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Caido – A lightweight web security auditing toolkit

by charlieirish on 3/29/25, 9:32 AM with 4 comments

• by alp1n3_eth on 3/30/25, 4:50 PM

  I appreciate Caido because of the ability to save projects in the free tier, which I use for (personal use) different projects and tinkering. Burp Pro is my daily driver at work, and I think Caido could certainly use some improvement to their UI/UX, as it's about as bad as Burp's (which isn't great).

  The speed is an awesome gain though, as it's truly lightweight and runs a million times better than Burp. Even without Extensions, some days my Burp Pro is just randomly crashing and gobbling up CPU/RAM for no obvious reason and requires a program or system restart. I've never run into the same issue with Caido.

• by dfc on 3/29/25, 4:49 PM

  I have a love (mainly) and hate (tiny bit) relationship with burpsuite. It would be really nice if there was competition. The last time I looked at ZAP (a while ago) it was still a chaotic clone of burp that didn't seem very promising.

• by jkmcf on 3/29/25, 6:39 PM

  Upvoted and will look closer if only because they have a "essential only" cookie banner.