Burp Suite alternatives
13 other tools do this job. Which one is right depends on why Burp Suite is not working for you — so start from the reason, not the list.
Why teams leave Burp Suite
- 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.
Worth saying: Burp Suite is genuinely strong at this — the reference tool for manual application penetration testing — every security professional knows it. If that is the part you rely on, switching may cost more than it saves.
If cost is the problem
Cheaper than Burp Suite at the entry point, or free outright.
OWASP ZAP
Security Testing
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
Dependabot
Security Testing
Free dependency updates and vulnerability alerts, built into GitHub.
Renovate
Security Testing
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Snyk
Security Testing
Developer-first security across dependencies, code, containers and infrastructure.
If you need open source
Burp Suite is proprietary; these are not.
OWASP ZAP
Security Testing
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
Renovate
Security Testing
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Trivy
Security Testing
One open-source scanner for containers, filesystems, repos, IaC and Kubernetes.
CodeQL
Security Testing
Query your codebase like a database to find vulnerability patterns across the whole repo.
If it has to run on your own infrastructure
Burp Suite is cloud-only; these can be self-hosted.
OWASP ZAP
Security Testing
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
Invicti
Security Testing
DAST with proof-based scanning that confirms a vulnerability is real before reporting it.
Checkmarx One
Security Testing
Enterprise application security platform: SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC and API security.
Renovate
Security Testing
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Everything else in Security Testing
Ranked by how widely adopted they are. Compare any two to see the differences that matter.
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
DAST with proof-based scanning that confirms a vulnerability is real before reporting it.
Enterprise application security platform: SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC and API security.
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Developer-first security across dependencies, code, containers and infrastructure.
One open-source scanner for containers, filesystems, repos, IaC and Kubernetes.
Query your codebase like a database to find vulnerability patterns across the whole repo.
Secrets detection across your repositories, history and developer machines.
Software composition analysis with automated remediation and licence compliance.
Pattern-based static analysis where rules look like the code they match.
Open-source secret scanning that verifies whether the credential is still live.
Application security as a service, with policy enforcement and compliance attestation.
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