Pricing
Start small. Build readiness as you grow.
Two plans you can subscribe to today, managed services with a published rate, and a per-user price if you outgrow the included seats. Every standard plan carries its price; only a Custom arrangement is quoted, against an agreed scope.
- Platform from
- $99/mo
- Essentials, USD
- Free trial
- 14 days
- No card required
- Advisory from
- $999/mo
- Named advisor included
- Currency
- USD
- Adaptive Pricing not applied
Signing up today
Start with a 14-day free trial on Essentials or Full Platform. No credit card required, and no automatic charge when the trial ends.
Plans
Two plans. The difference is scope, not a paywall.
Both open the same workspace and the same readiness score. Essentials keeps one framework in scope; Full Platform runs several at once and adds the audit workspace and board reporting. The step between them is $150 a month.
Essentials
One framework, evidence and readiness for a small team getting its first programme in order.
$99/month USD
Or $1,069.20 a year — $118.80 (10%) less than twelve monthly payments.
- Included users
- 2
- Free trial
- 14 days
Best for
Preparing for a first cyber-insurance renewal or a first customer security questionnaire.
- One compliance framework in scope
- Control register with named owners
- Evidence library with status and expiry
- Risk register and action tracking
- Cyber-insurance readiness workspace
- Sentinel Score and executive summary
- AI assistance for drafting and review, within a monthly allowance
- 2 included users
14-day free trial. No credit card required. No automatic charge.
Full Platform
RecommendedThe whole readiness programme — multiple frameworks, audit workspace and board reporting.
$249/month USD
Or $2,689.20 a year — $298.80 (10%) less than twelve monthly payments.
- Included users
- 5
- Free trial
- 14 days
Best for
Running governance and insurance readiness together, with executive and board reporting.
- Everything in Essentials
- Multiple frameworks in scope
- Audit engagement workspace and control testing
- Executive and board reporting
- Broker and underwriter evidence packages
- Assessment programme and maturity tracking
- 5 included users
14-day free trial. No credit card required. No automatic charge.
All prices are USD. Annual totals are the published figure you are charged for the year — $118.80 less than twelve monthly payments on Essentials, $298.80 on Full Platform, $599.40 on Managed vCISO Lite. The percentages are not identical, which is why the sum is shown rather than a badge.
What you are paying for
This is the workspace the price opens.
The same readiness score, the same nine weighted categories, the same evidence and gap tracking on both plans. Captured from a Sentinel workspace, so you can read the interface before you decide to pay for it.
Screens captured from a Sentinel workspace on 10 September 2026. Northstar Manufacturing Ltd. is a fictional example — a 180-person manufacturer in Ontario, Canada — not a customer, and its scores are computed by the product from its records rather than typed in for the picture.
- Your data sits in Canada
- Stored in Supabase, ca-central-1, on every plan. Application compute and AI calls run in the United States.
- AI assistance from the first plan
- Drafting and review assistance is in Essentials, the lowest plan, scoped to your own tenant and used within a monthly allowance.
- Evidence carries an expiry
- Every plan tracks evidence status and expiry dates, because stale evidence is the failure this product exists to prevent.
- An honest starting number
- A new workspace does not open on a flattering score. It reads as not assessed until there is something behind it.
Managed services
Software when you can operate it. A person when you cannot.
Some companies need the platform and nothing else. Others need someone accountable for the programme, or one submission assembled properly before a renewal. Both are priced and published.
- Advisory subscription
Managed vCISO Lite
$999/mo
Or $11,388.60 a year — $599.40 (5%) less than twelve monthly payments.
Full Platform plus a named CyberWave advisor on a scheduled advisory cadence.
- Everything in Full Platform
- Named CyberWave advisor
- Scheduled advisory sessions
- Risk and roadmap review
- Executive reporting support
- 5 included users — the CyberWave advisor does not consume a seat
Talk to usNo trial on this plan — the advisory cadence is arranged with you. - Scoped engagement
Managed vCISO
From $2,499/mo
Hours, cadence and billing period are agreed in a statement of work before anything starts.
A deeper engagement, scoped to your programme, governance calendar and stakeholders.
- Everything in Managed vCISO Lite
- Scope and included users agreed in a statement of work
- Deeper advisory hours
- Programme and governance calendar ownership support
- Stakeholder and board engagement
Talk to an advisorStarts with a scoping conversation, not a checkout. - One-time service
Cyber Insurance Submission Pack
$499
One-time USD. Not a subscription, and not a feature flag on a plan.
A reviewed, broker-ready evidence and questionnaire package assembled from your workspace.
- The questionnaire answers, drawn from your control register rather than from memory
- The supporting evidence, checked for status and expiry before it goes out
- The gaps you have not closed yet, written down honestly, with what is planned
- A review pass by a person before anything reaches your broker or underwriter
Ask about the Cyber Insurance Submission PackScoped against your workspace and your renewal date first. - Beyond the published plans
Custom
Scoped with you
Quoted against the agreed scope, monthly or annual, in a bespoke agreement.
Multiple entities, unusual frameworks, or requirements the published plans do not cover.
- Group structures, specialised frameworks, or procurement that needs a bespoke agreement.
