Renovate vs Burp Suite

Free and open source

From $475 per user/year (Professional)

Free and open source, including the hosted GitHub app. Mend sells an enterprise edition with support.

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

Everything, self-hosted

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

Category standard

Mend.io · since 2017

Category standard

PortSwigger · since 2003

• Far more configurable than Dependabot — grouping, scheduling and automerge rules that keep PR volume sane.
• Supports dozens of package managers including Docker, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions.
• Free hosted app, or self-host it entirely.

• 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.

• The configuration surface is large enough to be its own learning curve.
• Without careful grouping rules it produces a lot of pull requests.
• Vulnerability context is thinner than a dedicated SCA tool.

• 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.

Teams that outgrew Dependabot's limited configuration and want update policy under control.

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