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Snyk 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

From $25 per contributing developer/month (indicative, Team)

Free tier

From $499 per user/year (Professional)

Paid

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Priced per contributing developer. Enterprise agreements add reporting and governance and get expensive.

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 plan with a monthly test allowance, generous enough for small projects.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin
JavaPythonCodeless

Platforms

WebAPIDesktop
WebAPI

Fits teams

Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

Strengths

  • Reachability analysis dramatically cuts the noise from transitive dependency alerts.
  • Automated fix pull requests make remediation a merge rather than a project.
  • One vendor covers dependencies, code, containers and IaC.
  • 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

  • Per-developer pricing scales uncomfortably in large engineering organisations.
  • SAST is less deep than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
  • Still produces substantial alert volume on older codebases.
  • 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

Engineering teams that want security findings arriving in the pull request with a fix attached.

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.