The answer in 70 words
Custodia is CMMC compliance software from a compliance firm. It is built only for CMMC Level 1 and Level 2. Your own team self assesses and self attests at the objective level, Charlie the gov safe AI guide drafts with you, read only connections pull proof from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and government cloud, and a credentialed compliance officer reviews every step inside the price. Prices are published, the trial is 30 days, no card, no call, and Custodia never stores CUI.
Your team does it
Step by step in plain English, with Charlie beside them
A pro checks it
A credentialed officer reviews every step before anything is signed
It stays true
Evidence, renewals, and your sealed record watched all year, every year
What every plan includes
- ✓A credentialed officer reviews every step
- ✓Policies and your SSP, drafted with you
- ✓Security training for your whole teamLevel 2
- ✓Charlie, the gov safe AI guide
- ✓Connects Google, Microsoft 365, and gov cloud
- ✓A sealed record, kept six years
- ✓Contract opportunities matched to you
CMMC Level 1
You handle Federal Contract Information: 15 safeguarding requirements, self assessed every year.
$5,000/yr or $458.34/mo
- ✓A credentialed officer reviews every step, year round
- ✓All 15 FAR 52.204-21 safeguarding requirements, walked step by step in plain English
- ✓Your policies, System Security Plan, and signed affirmation memo, drafted with you
- ✓Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Microsoft government cloud to pull in proof
- ✓Your yearly SPRS affirmation, kept on schedule
CMMC Level 2
You handle Controlled Unclassified Information: 110 requirements, scored out of 110.
$15,000/yr or $1,291.67/mo
- ✓A credentialed officer reviews every step, every year of the cycle
- ✓All 110 requirements walked objective by objective and scored the official way
- ✓Policies, SSP, and POA&M drafted with you and kept living
- ✓Security awareness training for your whole team, built in
- ✓Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Microsoft government cloud to pull in proof
- ✓A sealed record your assessor can walk into, kept six years
Self assessed and self attested: you score yourself in SPRS on a three year cycle and your senior official affirms it every year. As of September 3, 2026 a class deviation directs contracting officers to remove third party assessment from contracts. The program rule still provides for it, so your solicitation sets the track. Your team builds the same evidence either way.
Built only for CMMC, and you can inspect every claim
A general platform maps CMMC onto a catalog of frameworks. Custodia does one framework the way DoD assesses it, and the example workspaces are open, so each claim below has a page you can walk.
- ✓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
Two ways to build compliance software
Connector first platforms connect everything and print a dashboard scoped to whatever got connected. Framework first software does one framework end to end. Neither is wrong. They are built for different buyers, and the comparison by category is below. The named comparisons, with dated facts from each vendor's own pages, are on the compare pages.
| Dimension | Connector first (general GRC platforms) | Framework first (Custodia) |
|---|---|---|
| The starting point | Connect your tools, collect whatever the APIs expose, map it to dozens of frameworks. | Your CMMC program already exists here. Your team answers plain questions about the business and walks a numbered path. |
| The unit of work | A control, marked by what an integration happened to find. | The assessment objective, all 320 at Level 2, scored the way 32 CFR 170.24 scores it, with the POA&M rules enforced live. |
| The human layer | Software only. The readiness partner, the RPO and the assessor are referred out and billed separately. | A credentialed compliance officer is inside the price, reviews every step, and never signs. Your senior official signs. |
| Evidence | Auto collected and auto counted. | Pulled read only from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or government cloud, or uploaded by your team, and nothing turns MET on its own. |
| Where it ends | A dashboard and a report. The affirmation, the SPRS score and the record are your problem. | The artifacts DoD consumes: the SSP, the POA&M, the signed affirmation, the SPRS package, and a sealed record kept six years. |
| Price and buyer | Priced for a compliance team running many frameworks, quoted after a demo. | Published prices for the contractor with no compliance staff and one framework that decides the work. 30 days free, no card. |
What the general platforms 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
Run CMMC here, keep your GRC platform
If your team already runs SOC 2 or ISO 27001 on a general platform, keep it. Run CMMC on Custodia, where the 110 requirements are worked at the objective level, the POA&M rules are enforced, the officer reviews before your senior official signs, and the record DoD consumes comes out the other end. Then carry the finished CMMC status back to the platform that runs the rest.
Where your data stands
Custodia holds everything about your compliance: your SSP, your evidence, your scores, your affirmations. It never holds your CUI. Your controlled drawings and technical data stay in your own systems, which keeps Custodia outside your CUI boundary and keeps your assessment clean. Every artifact is encrypted with your workspace's own key before it touches storage, and your audit log records every access, including ours. The trust center has the details.
People and agents, same rules
Do a requirement yourself. Task it to a teammate with a capture link. Connect Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace to keep the proof fresh. Or point your AI assistant at the Custodia gateway over MCP and let it do the reading. Every lane ends the same way: a person on your team confirms the evidence, the officer reviews, and signing the affirmation is always a human act by your senior official.
CMMC compliance software: FAQ
What is the best CMMC compliance software?
The best CMMC compliance software is built for CMMC itself, not a module bolted onto a general GRC platform: it works the requirements at the objective level, enforces the Level 2 POA&M rules, connects read only to the cloud you already use, keeps the record DoD consumes, and puts a credentialed compliance officer inside the price. Custodia is built to do exactly that for Level 1 and Level 2, with published prices and a 30 day free trial. Compare it with the named options at https://bidfedcmmc.com/compare.
Is Custodia a GRC platform?
No. Custodia is a compliance firm with a platform built only for CMMC. A general GRC platform is the right tool for running SOC 2, ISO 27001 and many frameworks at once with hundreds of integrations. Custodia is the right tool for getting CMMC Level 1 or Level 2 done the way DoD assesses it, with a credentialed officer reviewing. Many businesses run both.
Does Custodia include a compliance officer?
Yes, inside the price on every plan. A credentialed Custodia compliance officer reviews every step your team takes, checks the package before anything is filed, and keeps watching your posture all year. The officer never signs: your senior official makes the affirmation, as 32 CFR 170.22 requires.
Can I use Custodia alongside a general GRC platform?
Yes, and it is the common pattern. Keep your GRC platform for the frameworks it already runs. Run CMMC on Custodia, where the 110 requirements are worked at the objective level and the officer reviews before your senior official signs, then carry the finished CMMC status back to the other platform.
Does Custodia do the Level 2 self assessment?
Yes. Self assessed and self attested: you score yourself in SPRS on a three year cycle and your senior official affirms it every year. As of September 3, 2026 a class deviation directs contracting officers to remove third party assessment from contracts. The program rule still provides for it, so your solicitation sets the track. Your team builds the same evidence either way. Your team walks all 110 requirements at the objective level, the POA&M rules are enforced live, and the same evidence serves a C3PAO if a solicitation ever names certification.
Does Custodia store CUI?
No. Custodia holds your SSP, your evidence, your scores and your affirmations. It never holds your CUI. Your controlled drawings and technical data stay in your own systems, which keeps Custodia outside your CUI boundary and keeps your assessment clean.
What does Custodia cost?
Level 1 is $5,000/yr on annual, or $458.34/mo. Level 2 is $15,000/yr on annual, or $1,291.67/mo. Both include the credentialed officer, the platform and the record, and both start with a 30 day free trial with no credit card and no sales call.
Custodia CMMC (CustodiaCMMC, BidFedCMMC) at bidfedcmmc.com is a Pittsburgh compliance firm with its own CMMC platform. It is not Custodia Bank and not the open source custodia project on GitHub. Page reviewed 2026-09-22.
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