How Hugin stacks up
An honest comparison against Burp Suite and Caido. No marketing spin — just what each tool actually ships.
At a glance
The details
vs Burp Suite
Scanner without the paywall
Burp locks its active scanner behind the $449/year Professional license. Hugin ships 40 active checks and 24 passive checks in the free tier. Same OOB blind detection. Same scan profiles. No rate limits.
Intruder without the handbrake
Burp Community throttles Intruder to make it unusable. Hugin Community runs at full speed — 19 payload generators, 15 processing rules, 4 attack modes including Turbo Intruder with raw TCP batching.
No JVM tax
Burp runs on the JVM. That means 10-30 second startup, multi-gigabyte memory footprint, and Java update headaches. Hugin is a single Rust binary under 30 MB. It starts in under a second and uses a fraction of the memory.
AI-native, not AI-bolted
Burp has no MCP integration. AI interaction means BApp plugins or copy-paste. Hugin exposes 130+ MCP tools — your agent directly controls the proxy, scanner, fuzzer, and decoder without touching a GUI.
Race conditions built in
Burp requires the Turbo Intruder extension (Python) for race conditions. Hugin has a purpose-built engine: single-packet attacks, last-byte sync, barrier coordination, and 60+ modules for common race patterns.
vs Caido
Scanner included
Caido doesn't ship a vulnerability scanner. Hugin includes 40 active checks with blind OOB detection across 6 protocols, plus 24 passive checks that run on every response. Free tier.
More tools for less
Caido Pro is ~$110/year and doesn't include active scanning or OOB detection. Hugin Pro is 5 EUR/month and includes 130+ MCP tools, race conditions, WASM modules, Lua extensions, and E2E encrypted collaboration.
130+ MCP tools vs agent preview
Caido's AI integration is a recent addition. Hugin ships 130+ production MCP tools covering scanning, fuzzing, smuggling, deserialization, SSRF, cache poisoning, and OAuth exploitation.
Offline-first
Caido requires an account and phones home for license checks. Hugin Community needs no account and works fully offline. All data stays in local SQLite. Zero telemetry.
WASM sandbox > JS plugins
Caido plugins run in a JavaScript runtime with full access. Hugin Synaps modules compile to WASM and run in Wasmtime with 1 billion instruction fuel caps and 16 MB memory limits. Proper sandboxing for community code.