--- title: "Compare: evidence you can verify" description: "PolicyCortex next to Vanta, Drata, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, RegScale and GCC High on eight evidence questions, from where evidence lives to how fixes are gated." url: https://policycortex.com/compare sealed: 2026-09-02 amended: 2026-09-05 register: compare records: 4 digest: sha3:ca07f60e0657ac4f05e83f33629f08a4d61bb2dd9434ae8b6d77cd46960ba73b --- # Compared on the evidence, not the feature list. Register / Compare Every comparison here asks both products the same eight questions: where the evidence lives, who can recompute it, whether it is tamper evident, whether gaps are declared, how remediation is gated, whether AI agents are covered, how federal packages are produced, and how you evaluate it. Competitor cells restate public documentation; where a vendor is silent, the cell says so. [Request Access](https://app.policycortex.com/auth?mode=request-access) ยท [How the register works](https://policycortex.com/architecture) ## Six comparisons, one set of questions. Six comparisons, indexed by what each vendor states about itself. The full eight-question table, the narrative, and the questions buyers ask are on each page. **Comparisons on this register** | Comparison | As they describe it | Where evidence lives | Remediation model | Federal packaging | |---|---|---|---|---| | [PolicyCortex vs Vanta](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-vanta) | Commercial compliance automation (GRC) | Vendor cloud, multi-tenant SaaS | Findings and tasks for your team | CMMC on the framework list; packages not stated | | [PolicyCortex vs Drata](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-drata) | Commercial compliance automation (GRC) | Vendor cloud, multi-tenant SaaS | Findings assigned to your team | Limited CMMC support; packages not stated | | [PolicyCortex vs Wiz](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-wiz) | Cloud security posture management | Not stated by vendor | Findings routed to ticketing, SIEM, SOAR | No authorization package | | [PolicyCortex vs Prisma Cloud](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-prisma-cloud) | Enterprise cloud security platform | Not stated by vendor | Runbooks and SOAR integrations | Not stated; custom policy work for CMMC | | [PolicyCortex vs RegScale](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-regscale) | Federal GRC and documentation | Not stated by vendor | POA&M tracking, human-driven | SSP, POA&M, ATO packages, one-click OSCAL | | [PolicyCortex vs GCC High](https://policycortex.com/compare/policycortex-vs-gcc-high) | FedRAMP High hosting (Microsoft 365 and Azure) | Your Microsoft tenant; hosting, not an evidence system | None; hosting | Authorized hosting; your system's package not provided | PolicyCortex cells restate the register pages. Competitor cells restate the vendor's public product documentation as read in March 2026; where it does not state a fact, the cell says so. Corrections to hello@policycortex.com. ## The eight questions, and the register's answers. The eight questions, with the register's own answers. Every cell below stands on a register page, and each comparison prints the same cells next to the vendor's. - **Where the evidence lives**: The customer's tenant. Collectors, policy engine, evidence store, decision layer and export surface all run there. No telemetry pipeline to PolicyCortex servers and no egress of evidence. - **Verifiable by a second party**: By recomputation. Export the stream, recompute SHA3-256 over each record plus the digest of the record before it, compare: INTACT, or the first sequence number where integrity fails. No PolicyCortex account or API in the loop. - **Tamper evidence**: Hash chained and append-only. There is no update or delete verb in the store; an edit breaks the edited record and every digest after it. - **Gaps declared**: Declared. When a collector is down or a scope is unobserved, the chain carries a gap record: stream, interval, reason, declared_at. - **Remediation model**: Approval-gated proposals. The reasoning layer proposes and cannot execute. SHADOW executes nothing; GATED, the default, puts a named human on each action; AUTONOMOUS is limited to narrow, well-tested action classes with all three policy gates still run. - **AI agent coverage**: Proof of agency: the envelope that permitted each autonomous action, the chained record of what it did, and the counterfactual that would have blocked it. Models and agents in scope are inventoried and mapped against 64 MITRE ATLAS techniques, with unbounded techniques recorded as declared gaps. - **Federal packaging**: OSCAL 1.1.2 export with SSP, SAR, POA&M, eMASS XML and evidence indexes generated from one implementation record. AWS and Azure boundaries for ATO packaging. - **Evaluation**: Request Access. Our team reviews your requirements and agrees on scope and commercial terms before onboarding in your tenant. ## How to read the tables. PolicyCortex cells come from the register pages: the architecture, the three proof records, the AI register, and the federal record. Competitor cells come from the vendor's public product documentation as read in March 2026, restated in the vendor's own terms. Where a vendor does not state a fact, the cell reads Not stated by vendor, and that is all it means: not that the capability is absent, only that we could not find it stated. Corrections are welcome at [hello@policycortex.com](mailto:hello@policycortex.com). A corrected cell moves the digest of the record it sits in, and every digest after it, so the change is visible in the colophon. The register facts are stated on the [architecture](https://policycortex.com/architecture), [proof of state](https://policycortex.com/proof/state), [proof of change](https://policycortex.com/proof/change), [proof of agency](https://policycortex.com/proof/agency), and the [federal record](https://policycortex.com/federal). ## What a comparison is not. **Stated limit.** A comparison is not an assessment. These pages do not certify anything and do not rate other vendors; they place two sets of statements side by side so a reviewer can ask each vendor the same question. Only the vendor can answer for the cells it leaves unstated. Ask us the same eight questions, in your own tenant. [Request Access](https://app.policycortex.com/auth?mode=request-access) ## Register colophon | Seq | Label | SHA3-256 | Prev | |---|---|---|---| | REC 0000 | THE INDEX | 2bb86a759305 | b5dcabfa31f2 | | REC 0001 | THE EIGHT QUESTIONS | 14a83c31ec0d | 2bb86a759305 | | REC 0002 | METHOD | c721bce736ba | 14a83c31ec0d | | REC 0003 | STATED LIMIT | ca07f60e0657 | c721bce736ba | Head sha3:ca07f60e0657ac4f05e83f33629f08a4d61bb2dd9434ae8b6d77cd46960ba73b. Each digest is SHA3-256 over the previous digest, the register key, the record label, and the record copy; a second party can recompute it from this document.