Published prices for a VPAT run from $350 for the document alone, added to a separately priced audit, to $12,500 for the largest published tier, read from five providers’ own pages on and re-checked on . Most of that spread is what the fee counts: whether the audit is included, how many pages or templates are in scope, and which edition of the report you need. Harbor does not publish a figure. The fee follows your unique template count and is fixed in writing after a 15-minute call.
Key Takeaway
A VPAT is the blank template. What you are buying is the completed ACR, and it is only as credible as the audit behind it. Ask every provider the same two questions: is the audit included in this price, and what counts as a page.
What You Are Paying For
A VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is a free template published by ITI. Filled in, it becomes an ACR (Accessibility Conformance Report): one row per WCAG success criterion, each marked Supports, Partially Supports, Does Not Support or Not Applicable, with remarks. Procurement asks for the completed report, and uses the two words interchangeably. The template comes in four editions: WCAG, Section 508, EU (EN 301 549), and INT, which covers all three in one document.
The price of a VPAT is therefore the price of two things, and providers split them differently. One is the evaluation: someone operating your product with a keyboard, a screen reader and zoom and deciding each of the 55 Level A and AA criteria. The other is the document that records it. Some providers quote one number for both. Several quote the audit and then the document as a separate line, by edition.
Published VPAT and Audit Prices
Each figure below was read from the provider’s own page on and re-checked on . They are list prices rather than quotes, and they are not like for like: some are per page, some are tiers, and some are the document only.
| Provider | Published Price | What the Fee Counts | Document in the Fee? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessible.orgaccessible.org/pricing | Audit $1,250 to $2,750 typical, at $100 to $250 per primary page. VPAT added at $350 (WCAG), $550 (Section 508), $650 (EN 301 549) or $950 (INT). | Per primary page, on a representative sample rather than every template. | Sold separately, by edition. |
| Skynet Technologiesskynettechnologies.com | $500 to $12,500 by tier, shown as discounted from a $1,000 to $25,000 list. | Pages and templates both capped per tier: 5 pages and 2 templates at the bottom, 100 pages and 40 templates at the top. | Included in the VPAT tiers. Re-audit after fixes is a separate service. |
| DigitalA11Ydigitala11y.com/pricing | Audit $100 to $350 per page. VPAT $1,000 to $3,000, by edition from $1,000 (WCAG) to $2,500 (International). | Per page. The page does not say how a store’s repeated product pages are counted. | Sold separately. Validation after fixes at 50% of the audit fee. |
| TestProstestpros.com/services/accessibility/vpat | $3,000 to $10,000 “depending on the scope of the work.” | A range with no scope breakdown published. | Included. |
| Web Audit Solutionswebauditsolutions.com/pages/vpat-services | VPAT from $500 (Section 508), $1,500 (WCAG) or $3,000 (INT) under 10 pages, rising to $7,000. Audits priced separately from $500. | By page count: under 10, under 20, then over 20 pages. | Sold separately from the audit. |
Figures come only from each provider’s own pages, never from a review site or a pricing aggregator, and are re-checked quarterly. Prices may have moved since . Follow the source link in any row to check it yourself, and if something here is inaccurate, tell us and we will correct it.
What Moves the Number
- Whether the audit is in the fee. The largest single difference. Three of the five providers above price the document on top of the evaluation, so a $350 VPAT is a $350 document attached to an audit that costs several times that.
- What counts as a page. A store with 300 products, 20 categories, and a home, cart, checkout and account page is 324 pages or 6 layouts depending on who is counting. Per-page providers charge for the first number, per-template providers for the second, and tiered providers for whichever cap you hit first. The guide to what an accessibility audit costs runs that store through all three.
- The edition. Providers who price by edition charge most for INT, which reports WCAG, Section 508 and EN 301 549 in one document. If a European buyer might ask later, the edition you buy now decides whether you pay again.
