Invicti vs OWASP ZAP

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Free and open source

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

Demo and trial on request.

Everything, self-hosted

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

Category standard

Checkmarx / OWASP · since 2010

• 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.

• Free, with no licence limits on scanning or users.
• The baseline scan runs in CI in a couple of minutes and catches real misconfiguration.
• Active community and extensive add-on marketplace.

• 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.

• Higher false-positive rate than commercial DAST tools.
• Scanning authenticated, JavaScript-heavy applications requires meaningful configuration effort.
• The interface is dated and the learning curve is real.

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

Any team that currently does no dynamic security testing at all.