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GitGuardian vs Burp Suite

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

Free tier available

Free tier

From $499 per user/year (Professional)

Paid

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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

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

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptPythonJavaGoRubyPHPC#
JavaPythonCodeless

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Strengths

  • 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.
  • 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.

Limitations

  • 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.
  • 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.

Best for

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

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

All of these integrate with: Jira.

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