Drata is a compliance platform. After acquiring SafeBase, Drata moved its questionnaire work into SafeBase’s AI Questionnaire Assistance (AIQA), which sits next to the SafeBase Trust Center. Evident is built for the response itself: the questionnaire, RFI or RFP a buyer sends, in whatever file or portal it arrives in, answered from your own evidence and sent back the way the buyer asked for it.
This page compares the two on questionnaire work only. Drata’s and SafeBase’s features below come from their own update notes and help center, as of October 2026.
What does Drata offer for security questionnaires?
SafeBase’s AI Questionnaire Assistance drafts answers from your SafeBase knowledge and Drata policies, and your team reviews them before export.
Drata retired its own Security Questionnaire Automation beta on April 30, 2026 in favor of AIQA. Per SafeBase’s AIQA guide:
- It takes spreadsheets (CSV, XLSX, XLS, XLSM) and documents (DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT).
- It answers from SafeBase documents, the knowledge base, Trust Center content, public web pages you list, and policies and controls synced from Drata, and shows the sources behind each answer.
- Questions can be assigned to people or groups with a due date, then approved.
- Spreadsheet answers are written back into the original columns. Answers to document questionnaires and portal questionnaires export as a CSV.
- Third-party portals use the SafeBase Chrome extension, which can place answers back into the portal.
- AIQA is included in some SafeBase plans or paid for with credits.
How is Evident different?
Evident is the response workflow from intake to send-back, and it fills vendor portals itself instead of through an extension in your browser.
- Every answer shows its source. If your documents don’t cover a question, Evident leaves it for your team and says what is missing, instead of writing a plausible guess.
- Your file comes back intact. Answers land in the buyer’s Excel file with dropdowns, validation, formulas and formatting kept, and Word questionnaires are written back into the document itself.
- Portals, end to end. Evident opens the portal in its own browser, reads every question, including ones inside frames and pop-up dialogs, and fills text, choices, custom dropdowns, dates and file attachments. It can sign in with credentials from your 1Password vault.
- RFIs and RFPs. Mark an upload as an RFI or RFP and Evident answers company and product questions from your approved content.
- Experts answer where they work. Legal, finance and engineering answer their assigned questions in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and approve from the link in a reminder, without logging in.
- It gets better as you correct it. A fact you fix is saved and reused on later questionnaires, and when two sources disagree, Evident shows both sides and lets you pick one.
“Not stated” means Drata’s and SafeBase’s public pages don’t describe it as of October 2026, not that it can’t be done.
Can I use Evident with Drata?
Yes. Many teams keep Drata for compliance and use Evident to answer what buyers send, with Drata policies synced in as a source.
Evident connects to Drata with an API key, syncs the policies you choose into your Knowledge Base and keeps them current, so answers cite the policy as Drata holds it. When one of your customers sends you a questionnaire through Drata’s Vendor Hub, Evident can open that portal and fill it like any other.
Weighing other platforms too? See Evident vs Vanta, or read how security questionnaire automation works from start to finish.