Best GRC Software in 2026

MetricStream is one of the longest-established enterprise GRC vendors, citing more than 25 years of risk expertise and more than 500 dedicated GRC specialists. It says its software has more than one million users across hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organisations in over 35 countries. Its customer base is concentrated in banking and financial services, insurance, energy, utilities, healthcare, life sciences, technology and telecommunications.

The product range is among the broadest in the category. Risk modules cover enterprise and operational risk; compliance modules cover policy, regulatory compliance, regulatory change, case and incident management and regulatory engagement; audit modules cover internal audit and SOX compliance; and separate product groups address cyber GRC, IT and cyber risk, vendor risk, third-party risk management, operational resilience and business continuity. A low-code AppStudio, analytics, APIs and a marketplace sit on the shared platform.

MetricStream's AI layer, branded AgentStream, anticipates emerging risks such as vendor concentration and control drift, recommends actions with confidence scores, and can execute approved actions within guardrails, with the highest-impact actions requiring human approval. It publishes solution packages for specific regulations such as DORA and the UK Corporate Governance Code. Pricing is not published.

Archer has been active in risk and compliance software for about 25 years and says more than 1,500 organisations run on its platform, including over half of the Fortune 500. It describes its product as unifying compliance, risk quantification and intelligence in a single platform for enterprise teams.

The catalogue includes enterprise and operational risk, risk quantification, operational resilience, a risk management information system (RMIS), regulatory and corporate compliance, policy and document governance, ESG management, IT and security risk management, AI governance, audit management and third-party governance. Its newer Archer Evolv line packages capabilities as Evolv Foundation, Evolv Compliance, Evolv AI Compliance, Evolv Risk and Evolv AI Operators. Archer also runs a Regulatory Change Center and an Archer Academy for self-paced certification.

Archer's breadth and configurability make it a common choice for financial services, utilities and energy, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. The trade-off is complexity: configuration usually requires trained administrators or partners. Archer's pricing page lists products and offers demos but publishes no prices.

IBM OpenPages is IBM's governance, risk and compliance platform, combining risk, compliance and audit management in a modular product in which customers deploy only the modules they need. It can run on any cloud or on premises, and Zurich Insurance Group deployed it as a SaaS platform for its Group Risk Management function.

OpenPages has nine modules: business continuity management, data privacy management, regulatory compliance management, third-party risk management, internal audit management, IT governance, model risk governance, operational risk management and policy management. Model risk governance, which tracks the validation and use of statistical and AI models, is a distinguishing module for banks and insurers.

Embedded AI classifies content and creates issues automatically, and customers can connect IBM watsonx.ai or other AI models through an API-based architecture. An OpenPages MCP server allows AI agents to create, query and update GRC objects. IBM names Citi, Zurich Insurance Group, Navigator Gas and CNP Vita Assicura among its customers, and uses OpenPages in its own Office of Privacy and Responsible Technology. Prices are on a separate pricing page and were not reproduced here.

Diligent has served corporate boards for nearly 30 years and describes its Diligent One Platform as the leading AI platform for GRC. The company reports more than 25,000 customers and 700,000 directors, and says 75% of the Fortune 500 use its products.

Diligent's distinguishing strength is board governance: Diligent Boards, BoardEffect, entity management, community and market intelligence tools sit alongside GRC modules. Risk products include enterprise risk management, IT compliance, IT and cyber risk management, third-party risk management and AI risk essentials. Compliance products cover policy management, due diligence, speak-up and whistleblowing, compliance training, conflict-of-interest management and surveys, and the audit range includes internal audit, internal controls and ACL Analytics for data-driven audit testing.

Diligent says it was named a Leader by Gartner for GRC tools for assurance leaders in 2025. The combination lets organisations report risk and compliance status directly into board materials. Pricing is described as flexible and given on request.

Optro is the new name of AuditBoard, adopted on 9 March 2026 and announced at the Institute of Internal Auditors' Great Audit Minds conference in Las Vegas. The company began with SOX compliance and internal audit software and has expanded into a broader GRC platform; its chief executive is Raul Villar Jr.. It says it is trusted by more than half of the Fortune 500.

Products include Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit for internal audit, BCM for business continuity, CrossComply for IT compliance, RiskOversight for enterprise risk, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply, third-party risk management and Agentic Compliance. Analytics, Optro AI, integrations and APIs, a frameworks and controls library and reporting dashboards sit on the shared platform.

Alongside the rebrand, Optro announced it was acquiring FairNow, an AI governance product, to add step-by-step AI compliance guidance. The company says it was a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for GRC Tools and has appeared on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for seven consecutive years. Prices are not published.

OneTrust was founded by Kabir Barday and says it developed the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. It is headquartered in Atlanta, reports about 2,000 employees and says it is trusted by over half of the Fortune 500. Insight Partners and Coatue are represented on its board.

OneTrust's origins in privacy management make it distinct among GRC vendors: its solutions are organised as AI governance, consent and preferences, data use governance, privacy automation, tech risk and compliance, and third-party management, with packages for GDPR, US privacy laws and the EU AI Act. The company presents AI as the latest expansion of data use. It markets the whole as an AI-ready governance platform.

