Vooki Pro is a commercial desktop DAST scanner with local AI-assisted triage and compliance-mapped reporting. ZAP — formerly "OWASP ZAP" — announced it was leaving the OWASP Foundation on 1 August 2023 to join the Linux Foundation's Software Security Project, with the move completing that September. On 24 September 2024, three members of ZAP's Core Team (Simon Bennetts, Rick Mitchell, Ricardo Pereira) became Checkmarx employees — this was not an acquisition of the ZAP project, which remains independently governed; the "ZAP by Checkmarx" name reflects the Core Team's employer, not ownership. ZAP is a genuinely capable, free, open-source scanner with a large add-on ecosystem. This page compares it against Vooki Pro fairly, distinguishing what ZAP includes by default from what requires an add-on.
"Start 7-Day Trial" submits a request — Vooki Pro's team reviews it and sends the trial license and installation instructions; it is not an instant self-serve activation.
Vooki Pro's guided wizard needs no scripting. ZAP's form-based authentication is also scriptless (Context + Users + a logged-in indicator, via UI or API) — but ZAP's documented fallback for anything it can't handle natively, including some token-based and multi-step flows, is a script run through the Script Console or HTTP Sender.
Vooki Pro ships compliance-mapped reports (7 frameworks) out of the box; no official compliance-framework report template was found in ZAP's documentation.
Vooki Pro includes a support portal and email with its license; ZAP's own FAQ describes its community extras as "subject to change without notice." Neither product documents a formal SLA.
| Capability | Vooki Pro | ZAP (by Checkmarx) |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux) | Desktop (Java-based), CLI, or Docker — free, no official hosted/cloud version |
| License cost | $399–$999/year, per domain | Free, open source (Apache v2) |
| Guided automated scan | Included — 6-step wizard | Included — bundled "Automated Scan" (Quick Start) |
| REST API scanning (OpenAPI/Swagger) | Included | Separate Marketplace add-on (OpenAPI Support), not bundled in the base install |
| Authenticated scanning — form-based | