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Comparing Scrut Automation? 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 Scrut Automation comes from Scrut Automation's own site at scrut.io, retrieved 1 October 2026. Tiers and wording change, so read the source before you decide anything.
What to compare when one side publishes neither
Each point below is checkable on both sides. Nothing here rests on our word for what another vendor offers.
A published price against a demo booking
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. Scrut publishes no figure and asks you to "Book a Demo". A cost calculator is offered, but a number still requires a conversation.
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. Scrut's home page names no hosting region or country of establishment, so ask for both in writing and read their trust centre before you shortlist.
Seventy frameworks or thirty, and what supported means
Scrut states support for more than 70 frameworks against Tidal Control's more than 30. Ask both what supported means for the frameworks you actually run: whether controls are pre-mapped, whether evidence is collected automatically, and whether any of it changes by plan.
Automation and the audit are different purchases
Scrut positions itself as "AI Teammates that power your compliance program", which is automation of the work rather than the audit at the end of it. 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
Scrut does not publish a price. Its site asks you to "Book a Demo" and offers a cost calculator, but a figure still needs a conversation (scrut.io, retrieved 1 October 2026). Tidal Control lists Essential at 299 euro, Professional at 589 euro and Scale at 1,999 euro per month, with lower annual rates.
It is a larger number, and worth saying plainly. Whether it is better depends on the frameworks you run. Ask whether each is pre-mapped to controls, whether evidence collection is automated for it, and whether the count changes between plans. A catalogue entry and a working framework are not the same thing.
Its home page does not say, and neither does it name a country of establishment (scrut.io, retrieved 1 October 2026). Ask for a written answer on the processing region and read their trust centre. 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.
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 Scrut Automation 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 Scrut Automation were taken from scrut.io on 1 October 2026. Vendor pages change without notice, so treat the source as authoritative and this page as a pointer to it.