For organisations whose main GRC drivers are GDPR and other privacy laws, third-party risk and AI regulation, OneTrust covers more ground than audit-centric tools. For financial-services operational risk or SOX testing, buyers often pair it with or choose a specialist such as MetricStream or Optro. Pricing is not published on the company page.

Workiva was founded as WebFilings in 2008 and released its first cloud product in 2010; it is based in Ames, Iowa. It reports more than 2,900 employees, 15 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, more than 6,800 customers, use in over 180 countries and 85% of the Fortune 1000 as customers, with a gross retention rate of 97% in the third quarter of 2026.

Workiva is best known for SEC, ESEF and XBRL financial reporting, and its GRC offering builds on that position. Audit and controls functions cover controls management, SOX compliance, audit planning, testing, evidence collection, issue tracking and remediation; other solutions cover enterprise risk management, internal audit management, internal controls management, IT compliance and policy management.

Because the same platform produces annual reports, sustainability disclosures and board reports, controls and evidence can be linked directly to the figures that are published, which the company calls assured integrated reporting. Workiva suits finance-led GRC programmes more than security-led ones. Pricing is not published on its site.

LogicGate, based in Chicago, sells Risk Cloud, a no-code GRC platform built on a flexible graph database. Customers assemble solutions from applications for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, cyber risk management, controls compliance and AI governance. Risk Cloud Quantify adds financial quantification of cyber risk.

LogicGate's pricing model is unusual in being described publicly: each component of a Risk Cloud solution, whether an application, integration or service, is priced individually, so customers pay for what they deploy, and users are split into Power Users who build applications and manage permissions and other user types. Exact prices are given on request.

The company has added AI features including automated control testing and GRC agents, and markets Config Newton as an agentic GRC engineer that builds and configures workflows. The no-code approach suits teams that want to model their own processes without vendor professional services, though complex programmes still benefit from LogicGate's implementation services.

NAVEX, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, says it serves more than 13,000 customers and supports 88 million people worldwide. A consortium led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, including Blackstone, completed the acquisition of a majority stake in the company, and Arpan Sheth was appointed chief executive.

NAVEX is strongest in ethics and compliance programmes. Its EthicsPoint whistleblowing and incident management products, available in Professional and Essentials versions, and WhistleB are widely used reporting hotlines; PolicyTech manages policies and codes of conduct; and it sells online compliance training and conflict-of-interest disclosure management. On the risk side, NAVEX One includes integrated risk management, RiskRate screening and monitoring, third-party risk management and regulatory change management, with the Nira AI assistant across the platform.

For organisations whose GRC programme is driven by ethics, whistleblowing directives and employee compliance training, NAVEX covers more of that ground than risk-centric platforms. It publishes an annual benchmark report on hotline data, which in 2026 drew on 2.37 million reports from more than 4,000 organisations.

Hyperproof is a GRC platform based in Seattle whose founder previously founded the integration company Azuqua and led development of Microsoft Dynamics and Access at Microsoft. It focuses on running compliance as a continuous operation rather than an annual audit exercise.

The platform maps controls across frameworks so that a common control set serves many standards; Hyperproof says it offers more than 160 pre-built frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CMMC, DORA, NIS2, FedRAMP, GDPR and HITRUST, plus custom frameworks. More than 200 integrations, branded Hypersyncs, collect evidence automatically from systems such as AWS, Azure, Okta, GitHub, Jira, Datadog and CrowdStrike.

Modules cover compliance, risk, audit, trust centre and questionnaire automation, third-party risk and policy governance. Hyperproof Gov runs in a FedRAMP environment for public-sector work. Named customers include Reddit, Nutanix, Fortinet and Appian. Pricing is not published.

Vanta was founded in 2018 and is remote-first, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Dublin and London. Its investors include Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. It popularised automated compliance for start-ups seeking SOC 2 reports and has since moved toward mid-market and enterprise GRC.

Vanta connects to cloud, identity, HR and developer systems to collect evidence automatically and monitor controls continuously. Supported frameworks include SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and custom frameworks, with further frameworks such as CMMC, DORA, NIS2, FedRAMP and the EU AI Act listed on its site.

Plans are tiered. Essentials covers one framework with an agentic policy generator, the Vanta AI Agent, automated evidence collection, basic reporting, an auditor API and a Trust Center. Plus adds automated policy onboarding, AI questionnaire automation for 25 questionnaires a year and access management. Professional raises questionnaires to 144 a year and adds customisable risk management, an advanced Trust Center, custom monitoring tests and automated access reviews. Pricing is personalised after a demo.

Drata is a compliance automation company that says it is trusted by more than 8,500 customers, naming GitLab, Tenable, Brex, Fortinet, T-Mobile, Nationwide, Wiz, OpenAI and Lemonade. Like Vanta, it collects evidence from connected systems and monitors controls continuously, and it has broadened into trust-centre and third-party risk products.

Its Compliance product has three tiers. Foundation is scoped to companies with up to 50 full-time employees and one pre-mapped framework from SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, HIPAA or GDPR; Advanced and Enterprise can use any available framework, including FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF and DORA. Assurance, the Trust Center product associated with SafeBase, is tiered by approved domains and questionnaire limits.

Add-ons include extra frameworks, user access reviews, Risk Management Pro, workspaces, custom frameworks and agentic third-party risk assessments. Drata provides an open API and an MCP server for AI tools. All tiers are sold through demos without published prices.