TruffleHog 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
Free tier available
Free tierFrom $499 per user/year (Professional)
PaidWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.
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
Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.
Community Edition is free but omits the scanner and rate-limits key tools.
Open source
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Truffle Security · since 2016
Category standard
PortSwigger · since 2003
Strengths
- Live verification cuts false positives to near zero for supported providers.
- Free and easy to add as a pre-commit hook or CI step.
- Scans far beyond git — buckets, images, logs.
- 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
- No dashboard or workflow in the free CLI.
- Verification requires outbound network calls, which some environments block.
- Full-history scans on large repositories are slow.
- 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
Teams that want free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.
Security teams and penetration testers, plus enterprises needing scheduled authenticated scanning.
All of these integrate with: GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.