PushFix vs OWASP ZAP
A free, scriptable web security scanner. PushFix trades depth for zero setup and a plain-language report.
- Free during early access
- No credit card
- Staging-first
- Evidence for every finding
- Reads your source
- Never
- Tests the running app
- Always
- Replaces the other tool
- No
Is OWASP ZAP the same thing?
ZAP is the reference open-source DAST tool and a genuinely powerful free option with a large plugin ecosystem. It is security-only, needs a person to drive it, and produces output aimed at security engineers. PushFix covers security alongside the rest of a launch checklist and explains each finding for whoever has to fix it.
Genuinely better at this
- Deep, configurable web security scanning with a huge rule set
- Free and open source, scriptable, integrable into any pipeline
- Active fuzzing and authentication flows for security specialists
- A large community and years of battle testing
What OWASP ZAP does not attempt
- SEO, accessibility, performance and production-readiness checks
- Guidance aimed at a founder or a non-specialist
- A curated, deduplicated finding list with a fix prompt per item
- Zero-setup runs: ZAP expects a console, a proxy or a CI job
It is usually not either / or
Most teams keep OWASP ZAP for the job it was built for and add a review of the running app beside it. The next two rows say which situation is yours, and neither of them is a sales pitch: one of them tells you to stay put.
PushFix and OWASP ZAP, side by side
6 dimensions, 6 verdicts. Every row is checkable against the other tool's own documentation.
| Dimension | PushFix | OWASP ZAP |
|---|---|---|
| Runs with no install or console | Yes | No |
| Security scanning depth | Catalogue-based | Very deep |
| Findings written for a non-specialist | Yes | No |
| SEO, accessibility and performance | Yes | No |
| Cost | Free tier | Free |
| Evidence and reproduction per finding | Yes | Partial |
Yes means supported out of the box. Partial means it can be reached with setup, a plugin, or an extra product. No means the tool was not built for that job, not that it is a bad tool.
Find your situation
Read down the left-hand labels until one of them is about you.
Keep OWASP ZAP when
You have security engineers who will run and tune a scanner, or you need active fuzzing against an environment you fully control.
www.zaproxy.orgReach for PushFix when
You want a review you can run in a minute that also covers SEO, accessibility and performance, and a report you can hand to the AI tool that wrote the code.
Nothing on this page asks you to take our word for it. Both columns are checkable: OWASP ZAP's own docs are at www.zaproxy.org, and the fastest way to judge ours is to run one review on a staging URL and read the findings.
The rest of the field
A different tool usually means a different question, not a better one.
The fastest comparison
is your own app.
Point a review at a staging URL and judge the findings, the evidence and the fix prompts for yourself.
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