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Defensics Protocol Fuzzing vs PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Defensics Protocol Fuzzing
Ranking in Fuzz Testing Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PortSwigger Burp Suite Prof...
Ranking in Fuzz Testing Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (10th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Fuzz Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Defensics Protocol Fuzzing is 23.3%, up from 19.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is 31.5%, up from 28.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Fuzz Testing Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional31.5%
Defensics Protocol Fuzzing23.3%
Other45.2%
Fuzz Testing Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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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.
Anton Krivonosov - PeerSpot reviewer
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is related to US usage with TLS contact fees, i.e. how more data center connections will help lower networking costs."
"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."
"We have found multiple issues in our embedded system network protocols, related to buffer overflow. We have reduced some of these issues."
"The extension that it provides with the community version for the skills mapping is excellent."
"BurpSuite helps us to identify and fix silly mistakes that are sometimes introduced by our developers in their coding."
"The Repeater and the BApp extensions are particularly useful. Certain extensions, such as the Active Scan extensions and the Autoracer extension, are very good."
"We use the solution for vulnerability assessment in respect of the application and the sites."
"For pentesting scenarios, this is the number one tool. It can capture the request, and there are so many functions that are very good for that. For example, a black box satellite host."
"It helps in API testing, where manual intervention was previously necessary for each payload."
"The Spider is the most useful feature. It helps to analyze the entire web application, and it finds all the passes and offers an automated identification of security issues."
""The product is very good just the way it is; It has everything already well established and functions great. I can't see any way for this current version to be improved.""
 

Cons

"Codenomicon Defensics should be more advanced for the testing sector. It should be somewhat easy and flexible to install."
"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."
"It does not support the complete protocol stack. There are some IoT protocols that are not supported and new protocols that are not supported."
"The Iran market does not have after-sales support. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional needs to provide after-sales support."
"The one feature that I would like to see in Burp is active scanning of REST based web services. A lot of organizations are providing APIs to access their services to support different business models like SaaS. Scanning these APIs is still a challenge for many security product companies."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high."
"As with most automated security tools, too many false positives."
"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."
"I need the solution to be more user-friendly. The solution needs to be user-friendly."
"A lot of our interns find it difficult to get used to PortSwigger Burp's environment."
"The number of false positives need to be reduced on the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is a bit expensive."
"Pricing is not very high. It was around $200."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is an expensive solution."
"I rate the pricing a four out of ten."
"The yearly cost is about $300."
"There is no setup cost and the cost of licensing is affordable."
"We are using the community version, which is free."
"The pricing of the solution is reasonable. We only need to pay for the annual subscription. I rate the pricing five out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise35
 

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The solution helped us discover vulnerabilities in our applications.
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The cost of PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional is reasonable at approximately $500 per year per user.
 

Also Known As

Codenomicon Defensics
Burp
 

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Sample Customers

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