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Contrast Security Assess vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

Contrast Security and PortSwigger are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. Contrast Security is ranked #26 with an average rating of 8.0, while PortSwigger is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.0. Contrast Security holds a 0.8% mindshare in AS, compared to PortSwigger’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Contrast Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of PortSwigger users who would recommend it.

Contrast Security Assess

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Contrast Security Assess are tools in the web application security testing category. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional appears to have the upper hand in competitive pricing and user satisfaction in support, while Contrast Security Assess is noted for having advanced features and perceived value.

Features: PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is recognized for its comprehensive manual testing tools, integration capabilities, and extensive functionality for testing web applications. Contrast Security Assess is distinguished by automatic vulnerability detection, a robust set of integrations, and ease of use in continuous integration workflows.

Room for Improvement: PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional users suggest enhancements in reducing false positives, improving automated scanning capabilities, and increasing customization options. Contrast Security Assess users recommend refining customization options, streamlining setup complexity, and offering more scalable solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is known for its easy deployment process and reliable customer support. Contrast Security Assess provides smooth deployment in integrated environments, though it may need additional support resources for optimal use.

Pricing and ROI: PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is recognized for cost-effectiveness and delivering strong ROI, with users quickly benefiting from initial investments. Contrast Security Assess, while higher in cost, justifies its expense through outstanding features that offer substantial long-term value.

To learn more, read our detailed Contrast Security Assess vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Contrast Security Assess vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Contrast Security Assess

Ranking in Application Security Tools

26th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

27th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...

Ranking in Application Security Tools

10th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Contrast Security Assess is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 2.2%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional	2.2%
Contrast Security Assess	0.8%
Other	97.0%

Application Security Tools

Featured Reviews

Mustufa Bhavnagarwala

CyberRisk Solution Advisor at Deloitte

A stable solution that provides lots of details on web-based vulnerabilities and source code reviews

Technical support for the solution should be faster. We have to further analyze what kind of CVEs are in the reported libraries and what part of the code is affected. That analysis can be added to the report that Contrast Security Assess gives. Further analysis should be done of the third-party libraries report that it gives. The solution should provide more details in the section where it shows that third-party libraries have CVEs or some vulnerabilities. The onboarding or the setup of Contrast Security Assess can get a little easier.

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Anton Krivonosov

Application Security Architect at Kuehne & Nagel Inc.

A special tool for penetration testers or security specialists to conduct security assessments

We use the solution for security assessments. It's a special tool for penetration testers or security specialists PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is a standard tool in the security industry. It's a stable solution that has many features. You can download different plugins if you don't have…

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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

"In our most critical applications, we have a deep dive in the code evaluation, which was something we usually did with periodic vulnerability assessments, code reviews, etc. Now, we have real time access to it. It's something that has greatly enhanced our code's quality. We have actually embedded a KPI in regards to the improvement of our code shell. For example, Contrast provides a baseline where libraries and the usability of the code are evaluated, and they produce a score. We always aim to improve that score. On a quarterly basis, we have added this to our KPIs."

"The accuracy of the solution in identifying vulnerabilities is better than any other product we've used, far and away. In our internal comparisons among different tools, Contrast consistently finds more impactful vulnerabilities, and also identifies vulnerabilities that are nearly guaranteed to be there, meaning that the chance of false positives is very low."

"When we access the application, it continuously monitors and detects vulnerabilities."

"Assess has an excellent API interface to pull APIs."

"I am impressed with the product's identification of alerts and vulnerabilities."

"It is a stable solution...Contrast Security Assess is one of the first players in this market, so they have experience and customers, especially abroad. Overall, it's a good product."

"The solution is very accurate in identifying vulnerabilities. In cases where we are performing application assessment using Contrast Assess, and also using legacy application security testing tools, Contrast successfully identifies the same vulnerabilities that the other tools have identified but it also identifies significantly more. In addition, it has visibility into application components that other testing methodologies are unaware of."

"We use the Contrast OSS feature that allows us to look at third-party, open-source software libraries, because it has a cool interface where you can look at all the different libraries. It has some really cool additional features where it gives us how many instances in which something has been used... It tells us it has been used 10 times out of 20 workloads, for example. Then we know for sure that OSS is being used."

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"We are mostly using it for scanning the entire website. So, we basically create a script with the entire website and then run it for different injections."

"It is useful for scanning and tracing activities."

"The Repeater and the BApp extensions are particularly useful. Certain extensions, such as the Active Scan extensions and the Autoracer extension, are very good."

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

"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."