- Scoped with you
- Bespoke agreement
Talk to salesFor group structures, unusual frameworks, or procurement that needs its own paper.
Compare
What $150 a month more actually buys.
Scope and reporting, not a longer feature list. If nobody is asking you for board reporting or an audit workspace yet, Essentials is the honest answer and you can move up inside the same workspace later.
| Criterion | Essentials | Full Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99/month, or $1,069.20 a year | $249/month, or $2,689.20 a year |
| Included users | 2 named users | 5 named users |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 14 days, no card |
| Frameworks in scope | One framework at a time | Multiple frameworks at once |
| Control register and evidence library | Included — owners, status, expiry | Included |
| Risk register and actions | Included | Included |
| Cyber-insurance readiness | Included — the underwriter controls, tracked | Included |
| Broker and underwriter packages | Not included | Included |
| Audit workspace and control testing | Not included | Included |
| Executive and board reporting | Sentinel Score and executive summary | Full executive and board reporting |
| Assessment programme and maturity tracking | Not included | Included |
| AI drafting and review assistance | Included, within a monthly allowance | Included, with a larger monthly allowance |
- Price
- $249/month, or $2,689.20 a year
- Included users
- 5 named users
- Free trial
- 14 days, no card
- Frameworks in scope
- Multiple frameworks at once
- Control register and evidence library
- Included
- Risk register and actions
- Included
- Cyber-insurance readiness
- Included
- Broker and underwriter packages
- Included
- Audit workspace and control testing
- Included
- Executive and board reporting
- Full executive and board reporting
- Assessment programme and maturity tracking
- Included
- AI drafting and review assistance
- Included, with a larger monthly allowance
- Price
- $99/month, or $1,069.20 a year
- Included users
- 2 named users
- Free trial
- 14 days, no card
- Frameworks in scope
- One framework at a time
- Control register and evidence library
- Included — owners, status, expiry
- Risk register and actions
- Included
- Cyber-insurance readiness
- Included — the underwriter controls, tracked
- Broker and underwriter packages
- Not included
- Audit workspace and control testing
- Not included
- Executive and board reporting
- Sentinel Score and executive summary
- Assessment programme and maturity tracking
- Not included
- AI drafting and review assistance
- Included, within a monthly allowance
The row worth seeing
“Board reporting” is a real artefact, not a checkbox.
On Full Platform the executive page is generated from the register you already maintain — where readiness stands, what changed since the last snapshot, and what needs a decision.
Readiness moved from 68 to 76 since July. One critical risk is open, and the cyber insurance renewal is 96 days out.
Needs a decision
- Critical risk — ransomware via phishing on plant-floor workstations: approve the treatment or formally accept it with conditions.
- Two contracts expire inside 90 days: the shipping and EDI portal (20 October) and OT line-controller support (28 November).
- Finalise the Statement of Applicability before the Stage 1 readiness review on 20 October.
The trial, in full
14 days. No card. No charge at the end.
Free trials in this category are usually a card capture with a countdown attached. This one is not, and the difference matters enough to state it four ways.
- Length
- 14 days
- Free on Essentials or Full Platform
- Credit card
- Not required
- Nothing to enter, nothing stored
- At the end
- No automatic charge
- We do not have a card to charge
- Conversion
- No automatic conversion
- A paid plan is a decision you make
- 01
You start it
Create the workspace on Essentials or Full Platform. No card, no sales call in the way.
- 02
You use it properly
14 days is enough to bring one framework or one renewal questionnaire in, load the evidence you already have, and see what is actually missing.
- 03
It ends
When the trial ends, carrying on means choosing a paid subscription; nothing converts or is charged on its own. Your data is not deleted because a trial ended.
Users and seats
Seats are per person, and the price is published too.
A control owner needs their own login — shared accounts are the first thing an auditor or an underwriter picks apart. So seats are priced openly, in packs, and adding one does not require a conversation.
| Add-on | Users added | Monthly (USD) | Annual (USD) | Annual difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additional user | 1 user | $19 | $205.20 | $22.80 (10%) |
| 5-user pack | 5 users | $79 | $853.20 | $94.80 (10%) |
| 10-user pack | 10 users | $149 | $1,609.20 | $178.80 (10%) |
Essentials includes 2 · Full Platform includes 5 · Managed vCISO Lite includes 5. Add-ons follow the billing period you are on. On Managed vCISO Lite, the CyberWave advisor does not consume one of your included seats; on Managed vCISO, users are agreed in the statement of work.
Questions
The billing questions people actually ask.
Answered here, so you do not have to email anyone to find out what happens at the end of a trial.
Do I need a credit card to start the trial?
Will I be charged automatically when the trial ends?
How do seats work?
Can I change plans later?
Is AI assistance unlimited?
Can I cancel?
Does “Managed vCISO” mean you run security for us?
Don’t wait for the next questionnaire to discover the gaps.
Most programmes start with one framework or one renewal, not with a platform rollout. Start there, and add scope when there is a reason to.
No credit card required
- Published pricing on every standard plan
- No credit card required for the trial
- No automatic charge when a trial ends
- Tenant-isolated architecture, data stored in Canada
- Clear data-processing terms
- No compliance guarantee — human judgement still required