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PortSwigger

Commercial Free Tier Enterprise

Industry-standard web vulnerability scanner & proxy.

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Invicti

Commercial Cloud / SaaS Enterprise

Automated DAST with proof-based scanning.

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Attribute
Burp Suite
PortSwigger
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Invicti (Netsparker)
Invicti
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Pricing Community
Free / Pro $475/yr / Enterprise from $8k/yr
Standard
from ~$4,495/yr; Enterprise custom
Free tier / OSS Community
Edition (limited)
Demo
only
License Commercial Commercial
Testing type Security / DAST Security / DAST
Languages / SDKs Java extensions (Burp Extender API) N/A (agent-less scanner)
Supported platforms Windows, macOS, Linux SaaS (Invicti Cloud), on-premises (Windows)
Parallel testing Limited
— Enterprise edition only
Yes
— concurrent scans
Speed Moderate Fast
— proof-based scanning engine
Key integrations Jenkins, GitHub, JIRA, CI/CD via Enterprise Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
Learning curve Moderate
to steep
Easy
Community / Support Industry
standard for AppSec
Enterprise-focused; Invicti support
Maintained by PortSwigger Invicti Security
First released 2003 2009
Latest version See website See website
Best suited for Manual & semi-automated web app security testing Enterprise DAST with false-positive elimination
Official site portswigger.net/burp ↗ www.invicti.com ↗

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