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Mend.io 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.

Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.

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 tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonC#GoRubyPHPKotlinSwift
JavaPythonCodeless

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Strengths

  • Licence compliance reporting is the strongest in the category and often the reason legal approves a release.
  • Reachability analysis reduces the transitive-dependency alert flood.
  • Automated remediation pull requests.
  • 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

  • SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
  • Enterprise pricing and sales process.
  • Interface is dated in places.
  • 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

Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.

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

All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Jira.

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