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Burp Suite is the standard for hands-on web security testing, and it earns that reputation. Gorgon Scout is a different shape of tool: a Windows DAST scanner you drive from your own AI assistant, with HTTP/3 interception and no proxy setup, for USD 20 per month. Here is an honest, side-by-side look so you can pick the right one.

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First, the honest part

We are not going to tell you Scout replaces Burp. Burp Suite Professional has a deep manual toolkit, a huge extension ecosystem, years of research behind it, and it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. If your work is hands-on manual testing, Burp is excellent and we use it too.

Scout is for a different job: getting a thorough automated scan and a finished report with almost no setup, increasingly by just asking your AI assistant to run it. Two places it genuinely goes where Burp does not are HTTP/3 interception and a zero-configuration capture path.

Side by side

Accurate as of June 2026. Where Burp is stronger, we say so.

Gorgon Scout Burp Suite Professional
Price USD 20 / month, month to month. Cancel and resume anytime, no annual commitment. Free 30-day trial, up to 2 targets. USD 499 / user / year, billed annually (price effective Jan 2026). Free Community edition has no automated scanner.
Platforms Windows 10 / 11 (x64). Windows, macOS, Linux.
HTTP/3 (QUIC) interception Yes. Intercepts HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. Not at time of writing. Intercepts HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
Capture setup Network-layer. No proxy, no PAC file, no per-browser certificate ritual. Proxy-based. Ships a pre-configured embedded browser, or configure your own and install the CA.
Drive it from your own AI assistant Built-in MCP server exposes the whole record / scan / report workflow. Works with the free Claude Desktop plan. Official Burp MCP server available for AI-assisted tasks.
Automated scanner (DAST) Yes. Field-aware, signed probes; library refreshes daily. Yes. Burp Scanner, mature and well regarded.
Manual testing toolkit Captured-request replay that reuses your session, plus a REST tester. Growing, not yet as deep. Industry standard. Repeater, Intruder, and a large BApp extension ecosystem.
Reporting Word, HTML, and JSON with a real table of contents, remediation, and curl reproducers. HTML and XML reports.
Maturity and ecosystem New, with a smaller ecosystem. Established, with a large community and active research.

Pay only for the months you scan

Scout is month to month. Start and stop your subscription whenever you like, with no annual lock-in. Say you are a developer who scans your own site twice a year: that is two months of Scout, USD 40. A Burp Suite Professional license is USD 499 a year whether you run it twice or two hundred times. Pay for the months you actually test, not for a year you do not.

Where Scout goes its own way

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It intercepts HTTP/3

QUIC runs over UDP and encrypts its handshake, which is why it still defeats most interception proxies, Burp included. Scout terminates HTTP/3 transparently, so your testing does not go blind the moment a target shifts a session onto QUIC.

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Your AI runs it end to end

Scout ships an MCP server that exposes the full workflow. Ask your assistant to record a target you are authorised to test, scan it, and write the report, and it does. It works with the free Claude Desktop plan.

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Nothing to configure

Capture happens below the browser at the network layer. No proxy switch, no PAC file, no certificate dance. Pick a target, hit record. For USD 20 a month, with a free 30-day trial.

Where Burp Suite is the better choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Reach for Burp when:

You do deep manual testing

Repeater, Intruder, and the extension ecosystem are the gold standard for hands-on work. Scout's manual toolkit is growing but is not there yet.

You are not on Windows

Burp runs on macOS and Linux. Scout is Windows-only today, because its capture path uses a Windows kernel driver.

You rely on the ecosystem

The BApp store, the research output, and a large community matter for a lot of workflows. Burp has years of that behind it; Scout is new.

The easiest answer: try Scout alongside Burp

They are not mutually exclusive. Keep Burp for manual work and let Scout handle zero-setup automated scans, HTTP/3 targets, and AI-driven runs. The trial is free for 30 days against up to two targets, so it costs nothing to see where it fits.

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