Burp Repeater,
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.
what ships · what's paywalled · what's actually better
Burp Repeater is more mature: request tabs, history, and the surrounding tooling are all more polished. If Repeater is where you live, Burp's is the better-built room.
Hugin vs
Burp Repeater
The rows that decide it, not all forty.
| Hugin | Burp Suite Professional | Burp Suite Community | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · Pro €10/mo | $499/yr | Free |
| Repeater included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Request tabs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Response diff / comparer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In the same binary as the scanner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Asked
anyway.
Is Burp Repeater free?
Yes. Repeater is one of the essential tools PortSwigger lists as included in the free Community Edition. Hugin's repeater is free as well, so this is a comparison of the tools rather than of their price.
What does a native repeater add?
No JVM, sub-second startup, and HTTP/3 support that Burp does not have. Hugin's repeater shares the same engine as the proxy, scanner and intruder, so a request in history is one keystroke from being replayed and re-scanned.
Can I use Hugin and Burp side by side?
Yes, and it is a reasonable setup: keep Burp for the tools you have built muscle memory around, and run Hugin alongside it for the scanner, intruder and race-condition engine. They are independent binaries and do not conflict.
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 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.