Burp without
the invoice.
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.
what ships · what's paywalled · what's actually better
Burp's browser-powered DOM-XSS detection and its 300+ extension BApp Store are genuinely ahead. If your work is mostly client-side JavaScript and you depend on a specific extension, Burp is the right purchase.
Hugin vs
Burp Suite Professional
The rows that decide it, not all forty.
| Hugin | Burp Suite Professional | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free · Pro €10/mo | $499/yr |
| Intercepting proxy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Active scanner | ✓ | ✓ |
| Passive scanner | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intruder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repeater / sequencer / decoder | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOM-XSS (browser-powered) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Extension ecosystem | ~ | ✓ |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) proxy | ✓ | ✗ |
| Runs offline, no account | ✓ | ~ |
Asked
anyway.
Is there a free alternative to Burp Suite Professional?
Yes. Hugin's Community tier includes the intercepting proxy, the active and passive scanner, intruder, repeater, sequencer and decoder at no cost, with no time limit. Burp Suite Community Edition is free but its scanner is heavily rate-limited and its Intruder is throttled; Hugin's scanner and intruder are not.
What does Burp Suite Professional cost?
PortSwigger lists Burp Suite Professional at $499 per year per seat. Hugin's paid tier is a flat EUR 10 per month for a commercial-use licence, prepaid, with no auto-renewal.
Can Hugin replace Burp for bug bounty hunting?
For most server-side work, yes: proxy, scanner, intruder, repeater, an out-of-band interaction server and a race-condition engine in one binary. If your targets are dominated by client-side DOM-XSS and you rely on Burp's extension ecosystem, keep Burp for that.
Run it
yourself.
No sign-up, no card. Download and run.
The other
head-to-heads.
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.
The full feature matrix
Every capability, every tier, side by side.