Burp Suite Community vs OWASP ZAP
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About Burp Suite Community
Burp Suite is the leading toolkit for web application security testing. The Community Edition provides essential manual tools for exploring and testing web applications. It includes an intercepting proxy for viewing and modifying traffic between your browser and target applications, a spider for crawling content and functionality, and tools for analyzing randomness in session tokens. The Professional edition adds an advanced web vulnerability scanner, automated crawling, and extensions via the BApp Store.
About OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is the world's most widely-used open-source web application security scanner. It acts as a man-in-the-middle proxy between your browser and the target application, allowing you to intercept, inspect, and modify HTTP/HTTPS traffic. ZAP provides automated active and passive scanning, spidering, fuzzing, WebSocket support, and an extensive marketplace of add-ons. It integrates into CI/CD pipelines for automated DAST and supports full API testing via OpenAPI/Swagger import. Maintained by a dedicated OWASP team with frequent releases.
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Burp Suite Community only
OWASP ZAP only