Can I try GRC software for free before buying?

Step by step

1. Apply the framework you are being asked for. Start with the framework a customer or auditor wants and read the requirements the tool scores against. Your own gap list tells you more than a sample workspace can.
2. Load real data. Add a few of your real vendors, risks and policies, and see whether the tool fits the way your team already works.
3. Connect one integration. Connect a system you already use and check what evidence arrives without anyone uploading it. In Keel, integrations are part of the Pro plan, which is the plan the trial runs on.
4. Bring your auditor in. Invite your auditor on a read-only seat and ask whether they could work from it. In Keel that seat is free on every plan and never counts against your seat limit.
5. Check what happens when the trial ends. Ask whether you will be charged automatically, and whether your data stays if you decide not to buy.

Free plans, trials and demos

A free plan has no end date and limits how much you can put in it. A trial unlocks a paid plan for a fixed number of days. A demo is a guided tour, either on a call with a salesperson or in a sample workspace you click through. Vendors that sell through a sales team often start with the demo, so you see the product before you can try it with your own data.

How Keel’s free options work

The Free plan costs $0, needs no card and has no end date. NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and AI Governance Essentials 1.0 are free on it, and it holds 3 team seats, 5 vendors, and 100 MB of evidence storage. Every new workspace also starts on a 14-day Pro trial. When the trial ends nothing is charged and nothing is deleted: the workspace moves to Free with your controls, evidence, policies, risks and vendors where you left them. AI features need a paid plan, so the trial is the time to try them, and new workspaces get 500 AI credits to spend while it runs.

Looking around without an account

Keel also has a public, read-only demo workspace with a sample company already set up. It needs no signup, so you can see how controls, evidence and vendors fit together before you create a workspace of your own.

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