Comparison

What FedRAMP 20x actually costs, in public numbers

Most vendors in this market publish no prices at all, so this page compares only the ones that do. Every figure below is public and linked to its source, so you can check the math yourself.

Vendor What you get Published price What you still need
Enablement® (this site) Platform deployed inside your boundary: network, container, cloud-posture, and host scanning included; evidence for all 46 KSIs; full 20x document set; Marketplace listing; assessor liaison Class C migration $48,000 one-time · continuous monitoring $2,500/month Your 20x assessment. We refer you, free, to assessors who price against the reduced verification workload
Paramify Certification package and ConMon deliverables (SDR, VER, VDR, OCR, Trust Center) 20x Class B $5,000 to $6,500 a year · Class C $55,000 to $70,000 a year · Class D $95,000 to $140,000 a year A scanning stack, licensed and operated separately. Tenable Nessus Professional alone lists at $4,790 a year, before container, cloud-posture, and host coverage, and before the staff time to run any of it
Project Hosts FedRAMP managed-environment hosting; publishes the market's cost ranges: consulting and pre-assessment $30,000 to $250,000, 3PAO assessment $50,000 to $350,000 Market ranges (their own published figures) Your application runs in their hosted environment
The traditional consulting route Advisory-led FedRAMP: consultants, hand-written documentation, tooling assembled per engagement $250,000 to $3,000,000 and up depending on impact level (Low $250K to $500K initial; Moderate $500K to $1.5M), plus $100K to $200K a year in maintenance. The figures are Paramify's own Everything above is the price of getting there, not of staying there

Competitor figures are from each vendor's public website as of 2026-08-11 and belong to them; follow the links for current numbers. Vendors that publish no pricing are not listed. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No vendor listed here endorses or is affiliated with Advent Business Company.

The pattern: the established routes charge yearly for documents, or six figures for the journey, and leave the security stack to you either way. Enablement is the security stack and the package, priced mostly one-time, running inside your boundary. Our numbers are published.

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