- Re-tests and re-issues. Some fees include a round of verification after your fixes and a re-issued report; one provider prices validation at half the original audit fee. Two lines to settle before the invoice.
- How much of the testing is manual. An automated tool can decide about six of the 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria on its own. A fee that covers the other 49 by hand is buying a different product from a scan with a template attached.
- Who signs it. A named evaluator with a checkable credential reads differently to a reviewer than an unnamed team.
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WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria an automated tool can decide on its own
Prices You Will Not Find Published
Two parts of the market sit outside the table. Large consultancies sell accessibility as an annual contract and quote it rather than publish it. At the other end, self-service scanning tools generate a document from a crawl for a few hundred dollars or less; what they produce is a report of what a machine detected, and a reviewer who asks about test methodology will read it that way. Both are legitimate products. They are not the same product as an evaluated ACR, so their prices do not compare to it.
How Harbor Prices It
Harbor does not publish a fee, which is why it is absent from the table above. One flat fee covers the manual audit of every unique template against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria, the signed ACR in the INT edition, visual fix guides with annotated screenshots, and follow-up reviews with a re-issued ACR after each (up to 2 on Focused, up to 3 on Standard and Professional, up to 5 on Enterprise). The fee follows the unique template count, with no page cap, and it is fixed in writing before you commit. Fifteen minutes on a call is enough to establish it, and the written scope and fixed fee usually follow within a few business days. The evaluator is named, Andrew Szigety, DHS Trusted Tester TT‑2606‑09221, and the full sample ACR is published so you can read the deliverable before you spend anything.
If you are not ready for a conformance report, a Quick Check covers up to five pages and returns a plain-language findings report. It is not a signed ACR, and it will not answer a procurement request, which is why it is the cheaper product.
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Common Questions
- How much does a VPAT cost in 2026?
- Published prices run from $350 for the document added to a separately priced audit (Accessible.org, WCAG edition) to $12,500 for the largest tier that includes it (Skynet Technologies, 100 pages and 40 templates), as read from each provider’s own page on August 4, 2026 and re-checked on September 6, 2026. With the audit included, published prices for a small product run from $1,250 (Skynet Technologies, 10 pages and 4 templates) through $2,000 to $5,000 (DigitalA11Y’s VPAT service) to $3,000 to $10,000 (TestPros).
- Is the VPAT included in the audit price?
- Often not. Three of the five providers with published prices sell the conformance document as a separate line item on top of the audit. Ask before comparing two quotes: a bundled price next to an unbundled one looks expensive for a reason that has nothing to do with the work.
- Can I write my own VPAT for free?
- Yes. The template is free from ITI and no rule requires a third party. Procurement reviewers increasingly ask who performed the evaluation and how it was tested, and a self-assessment reading all Supports with empty remarks is the kind that gets pushed back on. Of 107 SaaS vendors Harbor checked, 30 published a report a buyer could read without asking for it (the finding is published in full at harboraccessibility.com/research/acr-availability).
- What is the price difference between a WCAG, Section 508 and INT edition VPAT?
- At providers who price by edition, INT costs the most because it reports against WCAG, Section 508 and EN 301 549 in one document. Accessible.org lists $350 (WCAG), $550 (Section 508), $650 (EN 301 549) and $950 (INT) added to the audit; DigitalA11Y from $1,000 (WCAG) to $2,500 (International); Web Audit Solutions from $500 (Section 508) to $3,000 (INT) for a product under 10 pages. Harbor engagements include the INT edition with no edition surcharge.
- How much does a Section 508 VPAT cost?
- Providers who price by edition list the Section 508 edition between the WCAG and INT editions: Accessible.org at $550 added to the audit, DigitalA11Y from $1,500, and Web Audit Solutions from $500 for a product under 10 pages. Harbor delivers the INT edition, which includes the Section 508 report, with no edition surcharge; the fee follows the unique template count and is fixed in writing after a 15-minute call.