Compare · Complipath vs Aligne · Last checked 8 November 2026
Each Aligne cell is a sentence from their own site, in their words and not ours, with the page it stood on; each Complipath cell is our own page or our status table. Complipath (complipath.io) is EU AI Act compliance software that classifies each AI system with the article behind the answer.
Software that does the work for you: we answer your customers' AI questionnaires, audit your AI vendors and set up your Trust Center. A person checks every answer. You keep the system.
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“Vendor AI risk managed through your current third-party risk and procurement processes, not a separate track.” In their words and not ours.[64]
“You do not need to replace your GRC system.” In their words and not ours.[65]
“Plus IBM Gold Business Partner, with teams across the UK, UAE and India.” In their words and not ours.[66]
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Counts = requirements met in full. Partly counts as half. “Not stated” counts as zero and is never guessed. Aligne: 13 of 50 stated on the 14 pages we read. Complipath: 50 of 50 answered by our own pages.
Live. Every AI system you build or use, with its owner and risk class. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Every AI system you build or use, with its owner and risk class. The status table: what Complipath is.
“No. We cover AI you build, AI you buy from vendors, and AI features embedded in tools your people already use.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
Live. A person behind every system and every duty. The status table: what Complipath is.
Yes. Read-only connections to GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Datadog and the Claude or OpenAI API find AI in your code, services and logs and suggest it for the register, where a person adds it; an app list exported from Google Admin or Microsoft Entra can be uploaded, and the free readiness review suggests systems from your public web pages. The GitHub App that updates on every push is built and not yet switched on. Source.
“Discover every model, agent and use case, including shadow AI, and risk-tier each against the EU AI Act and your policy.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
With limits. Groups your systems by vendor and shows which papers you hold from each, which are missing and which have expired; for the AI vendors it knows it links the public terms and, where known, the data processing agreement; it quotes a sentence on personal data or training where one was found, with its link and the day read; each quoted page is read again once a month, and a sentence no longer on its page stops showing. The limit, in the app's own words: "Public terms are quoted for known vendors only, read again monthly; any other vendor is marked Unverified". The status table: what Complipath is.
“Assess the AI in the products and services you buy, so vendor and embedded AI is inventoried, risk-rated and held to your standards.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. A consulting service ("Our AI governance services").
Live. Answers go through rules in code, never a language model, so the same answers always give the same result. Rules decide. AI only drafts. A person confirms. The status table: what Complipath is.
“Every use case is tiered against the EU AI Act and your own policy, so effort goes where the risk is.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. Done by the Altrum assessment agent.
Partly. Article 5(1), points (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) are decided. Points (a), (b) and (c) turn on judgement and are flagged for legal review instead of being decided. Source.
Yes. A use case that appears in Annex III is high-risk under Article 6(2) unless the Article 6(3) exemption applies. Source.
Yes. If the use case appears in Annex III, Article 6(2) classifies it high-risk unless the Article 6(3) exemption applies, and profiling of natural persons blocks the exemption entirely. Source.
Partly. Which obligations follow from the role you stated is decided. Whether you are the provider or the deployer is asked, never inferred. Source.
With limits. Confirming a classification creates the requirements that follow from it, each with a status, a place for evidence and an owner you fill in: for high risk, the set for the system's role (provider, deployer or both, from its recorded type or confirmed role), and a row for each Article 50 transparency duty. The rows are made at a system's first confirmation; when a later high-risk classification, a role change or a newer catalogue leaves high-risk rows missing, Review proposes them and a person adds them. The limit, in the app's own words: "Rows appear once a person confirms the classification, and a person marks each one done, never the app". The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Each reason behind a verdict names the provision it rests on, so a reader can check it herself. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Each obligation carries the date it applies from, derived from where the provision sits rather than written onto the row. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Records the measures you take to support AI literacy under Article 4 as amended: who was briefed on what, and when. It applies whatever your risk level. The status table: what Complipath is.
Yes. Article 50 makes some systems tell people they are dealing with AI, and a system can carry that duty and be high-risk at the same time. Source.
