AuditCore vs Burp Suite Pro
Burp Suite Pro is the pentester's gold-standard manual tool — interactive proxy, repeater, intruder, scanner. It's what professionals use to FIND a vulnerability by hand. AuditCore is automated continuous DAST that runs on its own — it's what you use to KEEP a known-good security posture between manual pentests. Different jobs.
The TL;DR
Pick AuditCore if: You're a dev / founder / security-aware team that wants continuous automated security testing without becoming a pentester. You want scheduled scans, PR-gating CI integration, AI-generated fix code, per-standard compliance evidence. You may or may not also do annual manual pentests — automated continuous is the gap that fills the 364 days between them.
Pick Burp Suite Pro if: You are (or hire) a manual penetration tester. You want a tool to drive an interactive engagement: capture-and-replay requests, fuzz parameters manually, write custom Burp extensions, follow exploitation chains by hand. Burp's Repeater + Intruder + extensibility are the workhorse tools of every web pentest.
Run both: Most mature security programs do both. Burp Pro (or a pentester using it) does annual deep-dive engagements that find creative exploit chains automation never will. AuditCore runs continuously to catch the new regressions BETWEEN those engagements + provide audit-ready evidence for compliance. Cost is complementary: Burp Pro $475/year per user, AuditCore one-time per site.
Feature-by-feature comparison
Pricing accurate as of mid-2026. Burp Suite Pro pricing from portswigger.net.
| Feature | AuditCore | Burp Suite Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price Burp is per-user (the pentester), AuditCore is per-site (the asset). | $0 free, $29 paid (one-time per site) | $475/year per user (Pro) |
| Pricing model | One-time per site, unlimited rescans | Annual subscription per user |
| Free tier | yes (1-page audit) | yes (Burp Community — limited) |
| Primary use case | Continuous automated DAST | Manual penetration testing tool |
| Pentester required to operate | no (self-serve) | yes (manual tool requires expertise) |
| Continuous / scheduled scanning | yes (scheduled + change-driven) | no (manual sessions) |
| Burp Scanner (automated) | n/a | yes (Burp's own scan engine, runs in Pro) |
| Interactive proxy | yes (the heart of Burp) | |
| Repeater / Intruder (manual fuzzing) | yes (pentester's core workflow) | |
| Extension ecosystem (BApp Store) | yes (~250 community extensions) | |
| OWASP Top 10 coverage | yes (Burp Scanner) | |
| BOLA / BFLA cross-role automation | yes (automated cross-role replay) | partial (Autorize extension) |
| GraphQL deep fuzzing | partial (extensions like GraphQL Raider) | |
| AI prompt-injection scanner Unique to AuditCore. | yes (14 attack categories) | |
| AI-readiness scanner | ||
| Mobile (APK / IPA) scanning | no (Burp is web-focused) | |
| SEO audit included | yes (60+ checks) | |
| WordPress-specific tests | yes (11) | no (generic web) |
| CI/CD integration (GitHub Action, GitLab CI) | yes (Burp Suite Enterprise — separate product) | |
| API for programmatic access | yes (REST + MCP) | yes (Pro REST API) |
| AI fix code generation | yes (Claude API) | |
| PDF report (auditor-ready) | ||
| White-label report branding | ||
| Per-standard compliance mapping | yes (PCI/GDPR/ISO/NIS2/HIPAA) | |
| MCP / Claude / Cursor IDE integration |
Frequently asked questions
Is AuditCore a Burp Suite Pro replacement?+
For the AUTOMATED part of Burp's job (Burp Scanner) — yes, with broader coverage (AI, mobile, SEO, WordPress, compliance). For the MANUAL part (interactive proxy, repeater, intruder, custom extensions) — no. Manual pentesting is fundamentally a different activity. Most teams need both: continuous automation (us) + occasional manual engagement (Burp).
What does Burp Pro do that automation can't?+
Creative exploit chains. A real pentester chains 3 'low-severity' findings into a 'critical' takeover that no scanner would correlate. Custom extensions for proprietary protocols. Authenticated multi-step workflows that need a human to think through. The art of pentesting. Automation handles the bulk repetitive stuff well; humans handle the interesting stuff better. Both have a place.
Can AuditCore replace an annual pentest?+
For most SMB/SaaS use cases, automated continuous scanning catches 70-80% of what an annual pentest would find — and catches it within DAYS of regression, not 6 months later. For higher-security applications (banking, healthcare, defense), the remaining 20-30% (creative chains, business logic at the strategic level, authenticated multi-actor scenarios) still requires a human pentester. Use both. Pentest once a year, AuditCore continuously between.
What about Burp Suite Enterprise?+
Burp Suite Enterprise is PortSwigger's automated/CI version of Burp Scanner — closer comparison to AuditCore. Enterprise is also subscription-priced (typically $30K+/year for meaningful deployments), focuses purely on web app DAST. AuditCore is broader (AI, mobile, SEO, compliance) at a fraction of the cost. If you need just web-DAST-at-scale with maximum Burp engine fidelity, Burp Enterprise. Otherwise AuditCore offers more for less.
Does AuditCore have a Burp-style interactive proxy?+
No — that's intentional. We're a self-serve tool for teams that don't have a dedicated pentester. If you want interactive proxying, use actual Burp (Community is free; Pro is $475/year). Many of our customers use Burp Community when they want to manually verify or extend an AuditCore finding.
How does CI integration compare?+
AuditCore: GitHub Action one-liner, fail-on severity threshold, PR comments. Setup time: 5 minutes. Burp Enterprise: REST API + Jenkins/Bamboo plugins, more granular scan configuration, requires Burp Enterprise license ($$). Pro alone doesn't ship CI integration — Community + Pro are designed for interactive use.
Will my pentester still find things AuditCore missed?+
Yes, and that's a sign of a good pentest. The findings overlap with automation will be 50-70% (which is fine — defense in depth). The pentester's value is the 30-50% that automation can't reach: creative chains, business logic at the architectural level, authenticated multi-actor scenarios, custom-protocol handling. Pay for both; they complement each other.