Burp Suite Pricing 2026: Pro, Enterprise & DAST Costs (+ Cheaper Alternatives)

If you just want the number: Burp Suite Professional costs $499 per user per year in 2026, up from $449 after a global price rise on 6 January 2026. Burp Suite Community is free but has no automated scanner, and Burp Suite DAST - the product formerly called Burp Suite Enterprise - is quote-based with no published price, realistically starting around $6,000 a year and climbing past $200,000 for large web-application estates. That is the whole pricing story in three lines. The rest of this post breaks down each tier, what changed in 2026, what a team of 1, 5, or 20 actually pays, when Pro is worth it, and the cheaper paths - including the one where the licence question disappears entirely.

For the wider field of scanners with pricing, see our DAST tools comparison. If your real question is Burp versus the free option for manual testing, read Burp Suite vs OWASP ZAP.

Burp Suite pricing 2026 at a glance

Two things to note before you read the tiers in detail. First, Pro is per seat - the price scales linearly with headcount, no volume tier published. Second, DAST is a completely different licensing model (application-based plus unlimited users), so you cannot extrapolate its cost from the Pro price at all.

Burp Suite Community (free)

Burp Suite Community is free forever and it is a genuinely useful tool - it ships the intercepting proxy, Repeater, Decoder, Comparer, and basic traffic analysis. What it deliberately holds back is the part most people want: the automated vulnerability scanner, full-speed Intruder, and the BApp Store. If your plan was “use Burp Community for free scanning,” that plan does not work - Community has no active scanner. For a free tool that does scan, the answer is OWASP ZAP, not Burp Community.

Burp Suite Professional ($499/user/year)

This is the tier almost every pentester means when they say “Burp.” Burp Suite Professional is $499 per user per year, an annual subscription published directly on PortSwigger’s buy page. It bundles the intercepting proxy, the automated active and passive scanner, Intruder for fuzzing and brute-force, Repeater, the full BApp Store extension ecosystem, and Burp Collaborator for out-of-band detection. For a tool a pentester lives inside eight hours a day, $499 a year is one of the cheaper line items in the security stack - cheaper per seat than most SAST, cloud-security, or SIEM tooling.

Burp Suite DAST / Enterprise (quote-based)

Burp Suite DAST - PortSwigger renamed Enterprise to DAST - is the automated-scanning-at-scale product for AppSec programmes running continuous DAST across many applications in CI/CD. Its pricing is not published; it is quoted per organisation based on app count, scan volume, and support needs, with unlimited users and free technical support included. Public deal data gives a rough shape: small deployments (5-10 apps) around $18,000-$35,000/year, mid-sized (20-50 apps) $50,000-$120,000/year, and 100+ apps north of $200,000/year. The floor for any meaningful automated enterprise scanning is roughly $6,000 a year. If a vendor or reseller quotes you a fixed “Enterprise” number online, treat it as indicative only - the real figure comes from PortSwigger directly.

What changed in Burp Suite pricing for 2026

Three things moved this year, and they matter if you are budgeting:

• The Pro price rose from $449 to $499 per user per year, effective 6 January 2026. It was a global adjustment, announced well ahead of time. If you renew multiple seats, that is $50 per seat per year of new cost - $250/year extra on a five-seat team, $1,000/year on twenty.
• Burp AI is now bundled into Pro at no extra charge. It is an agentic assistant that suggests attack ideas and guides testing in real time. Whether it changes your workflow is a separate question, but it is not a paid add-on - it comes with the $499.
• Enterprise was rebranded to Burp Suite DAST. Same product lineage, new name and packaging around continuous automated scanning. If you see “Burp Suite Enterprise” in older docs, it is now DAST.

You may still see $475 or $449 quoted in third-party reviews and regional resellers - those are stale or region-specific. The current published global figure for Pro is $499.

Total cost of ownership: teams of 1, 5, and 20

The sticker price is per seat, so team TCO is mostly linear - with one twist at the top end where DAST becomes the cheaper model.

For a solo tester or a small pentest crew, Burp Pro per seat is the answer and the math is trivial. The interesting inflection is around 15-20 seats combined with a need for automated, unattended scanning in a pipeline: at that point a Burp Suite DAST quote (unlimited users, application-priced) can come out cheaper than stacking twenty individual Pro subscriptions, and it gives you the CI/CD scanning Pro is not designed for. Below that scale, Pro wins on simplicity and cost.

