SOC 2 Audit Pricing

Standard SOC 2 Audit Fees

Most audit firms make you sit through a sales cycle to learn what a SOC 2 audit costs. We publish our standard pricing. The fees below apply to SOC 2 Type I and Type II examinations scoped to the Security (Common Criteria) Trust Services Category — the baseline of every SOC 2 audit — and are based on your total company headcount.

This schedule is base pricing for standard engagements. Fees may be higher in specific instances — for example, complex products, services, or system descriptions; complex or multi-cloud environments; on-premise servers and data centers; or similar factors that expand audit effort. Each engagement is priced individually and may come in higher or lower than the schedule depending on the circumstances confirmed at scoping.

In plain terms: a SOC 2 Type I audit from Auditsuisse costs $3,000 to $10,000, a SOC 2 Type II audit costs $5,000 to $15,000, and a combined Type I + Type II engagement costs $7,000 to $20,000, depending on company size. The combined engagement delivers a Type I report first — so you have something to show buyers quickly — followed by a Type II report covering your first observation period.

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What Standard Pricing Includes

• A complete SOC 2 examination — performed under AICPA attestation standards by a licensed CPA firm enrolled in the AICPA Peer Review program.
• Senior-led engagement team — your audit is run by experienced auditors, not a rotating bench of junior associates.
• Fixed-fee certainty — no hourly billing, no scope-creep invoices.
• The final SOC 2 report — a Type I report as of a point in time, or a Type II report covering your observation period.
• GRC-platform agnostic — the same fee applies whether you use Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Sprinto, or any other GRC platform. And a platform is not required: we can run the entire audit without one, working from spreadsheets and evidence exported directly from your systems.

What Is Priced Separately

• Additional Trust Services Categories — Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy are scoped and quoted at the scoping call.
• Readiness assessment — optional pre-audit gap analysis for teams that want findings identified before fieldwork.
• Penetration testing — available as a separate service.
• Compliance platform subscriptions — billed by your platform vendor, not by Auditsuisse. A GRC platform is optional, not a requirement for the audit.

Engagement Conditions

These are our standard base fees, not a self-serve checkout. As a licensed CPA firm, every engagement requires individual approval and confirmation of auditor independence before an engagement letter is issued. Pricing is confirmed in your engagement letter following a scoping call, assumes an engagement scoped to the Security Trust Services Category, and may be adjusted higher or lower for the circumstances of your environment. Factors that commonly move a fee above the base schedule include:

• Complex products, services, or system descriptions — multiple products in scope, or a system description that spans many services and boundaries.
• Complex cloud environments — multi-cloud, hybrid, or heavily customized infrastructure.
• On-premise servers and data centers — physical infrastructure adds testing effort beyond cloud-native environments.
• Structural complexity — multi-entity structures, unusual system boundaries, or 1,000+ employees (these receive a custom fixed-fee proposal).

"Publishing our standard fees is deliberate. Audit pricing should be a scoping conversation, not a negotiation — you should know what the audit costs before you ever talk to us."

— Sébastien Ruosch, CPA, Director of Auditsuisse Assurance

How This Compares to the Market

Industry surveys and our own startup compliance roadmap put typical traditional-firm pricing at roughly $30,000–$60,000 for a SOC 2 Type I and $60,000–$120,000 for a Type II, with Big 4 engagements running higher still. Auditsuisse prices below these ranges because our senior-led, automation-native methodology removes the junior-staff hours that inflate traditional engagements — not because the examination is lighter. The report is issued by a licensed US CPA firm and carries the same standing with your buyers. For the factors that move any SOC 2 quote up or down, see our SOC 2 audit cost guide.