G2 Vendor Directory

Burp Suite vs. Cobalt

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricBurp Suite

by PortSwigger

Cobalt

by Cobalt

Overall rating4.84.5
Review count129183
Ease of use9.09.3
Ease of setup9.49.2
Quality of support8.99.4
Meets requirements9.59.4
NPS93.65079470.879121
Small Business30.5%24.0%
Mid-Market39.8%55.6%
Enterprise29.7%20.5%
Total page views1,6781,413
Total LLM citations27,39413,393

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a complete ecosystem for web application and API security testing, combining two products: Burp Suite DAST - a best-of-breed, precision DAST solution that automates runtime testing, and Burp Suite Professional - the industry-standard toolkit for manual penetration testing. Developed by PortSwigger, more than 85,000 security professionals rely on Burp Suite to find, verify, and understand vulnerabilities across complex modern web applications.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Testing Services
  • Features
  • Easy Integrations
  • Clear Interface

Cobalt

Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in continuous offensive security testing grounded in human expertise. The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform spans the full spectrum of offensive security, from targeted, human-led pentesting to high-frequency, AI-driven autonomous security testing. Only Cobalt brings together the four critical elements of modern offensive security: elite human expertise, a context-aware platform, AI-powered orchestration, and the industry's largest dataset of real-world pentest results.

Pros

  • Pentesting Efficiency
  • Customer Support
  • Ease of Use
  • Communication
  • Reporting Quality
  • Team Expertise