When ConformOps is the better choice
You need a technical file with each requirement traced to evidence in your code, you want it this week rather than in December, or your product is not written in PHP.
When PatchClock is the better choice
You sell PHP software, you want the 24-hour reporting clock and the customer notice handled, and you want a public support period page and security.txt without building them. Three products cost €190 a year at the founding price, where per-product pricing adds up.
What it costs, worked out
The two price on different units: ConformOps per product, PatchClock per account. Using only the prices in the table above, for a year:
- One product. ConformOps: €99 for the one-off assessment, or €790 to keep it current for the year. PatchClock: €190 at the founding price.
- Three products. ConformOps: €297 for three assessments, or 3 × €790 = €2,370 to keep all three current. PatchClock: €190, the same as for one.
- Five products. ConformOps: €249 a month, €2,988 over the year. PatchClock: €390 a year on Studio after the launch.
The one-off assessment is the cheapest line on either side, and it is the right buy if what you need is a technical file once. The ongoing work under the CRA, though, is the reporting and the updates for every version you support, and that is where the per-product price multiplies.
Article 14 reporting, side by side
Article 14 applies from 11 September 2026: once you know a vulnerability in your product is being exploited, you have 24 hours for an early warning, 72 hours for a notification and 14 days after the fix for a final report. In PatchClock the three clocks start from the moment you record, the reports are drafted from what it already knows about the product, and the notice to your customers is drafted alongside. ConformOps offers clocks against a recorded awareness time in its Continuous plan; the one-off assessment does not include them. If reporting is the part that worries you, compare the plans that include it, not the entry price.
Where ConformOps goes further
Evidence. ConformOps traces each requirement to evidence in your code and exports it as CSV and a reviewer workbook, with a draft Annex V declaration. PatchClock keeps an evidence log per incident and drafts the Annex VII documentation, but it does not build a requirement-by-requirement register. If a notified body or a large customer will audit your technical file line by line, that difference matters more than price.
Using both
They overlap less than the table suggests. A vendor could build the technical file once with ConformOps and run incidents, the support period page and security.txt in PatchClock. Both read your repositories read-only, so neither needs write access to do its part.
Questions to ask before you choose either
- Does it read the lock files of the language your product is written in, or only the repository around them?
- Which of the Article 14 deadlines does the plan you are looking at cover: none, the clocks, or the drafted reports too?
- When you stop paying, what can you export: the evidence, the reports already sent, the SBOMs per version?
- How many products and people does the price cover, and what does the next one cost?
The table answers the first, second and fourth for both tools, as far as each site says. Neither site is covered here on the third, so ask before you commit years of evidence to one of them.
How this page was written
PatchClock is written by João Ribeiro, so read this as the view of one side. Every ConformOps fact on the page is from conformops.eu as of 3 November 2026; where its site does not mention something, the table says so rather than guessing. Prices on both sides can change, so check them before you buy. If something here is wrong or out of date, write to the address on the about page and it will be corrected.
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