G2 Vendor Directory

Tenable Nessus vs. Burp Suite

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

MetricTenable Nessus

by Tenable

Burp Suite

by PortSwigger

Overall rating4.54.8
Review count320129
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.09.4
Quality of support8.78.9
Meets requirements9.29.5
NPS68.85245993.650794
Small Business27.1%30.5%
Mid-Market39.7%39.8%
Enterprise33.1%29.7%
Total page views1,8721,678
Total LLM citations24,39027,394

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

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