tidal Control lists Essential at 299 euro, Professional at 589 euro and Scale at 1,999 euro per month on tidalcontrol.com/pricing. Drata's plans page names Foundation, Advanced and Enterprise across two platforms and puts "Contact Sales" against them instead of a figure.
What the entry plan actually covers
Tidal Control covers more than 30 frameworks on every subscription, with no headcount ceiling on the framework count. Drata's GRC Foundation plan states "Up to 50 FTEs" and "1 Pre-Mapped Framework", with "Any Available Framework" arriving at the Advanced tier.
Where your evidence lives
Tidal Control is built and hosted in Europe, so controls, risks, policies and evidence stay under EU jurisdiction. Drata's plans page states nothing either way about data residency, so ask any vendor you shortlist for it in writing and read their trust centre.
A ceiling measured in headcount
Drata's GRC Foundation plan states "Up to 50 FTEs". That is a limit on how big you get, not on what you need, so a scale-up crossing 50 staff moves tier for reasons unrelated to compliance. Tidal Control prices by subscription, not by a headcount ceiling on framework access.
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
Drata does not publish a price. Its plans page lists Foundation, Advanced and Enterprise with "Contact Sales" (drata.com/plans, retrieved 23 September 2026). Note that GRC Foundation states "Up to 50 FTEs" and "1 Pre-Mapped Framework", so the entry plan is bounded by headcount as well as framework count.
On Drata that matters: its GRC Foundation plan states "Up to 50 FTEs" (drata.com/plans, retrieved 23 September 2026). On Tidal Control headcount does not gate which frameworks you can run.
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.
Tidal Control is built and hosted in Europe, and your compliance data stays under EU jurisdiction. We do not make a claim about where Drata stores data. Ask for a written answer and read the trust centre of every platform on your shortlist.
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 Drata were taken from drata.com/plans on 23 September 2026. Pricing pages change without notice, so treat the source as authoritative and this page as a pointer to it.