Secureframe's templates are solid — but they come inside a platform that starts around $7,500 a year with no free plan and per-framework gating. Charter gives you framework-mapped, version-controlled, attestation-ready policies as a standalone product, free to start.
The same documented-and-attested outcome, priced for the SMB that actually needs it.
Secureframe bundles policy into a full compliance suite. Charter is just the policy layer — focused and affordable.
Secureframe has no free plan; Starter lists ~$7,500/yr. Charter's free tier generates a full mapped set with versioning and attestation.
Secureframe Starter caps you to one framework. Charter's clauses carry all framework mappings at once — no per-framework upsell.
Immutable versions with content hashes and clause-level redlines between any two — your change record, built in.
Assign to a person or a whole SSO/SCIM group, escalate reminders to the manager, auto re-attest when a version changes, and prove coverage on a dashboard — each signature bound to the exact version hash, no platform login for signers.
Multi-tenant authoring with per-client branding and bulk attestation reporting — a high-LTV fit suites price out of reach.
| Capability | Charter | Secureframe Starter |
|---|---|---|
| Buy policy standalone | Yes | No — full platform |
| Generates policies from a questionnaire | Yes | Templates only |
| Frameworks included | All 8 families | 1 framework (Starter) |
| Version control + attestation | Yes | Yes |
| Escalating reminders + auto re-attestation | Yes | Reminders; manual re-assign |
| SSO/SCIM group audiences + author≠approver SoD | Yes | Workflow roles |
| MSP multi-tenant pricing | $249/mo +$19/client | Not offered |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Entry price | Free · then $159–$299/mo | $7,500/yr |
Secureframe Starter: public $7,500/yr, ≤100 employees, 1 framework, no free plan (per secureframe.com/pricing). Verify current pricing with the vendor.
Confident, not absolutist.
If you want an end-to-end audit platform with automated evidence collection, integrations, and a guided path through a full SOC 2 or ISO audit, Secureframe does more than a focused policy tool. Charter's strength is the policy layer specifically — generated, mapped, versioned, attested — at a flat per-company price with a free tier, and policies that feed the rest of the DosanjhLabs suite as evidence.
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