Live. Checks the provisions your confirmed records cite against amending acts, and emails everyone in the workspace once per act, naming each system it touches. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. For a provider of a high-risk system: drafts of the EU declaration of conformity (Article 47, Annex V), the EU database registration (Article 49, Annex VIII), the post-market monitoring plan (Article 72), risk management (Article 9) from the risk register and the quality management system (Article 17), each point quoted from the law; a person completes and signs them The status table: what Complipath is.
With limits. Logs what went wrong with an AI system and shows the date a serious incident must be reported by, from Article 73 (the shortest date that could apply while answers are Not sure), who is told under Article 73(1), Article 75(1a) and Article 26(5), and a GDPR 72-hour line where personal data is involved; a person decides whether it is serious, the owner is reminded; each incident also shows an internal first report within 24 hours and a cause report within two weeks, which are not dates from the Regulation. The limit, in the app's own words: "Shows the reporting deadline and who must be told; it never reports to an authority for you". The status table: what Complipath is.
Partly. Complipath does not test models or score their outputs. On Growth, Live checks your code and logs every hour and after each push and names what breaks the AI Act or GDPR, such as personal data sent to a model or a chatbot with no AI notice; a connected Datadog account shows how often each AI service was called and its error rate, and the Claude or OpenAI API shows the models used in the last 30 days. Source.
Yes. Each obligation has an owner, a status and a date it applies from; the step-by-step plan breaks your next steps into small steps with an owner where one is recorded, Review lists everything that waits for a person, a short email each Monday sums up your register, and when an amending act touches a provision your records cite, you get an email per affected system. Source.
Live. A workspace for the technical documentation, section by section, saying which Annex IV points each one answers. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Drafts a documentation section from the facts in your register, and says which limbs it could not answer. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Two features. 'DPIA and FRIA: whether they apply' says for each confirmed system whether a fundamental rights impact assessment is required, likely or not, quoting Article 27(1). 'DPIA and FRIA documents', in the app's words, drafts the FRIA (Article 27(1)) from your register by rules, built on the DPIA, a source on every sentence, for a named person to confirm with a date: included in Growth. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. For a provider of a high-risk system: drafts of the EU declaration of conformity (Article 47, Annex V), the EU database registration (Article 49, Annex VIII), the post-market monitoring plan (Article 72), risk management (Article 9) from the risk register and the quality management system (Article 17), each point quoted from the law; a person completes and signs them The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. The whole register as a spreadsheet, as JSON or as a PDF, with the exact law texts it was assessed against. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Upload a file once. We read it and use it everywhere it helps: proof for requirements, text for the documentation, and a flag when it disagrees with an earlier answer. The status table: what Complipath is.
Live. Shows who did what in the workspace, and when, as a list you can read and export. The status table: what Complipath is.
“Assessments, guardrail versions and request logs give you a record for board, audit and regulatory review.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
Yes. Confirming a classification stamps it with the person who confirmed it and when; a documentation section is marked reviewed by a named person on a date. Source.
“Gate deployment on documented assessment and sign-off.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
Yes. Each assessment records which version of the legal text it was made against, and which provisions have been amended since. Source.
Live. One file with every classification, citation and confirmation — the one you hand to someone outside your company. The status table: what Complipath is.
“Evidence for auditors and your board: posture, guardrail activity and cost”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
Partly. A read-only connector (MCP) lets Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant that speaks MCP read the register, once an admin signs in to allow it or with a token your workspace creates; either can be revoked. There is no API for writing to it. Source.
Partly. Read-only connections to GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Datadog, any log system and the Claude or OpenAI API find AI in your code and read AI use from your logs and AI accounts, on Starter and up; there is no connection to ML platforms. Source.
Partly. Claude and ChatGPT can read your register once an admin allows it, and an app list exported from Google Admin or Microsoft Entra can be uploaded. Source.
“Altrum puts AI risks, controls and issues straight into IBM OpenPages, ServiceNow or Archer, so they reach the people and reports that already run risk.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. GRC tools, not general work tools.
