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PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs Synopsys Defensics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...
Ranking in Fuzz Testing Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (10th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th)
Synopsys Defensics
Ranking in Fuzz Testing Tools
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Fuzz Testing Tools category, the mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 33.1%, up from 27.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Synopsys Defensics is 23.1%, up from 14.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Anuradha.Kapoor Kapoor - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Product security tests for switches and router sections
Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install. What I see in the documentation isn't that. Even if something doesn't malfunction, sometimes it is hard to install and execute. The product needs video documentation. This would help a lot more.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I have found the best features to be the performance and there are a lot of additional plugins available."
"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."
"This solution has helped a lot in finding bugs and vulnerabilities, and the scanner is good enough for simple web apps."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is one of the best user-friendly solutions for getting the proxy set up."
"It offers flexibility, macros, and features to reduce the effort required for authenticated sessions."
"The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications."
"The solution is stable."
"In my area of expertise, I feel like it has almost everything I could possibly require at this moment."
"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"Whatever the test suit they give, it is intelligent. It will understand the protocol and it will generate the test cases based on the protocol: protocol, message sequence, protocol, message structure... Because of that, we can eliminate a lot of unwanted test cases, so we can execute the tests and complete them very quickly."
 

Cons

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Sometimes the solution can run a little slow."
"There is not much automation in the tool."
"The scanner and crawler need to be improved."
"The Auto Scanning features should be updated more frequently and should include the latest attack vectors."
"The tool is very expensive."
"The technical support team's response time is mostly delayed and should be improved."
"It should provide a better way to integrate with Jenkins so that DAST (dynamic application security testing) can be automated."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"Sometimes, when we are testing embedded devices, when we trigger the test cases, the target will crash immediately. It is very difficult for us to identify the root cause of the crash because they do not provide sophisticated tools on the target side. They cover only the client-side application... They do not have diagnostic tools for the target side. Rather, they have them but they are very minimal and not very helpful."
"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PortSwigger is reasonably-priced. It's fair."
"It's a lower priced tool that we can rely on with good standard mechanisms."
"For a country such as Sri Lanka, the pricing is not reasonable."
"There are multiple versions available of PortSwigger Burp Suite, such as enterprise, commercial, professional, and beginners."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."
"We have one license. The price is very nominal."
"The price for the solution is expensive and could be cheaper. We pay an annual license and our team has several of them."
"Licensing is a bit expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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 ...
What do you like most about PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional?
The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.
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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Also Known As

Burp
Defensics, Codenomicon Defensics
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Amazon, NASA, FedEx, P&G, Salesforce
Coriant, CERT-FI, Next Generation Networks
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