Burp Community,
and the gaps.
Burp Suite Community Edition is genuinely free and genuinely capable — proxy, Repeater, Decoder, Sequencer and Comparer. What it does not have is a scanner, an unthrottled Intruder, out-of-band testing or project saving. This page shows exactly which parts are free and which are not.
what ships · what's paywalled · what's actually better
Burp Community is a mature, cross-platform, free suite with the BApp Store behind it. If you depend on a specific extension or on Burp's muscle memory, its free edition is a complete manual-testing tool and there is no reason to move.
Hugin vs
Burp Suite Community Edition
The rows that decide it, not all forty.
| Hugin | Burp Suite Community | Burp Suite Professional | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · Pro €10/mo | Free | $499/yr |
| Intercepting proxy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Active scanner | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Passive scanner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intruder | ✓ | ~ demo only | ✓ |
| Repeater / decoder / sequencer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Out-of-band testing | ~ Pro | ✗ | ✓ |
| Save / restore a project | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Extension ecosystem | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) proxy | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Asked
anyway.
What does Burp Suite Community Edition not include?
PortSwigger's Community Edition page is explicit: the free tier has the proxy, Repeater, Decoder, Sequencer, Comparer and an Intruder demo. It does not include the vulnerability scanner, the full-speed Intruder, Burp Collaborator, the crawler, Search or project files — those are listed as what Professional adds.
Is Burp Suite Community Edition free forever?
Yes, it is free with no time limit. The limitation is not time, it is capability: the scanner is absent and Intruder runs as a throttled demo, so the free tier is a manual-testing tool rather than an automated one.
Is there a free alternative with a scanner?
Yes. Hugin's Community tier is free and includes the active and passive scanner with no rate limit, plus an unthrottled intruder, proxy, repeater and race-condition engine in one native binary. ZAP is the other free option with a scanner and is fully open source.
The tool,
and the how-to.
Run it
yourself.
No sign-up, no card. Download and run.
The other
head-to-heads.
Free Burp Suite Alternative — Hugin vs Burp
Burp Suite Professional is the industry standard and it costs $499 a year. Hugin is the same shape of tool — intercepting proxy, active and passive scanner, intruder, repeater, sequencer — that runs natively, offline, and free for personal and educational use.
Burp vs ZAP — and Where Hugin Fits
The usual question is whether to pay $499 for Burp Suite Professional or use ZAP for free. Hugin is the free option that is neither a JVM desktop app nor a scriptable library — one native binary, proxy, scanner, intruder, repeater and an AI agent.
Caido vs Burp — and the Free Alternative
Caido is the modern, Rust-based proxy that has pulled a lot of Burp users. Burp is still the incumbent. Hugin is the third point: like Caido it is native, unlike Caido it ships an active scanner in the box.
Free Burp Collaborator Alternative — Self-Hosted OOB
Burp Collaborator is the out-of-band server that catches the bugs you cannot see in a response: blind SSRF, blind RCE, blind XXE. It is a Professional-only feature. Hugin's Oastify does the same job over 8 protocols, from your own infrastructure, at a tenth of the price.
Burp Intruder Alternative — Full Speed, Free
Burp Intruder is throttled to a demo in the free Community Edition; the real thing sits behind the $499/year Professional licence. Hugin's intruder is unthrottled and free — sniper, pitchfork, cluster bomb and battering ram, with payload generators and processors.
Free Burp Scanner Alternative — 64 Active Checks
Burp's web vulnerability scanner is a Professional-only feature and there is no free edition of it. Hugin's scanner ships in the free Community tier: 64 active checks and 48 passive checks, mapped to the OWASP and API Top 10, with no rate limit.
Burp Repeater Alternative — Free, Native
Burp Repeater is free in Community Edition and Hugin's is free too — this page is about the difference a native repeater makes, not about price. Hand-edit any request, replay it, diff the responses, and move on.
Burp Decoder, Comparer & Sequencer Alternatives
Burp's Decoder, Comparer and Sequencer ship free in Community Edition, so this is a fair fight rather than a paywall story. Hugin has all three, and adds a composable transform chain and a sequencer that runs the FIPS 140-2 randomness tests.
Free Web Application Vulnerability Scanner
The web application vulnerability scanner is the most-paywalled tool in security testing. Burp's is Professional-only at $499 a year. ZAP's is free and open source. Hugin's is in the free Community tier with no rate limit. Three honest options, one table.
mitmproxy vs Burp Suite — and Where Hugin Fits
mitmproxy and Burp are often framed as rivals, but they are built for different work. mitmproxy is a scriptable, terminal-first proxy that automation is written against. Burp is a GUI suite a person drives by hand. Hugin sits closer to Burp's shape and adds the parts Burp paywalls.
OWASP ZAP Alternative — Native, No JVM
OWASP ZAP is the reference free scanner: open source, scriptable, and able to do almost anything through its API and add-ons. If what you want is a desktop suite with a built-in scanner and no Java runtime, Hugin is the same job in a single native binary. This page is honest about where ZAP is ahead.
Caido Alternative — a Free Proxy with a Scanner
Caido pulled a lot of testers off Burp with a lighter, Rust-based proxy and a clean plugin system. Its active scanner is a community plugin, not a shipped feature. Hugin is the free alternative that ships the scanner built in — with proxy, repeater, intruder and a race engine in one binary.
The full feature matrix
Every capability, every tier, side by side.