Partly. You can sign in with your Google account, and the owner can require a two-step sign-in for everyone; SAML single sign-on is not in the app's list. Source.
Yes. Upload the AI inventory template or your own sheet as an Excel (.xlsx) or CSV file of up to 200 rows, check every row in a preview and send what you import to Review. Risk levels in the file are not imported: the rules classify each system.
Yes. Your workspace is stored in Frankfurt: the database in Supabase's eu-central-1 region and the app's functions in Vercel's fra1 region, read on 8 October 2026. Source.
Yes, at our database provider: Supabase's own security page says “All customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit via TLS.” We read it there on 28 October 2026. Source.
No. Complipath is not SOC 2 certified and not ISO 27001 certified. Source.
“Certified to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. The company's certifications; the security page says "ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certified (Aligne Technologies Ltd)".
Live. A code from your phone after the email link. The owner can require it for everyone. The status table: what Complipath is.
No. Complipath runs only as the hosted service.
Starter is €499 a month or €4,990 a year. Prices exclude VAT. Pricing.
Yes. The Free plan covers one AI system and one user, with no end date. The check needs no account. Source.
No card. The trial lasts 30 days and gives you Starter, with up to 20 AI systems. After 30 days the workspace is on the free plan, which has one AI system: nothing is deleted and your export keeps working; systems above the free plan's one are paused until you buy a plan or archive others. Pricing.
Starter includes 20 AI systems. Archived systems don’t count toward your limit. Pricing.
Yes. The Free plan covers one AI system and one user, with no end date. You pay for your AI portfolio, not your number of employees. Source.
“Organisations: mid-market companies (100 to 1,000 employees), in financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology and other regulated sectors, adopting AI or under pressure to comply with emerging AI regulations”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. The AI Governance Starter Kit; the enterprise framework page says "Large mid-market and enterprise organisations (1,000+ employees) requiring enterprise-wide AI governance transformation".
Yes. The check needs no account, and the trial needs no card. Source.
Yes. Your risk classes in about 30 seconds, with no account and no card: in five timed runs of the free check on 30 October 2026 the median until every suggested system had its class was 15.7 seconds. The AI Act Answer Sprint returns the AI Act section within 48 working hours. Source.
Not required. The check needs no account, and a walkthrough can be booked if you want one. Source.
“Book a discovery call and we will walk through the register, the assessment agent and the AI Gateway.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai. /pricing redirects to the discovery-call booking page.
Book 20 minutes and we set up your first AI systems with you. Pricing.
“Expert-led workshops and training for lasting adoption.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
Live. Under Frameworks, beside the EU AI Act: the GDPR duties each AI system brings, quoted from the regulation, with what Complipath prepares and what stays yours, and how far your AI management is from ISO/IEC 42001, with a draft statement of applicability; readiness only, never a certificate The status table: what Complipath is.
“Mapped to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, OWASP and regional rules across the UK, UAE and KSA.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 8 November 2026 from aligne.ai.
“Vendor AI risk managed through your current third-party risk and procurement processes, not a separate track.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 9 October 2026 from aligne.ai.
“You do not need to replace your GRC system.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 9 October 2026 from aligne.ai.
“Plus IBM Gold Business Partner, with teams across the UK, UAE and India.”Aligne, in their words and not ours. It was read on 9 October 2026 from aligne.ai.
The 14 pages of Aligne's site we read, on 8 November 2026:
It is written by Complipath, so read it as ours. What keeps it checkable is the rule on both sides: each Aligne cell is their own sentence with the page it stood on, and each Complipath cell is what our own pages say. Where a side's pages say nothing, the cell says so.
That none of the 14 pages of Aligne's site we read on 8 November 2026 said it. It is a statement about those pages, listed below, not about the product: ask Aligne before you rule anything out.
Start from the rows you need. Where Aligne's own site states a requirement that Complipath's pages answer no or not yet, Aligne is the closer fit on that row, by what each side says publicly. If you want each classification with its article and the version of the law it used, at a public price, start with Complipath's free check.