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Secrato vs Orbiq
An honest, sourced comparison of Secrato and Orbiq for European organisations working on NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001 and the Cyber Resilience Act: hosting, frameworks, capabilities, languages and pricing.
In short: Secrato is a Belgian GRC platform hosted on self-managed infrastructure in Antwerp, covering NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001 as well as CyFun®, BSI IT-Grundschutz and TISAX, which Orbiq’s website does not mention. Orbiq’s main strengths, according to its own website: public EUR pricing including a free tier; and layered trust-centre access with NDA signing, watermarking, download tracking and audit logs. Both offer EU hosting; Orbiq: Vendor states 'all our infrastructure is hosted in Europe via European data centers'.
At a glance
Secrato
EU-first GRC platform, headquartered in Belgium and hosted in Antwerp, for organisations that run NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, the CRA and national schemes such as CyFun® from one connected set of controls, evidence, risks, policies and audits.
Orbiq
Trust centre platform for EU B2B teams that publishes security and compliance documentation to customers, auditors, regulators and vendors with layered (public, customer-only, NDA-gated) access, plus AI-assisted security questionnaire answering.
Built for: EU B2B companies, particularly NIS2 and DORA in-scope organisations and vendors facing enterprise procurement and due diligence
Secrato vs Orbiq: side by side
"Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website" means we could not find it on Orbiq’s public pages in October 2026; it does not mean the feature is missing. Numbers in the table link to the sources below.
| Criterion | Secrato | Orbiq |
|---|---|---|
| Company and hosting | ||
| Headquarters | Belgium1 | Germany |
| Where data is hosted | EU-only: self-managed infrastructure in Datacenter United's Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium, in every plan2 | EU hosting available: Vendor states 'all our infrastructure is hosted in Europe via European data centers'; hosting provider and country not named.3 |
| Deployment | SaaS, hosted in the EU2 | SaaS |
| Pricing | Free NIS2 Starter (early access, limited places); Core, Pro and Enterprise on quote4 | Free €0; Team €85/month or €850/year; Business from €190/month or €1,900/year; Enterprise custom5 |
| Interface languages | Dutch, French and English6 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Frameworks and regulations | ||
| Framework library (vendor claim) | 20+ frameworks7 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| NIS2 | Yes8 | Yes3 |
| DORA | Yes9 | Yes3 |
| Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Yes10 | Yes3 |
| GDPR | Yes11 | Yes3 |
| EU AI Act | Yes12 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Yes13 | Yes3 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | Yes14 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| CyberFundamentals (CyFun®) | Yes15 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| BSI IT-Grundschutz | Yes16 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| TISAX | Yes17 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| SOC 2 | Not in library7 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Custom frameworks | Yes18 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Capabilities | ||
| Risk management | Yes19 | No |
| Policy management | Yes6 | No |
| Third-party / vendor risk | Yes6 | Yes |
| Trust centre for customers | Yes20 | Yes |
| Audit management / auditor access | Yes21 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Integrations for evidence collection | Yes22 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Multiple entities / MSP use | Yes23 | Yes |
| Partner programme | Yes24 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
| Integrations (vendor claim) | 300+ integrations22 | Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website |
Where Secrato is different
- Belgian hosting on self-managed infrastructure. Both offer EU hosting. Secrato hosts every plan on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium; Orbiq: Vendor states 'all our infrastructure is hosted in Europe via European data centers'.
- European frameworks in one library. Secrato's library includes EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, CyberFundamentals (CyFun®), BSI IT-Grundschutz and TISAX. We found no public mention of these for Orbiq.
- A free way to start. NIS2 Starter (early access) is free and includes CyFun® BASIC (34 controls) and NIS2 incident notifications to the CCB (24 hours, 72 hours, one month).
When Orbiq may be the better fit
Teams that already have an ISMS or GRC tool and want a dedicated, low-cost trust centre and questionnaire-response product on top of it.
- Public EUR pricing including a free tier
- Layered trust-centre access with NDA signing, watermarking, download tracking and audit logs
- States EU-only infrastructure hosting
- Explicitly positioned for NIS2 and DORA customer assurance
Questions to ask any GRC vendor
- In which country, data centre and cloud provider is our data stored, including backups and support access?
- Which of our frameworks (NIS2, DORA, CRA, ISO 27001, national schemes) are maintained by the vendor, and how fast are updates?
- Can one control and one piece of evidence count for several frameworks?
- Which languages do the interface, policies and support use?
- How is pricing calculated (users, frameworks, entities), and what does onboarding cost?
Frequently asked questions
Is Secrato an alternative to Orbiq?
Yes, for organisations that want to run their compliance programme on an EU-hosted GRC platform. Both cover risk, policies and audits; the main differences are where data is hosted, which European and national frameworks are included, interface languages and pricing. The table above lists each point with its source.
Where does Orbiq host customer data?
Orbiq documents an EU hosting option: Vendor states 'all our infrastructure is hosted in Europe via European data centers'. Secrato hosts all customer data on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Does Orbiq support NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act?
According to Orbiq's website, it supports NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act. Secrato includes NIS2, DORA and the CRA in its framework library.
How was this comparison made?
Secrato wrote this comparison using publicly available information from each vendor's own website, documentation and trust centre, checked in October 2026. Where a vendor does not publish something, we write "Not mentioned on Orbiq’s website" rather than guess. Vendors and readers can send corrections through secrato.io/contact-us/.
Sources
Orbiq information checked in October 2026 on the pages below; Secrato information from secrato.io.
- secrato.io/legal-notice/
- secrato.io/sovereign-enterprise-security/
- www.orbiqhq.com/index.md
- secrato.io/plans/
- www.orbiqhq.com/pricing
- secrato.io/plans/compare/
- secrato.io/all-frameworks/
- secrato.io/nis2/
- secrato.io/dora/
- secrato.io/eu-cra-cyber-resilience-act/
- secrato.io/gdpr/
- secrato.io/eu-ai-act/
- secrato.io/iso-27001/
- secrato.io/iso-iec-42001/
- secrato.io/cyfun/
- secrato.io/bsi/
- secrato.io/tisax/
- secrato.io/custom-frameworks/
- secrato.io/risk-management/
- secrato.io/trust-center/
- secrato.io/audit-hub/
- secrato.io/integrations/
- secrato.io/multi-tenant-workspace-management/
- secrato.io/partner-program/
Further pages consulted:
About this comparison. Written by Secrato, the publisher of one of the products compared. It is based on publicly available information checked in October 2026 and may change as vendors update their products. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify the products compared. Spotted something out of date? Let us know and we will review and correct it.
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