The short version
A compliance firm with a platform built only for CMMC: your own team self assesses and self attests, Charlie the gov safe AI guide drafts with you, a credentialed officer reviews every step and never signs, and your senior official signs. Where a general GRC platform already runs your SOC 2 or ISO 27001, keep it and run CMMC here. Where an MSP runs your tenant, keep it and self assess here. The named comparisons are below.
Horizontal GRC platform
Built to run many frameworks with hundreds of integrations. CMMC is one module among many, the price is quoted after a demo, and the compliance professional is referred out to a partner.
- Custodia vs Vanta →
A general compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and dozens of other frameworks) with a CMMC module and pre mapped NIST SP 800-171 and 800-172 controls.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: no.
- Custodia vs Drata →
A compliance automation platform for many frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP) with CMMC mapped to related defense standards.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: no.
- Custodia vs Secureframe →
A compliance automation platform for many frameworks whose CMMC offering focuses on Level 2 certification with federal cloud connections.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: no.
CMMC native platform
Built for CMMC like Custodia is. The difference is the human model: a partner channel, a marketplace, or an MSP using the tool, against a credentialed officer inside the price.
- Custodia vs FutureFeed →
A CMMC native platform sold by company size, with Level 1 included in the core plan, Level 2 as a paid add on, and a marketplace of third party products.
Price: published. Compliance professional in the price: no.
- Custodia vs MotherBear →
A CMMC native platform for defense contractors, MSPs and consultants: requirements tracking, a documentation builder, an evidence repository and task management.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: no.
Managed services and consulting
The humans are the product. They run IT, security and compliance for you on a retainer or a project; a platform is not the point.
- Custodia vs Summit 7 →
A managed service provider for the defense industrial base: managed IT, managed security, GRC advisory, and Microsoft 365 GCC High and Azure Government projects.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: yes, as services.
- Custodia vs BEMO →
A managed IT and security provider that runs CMMC implementation from gap assessment to assessment day, with a dedicated team on every account.
Price: quote gated. Compliance professional in the price: yes, as services.
Secure collaboration product
Encrypted email and file sharing that keep CUI in an enclave. Often used beside Custodia, which never stores CUI.
- Custodia vs PreVeil →
End to end encrypted email and file sharing built for CUI, sold with a Compliance Accelerator (documentation and guided modules for all 110 controls), an AI compliance advisor, compliance calls and a partner directory.
Price: published. Compliance professional in the price: no.
Documentation templates
Policies, procedures and SSP templates sold as products for a team that will write and maintain them itself.
- Custodia vs ComplianceForge →
Editable cybersecurity documentation sold as products: policies, standards, procedures, SSP and POA&M templates, bundled for NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC Levels 1 to 3.
Price: published. Compliance professional in the price: no.
What Custodia does, with proof
- ✓All 110 requirements worked at the objective level (320 objectives), scored the official way
- ✓The POA&M rules enforced live: the 88 point floor, one point eligibility, the requirements that can never be deferred, the 180 day clock
- ✓Read only connections to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, including GCC, GCC High and DoD; nothing turns MET on its own
- ✓Custodia never stores CUI
- ✓A sealed, hash chained record kept six years, security awareness training at Level 2, the annual affirmation and triennial reassessment loop
- ✓A public verified status page, contract opportunities matched to you, and an MCP gateway for AI agents
What the others do better
- Hundreds of integrations against our handful
- Live drift detection on cloud configurations against our scheduled checks
- Many frameworks in one place; Custodia is CMMC only, on purpose
- FedRAMP authorization and a brand a CFO already knows
Custodia has no affiliation with any vendor named here. Each comparison page lists the pages the facts were read from and the date. Tell us if something is out of date and we will fix it.
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