Snyk vs OWASP ZAP vs Burp Suite

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

Free and open source

From $475 per user/year (Professional)

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

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

Professional is inexpensive for what it does; Enterprise is quote-based by scanning agents and applications.

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

Everything, self-hosted

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

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

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Checkmarx / OWASP · since 2010

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PortSwigger · since 2003

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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