Burp Suite vs Veracode
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 subscriptions priced by application count and scan types.
Free tier
Community Edition is free but omits the scanner and rate-limits key tools.
No free tier.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
PortSwigger · since 2003
Widely used
Veracode · 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.
- Binary scanning works on third-party and supplier software where source is unavailable.
- Policy engine and attestation reports satisfy regulated procurement directly.
- Managed service model suits organisations without a security engineering team.
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.
- Slow feedback compared with developer-first tools — poor fit for per-commit scanning.
- Expensive per application.
- Developer experience lags Snyk and Semgrep considerably.
Best for
Security teams and penetration testers, plus enterprises needing scheduled authenticated scanning.
Regulated enterprises needing formal security attestation, including for supplier software.
All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Jira.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.