Dependabot vs Burp Suite

Free

From $475 per user/year (Professional)

Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.

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

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

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

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GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

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PortSwigger · since 2003

• Free and requires a single config file to enable.
• Version-bump pull requests mean remediation is a review, not a task.
• Grouped updates keep the PR volume manageable.

• 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.

• No reachability analysis, so it reports vulnerabilities in code you never call.
• PR noise is a genuine problem on large dependency trees without grouping configured.
• GitHub only.

• 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.

Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.

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