Drata HIPAA Cost in 2026

Drata is one of the few GRC vendors that prices HIPAA as a nameable line item in public. On its AWS Marketplace listing it publishes a HIPAA framework fee of $7,500 per year and, as a separate line, a platform fee of $25,000 per year described as capacity for a 100 FTE org (both checked July 2026). This page reports those dimensions as they are listed, sets out what they do not include, and is honest about the parts of a HIPAA budget that no vendor publishes.

What Drata publishes

Drata lists its platform on AWS Marketplace with public list prices on named 12-month contract dimensions (checked July 2026). Two of them determine a HIPAA bill:

• Platform fee, $25,000 per year. Described on the listing as access to the Drata SaaS platform with capacity for a 100 FTE org.
• HIPAA framework, $7,500 per year. One of nine framework dimensions on the listing, every one of which carries the same flat rate.

These are two separate line items. AWS does not publish a combined figure for them, and neither do we: any total is your own arithmetic over the dimensions your scope actually needs, which is why this page does not print one. The listing carries no price-effective date, so July 2026 is the date we checked it and the only vintage we can honestly claim. Headcount above the listed 100 FTE capacity, and anything bought through the listing's private-offer path, is priced through Drata's sales team.

The flat framework rate

The structural fact worth knowing about Drata's listing is that the framework fee does not vary by framework. All nine framework dimensions list at $7,500 per year each:

Source: the framework dimensions on Drata's AWS Marketplace listing, checked July 2026. The platform fee sits outside this table as its own $25,000 per year dimension.

Two things follow directly from the way this is published, without any arithmetic of ours. Adding HIPAA to a Drata subscription that already carries SOC 2 lists at the framework rate on its own, because the platform fee is a separate dimension that does not repeat. And HIPAA is not priced at a premium or a discount against any other standard, because the rate is flat across all nine. What none of this tells you is what a multi-framework programme costs in staff time, which is the larger number and the one nobody publishes.

What the framework fee does not buy

The published dimensions cover the platform. They are not the HIPAA budget. The work that sits outside the subscription is where most of the cost and nearly all of the enforcement risk lives:

• The Security Rule risk analysis. Drata's risk module is generic across frameworks; healthcare-specific scoping is its own exercise. This is also the single most-cited failure in OCR enforcement, which is covered on the penalties page with the settlement amounts OCR itself publishes.
• BAAs. Every vendor touching PHI needs one, and unusual customer terms need counsel. See business associate agreements.
• Workforce training. Priced per head by separate vendors. See training cost.
• Technical safeguards. Encryption, MFA, audit-log retention and the cloud spend underneath them are billed by your cloud provider, not by Drata.
• Counsel and incident response. Quoted per engagement, never published.

Drata does not perform any of these; it evidences them once you have done them. Consultants and assessors in this market quote per engagement rather than publishing rates, so those lines have to come from your own quotes. We would rather tell you that than print a number we cannot stand behind.

What Drata HIPAA covers

The Drata HIPAA framework maps the Security Rule control set (45 CFR 164.308, 164.310, 164.312, 164.314, 164.316) to the Drata control library, automates evidence collection for technical controls such as encryption configuration, access controls, audit logging and vulnerability scanning, provides Security Rule policy templates, supports a BAA workflow, generates the risk-assessment artifact, and produces a HIPAA-readiness report that can be shared during vendor-onboarding diligence.

The module also feeds a customer-facing trust centre, where certification status can be published to a public page that prospective customers review during evaluation. What it does not cover is listed in the section above: the healthcare-specific risk analysis, BAA negotiation, state-law overlay analysis, and OCR investigation response after an actual incident.

HITRUST on Drata

Drata supports HITRUST as a product and publishes a HITRUST page and an assessor partnership. It publishes no price for it. HITRUST is not one of the nine framework dimensions on the AWS Marketplace listing, and no dollar figure appears on Drata's HITRUST product page, so there is no published Drata HITRUST add-on price to quote.

HITRUST certification is a separate programme with its own economics, and HITRUST publishes part of it in its own pricing guidance (checked July 2026):

• MyCSF subscription: HITRUST says subscriptions “typically cost from $18,100”. Treat it as a floor.
• Readiness assessment report: HITRUST says the price “begins at $3,625”. Also a floor.
• External assessor fees: HITRUST states that each assessor sets its own pricing and that HITRUST is not involved in assessor fees. There is no published figure, and this is usually the largest of the three.

So a HITRUST budget has two published floors and one genuinely unpublished line quoted per engagement. Anyone showing you a tidy all-in HITRUST range is estimating the assessor fee, and should say so.

The buyer profile

Strong fit: a digital health startup or scale-up pursuing HIPAA alongside SOC 2 or ISO 27001, where a shared evidence base is doing real work. Healthcare technology vendors whose hospital customers ask for more than one certification. Multi-tenant SaaS platforms handling PHI across many customers. Companies already on Drata for SOC 2 that need HIPAA for a specific customer requirement.

Worth checking against the listing: organisations well under the 100 FTE capacity the platform fee is sized for. The published dimension does not scale down on the listing, so ask what a smaller-headcount deal looks like before assuming the list price applies to you.

Likely a poor fit: a medical or dental practice with a HIPAA-only need and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 ambition. The Drata listing prices a multi-framework platform, and the practice-focused platforms publish rate cards built around per-employee pricing instead. Compare the published numbers directly on the Compliancy Group and Accountable HQ pages. This is an informational cost reference, not legal or compliance advice.

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