Decoder, comparer,
sequencer.
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.
what ships · what's paywalled · what's actually better
Burp's Decoder is older, battle-tested, and extensible through Burp's API. If you have a decoder you rely on, it is probably not worth moving for its own sake.
Hugin vs
Burp Decoder
The rows that decide it, not all forty.
| Hugin | Burp Suite Professional | Burp Suite Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · Pro €10/mo | $499/yr | Free |
| Decoder included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comparer included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sequencer included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Composable transform chain | ✓ | ~ | ~ |
| FIPS 140-2 randomness tests | Monobit + 4 | ~ | ~ |
| JWT / protobuf decode | ✓ | ~ extension | ~ extension |
Asked
anyway.
Are Burp's Decoder, Comparer and Sequencer free?
Yes. PortSwigger lists Repeater, Decoder, Sequencer and Comparer as the essential tools included in the free Community Edition. Hugin's are free too, so the difference is in what each one does.
What does Hugin's decoder add?
Composable transform chains: stack URL, Base64, HTML, hex, JWT and protobuf transforms in one pass instead of decoding through them one at a time. The sequencer runs the FIPS 140-2 randomness tests, including Monobit, Poker, Runs and Long Runs.
Should I switch from Burp just for the decoder?
No. A decoder is not worth changing tools for on its own. These tools matter as part of a workflow — the reason to look at Hugin is the scanner, the intruder and the race-condition engine, with the decoder included.
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.
The full feature matrix
Every capability, every tier, side by side.