An Accountable HQ alternative for business associates and MSPs
Accountable is the closest thing to a direct competitor we have: self-serve HIPAA compliance software at a similar price, with the same module set. If you are comparing the two, the differences worth knowing are the entry price, whether you manage compliance for other organizations, and whether your evidence is checked or simply asserted.
Stay with Accountable HQ if…
- You are already set up, your staff are trained and your policies are signed. Migrating a working programme mid-cycle costs more than it saves.
- You want an AI assistant to draft policies and walk you through the assessment — that is their headline feature and it is a reasonable thing to want.
- You need a single organization only and have no interest in managing client organizations or in automated configuration checks.
Switch to us if…
- You manage compliance for several client organizations. Our MSP console is priced per client from $49/month and gives you one grid across all of them.
- You want controls verified rather than self-attested — read-only Microsoft 365 checks that confirm MFA registration, dormant accounts, external mail forwarding and admin sprawl, then file the dated result as evidence. Google Workspace support is built and awaiting Google's verification review.
- You want a lower entry point. We start at $79/month for a single organization.
- Your deals stall on security questionnaires and you want a live trust page plus a reusable answer library rather than rebuilding a PDF each time.
| CompyMax | Accountable HQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $79/month per organization | Published from $169/month billed annually |
| How you buy | Self-serve, no sales call | Self-serve, with a free trial |
| Multi-client console | Yes, priced per client organization | Not a published per-client console product |
| Automated configuration checks | Microsoft 365 read-only today; Google Workspace in Google's verification queue | Security add-ons appear on their higher tier |
| Public vendor research | Free checker, primary-sourced and dated, no paid placement | Publishes compliance content and guidance |
| Core modules | Assessment, tasks, policies, training, BAA register, incidents, export | Comparable module set |
Being straight with you
If you are a single organization, already onboarded with Accountable and happy, switching probably is not worth the disruption — and we would rather you stayed than churned in three months. The cases where we are clearly the better answer are managing multiple client organizations, wanting configuration checked rather than asserted, and needing a shareable trust page for enterprise security reviews.
Try it before you decide.
14 days free, no credit card, no sales call, and nothing auto-renews — each payment buys a fixed period, so there is no cancellation to chase. Run your assessment and export an evidence pack before you commit to anything.
Start free trialCommon questions
- What's the best HIPAA compliance tool?
- It depends on who you are. Accountable HQ is a genuinely good product with over a decade in this market, and if you are a single organization already onboarded and happy there, staying is a defensible answer. The cases where we are the better tool are managing multiple client organizations on per-client pricing, wanting configuration verified rather than self-attested, and needing a shareable trust page for enterprise reviews — at a lower entry price. No tool of any kind makes you compliant.
Comparisons reflect information Accountable HQ publishes about its own product at the time of writing, plus our own assessment. Accountable HQ is named for identification only and has no affiliation with us. Verify current capabilities and pricing with them before deciding — vendors change both without notice.