Remember the hidden line item in any self-managed tool: operator time. Even at $499/seat, someone configures authenticated scans, tunes findings, and curates reports. That time is real and it does not show up on the invoice.

When Burp Suite Professional is genuinely worth $499

Pay for Pro without hesitation when:

• You do daily pentesting work - the UI muscle memory alone makes a full-time tester 30-50% faster than in any free tool, which dwarfs $499/year.
• You rely on PortSwigger’s research-driven detection for novel classes like HTTP request smuggling and web cache deception, which land in Burp first.
• Your methodology depends on BApp Store extensions (JWT, GraphQL, OAuth, websockets) or Burp Collaborator for out-of-band detection.

If any of those describe you, stop optimising - $499/year is cheap and Burp Pro is the correct buy.

The cheaper path: OWASP ZAP plus automation

If you use web-security tools only occasionally, or you are standing up DAST in CI and want to avoid Enterprise pricing, the free route is real. OWASP ZAP is free under Apache 2.0 and covers the same core OWASP Top 10 detection classes - intercepting proxy, active and passive scanners, fuzzer, and first-class CI integration. Pair it with scripted automation for triage and custom rules and you replicate roughly 75-85% of Burp Pro’s day-to-day workflow at zero licence cost. The trade is more false-positive triage and a rougher UI. We walk through exactly how to build that stack, including the parity matrix and where Burp still wins, in Replace Burp Pro with OWASP ZAP plus automation.

The honest verdict: for Year 1 the ZAP path can cost more than Burp Pro once you count setup engineering, and it only pulls ahead from Year 2. So the free path is about automation flexibility and CI/CD DAST, not just saving $499. For a full-time tester who wants a polished tool today, Burp Pro remains the pragmatic choice.

Where all these tool licences stop mattering

Here is the part the pricing pages will not tell you. Every one of these licences - Community, Pro, DAST - is a scanner-and-proxy licence, and automated scanning finds only about 40% of what a manual web application penetration test finds. Burp Pro’s active scanner is excellent at the pattern-detectable bugs: injection, misconfiguration, missing headers, known-vulnerable components. It is weak or blind on exactly the flaws that cause the worst breaches:

• Broken access control - no scanner knows that user A should not see user B’s invoice; a human tester proves it.
• Business-logic flaws - price manipulation, workflow bypass, abuse of legitimate features. No signature catches these.
• Chained exploits - three low-severity findings that combine into full account takeover, which a scanner reports as three unrelated notes.

This is why the licence question is often the wrong question. When you engage a penetration testing firm, you do not buy Burp, or ZAP, or a DAST subscription - the firm brings its own tooling, its own custom scripts, and, more importantly, the human judgment that turns raw findings into proven, exploited, business-impact reports. Your $499 buys a scanner; a pentest buys the 60% the scanner cannot reach.

If you have been running Burp or ZAP and want to know what they missed, a web application pentest from pentest.ae delivers exploited findings and a remediation-ready report, not scanner output - and there is no per-seat tool licence for you to buy. Book a free scope call.

Related reading

• Replace Burp Pro with OWASP ZAP plus automation - the free-stack build, cost breakdown, and parity matrix
• Burp Suite vs OWASP ZAP - the manual-testing head-to-head if depth matters more than automated coverage
• DAST tools comparison 2026 - Burp, ZAP, Invicti, Acunetix and more, with pricing and a verdict table

Disclaimer

This article is published for informational purposes. Pricing figures for Burp Suite Professional and Community are taken from PortSwigger’s public pages at the time of writing; Burp Suite DAST (Enterprise) figures are market estimates from public sources and may not reflect current contract terms, regional pricing, volume discounts, or negotiated rates. Obtain a current quote directly from PortSwigger before any procurement decision. Burp Suite, PortSwigger, Burp Suite DAST, Burp Collaborator, Burp AI, and OWASP ZAP are trademarks of their respective owners; pentest.ae is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PortSwigger or the OWASP Foundation. Mentions are nominative and descriptive only.