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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)

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.

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

JavaPythonCodeless
JavaC#JavaScriptPythonGoPHPRubyKotlinSwift

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPIiOSAndroidDesktop

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Enterprise

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.