How it compares
| By hand | Enterprise platforms | Tickbox | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it’s built for | Anyone, but it’s all on you | Companies with a security or compliance team | Small UK suppliers with no security team |
| Price | Free, but costs you hours or days | Typically thousands of pounds a year | £7 for one questionnaire, or £18/mo |
| Getting started | Stare at a blank spreadsheet | Sales calls, demos, onboarding, a contract | Sign up and upload, first answers free |
| What you actually get | A document you fill in yourself | A whole compliance programme to run | Drafted answers to review, edit, and send |
| Time to first answers | Hours to days | Weeks to onboard | Minutes |
| Commitment | None | Usually an annual contract | None, cancel anytime |
You don’t need a compliance platform to answer a questionnaire
The big compliance platforms are genuinely good, but they’re built to help larger organisations build and monitor an entire security programme, with a team to run it and a budget to match. That’s overkill if what you actually need is to answer the questionnaire a customer just sent you.
Tickbox does that one job well: it reads the questionnaire and drafts every answer for you to review and send. No programme to run, no team required.
Priced for a small business, not an enterprise
You can unlock a single questionnaire for £7, or subscribe for £18 a month if you get them regularly. No sales call, no annual contract, no per-seat pricing. If you only get one questionnaire a year, you only pay for one.
Honest by design
Tickbox never claims you’re certified and never sends anything on your behalf. Every answer is a draft you review, edit, and approve, grounded in UK GDPR, Cyber Essentials, and your own policies. You stay in control and in the loop.
It gets faster every time
Answers you approve are saved to your private library and reused to draft future questionnaires, so the second one is quicker than the first. Upload your own policies and answers quote your real, documented controls.
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Draft your answers free →Just need the questionnaire answered?
Drop it in and Tickbox drafts every answer for you to review. Your first few are free.
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