Burp Suite review

Burp Suite is PortSwigger’s toolkit for testing web security. PortSwigger describes it as software for security professionals, not a general-purpose marketing or site-management product. Its interface lists Proxy, Intruder, Repeater, Collaborator, Sequencer and Decoder; the homepage also points to community extensions and Web Security Academy labs.

The free Community Edition is positioned for manual web security testing. That makes Burp a practical starting point for learning to work with web traffic without buying a subscription first. Some users also use it more narrowly: QA commenters on Reddit describe using Proxy and Repeater for intercepting and manipulating requests rather than running full penetration tests.

The choice is less about whether you can try Burp for free and more about whether Community’s restrictions block your workflow. Professional is sold per named user; DAST is a separate, custom-quoted option for teams scanning applications.

Burp gives security testers a set of named tools in one toolkit: Proxy, Intruder, Repeater, Collaborator, Sequencer and Decoder. PortSwigger also links to community extensions and Web Security Academy labs, giving users ways to extend the toolset and study web security alongside it.

The free Community Edition is the sensible first step for manual testing. If you need Professional, the pricing listing puts it at $499 per user per year—equivalent to $41.58 per user per month on an annual term. That subscription covers one named user, and multi-year terms are available. A free trial is offered with no credit card required, though its duration is not published.

That price is easier to justify when you have a specific paid-edition need, rather than buying by default. Reddit commenters say Community can be enough for basic request inspection, while others consider Professional’s additional features worth paying for when their work calls for them. Our verdict: start free and upgrade when a real limit gets in your way.

Community has meaningful limits. The plan includes a rate-throttled demo of Burp Intruder, does not let you save projects, and has no automated web vulnerability scanner. If project saving or automated scanning is a requirement, the free edition will not cover it. The available pricing details do not specify which scanner capabilities come with Professional, so confirm those before subscribing.

Professional is not offered with a published monthly price: the listed price is $499 per user per year, for one named user. That can be awkward for occasional use or teams that need several seats. Burp Suite DAST has no published price either; it is custom-quoted, with cost based on websites or applications and scanning capacity. It supports cloud-hosted or self-hosted deployment and unlimited users, but budget planning requires a quote.

Burp AI credits can be purchased, but their prices and overage fees are not published. Across paid options, the cost is therefore less predictable if you need more than an individual Professional subscription.

Burp Suite has a free Community Edition, Professional at $499 per user per year, and DAST on a custom quote. The $41.58 figure is the monthly equivalent of Professional’s annual price, not a published month-to-month rate; monthly prices are not published. Community costs nothing, but it has no project saving, no automated web vulnerability scanner, and only a rate-throttled demo of Intruder. Professional is for one named user per subscription, with multi-year terms available. A free trial is offered without a credit card, but its duration is not published.

DAST is a separate team option with unlimited users. Its price depends on the number of websites or applications and scanning capacity; cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment are listed. PortSwigger does not publish a fixed DAST price. Burp AI credits are also available to buy, but credit prices and overage fees are not published. Budget for Professional’s annual commitment, and get a DAST quote before comparing total costs.

Switching to Burp Suite means accounting for its manual testing tools and the workflows you use with them. PortSwigger lists tools including Proxy, Intruder, Repeater, Collaborator, Sequencer and Decoder, as well as community extensions and Web Security Academy labs. The published product information does not publish migration steps, import or export formats, or data-retention details, so we can’t confirm whether existing projects or settings transfer cleanly.

Community Edition has no project saving, which is a practical limit if you need to preserve work in that edition. The published material does not specify Professional’s project-saving or export limits; confirm those before moving established workflows. It also does not include Reddit reports, so we can’t responsibly attribute reasons for leaving Burp Suite to users. For a move away, check what data and configurations you can export before choosing a replacement; those details are not published here.