Vulnerability Scanning · Reviewed 27 Oct 2026

Burp Suite

A suite of tools for finding and exploiting web vulnerabilities.

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Burp Suite at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

PortSwigger is a global leader in cybersecurity providing a suite of web application security testing tools called Burp Suite S1. It is used by pentesters, bug bounty hunters, and security teams to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications S39 S47. The suite combines manual testing tools, automated scanning, and AI capabilities to help catch more vulnerabilities faster, while related products like the Web Security Academy enable skill development S1.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: PortSwigger's Burp Suite, a comprehensive web application security testing toolkit S1 S39.
  • Core purpose: Enables security professionals to test, find, and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications S39.
  • Intended users: Penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, AppSec teams, and CISOs S39 S47.
  • Product scope: A suite of integrated products and components, including Burp Suite Professional, Enterprise, and DAST S1 S20.
  • Positioning: Burp Suite is positioned as "the most widely used web application security testing software" S39.
  • Claimed distinction: Claimed distinction includes being the "true one-box solution" and having an extensive BApp ecosystem S47 S128.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Penetration testersUse Burp Suite for manual and automated testing to catch vulnerabilities for clients S47 S45.
Bug bounty huntersUse Pro's special tools to work faster and earn larger bounties S43 S47.
CISOs and security leadersUse Burp Suite DAST's scalable scanning and reporting for portfolio-wide security S47.
AppSec managersOwn vulnerability management and drive secure development with automated scans S47.
Software engineersIntegrate security into the SDLC with CI-driven scanning S68 S47.
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)Monitor client assets and ensure compliance S47.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Automated DAST scanningScans web applications for vulnerabilities without limits, using over 160 scan checks S39 S42 S73.
Manual testing toolsProvides tools like Intruder, Repeater, and content discovery for hands-on testing S45 S128.
Burp ScannerA web vulnerability scanner at the core, with capabilities like BChecks scripting to create custom scan checks S45 S139.
Agentic AI (Burp AT)Extends human-led pentesting with AI that can be directed via natural language prompts inside tools like Repeater S1 S127.
JavaScript analysisIncludes a new experimental engine for static analysis of JavaScript code S149.
Attack surface visibilityProvides comprehensive dashboards and reporting for a clear overview of security posture S42.
BApp extensionsOver 250 community-developed extensions for customizing workflows S128 S1.
CI/CD integrationIntegrates directly into CI pipelines for automated security scans with each build S68.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
CI/CD pipelinesIntegrationAutomates security scans within existing build environments S68 S73.
BApp Store extensionsExtension frameworkAdds over 250 community-built tools for specialized workflows S128 S1.
Burp CollaboratorIntegrationDetects out-of-band interactions for OAST testing, with public or private servers S128.
BChecks scriptingExtension frameworkAllows custom scan checks without developing full BApp extensions S139.
Burp AI natural language interfaceAI interfaceLets users direct Burp AI within Repeater via prompts S127.
Platform pluginsIntegrationSeamless integration with CI platform plugins S68.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Burp Suite Professional$499, billing period not stated S1Manual testing tools with Burp Scanner S1Not published S1
Burp Suite DASTContact sales, custom subscription S1Unlimited users S1Scanning by the hour or unlimited, self-hosted or cloud S1
Burp Suite Community EditionFree S1Manual testing tools S1Not published S1
Burp AIFree trial includes 10,000 free AI credits S127AI agentic capabilities S127Not published S127

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
facebook.com424.3all labs, autorize
oed.com213.5autorize
yelp.com214all labs
anylabtestnow.com215all labs
walkinlab.com111all labs
kids.wordsmyth.net114autorize
store.directlabs.com116all labs
sapling.ai116autorize
alzlabs.org117all labs
manage.belizenic.bz117autorize

