Burp Suite vs Checkmarx One
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
From $499 per user/year (Professional)
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PortSwigger raised Professional from $449 to $499 per user/year on 6 January 2026. Licences are strictly per named user and cannot be shared. Enterprise is quote-based by scanning agents and applications.
Enterprise annual licensing, typically by developer count or lines of code. Six figures at scale.
Free tier
Community Edition is free but omits the scanner and rate-limits key tools.
Free trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
PortSwigger · since 2003
Widely used
Checkmarx · since 2006
Strengths
- The reference tool for manual application penetration testing — every security professional knows it.
- Exceptional scanner accuracy, particularly for injection classes.
- Professional Edition is remarkably good value at under $500 per year.
- Very deep SAST analysis with wide language coverage including legacy enterprise languages.
- One platform and one risk view across every scan type.
- Strong compliance and audit reporting.
Limitations
- Community Edition is too limited for serious automated work.
- Requires security expertise; it is not a push-button product for developers.
- Enterprise licensing is a significant step up in cost.
- Expensive, with a long procurement and deployment cycle.
- High false-positive volume typical of deep SAST; tuning is a project.
- Scans are slow relative to developer-first tools.
Best for
Security teams and penetration testers, plus enterprises needing scheduled authenticated scanning.
Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.
All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Jira.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.