PortSwigger Burp Suite vs. SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PortSwigger Burp Suite
Score 9.3 out of 10
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The Burp Suite, from UK-based alcohol-themed software company PortSwigger Web Security, is an application security and testing solution.N/A
SoapUI Open Source
Score 8.2 out of 10
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SoapUI is an open source API testing tool supported by SmartBear's community, supporting functional and performance testing of APIs.N/A
Pricing
PortSwigger Burp SuiteSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PortSwigger Burp SuiteSoapUI Open Source
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
PortSwigger Burp SuiteSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Top Pros
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User Ratings
PortSwigger Burp SuiteSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(11 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
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Support Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PortSwigger Burp SuiteSoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
PortSwigger Web Security
Burp Suite is a good general tool to test websites as long as your website is not too large or you have the time for it to complete. We have some websites that only about five to ten minutes for Burp Suite to complete an attack and a spider only takes about two minutes. Other websites have taken a few hours to complete. I have seen a tester actually run Burp Suite against one of our websites and it took all day to complete.
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SmartBear
Good for simple requests, simple scripts, assertions, and small workflows. Also not bad with the Open Source version if savvy with code as you can do a lot with custom functionality.Free version has limited compatibility with scripts/projects created from the Pro version, but functionality-wise can probably be made up with coding. As such, the free version may not be too suitable for complex scripts or for those who are not familiar with coding as functionality/usability may be limited.
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Pros
PortSwigger Web Security
  • The passive scan feature is really awesome, it kind of covers areas that you might miss.
  • The CSRF POC is really helpful to my team. It helps development team see the issue and understand it.
  • Burp intruder and repeater are the features I myself and my team uses the most as it helps us use our payloads in a variety of different ways.
  • Active scan helps the team to ensure coverage for the whole application.
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SmartBear
  • Ease of implementation
  • Ease of use
  • User friendly interface
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Cons
PortSwigger Web Security
  • The interface is a big problem: No matter how many features a software provides you, if the features are not well presented, you will miss most of them when they are actually required. The presentation of the software should be improvised and made more presentable.
  • Tutorial videos for beginners: This software lacks a lot in tutorials. A beginner almost wastes most of the time in finding and understanding the features and the implementation of the same. The software vendor should work on providing more in-depth videos so that people can learn and understand the concepts.
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SmartBear
  • I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.
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Usability
PortSwigger Web Security
Easy to use once you learn it; however, the user interface is not very intuitive at first view. Port Swigger does provide a lot of video resources for self-paced learning which helps. Most of the end users for PortSwigger Burp Suite will be technical and should be able to learn the product with the free resources.
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
PortSwigger Web Security
BurpSuite does not have an amazing customer support. All the major help that you will find is from public forums and Google. Although you will find all the required information on Google, still at time professional support helps you solve the problem in much less time and make your operations go smoothly.
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
PortSwigger Web Security
Each tool is specific and are good for what they do. While Burp Suite can perform some level of the same functions, somehow security consultants prefer these tools as additional to the Burp Suite. Maybe due to open source and easy setup when compared to Burp Suite. But Burp Suite allows for one tool for many templates for each project.
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SmartBear
Compared to SoapUI, we have been using "light" tools like RestClient extension in Firefox, or Postman. Compared to Postman, SoapUI is more simple for WSDL / SOAP webservices, as SoapUI generate all envelop, but Postman does not. For Rest API, I think that Postman is a little above SoapUI, but not too far away.
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Return on Investment
PortSwigger Web Security
  • Scanned 100% of the orgs public facing web sites with a small team of analysts.
  • Provided a reputable second opinion source to back up the other product in use i.e. Webinspect.
  • Pro version $350 is amazing ROI, considering the thwarted attacks and that it's competition is priced in the tens of thousands last I checked.
  • No successful hacks. Q.E.D. :-)
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SmartBear
  • Testing resolves most of the issues in the development phases.
  • User friendliness of the app makes it good.
  • Overall client happiness depends on the clean project, which is possible by testing.
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