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Burp Suite

The industry standard web application security testing platform

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★4.7rating103 viewsPricing · Freemium from $449/moStable
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Low
Band
Saturation
Contested
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Stable
Market trend
Rating
4.7
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Burp Suite does

Burp Suite is PortSwigger's web application security testing platform, covering manual testing, automated scanning and scanning inside CI pipelines. It serves penetration testers, AppSec teams, DevOps engineers and people learning web security. Editions include Burp Suite Professional, a penetration testing toolkit, Burp Suite DAST, an enterprise dynamic vulnerability scanner, Burp AT, which adds agentic AI to human led testing, and Community Edition with free manual tools. Professional combines attack surface mapping, Burp Scanner, Proxy intercept, Intruder, authenticated API scanning, automatic logging for reports and the Burp AI assistant, and it can be extended through the BApp store, Bambdas and BChecks. Burp Suite Professional is listed at $499 with a free trial.

How Burp Suite compares with its closest alternatives

All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Burp Suite does. All 5 offer an API, as Burp Suite does. Burp Suite offers a desktop app. Of the alternatives, 3 offer a desktop app. Burp Suite was founded in 2003; the alternatives were founded between 2010 and 2022. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in Belgium, Israel and the United States.

Market position · Security

How Burp Suite compares in Security

Burp Suite has low opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 361 live Security tools on FalcoScan. Across Security, the average opportunity score is 70.4 and the average saturation score 33. FalcoScan rates Burp Suite's own market position as contested. 121 of the 361 operating Security tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 1 shutdown in the category.

Burp Suite compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
Burp SuiteFounded 2003LowContestedFreemium$449/moYesYesDesktopStable
OWASP ZAPFounded 2010 · Remote-firstLowContestedFree—YesYesDesktopStable
NucleiFounded 2020ModerateOpenFree—YesYesDesktopHot
Aikido SecurityFounded 2022 · Ghent, BelgiumModerateContestedFreemium—YesYesWebHot
TrivyFounded 2019 · Ramat Gan, IsraelHighOpenFree—YesYesDesktopHot
ChainguardFounded 2021 · Seattle, United StatesHighOpenFreemium—YesYesWebHot

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Security.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Burp Suite exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Vulnerability DetectionPattern Analysis
Industry Verticals
Security
Tagged

Burp Suite shows up when builders search for these

web-securitypenetration-testingproxyscannerprofessional
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Alternatives to Burp Suite

Products still running that do the same job, from the security market and related ones, closest match first.

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OWASP ZAP

Free open-source web app security scanner

★ 4.5Opportunity Low
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Nuclei

Fast customizable vulnerability scanner with community templates

★ 4.6Opportunity Moderate
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Aikido Security

All-in-one application security for developers who hate false positives

★ 4.7Opportunity Moderate
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Trivy

Open-source vulnerability scanner for containers and code

★ 4.7Opportunity High
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Chainguard

Minimal container images with zero known vulnerabilities

★ 4.6Opportunity High
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Renovate

Automated dependency updates with smart merge strategies

★ 4.6Opportunity Moderate
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Questions

Burp Suite: common questions

How much does Burp Suite Professional cost?

As of Oct 2026, Burp Suite Professional is listed at $499, and a free trial is offered.

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Is Burp Suite free?

Burp Suite has a free tier, with paid plans from $449 a month.

What are the best alternatives to Burp Suite?

The closest alternatives to Burp Suite that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are OWASP ZAP, Nuclei, Aikido Security, Trivy, and Chainguard.

Is Burp Suite still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Burp Suite as operating at portswigger.net.

Does Burp Suite have an API?

Yes. Burp Suite offers an API.

Who is Burp Suite for?

Burp Suite is built for pentesters and security researchers.

How do I sign in to Burp Suite?

Sign in on Burp Suite's own website, portswigger.net. FalcoScan reviews Burp Suite but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Burp Suite directly.

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