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Contrast Security Protect vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Contrast Security Protect
Ranking in Application Security Tools
36th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...
Ranking in Application Security Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Contrast Security Protect is 1.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 3.3%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional3.3%
Contrast Security Protect1.1%
Other95.6%
Application Security Tools
 

Featured Reviews

ToddMcAlister - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Application and Data Security Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks.
I rate Contrast Security Protect eight out of 10. Overall, it's a solid product, but I deduct a couple of points because of the interface and some shortcomings in the reporting. If you have a large enterprise where you're dealing with a lot of servers, then it makes sense not to use the internal MySQL database. You should use something like Oracle or Microsoft SQL, but if you don't have many transactions, the embedded MySQL database works great.
MH
Penetration Tester & Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Dedicated browser and repeater have improved my proxy testing and manual vulnerability checks
I'm hoping perhaps for something to make it easier, such as to define things where if a message or a response is such and such, automatically make a request that is such and such. Perhaps something like this because otherwise, nowadays we have to do it manually. Perhaps they can automate it a bit more. Perhaps they could add some automation to things, to see what we do manually, which it has the tools to do manually, and perhaps enable with a click of a button to do things automatically. I'm not too sure which, but I'm sure they can from a product management point of view, do things that we need to do two, three, or four steps manually regarding specific testing. For instance, we want to check something specific if it's this or if it's that. Perhaps to define it once and have it more automatic, perhaps.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The Protect solution allows applications to continue to run, even with known vulnerabilities, but will report or block attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities."
"Contrast Security's support is great. They're willing to spend a lot of time on your problem."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Burp has several good features; it's cheaper than other solutions and you can scan any number of applications and it updates its database."
"I highly recommend it because everybody in Web Applications Security is using it."
"It's good testing software."
"The reporting part is the most valuable. It also has very good features. We use almost all of the features for different kinds of customers and needs."
"It was easy to learn."
"The suite testing models are very good. It's very secure."
"The solution has a great user interface."
"It offers flexibility, macros, and features to reduce the effort required for authenticated sessions."
 

Cons

"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"We're not using it much anymore because we had some performance issues."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"The number of false positives needs to be reduced on the solution."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could improve the static code review."
"I would like to see a more optimized solution, as it currently uses a lot of CPU power and memory."
"Mitigating the issues and low confluence issues needs some improvement. Implementing demand with the ChatGPT under the web solution is an additional feature I would like to see in the next release."
"Spidering large websites can use a lot of memory and might result in a crash on systems with lower RAM."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high."
"The one feature that I would like to see in Burp is active scanning of REST based web services. A lot of organizations are providing APIs to access their services to support different business models like SaaS. Scanning these APIs is still a challenge for many security product companies."
"The solution lacks sufficient stability."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price for the solution is expensive and could be cheaper. We pay an annual license and our team has several of them."
"It is a cheap solution, but it may not be cheaper than other solutions."
"For a country such as Sri Lanka, the pricing is not reasonable."
"It has a yearly license. I am satisfied with its price."
"This is a value for money product."
"The platform's pricing is reasonable."
"At $400 or $500 per license paid annually, it is a very cheap tool."
"This solution requires a license. It is expensive but you receive a lot of functionality for the price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise35
 

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Also Known As

Contrast Protect
Burp
 

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Sample Customers

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.
Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
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