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Secrato vs verinice
An honest, sourced comparison of Secrato and verinice 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 the CRA, CyFun® and the EU AI Act, which verinice’s website does not mention. verinice’s main strengths, according to its own website: long-standing focus on BSI IT-Grundschutz alongside ISO 27001; and new generation published as open source under AGPL-3.0. Both offer EU hosting; verinice: verinice.cloud migrated to SysEleven (data centre in Berlin, Germany) on 24 June 2026.
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.
verinice
Open-source GRC tool for ISMS, data protection management and business continuity, with a strong focus on BSI IT-Grundschutz and ISO 27001.
Secrato vs verinice: side by side
"Not mentioned on verinice’s website" means we could not find it on verinice’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 | verinice |
|---|---|---|
| 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: verinice.cloud migrated to SysEleven (data centre in Berlin, Germany) on 24 June 2026; on-premises option in customer's own data centre.3 |
| Deployment | SaaS, hosted in the EU2 | open source + SaaS (verinice.cloud) + on-premises (verinice.onprem); legacy verinice Classic (Einzelplatz desktop / verinice.PRO server) |
| Pricing | Free NIS2 Starter (early access, limited places); Core, Pro and Enterprise on quote4 | On-premises bundles from EUR 5,750/year (Grundschutz or ISO 27001 bundle, each incl. BCM, NIS2, GDPR) and from EUR 8,530/year (ISO + Grundschutz); cloud NIS 2 bundle EUR 240.00 shown with net price EUR 201.68 (1 user, 2 units; billing period not stated); other cloud bundles and Classic on request5 |
| Interface languages | Dutch, French and English6 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Frameworks and regulations | ||
| Framework library (vendor claim) | 20+ frameworks7 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| NIS2 | Yes8 | Yes9 |
| DORA | Yes10 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) | Yes11 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| GDPR | Yes12 | Yes9 |
| EU AI Act | Yes13 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Yes14 | Yes9 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | Yes15 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| CyberFundamentals (CyFun®) | Yes16 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| BSI IT-Grundschutz | Yes17 | Yes9 |
| TISAX | Yes18 | Yes9 |
| SOC 2 | Not in library7 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Custom frameworks | Yes19 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Capabilities | ||
| Risk management | Yes20 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Policy management | Yes6 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Third-party / vendor risk | Yes6 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Trust centre for customers | Yes21 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Audit management / auditor access | Yes22 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Integrations for evidence collection | Yes23 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Multiple entities / MSP use | Yes24 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Partner programme | Yes25 | Not mentioned on verinice’s website |
| Integrations (vendor claim) | 300+ integrations23 | Not mentioned on verinice’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; verinice: verinice.cloud migrated to SysEleven (data centre in Berlin, Germany) on 24 June 2026.
- European frameworks in one library. Secrato's library includes DORA, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and CyberFundamentals (CyFun®). We found no public mention of these for verinice.
- Dutch, French and English. The Secrato interface and support are available in Dutch, French and English.
- 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 verinice may be the better fit
German public-sector and other organisations whose ISMS is built on BSI IT-Grundschutz and that prefer an open-source tool from a German vendor.
- Long-standing focus on BSI IT-Grundschutz alongside ISO 27001
- New generation published as open source under AGPL-3.0
- German vendor with cloud hosted at SysEleven in Berlin, plus on-premises option
- Published shop prices for on-premises bundles
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 verinice?
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 verinice host customer data?
verinice documents an EU hosting option: verinice.cloud migrated to SysEleven (data centre in Berlin, Germany) on 24 June 2026. Secrato hosts all customer data on self-managed infrastructure in a Tier IV data centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Does verinice support NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act?
According to verinice's website, it supports NIS2. We found no public information on 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 verinice’s website" rather than guess. Vendors and readers can send corrections through secrato.io/contact-us/.
Sources
verinice information checked in October 2026 on the pages below; Secrato information from secrato.io.
- secrato.io/legal-notice/
- secrato.io/sovereign-enterprise-security/
- verinice.com/en/news/detail/announcement-verinicecloud-is-migrating-to-a-new-infrastructure-provider
- secrato.io/plans/
- eu.verinice.shop
- secrato.io/plans/compare/
- secrato.io/all-frameworks/
- secrato.io/nis2/
- verinice.com/produkte/verinice/ueber-verinice
- 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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