Burp Suite vs Trivy

From $475 per user/year (Professional)

Free and open source

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

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

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

Everything, self-hosted

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PortSwigger · since 2003

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Aqua Security · since 2019

• 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.

• Free and covers container, IaC, secret and dependency scanning in one binary.
• Fast enough to run on every image build without slowing the pipeline.
• Excellent Kubernetes integration through the Trivy Operator.

• 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.

• No hosted dashboard or workflow — findings go to your pipeline output.
• No reachability analysis, so alert volume is high on large images.
• Reporting for compliance requires building it yourself.

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

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.