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Invicti 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

Quote on request

Quote only

From $499 per user/year (Professional)

Paid

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

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

Demo and trial on request.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless
JavaPythonCodeless

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Strengths

  • Proof-based scanning eliminates most false-positive triage, which is the main cost of DAST.
  • Handles authenticated scanning of modern JavaScript applications well.
  • Good asset discovery for organisations that do not know all their own sites.
  • 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

  • Expensive relative to free DAST alternatives.
  • Scans take time and are not suited to per-commit feedback.
  • Dynamic testing alone cannot find everything a code review would.
  • 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

Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.

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

All of these integrate with: Jira, Jenkins.

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