Web security testing toolkit (DAST + manual) · Pricing guide
Burp Suite Pricing, Explained
Burp Suite is one of the few tools in this category with a public price: Professional is $499 per user per year, listed on PortSwigger's own buy page. Enterprise Edition, the CI/CD-oriented scanner, is quote-based. This guide covers what each edition includes, the per-seat arithmetic that catches teams out, and when a licence stops being the cheaper option.
Last verified: 2026-08-14
Burp Suite pricing at a glance
What You Get for $499
Professional is the working pentester's licence: the full automated scanner, an unthrottled Intruder, the complete manual toolkit (Repeater, Sequencer, Decoder, Comparer), BApp Store extensions, project files, and PortSwigger's AI features. Community Edition keeps the proxy and the manual tools but removes the scanner and throttles Intruder to the point where automated fuzzing is impractical.
For an individual tester the value is not seriously disputed: $499 a year is less than a day of consultancy time and Burp is the category's default manual tool. The cost question only becomes interesting at team scale and in CI/CD.
The Per-Seat Arithmetic
Because the licence is per named user, cost scales linearly with headcount: three engineers is $1,497 a year, ten is $4,990. There is no team tier between Professional and Enterprise, so a growing team either buys more seats or moves to a quote-based Enterprise subscription.
The subtler cost is that Professional is a desktop tool driven by a human. It does not run in your pipeline on every pull request, and it does not test while nobody is at the keyboard. Teams that need continuous coverage end up buying either Enterprise Edition or a separate continuous-testing product, which is where the real budget decision sits.
Why Enterprise Edition Has No Price Tag
Enterprise Edition (marketed as Burp Suite DAST) is scoped by the number of sites and scanning agents you need, so PortSwigger quotes it rather than listing it. Public buyer reports put entry subscriptions in the mid four figures per year and larger deployments well into five, but we will not print a precise figure we cannot verify at source: ask for the quote with your site count and agent count fixed, because both drive the number.
Burp Suite Cost in Context (2026)
Published list prices where a vendor publishes one, and the model each is priced on. Quote-based entries are marked as such rather than estimated.
| Option | Published price | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Burp Suite Community | Free | Manual tools, no scanner |
| Burp Suite Professional | $499 per user / year | Per named user, desktop |
| Burp Suite Enterprise (DAST) | Quote only | Per site + scanning agents |
| Nessus Professional | $4,790 / year | Per licence, infrastructure scanning |
| Penetrify | From $100/month | Flat subscription, runs in CI/CD |
Burp Professional price from portswigger.net, checked August 2026. Nessus price from tenable.com, checked August 2026. Enterprise Edition is quote-based and deliberately not estimated here.
A Licence and a Pipeline Are Different Purchases
Burp Professional is excellent at what it is: a tool that makes a skilled human faster. It is not a continuous control, because it only tests when someone drives it. Penetrify is the other half of that equation, running autonomous pentests of web apps and APIs on every deploy from $100/month, with findings landing as PR comments rather than in a desktop session. Most mature teams keep Burp for hands-on work and put something continuous underneath it: the two costs are not really competing.
The bottom line
At $499 per user per year, Burp Suite Professional is the least controversial purchase in application security, and Community Edition is genuinely useful for learning. Budget for it per head, and be clear that it buys manual capability rather than continuous coverage. If your actual requirement is "every deployment gets tested", price Enterprise Edition or a continuous platform against that requirement instead, because more Professional seats will not deliver it.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Burp Suite cost in 2026?
Burp Suite Professional is $499 per user per year on PortSwigger's buy page, billed annually. Community Edition is free but has no automated scanner and a throttled Intruder. Enterprise Edition is quote-based, scoped by sites and scanning agents.
Did Burp Suite get more expensive?
Yes. Professional was $449 per user per year and rose to $499 in January 2026, according to third-party pricing trackers. PortSwigger's current listed price is $499.
Is the free Burp Suite Community Edition enough?
For learning, for reading traffic and for hand-crafted requests, yes. For finding vulnerabilities at any pace it is not: there is no automated scanner, and Intruder is throttled hard enough that automated fuzzing takes impractically long.
Can one Burp licence cover a whole team?
No. The licence is per named user, so a five-person team needs five subscriptions ($2,495 per year). There is no middle team tier: above a handful of seats, PortSwigger points you at Enterprise Edition.
Does Burp Suite run in a CI/CD pipeline?
Professional is a desktop application and is not designed for that. Enterprise Edition is the pipeline product, and it is priced by quote. If continuous testing on every deploy is the goal, compare Enterprise against continuous platforms rather than adding Professional seats.