Burp Intruder,
at full speed.
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.
what ships · what's paywalled · what's actually better
Burp Intruder's payload-position UI and its integration with Burp's scanner and session-handling macros are more mature. If you drive Intruder from a complex authenticated session, Burp's handling is smoother.
Hugin vs
Burp Intruder
The rows that decide it, not all forty.
| Hugin | Burp Suite Professional | Burp Suite Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · Pro €10/mo | $499/yr | Free |
| Full-speed attacks | ✓ | ✓ | ~ demo only |
| Sniper / pitchfork / cluster bomb | ✓ | ✓ | ~ demo only |
| Payload generators | 21 | ~ | ~ |
| Payload processors | 32 | ~ | ~ |
| Turbo mode | ✓ | ~ | ✗ |
Asked
anyway.
Is Burp Intruder free?
Only as a throttled demo. PortSwigger's Community Edition page lists Burp Intruder under Community as a demo and lists the full Intruder under what Professional adds — so full-speed attacks require the $499/year licence.
What is a good free Burp Intruder alternative?
Hugin's intruder is free and unthrottled. It has sniper, pitchfork, cluster bomb and battering-ram attack modes, 21 payload generators and 32 payload processors, and a Turbo mode for maximum throughput. It lives in the same binary as the proxy, so any captured request is one keystroke away.
How fast is Hugin's intruder compared to Burp Community?
Burp Community's Intruder is deliberately rate-limited to a demo pace. Hugin's is not rate-limited, and its Turbo mode pushes concurrency further. The practical difference is the difference between waiting on a fuzz run and not.
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.
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.
The full feature matrix
Every capability, every tier, side by side.