OWASP ZAP vs Invicti

Free and open source

Quote on request

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

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

Everything, self-hosted

Demo and trial on request.

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Checkmarx / OWASP · since 2010

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

• 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.

• Proof-based scanning eliminates most false-positive triage, which is the main cost of DAST.
• Handles authenticated scanning of modern JavaScript applications well.
• Good asset discovery for organisations that do not know all their own sites.

• 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.

• Expensive relative to free DAST alternatives.
• Scans take time and are not suited to per-commit feedback.
• Dynamic testing alone cannot find everything a code review would.

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

Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.