G2 Vendor Directory

Burp Suite vs. Tenable Nessus

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

MetricBurp Suite

by PortSwigger

Tenable Nessus

by Tenable

Overall rating4.84.5
Review count129320
Ease of use9.09.1
Ease of setup9.49.0
Quality of support8.98.7
Meets requirements9.59.2
NPS93.65079468.852459
Small Business30.5%27.1%
Mid-Market39.8%39.7%
Enterprise29.7%33.1%
Total page views1,6781,872
Total LLM citations27,39424,390

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

Tenable Nessus

Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications.

Pros

  • Vulnerability Identification
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Automated Scanning
  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • User Interface