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Mend.io vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.4
Mend.io boosts security, automates processes, and enhances efficiency, leading to significant ROI through improved code quality and faster issue resolution.
Sentiment score
1.0
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional offers significant ROI, enhancing client engagement and securing contracts for application security testing globally.
Mend.io has provided a good return on investment by significantly reducing vulnerabilities.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
Mend.io's support is rated highly for responsiveness and knowledge, with recent concerns about response speed and reseller-related issues.
Sentiment score
3.7
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional offers praised customer service, responsive technical support, and comprehensive resources for user assistance.
Critical tickets are responded to within an hour.
Product Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
They prioritize providing the best experience to large organizations like ours, belonging to the Fortune 100.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Mend.io provides pretty good support.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The technical support from PortSwigger is excellent.
Cyber security manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The technical support for PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is pretty good, and I would give it a nine.
Senior Business Development Manager at Intouch World
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Mend.io excels in scalability, supporting diverse enterprise needs, seamless integration, and stable performance, making it ideal for growing demands.
Sentiment score
5.4
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is scalable but faces licensing challenges, with some preferring the Enterprise version for extensive use.
Regarding scalability, I would also rate it a ten because in some cases, I have 500 projects inside a single product, so I think it is quite scalable.
Product Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Mend.io is praised for its high stability and reliability, ensuring seamless workflows and consistently earning high stability ratings.
Sentiment score
8.4
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is stable and reliable, with minor memory and update issues, rated highly for stability.
Mend.io is very stable; we did not have any issues.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
AI integration in code security tools like Mend.io is still in its early stages and relatively immature.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is very stable.
Information Security Engineer at Tübitak Bilgem
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is a very stable tool, and I would rate its stability as eight out of ten.
Senior Business Development Manager at Intouch World
 

Room For Improvement

Mend.io users seek improvements in notifications, setup, policies, reporting, UI, integration, language support, container scanning, and pricing.
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could improve interface, integration, and usability, while reducing false positives and enhancing reporting.
That's not a limitation of Mend.io; I think that's a general problem with any tool in the market because no tool in the market will actually know what portion of the code I'm actually using from that particular library if it is vulnerable or not.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I strongly recommend that they start working with AI for the reporting part.
VP at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
However, with the recent AI feature or AI assistant bot, if you ask that particular bot about where that vulnerability is located, what the directory is, what the version is, and what the fixed version is, you will have your answers right then and there.
Product Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
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.
Penetration Tester & Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Some AI features might be added.
Information Security Engineer at Tübitak Bilgem
The dashboard of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional could be made more user-friendly.
Senior Business Development Manager at Intouch World
 

Setup Cost

Mend.io provides scalable enterprise pricing with low setup costs and flexible negotiations, offering significant features and value.
Burp Suite Professional is a budget-friendly, comprehensive web security tool with flexible licensing options suitable for various business sizes.
The cost of Mend.io is competitive, being quite low compared to others.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing for PortSwigger is very cheap, and there are benefits in terms of time and cost savings.
Information Security Engineer at Tübitak Bilgem
I find the price of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional to be very cost-efficient.
Senior Business Development Manager at Intouch World
 

Valuable Features

Mend.io efficiently manages open-source vulnerabilities, integrates with workflows, supports languages, and automates risk management for enhanced security.
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional offers customizable testing tools, community plugins, a user-friendly interface, and efficient automation for affordable security assessment.
We find it 100% accurate in detecting vulnerabilities.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Mend.io is very efficient, highly efficient, and it is the best scanning tool for SCA.
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Mend.io's reporting tools are beneficial for my use case; from a UI perspective and generation of reports, including the SBOM, it has the flexibility and is easy to generate and share with the developer teams.
VP at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional are its ease of use and its cost efficiency.
Senior Business Development Manager at Intouch World
The most valuable feature of Burp Suite Professional is its ability to schedule tasks for scanning websites.
Cyber security manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One of the best things in PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is that it has its own browser.
Penetration Tester & Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Mend.io
Ranking in Application Security Tools
16th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (7th), Static Code Analysis (6th), Software Supply Chain Security (4th)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...
Ranking in Application Security Tools
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (7th), Fuzz Testing Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Mend.io is 2.5%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 3.4%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional3.4%
Mend.io2.5%
Other94.1%
Application Security Tools
 

Featured Reviews

meetharoon - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized security monitoring has reduced false positives and improves dependency governance
The only area for improvement I would say is that the false positives are nearly zero; everything is mostly like 99 to 99.99% or we can say 100% accurate. There were a few areas for improvement just from the last time I saw; I think the user experience had a little problem. We wanted to have certain reports based on our kind of scenario, but the tool did not allow us to create custom reports. We had asked for some facility and some ability for us to create some custom reports. That would be awesome if they allow us to create custom reports the way we wanted. There is one small area which I don't know whether we should call a tool limitation or a wish list; if I use a library and I don't use all the capabilities of the library but only a portion of it and that portion is not vulnerable, but there is a component which is outdated, that is a problem, even though I don't use that component. Mend.io will discover there is a problem in the whole library; that is correct. That's a valid discovery, but in my case, for example, if I don't use that particular portion, then it actually is not making sense for me, but that's not a limitation of Mend.io; I think that's a general problem with any tool in the market because no tool in the market will actually know what portion of the code I'm actually using from that particular library if it is vulnerable or not.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise35
 

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Also Known As

WhiteSource, Mend SCA, Mend.io Supply Chain Defender, Mend SAST
Burp
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, Autodesk, NCR, Target, IBM, vodafone, Siemens, GE digital, KPMG, LivePerson, Jack Henry and Associates
Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
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