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Burp Suite vs Mend.io

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

Quote on request

Quote only

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.

Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.

Free tier

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

Free tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaPythonCodeless
JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonC#GoRubyPHPKotlinSwift

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

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.
  • Licence compliance reporting is the strongest in the category and often the reason legal approves a release.
  • Reachability analysis reduces the transitive-dependency alert flood.
  • Automated remediation pull requests.

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.
  • SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
  • Enterprise pricing and sales process.
  • Interface is dated in places.

Best for

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

Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.

All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Jira.

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