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 4.2%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
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Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresBurp AT Burp AT Agentic AI that extends human-led pentesting.Burp Suite DAST Burp Suite DAST The enterprise-enabled dynamic web vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite Professional Burp Suite Professional The world's #1 web penetration testing toolkit. Burp Suite Community Edition Burp Suite Community Edition The best manual tools to start web security testing. View all product editionshttps://portswigger.net/solutions
featuresBurp AT Burp AT Agentic AI that extends human-led pentesting.Burp Suite DAST Burp Suite DAST The enterprise-enabled dynamic web vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite Professional Burp Suite Professional The world's #1 web penetration testing toolkit. Burp Suite Community Edition Burp Suite Community Edition The best manual tools to start web security testing. View all product editionshttps://portswigger.net/solutions/attack-surface-visibility
featuresBurp AT Burp AT Agentic AI that extends human-led pentesting.Burp Suite DAST Burp Suite DAST The enterprise-enabled dynamic web vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite Professional Burp Suite Professional The world's #1 web penetration testing toolkit. Burp Suite Community Edition Burp Suite Community Edition The best manual tools to start web security testing. View all product editionshttps://portswigger.net/solutions/automated-security-testing
featuresBurp AT Burp AT Agentic AI that extends human-led pentesting.Burp Suite DAST Burp Suite DAST The enterprise-enabled dynamic web vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite Professional Burp Suite Professional The world's #1 web penetration testing toolkit. Burp Suite Community Edition Burp Suite Community Edition The best manual tools to start web security testing. View all product editionshttps://portswigger.net/solutions/bug-bounty-hunting

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap4 first-page appearances across all labs, autorize

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
G2Compare Burp Suite and Invicti (formerly Netsparker)Grounded web searchBurp Suite(120)4.8 out of 5Burp Suite By PortSwigger Invicti (formerly Netsparker)(60)4.6 out of 5Invicti (formerly Netsparker) By Invicti Security ... Burp Suite Star Rating (120) 4.8 out of 5 Market Segments Mid-Market (40.5% of reviews)
Beagle Security BlogBurp Suite review: Is it worth the investment?Grounded web searchPortSwigger’s Burp Suite is one of the most widely used tools in web application security testing, especially among penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, and security researchers. For a lot of people working in AppSec, Burp is usually one of the first tools they learn and one they continue using for years. ... / G2 rating / Gartner rating / / --- / --- / / 4.8/5 (based on 128 reviews) / 4.6/5 (based on 310 reviews) / ... - Burp Suite gives testers a lot of control during security assessments.
PeerSpotPortSwigger Burp Suite Professional reviews 2026Grounded web searchuser interface. The pricing is deemed high, and there are performance issues, such as high CPU usage and slower scanning speeds. Users desire better documentation and more integration options across various platforms.
Gartner Peer InsightsPenetration Testing Tools Reviews and RatingsGrounded web search### Burp Suite Professional By PortSwigger 4.7 (69 Ratings) customers choice 2024 OVERVIEWALTERNATIVES PortSwigger is a company that specializes in developing software tools used for security testing of web applications. The company's primary focus
G2Compare Acunetix by Invicti and Burp Suite Social Share OptionsGrounded web searchresponse Burp Suite(120)4.8 out of 5Burp Suite By PortSwigger ... . Users say that the manual testing features in Burp Suite are more intuitive and user ... 's false positive rate of 6.6 is a concern, while
offensivelysecured.comReview : Burp Suite Certified Practitioner (BSCP) / Offensively SecuredGrounded web search), it felt like a natural next step to go for PortSwigger’s Burp Suite ... However, I definitely underestimated the length of time it would take. What I initially ... to be 2 months of gruelling grind through an almost unbelievably comprehensive set of

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyHåkon Lønmocustomer case study — I've also used it successfully for brute-forcing usernames or object references. (Case Studies - PortSwigger)

Independent mentions

  • Burp Suite / Which 50 — including an intercepting proxy to capture and modify HTTP/S requests, an automated vulnerability scanner, modules for manual testing such as ... and features for analyzing randomness and encoding. The suite supports project organization, customizable
  • Burp - Web Application Security, Testing, & Scanning - PortSwigger — # What do you want to do? Hands-on web security testing Test, find, and exploit vulnerabilities faster with a complete suite of security testing tools. Best for pentesters and hands-on security professionals. Free up testing time with scalable,
  • Burp Suite – Trackr.Live — plus a workbench of tools for tampering with HTTP by hand. PortSwigger built it in ... , with PortSwigger keeping control. That matters here only because vendor ownership is the thing that rots fastest in tool documentation, and the honest 2026 answer is

