Harness vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

Harness and PortSwigger are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Harness is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.7, while PortSwigger is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.8. Harness holds a 0.2% mindshare in SAST, compared to PortSwigger’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Harness users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of PortSwigger users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Harness and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Harness

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (10th), Cloud Cost Management (15th)

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (8th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Harness is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 2.0%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Linwei Yuan

Software Engineer at Citi

Streamline microservices deployment with integrated execution pipelines and comprehensive monitoring

Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place. It is very convenient since we have many microservices, so having one platform for all of them is beneficial. The dashboard allows me to monitor all core services' deployment status in one place, making it easier to find bugs and check logs.

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Anuradha.Kapoor Kapoor

Head - Quality Control at Net Solutions

Offers efficient scanning of entire websites but presence of false positive bugs, leading to time-consuming efforts in distinguishing real bugs from false alarms

We have found that so many times, false positive bugs are there, and then we spend a lot of time basically separating them from real bugs. So that's the reason we are looking for some other tool. So we were in discussion with Acunetix. Therefore, the false positive rate is, like, something that we would like to improve. What we are looking for is if this false positive rate goes down because we were OWASP Zap tool users, which was free anyway. But there were a lot of false positives there, and we used to spend a lot of time, like, for security reasons, reproducing those bugs for the development team to fix it. So then we thought, okay, why not we go with the tool? Even if it is not very expensive. But still, every year, we have to renew the license. And we got this tool. Again, we found that in this tool also, even if it is less, there are still a lot of false positive bugs out there. So we again have to spend so much time. So we hired a security tester, who was basically using Acunetix in his previous company for almost three years, and then you said that in that scanning is very slow. The scanning is also slow. Like, sometimes the site scan takes eight hours, six to eight hours. Yeah. And whereas in Acunetix, it took three to four hours. And plus, there are no false positives. I'm not saying none but there's very little. But here, the rate sometimes is very high. These are the two features I think we would like to improve further.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The features of Harness are valuable, supporting rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime."

"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place, making it convenient."

"Harness starts integrating with organizations, making everything automated without the need for manual interruption."

"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."

"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place."

"The initial setup is simple."

"The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications."

"Enables automation of different tasks such as authorization testing."

"It was easy to learn."

"This tool is more accurate than the other solutions that we use, and reports fewer false positives."

"The solution has a pretty simple setup."

"I am impressed with the tool's detailed analysis for penetration testing. AppScan can give only visibility, but it can't do the PT part. But the PortSwigger Burp Application can do both, and it gives much more visibility on the PT rating."

"There is no other tool like it. I like the intuitiveness and the plugins that are available."

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Cons

"I prefer the previous less compact UI version of Harness, which showed more details on the screen."

"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."

"Even with automation, there's a requirement for manual change requests for approvals."

"When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur. Improvements are needed when deploying one component to one environment."

"When integrating Harness with more than twenty applications in one place, it becomes less stable, causing improvements to be necessary."

"Sometimes the solution can run a little slow."

"The tool is very expensive."

"It should provide a better way to integrate with Jenkins so that DAST (dynamic application security testing) can be automated."

"I would like to see the return of the spider mechanism instead of the crawling feature. Burp Suite's earlier version 1.7 had an excellent spider option, and it would be beneficial if Burp incorporated those features into the current version. The crawling techniques used in the current version are not as efficient as those used in earlier versions."

"Currently, the scanning is only available in the full version of Burp, and not in the Community version."

"One thing that is not up to the mark in PortSwigger is web application testing. I found some issues with its performance and reporting. They should work on these and give us a better outcome."

"It would be beneficial to have privileged access management as a part of Burp Suite Professional."

"The solution is not easy to set it up. You need a lot of knowledge."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Our licensing cost is approximately $400 USD per year."

"The pricing of the solution is cost-effective and is best suited for small and medium-sized businesses."

"We have one license. The price is very nominal."

"Licensing costs are about $450/year for one use. For larger organizations, they're able to test against multiple applications while simultaneously others might have multiple versions of applications which needs to be tested which is why we have the enterprise edition."

"It has a yearly license. I am satisfied with its price."

"For a country such as Sri Lanka, the pricing is not reasonable."

"The pricing of the solution is reasonable. We only need to pay for the annual subscription. I rate the pricing five out of ten."

"The solution used to be expensive. However, they have reduced the price to approximately $400.00 which is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

34%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Harness?

It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.

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What needs improvement with Harness?

Previously, when deploying a version that had been deployed successfully before, it sometimes failed upon trying again, which seems to be an intermittent issue about stability. I prefer the previou...

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What is your primary use case for Harness?

I used Harness for CICD, and it served as the release platform that our team used for Java applications. We do Java microservices, and we used it to deploy them.

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Is OWASP Zap better than PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro?

OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Pro have many similar features. OWASP Zap has web application scanning available with basic security vulnerabilities while Burp Suite Pro has it available with ...

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What do you like most about PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?

I find the price of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional to be very cost-efficient.

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Comparisons

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Compared 20% of the time

GitHub Actions vs Harness

Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

GitLab vs Harness

Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

Armory

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Overview

Harness offers a comprehensive toolset for automating deployment processes and enhancing software update efficiency. It's lauded for its CI/CD capabilities, feature flagging, and real-time deployment monitoring. Key features include an intuitive UI, secret management, and robust rollback functionalities, all contributing to improved productivity and reduced errors in DevOps environments.

Harness

Burp Suite Professional, by PortSwigger, is the world’s leading toolkit for web security testing. Over 52,000 users worldwide, across all industries and organization sizes, trust Burp Suite Professional to find more vulnerabilities, faster. With expertly-engineered manual and automated tooling, you're able to test smarter - not harder.

PortSwigger is the web security company that is enabling the world to secure the web. Over 50,000 security engineers rely on our software and expertise to secure their world.

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced

Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce

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