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Burp Suite vs GitGuardian

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)

Paid

Free tier available

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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.

Free tier covers small teams entirely; business pricing is quote-based per developer.

Free tier

Community Edition is free but omits the scanner and rate-limits key tools.

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaPythonCodeless
JavaScriptPythonJavaGoRubyPHPC#

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

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.
  • Validity checking distinguishes a live credential from a revoked one, which transforms triage priority.
  • Scans full commit history, where most leaked secrets actually live.
  • Free for teams up to 25 developers.

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.
  • Secrets scanning only — not a general security platform.
  • Historical scans on old repositories produce a large initial backlog.
  • Requires repository access, which needs a security review of its own.

Best for

Security teams and penetration testers, plus enterprises needing scheduled authenticated scanning.

Any organisation with more than a handful of repositories and no secrets scanning today.

All of these integrate with: Jira.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.