"In my area of expertise, I feel like it has almost everything I could possibly require at this moment."

"I rate PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional ten points out of ten."

"With the Extender Tab, if you know how to code then you can create a plugin and add it to Burp."

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Cons

"Contrast's ability to support upgrades on the actual agents that get deployed is limited. Our environment is pretty much entirely Java. There are no updates associated with that. You have to actually download a new version of the .jar file and push that out to your servers where your app is hosted. That can be quite cumbersome from a change-management perspective."

"I would like to see them come up with more scanning rules."

"The out-of-the-box reporting could be improved. We need to write our own APIs to make the reporting more robust."

"Personalization of the board and how to make it appealing to an organization is something that could be done on their end. The reports could be adaptable to the customer's preferences."

"The product's retesting part needs improvement. The tool also needs improvement in the suggestions provided for fixing vulnerabilities. It relies more on documentation rather than on quick fixes."

"The solution should provide more details in the section where it shows that third-party libraries have CVEs or some vulnerabilities."

"Contrast Security Assess covers a wide range of applications like .NET Framework, Java, PSP, Node.js, etc. But there are some like Ubuntu and the .NET Core which are not covered. They have it in their roadmap to have these agents. If they have that, we will have complete coverage."

"To instrument an agent, it has to be running on a type of application technology that the agent recognizes and understands. It's excellent when it works. If we're using an application that is using an unsupported technology, then we can't instrument it at all. We do use PHP and Contrast presently doesn't support that, although it's on their roadmap. My primary hurdle is that it doesn't support all of the technologies that we use."

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"It would be good if the solution could give us more details about what exactly is defective."

"I need the solution to be more user-friendly. The solution needs to be user-friendly."

"The pricing of the solution is quite high."

"The Auto Scanning features should be updated more frequently and should include the latest attack vectors."

"There needs to be better documentation provided. Currently, we need to buy books, or we need to review online some use cases from other professionals who have been using the solution to find out their experience. It is not easy to find out how to properly do a security assessment."

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

"I am from Brazil. The currency exchange rate from a dollar to a Brazilian Real is quite steep. It is almost six to one. It would be good if it can be sold in the local currency, and its price is cheaper for us."

"One area that can be improved, when compared to alternative tools, is that they could provide different reporting options and in different formats like PDF or something like that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"I like the per-application licensing model... We just license the app and we look at different vulnerabilities on that app and we remediate within the app. It's simpler."

"For what it offers, it's a very reasonable cost. The way that it is priced is extremely straightforward. It works on the number of applications that you use, and you license a server. It is something that is extremely fair, because it doesn't take into consideration the number of requests, etc. It is only priced based on the number of onboarded applications. It suits our model as well, because we have huge traffic. Our number of applications is not that large, so the pricing works great for us."

"It's a tiered licensing model. The more you buy, as you cross certain quantity thresholds, the pricing changes. If you have a smaller environment, your licensing costs are going to be different than a larger environment... The licensing is primarily per application. An application can be as many agents as you need. If you've got 10 development servers and 20 production servers and 50 QA servers, all of those agents can be reporting as a single application that utilizes one license."

"The product's pricing is low. I would rate it a two out of ten."

"You only get one license for an application. Ours are very big, monolithic applications with millions of lines of code. We were able to apply one license to one monolithic application, which is great. We are happy with the licensing. Pricing-wise, they are industry-standard, which is fine."

"The good news is that the agent itself comes in two different forms: the unlicensed form and the licensed form. Unlicensed gives use of that software composition analysis for free. Thereafter, if you apply a license to that same agent, that's when the instrumentation takes hold. So one of my suggestions is to do what we're doing: Deploy the agent to as many applications as possible, with just the SCA feature turned on with no license applied, and then you can be more choosy and pick which teams will get the license applied."

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

"The platform's pricing is reasonable."

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

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is expensive compared to other tools."

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

"This solution requires a license. It is expensive but you receive a lot of functionality for the price."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution, which is neither cheap nor expensive."

"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	35

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Contrast Security Assess?

When we access the application, it continuously monitors and detects vulnerabilities.

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What needs improvement with Contrast Security Assess?

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What advice do you have for others considering Contrast Security Assess?

Contrast Security Assess is deployed on-cloud in our organization. I would recommend Contrast Security Assess to other users. It's a really good tool. It provides lots of details on web-based vulne...

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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?

The cost of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is reasonable at approximately $500 per year per user.

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Also Known As

Contrast Assess

Burp

Overview

Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

Contrast Security

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.

PortSwigger

Sample Customers

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.

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

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