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From teams paying for it today, plus the reasons teams leave. Is your Drata bill bloated?
About $47,600 a year. Audits are a poor place to build your own tools.
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Own tickets and workflows; device management and asset discovery stay rented.
Switch if you want something running this week and your process is standard. Build if your process is your edge, you want to own your data, or per-seat pricing keeps rising. Drata: Own tickets and workflows; device management and asset discovery stay rented.
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