CyberScore vs Burp Suite
Burp Suite is the gold-standard pentester toolkit. We don't replace it. The honest framing is Burp covers application-layer pentesting, CyberScore covers the perimeter between two pentests — and most teams need both.
Last reviewed June 2026. Burp Suite pricing and feature references reflect the public PortSwigger website at the time of writing — Enterprise quotes are sales-led and may have changed.
Side by side
| Capability | CyberScore | Burp Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price (paid) | $99 / month (Starter) or $49 one-time | Burp Suite Pro starts around $475 / user / year. Burp Suite Enterprise (multi-user, scheduled) starts in the $6k+ / year range per PortSwigger sales — quote-driven. |
| Primary use case | External attack-surface monitoring between two pentests — DNS, TLS, headers, ports, OSINT, leaked secrets. | Manual + automated web-app penetration testing. Authenticated crawl, request tampering, payload-driven vuln discovery. |
| Who runs it | Set-and-forget for the CISO or CTO. We send a weekly digest; you don't open the tool unless a score drops. | Hands-on pentester or security engineer. Burp is a power tool — its value comes from someone who knows where to point it. |
| Authenticated app scanning | No — by design. We don't sit in the auth path of customer apps. | Yes — Burp can authenticate to web apps and crawl post-login, which is half its value. |
| Continuous monitoring cadence | Weekly or daily on the Pro / Always-On tiers. Email digest with delta + Slack alerts on score drops. | Burp Enterprise schedules scans on a cron. The schedule lives inside the product — alerting goes via Jira / email integrations. |
| Compliance tracker + audit CSV | Yes — every "Mark fixed / Won't fix / Snoozed" decision in one downloadable CSV with operator email and timestamp. | Burp Enterprise has a vulnerability tracker with assignment + status. Export is per-scan, not cross-portfolio. |
| Public score badge | Yes — opt-in /badge/<domain> page with a 1200×630 OG card for LinkedIn / Slack unfurls. | No. |
| Reporting depth | Multi-page PDF + AI Security Brief + findings-delta on rescans. Designed for a CISO + DPO to read in one sitting. | PortSwigger reports are deep — every payload, every parameter, every response diff. Built for a pentester to action. |
| Hosting + data residency | Hosted in France — single Postgres database per tenant. Reports never leave EU. | PortSwigger is UK-based. Enterprise can self-host on customer infrastructure. |
| Free preview without an account | Yes — one anonymous sample scan per IP. | Burp Suite Community Edition is free but a desktop tool — not directly comparable. |
When CyberScore is the right call
- You've already done your annual pentest (with Burp or otherwise) and want continuous coverage for the other 51 weeks.
- You need a single 0-100 score for a board pack, not a multi-hundred-page Burp report.
- You don't have a pentester on staff to run Burp every week — set-and-forget monitoring is the right model for your team size.
- Your stakeholders are CISO / DPO / compliance, not engineers — they read PDFs and CSVs, not Burp request-response diffs.
When Burp is the right call (or both)
- You have a pentester or security engineer who actively tests your own apps post-deploy.
- Your highest risk is authenticated application vulnerabilities (IDOR, broken auth, business-logic flaws). That's Burp's home turf, not ours.
- You need request interception, payload tampering, extension support — power-tool territory.
Most security-conscious teams we talk to run both: Burp for the deep app-layer work, CyberScore for the weekly perimeter watch. The combined annual cost is usually less than Burp Enterprise alone.
Frequently asked questions
Is CyberScore a Burp Suite replacement?+
No. Burp Suite is the gold-standard application pentesting toolkit — authenticated crawls, request tampering, payload-driven vulnerability discovery. CyberScore covers a different layer: the external perimeter between two pentests (DNS, TLS, headers, ports, OSINT, leaked secrets). They solve different problems.
Do I need both CyberScore and Burp Suite?+
Most security-conscious teams run both. Burp is used by a pentester or security engineer for deep app-layer work; CyberScore runs in the background for weekly perimeter monitoring. The combined annual cost is usually less than Burp Enterprise alone.
Burp Suite vs CyberScore for an SMB without a dedicated security engineer?+
If no one on staff actively runs Burp every week, its value drops sharply — it is a power tool that needs an operator. CyberScore is set-and-forget for a CISO or CTO, with a weekly digest. For an SMB without a pentester, CyberScore is the more practical starting point.
Why is Burp Suite so much more expensive than CyberScore?+
Burp Suite Pro starts around $475 per user per year and Burp Suite Enterprise starts in the $6k+ per year range per PortSwigger sales (quote-driven). CyberScore Starter is $99 per month. The price gap reflects scope: Burp is a full DAST + manual pentest platform; CyberScore is focused external attack-surface monitoring.
Can CyberScore find SQL injection like Burp Suite?+
No — and not by design. CyberScore does not perform authenticated app scanning or payload-driven vulnerability testing. SQL injection, IDOR, broken auth and other business-logic flaws are Burp territory. CyberScore stays on the external surface: DNS, TLS, headers, OSINT, leaked secrets.
Does CyberScore do authenticated web application scanning?+
No, by design. We do not sit in the auth path of customer applications. If authenticated app scanning is your priority, Burp Suite (or an equivalent DAST) is the right tool — and CyberScore can sit alongside it for the perimeter watch.
See it for yourself
Run a free sample scan on your own domain — no account, no credit card. See exactly what we surface from the public internet, then decide.
Got a comparison correction? Email patrick@cybersco.re and we'll update the page.