Compliance Budget Planner
Estimate your compliance investment across multiple frameworks. See how shared controls and Top Floor's boutique approach reduce your total cost.
Define Your Compliance Scope
Select the frameworks you need and tell us about your organization.
How to budget for a compliance program
A realistic compliance budget covers four cost categories, from the initial gap assessment through ongoing maintenance after certification. The ranges below are mid-market baselines for a 51 to 200 person company; the interactive planner above adjusts them for your size, current maturity, timeline, automation tooling, in-house staffing, and cloud footprint, then estimates the savings from overlapping controls when you pursue multiple frameworks at once.
The four cost categories
Gap Assessment
A structured review of your current controls against the target framework to identify what is missing before remediation begins. This is typically a one-time, up-front cost.
Remediation
The work to close identified gaps, implementing policies, technical controls, and evidence collection. This is usually the largest line item and the area where shared controls across frameworks reduce cost the most.
Audit Fees
Fees paid to the independent assessor, auditor, or certification body to examine your controls and issue the report or certificate. These recur on the framework’s audit cycle.
Ongoing Maintenance
The annual cost of keeping the program in good standing: continuous monitoring, evidence refresh, control reviews, and preparation for the next audit period.
Typical framework cost ranges
Representative annual cost ranges by framework and category, before adjustments for your specific environment. Pursuing more than one framework usually costs less than the sum of each because many controls overlap.
| Which frameworks do you need? | Gap Assessment | Remediation | Audit Fees | Ongoing Maintenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | $8K - $20K | $40K - $80K | $25K - $50K | $15K - $30K |
| ISO 27001 | $35K - $60K | $50K - $100K | $30K - $55K | $20K - $40K |
| CMMC | $40K - $70K | $60K - $120K | $35K - $65K | $25K - $45K |
| HITRUST | $45K - $75K | $55K - $110K | $40K - $80K | $25K - $50K |
| PCI DSS | $30K - $55K | $45K - $90K | $25K - $60K | $15K - $35K |
| HIPAA | $25K - $45K | $35K - $70K | $20K - $40K | $12K - $25K |
| ISO 42001 | $15K - $25K | $25K - $45K | $20K - $35K | $15K - $25K |
| NIST AI RMF | $10K - $20K | $15K - $30K | $10K - $20K | $10K - $15K |
| FDA Cybersecurity | $20K - $35K | $35K - $65K | $25K - $45K | $20K - $35K |
| SOX IT Controls | $15K - $25K | $25K - $45K | $20K - $40K | $15K - $25K |
| India DPDP | $8K - $15K | $12K - $25K | $8K - $15K | $8K - $12K |
| ISMAP | $15K - $25K | $25K - $45K | $18K - $30K | $12K - $20K |
| ENS | $12K - $22K | $20K - $38K | $15K - $28K | $10K - $18K |
Ranges are mid-market planning estimates, not quotes. Actual costs depend on scope, existing controls, and regulatory requirements assessed during a formal scoping engagement.
Compliance budget questions
What does the compliance budget planner estimate?
It estimates what it costs to reach and then hold compliance with the frameworks you select, split into gap assessment, remediation, audit fees, and ongoing maintenance. The result is a planning range you can take into a budget conversation. It is not a quote, a proposal, or a binding offer of services.
What goes into a compliance budget besides the audit?
Four categories, and the audit is only one of them. A gap assessment maps your current controls against the framework. Remediation is the engineering, policy, and process work that closes what the assessment found. Audit fees go to the independent firm that issues the report or certificate. Ongoing maintenance covers the evidence collection, monitoring, and control operation that keep the certification alive after the first year. A budget built around the audit fee alone leaves out the other three.
What changes the estimate for my organization?
Headcount band, how mature your compliance program already is, how urgent your target timeline is, whether you run a compliance automation platform, whether you have dedicated security staff, and how many cloud providers fall inside the scope boundary. Each answer moves the range, which is why a team with documented controls and a relaxed timeline lands well below a team starting from nothing against a customer deadline.
Does pursuing more than one framework at once cost less than doing them separately?
Usually, because the frameworks share controls, and a control you implement and evidence once can satisfy several of them. When you select more than one framework the planner reads the shared-control overlap between them from the same cross-framework mapping dataset this site publishes in full, and reduces the combined estimate by it. Pricing each framework on its own and adding the totals overstates the cost of a multi-framework program.
Do I have to give an email address to see an estimate?
No. The estimate renders on screen as soon as you answer the scoping and environment questions, and the framework cost table further down this page is readable without answering anything at all. The email step sits after the results, not in front of them.
How accurate is the estimate?
Treat it as a planning range rather than a price. The ranges are mid-market planning estimates, not quotes, and the planner cannot see the things that move a real number most: how much of the control set you already operate, how clean and how automated your evidence is, and where the scope boundary gets drawn. Turning a range into a number is what a formal scoping engagement is for.