Detectify vs Burp Suite DAST
Burp Suite DAST runs the Burp Suite Professional scanning engine across your app portfolio, while Detectify tests your web apps and APIs with payloads built with ethical hackers.
Last updated 8 October 2026
| Detectify | Burp Suite DAST | |
|---|---|---|
| How tests are built | Payload-based tests, including 1,765+ Crowdsource modules from ethical hackers | Burp Scanner engine shared with Burp Suite Professional, plus custom BChecks and extensions* |
| Web app scanning | Headless Chrome crawler with full SPA support | Chromium-based crawler that handles JavaScript single-page apps* |
| Authenticated scanning | Basic, Recorded Login and Recorded Crawling | Username and password, recorded logins (SSO, TOTP MFA, WebAuthn), plus NTLM and HTTP Basic* |
| API scanning | OpenAPI v2, v3, v3.1 and GraphQL. OAuth, Basic and API key | Postman, OpenAPI, SOAP WSDL and GraphQL. Basic, Bearer, API key and OAuth 2.0 client credentials* |
| Internal scanning | Internal Scanning, deployed with Terraform (AWS) or Helm. Outbound-only connection | Self-hosted scanning machines for internal apps, managed from the Cloud dashboard* |
| Emerging threats | New Crowdsource tests for newly disclosed vulnerabilities | Regular scanner updates, including checks for vulnerability types found by PortSwigger Research* |
| Integrations | Jira (two-way), Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, ServiceNow, Splunk, webhooks, Workato, REST API | Jira, ServiceNow, GitLab, Trello, Slack, Splunk, CI/CD tools, ASPM platforms, GraphQL API* |
| Free trial | 2 weeks | Guided proof-of-concept trial license, set up after a tailored demo* |
Detectify helps 10,000+ users manage their attack surfaces
Which one fits your team
Detectify
Choose Detectify if
- Your biggest risk sits in internet-facing web apps, APIs and subdomains
- You want testing that goes beyond known CVEs
- You want attack surface monitoring and application testing in one platform
Burp Suite DAST
Choose Burp Suite DAST if
- You want the same scan engine your pentesters use in Burp Suite Professional
- You need to self-host the platform, including on Kubernetes or air-gapped
- Your APIs are defined in Postman Collections or SOAP WSDL
Why teams choose Detectify
1,765+
1,765+ Crowdsource modules from ethical hackers run against the assets you add
- Crowdsource ethical hackers submit payloads for vulnerabilities they find in the wild
- 1,765+ modules run against the assets you add
- New tests ship when a vulnerability is disclosed, as with Log4Shell on the same day
- Maps subdomains from certificate transparency logs, DNS enumeration and brute-forcing
- Checks your subdomains for takeover every 8 hours, including GCP bucket takeover
- DNS connectors pull in assets from AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare and more
- Import an OpenAPI spec or GraphQL schema and pick the operations to test
- OAuth, Basic Auth and API key authentication
- Prompt injection tests for AI and LLM endpoints
Crowdsource from submission to test
01
Ethical hacker submits a payloadCrowdsource · path traversal
GET /static/..%2f..%2f..%2fetc/passwd
02
Reviewed, then shipped as a test moduleJoins 1,765+ modules
03
Finding
trade.go-hack-yourself.netPath traversalHigh
Surface Monitoring subdomain takeover
01
New subdomain foundCertificate transparency logs
promo.go-hack-yourself.net CNAME deprovisioned cloud resource
02
Checked for takeoverEvery 8 hours
03
Finding
promo.go-hack-yourself.netSubdomain takeoverHigh
API Scanning from spec to scan
01
Import your spec, pick the operationsOpenAPI or GraphQL · auth: OAuth
# openapi.json
GET /orders/{id} ✓
POST /orders ✓
POST /assistant/chat ✓
02
Payloads sent to each operationRotated between runs
03
Finding
api.go-hack-yourself.net/assistant/chatPrompt injectionHigh
“There aren't enough hours in the day to manually look at vulnerabilities, so automation is the only way. There’s no reason to waste human energy on it.”
FAQs
Yes, for teams whose main risk is internet-facing web apps, APIs and subdomains. Detectify monitors your external attack surface and tests applications with payload-based tests. Burp Suite DAST runs the Burp Scanner engine from Burp Suite Professional across your web apps and APIs.
How the tests are built. Detectify's tests come from its own research and from Crowdsource, a program of ethical hackers who submit payloads for real vulnerabilities. Burp Suite DAST uses the Burp Scanner engine from Burp Suite Professional, plus your own BChecks and extensions.
Yes. API Scanning tests the operations you choose in an OpenAPI v2, v3 or v3.1 spec or a GraphQL schema that you import. It supports OAuth, Basic and API key authentication.
Yes. Internal Scanning runs inside your network and connects outbound only. You deploy it with Terraform on AWS or with Helm.
Yes. Application Scanning supports Basic authentication, Recorded Login and Recorded Crawling.
Pricing depends on the products you use and how many assets you cover. Surface Monitoring is priced by the number of domains in scope, and Internal Scanning by the number of internal apps. Start a 2-week free trial, or talk to sales for a quote.
Yes. They run independently, so you can point both at the same web apps and APIs.
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