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Burp Suite vs Snyk

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

From $25 per contributing developer/month (indicative, Team)

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.

Priced per contributing developer. Enterprise agreements add reporting and governance and get expensive.

Free tier

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

Free plan with a monthly test allowance, generous enough for small projects.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaPythonCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPIDesktop

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

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.
  • Reachability analysis dramatically cuts the noise from transitive dependency alerts.
  • Automated fix pull requests make remediation a merge rather than a project.
  • One vendor covers dependencies, code, containers and IaC.

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.
  • Per-developer pricing scales uncomfortably in large engineering organisations.
  • SAST is less deep than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
  • Still produces substantial alert volume on older codebases.

Best for

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

Engineering teams that want security findings arriving in the pull request with a fix attached.

All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Jira.

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