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipThere's an outdated notion that securing your software is just a testing process that slows you down. But we see a new world, where security is an intrinsic part of all the products and services you deliver. Where web sesource
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyIn a future release, we may provide a UI similar to the active scan queue, containing a view of pending and current code analysis tasks, and enabling the user to pause, resume or cancel individual tasks.source
Security and complianceBurp AT Agentic AI that extends human-led pentesting. Burp Suite DAST The enterprise-enabled dynamic web vulnerability scanner. Burp Suite Professional The world's #1 web penetration testing toolkit. **Burp Ssource
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered2001-09-09—
Domain expires2027-09-09—

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Burp Suite documentation - PortSwiggerDocumentationThis documentation describes the functionality of all editions of Burp Suite and related components. Use the links below to get started: Burp Suite ... (source)Not dated
7 Burp Suite Professional-exclusive features to help you test smarter / Blog - PortSwiggerRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)July 2022
7 Burp Suite Professional-exclusive features to help you test smarter / Blog - PortSwiggerProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated
7 Burp Suite Professional-exclusive features to help you test smarter / Blog - PortSwiggerGuidePublic tutorials and product guidance. (source)Not dated
7 Burp Suite Professional-exclusive features to help you test smarter / Blog - PortSwiggerChangelogPublic product change history. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Burp Suite DAST is available as self-hosted or PortSwigger cloud S1.S1
Platforms and appsBurp Suite includes desktop applications for Professional and Community editions; the documentation covers all editions S20.S20
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Extensibility is provided through BApp extensions, BChecks scripting, and integration with CI/CD pipelines S128 S139 S68.S128 S139 S68
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsBurp Scanner is "fine-tuned to understand complex application logic" for accurate and efficient detection S42.S42
Release activityDocumentation last updated October 22, 2026; recent blog posts announce new features (Burp AT, JS analysis) S20 S128 S149.S20 S128 S149
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2001-09-09 — Name.com, Inc.
Domain expires2027-09-09
First archived2003-12-01 — web archive
TLS certificateAmazon, valid, expires 2027-01-31
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedReferrer-Policy
Server header'; DELETE carlos FROM users --
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-1337.awsdns-39.org, ns-194.awsdns-24.com
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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 98/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 4
  • Notices: 6

Issues

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200PortSwigger — Web security tools, training and research175322 mshttps://portswigger.net/
200Log in \portswigger.net138487 ms
200Web Security Research Papers - PortSwigger Research0524255 mshttps://portswigger.net/research
200Web Security Academy: Free Online Training from PortSwigger1110030 mshttps://portswigger.net/web-security
200Case Studies - PortSwigger11183395 mshttps://portswigger.net/customers
200About us - PortSwigger1869273 mshttps://portswigger.net/about
200Web Security Blog - PortSwigger1461201 mshttps://portswigger.net/blog
200Careers — PortSwigger1819488 mshttps://portswigger.net/careers/
200Legal information - PortSwigger1459151 mshttps://portswigger.net/legal
200Contact us - PortSwigger1452523 mshttps://portswigger.net/about/contact
200Reseller Resource Center - PortSwigger11145631 mshttps://portswigger.net/support/reseller-faqs
200Burp AT \PortSwigger11769250 ms
200Burp Suite DAST \PortSwigger12433492 ms
200Burp Suite Professional - PortSwigger0889132 mshttps://portswigger.net/burp/pro
200Download Burp Suite Community Edition - PortSwigger1611511 mshttps://portswigger.net/burp/communitydownload

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct39.3%
search41.7%
search organic41.5%
search paid0.1%
social7.6%
social organic7.4%
social paid0.2%
referrals5.5%
paid referrals0.1%
mail1.7%
gen ai4.2%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

Collected pages mention no direct competitors. Gaps in evidence include: no specific pricing for Burp Suite Professional billing period; no details on security compliance certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO); no up-to-date customer count beyond 16,000 organizations; no independent review ratings; no details on data ownership for cloud deployments; and no explicit performance metrics or uptime figures.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 pages collected from portswigger.net on 2026-10-23, including product pages, solution pages, blog posts, and official pricing data. The collection used static and browser rendering rendering; external proof search was not used for verification. The report covers product capabilities, pricing, integrations, and customer testimonials as published. Limitations include lack of independent review data and incomplete information on legal, security, and compliance matters.

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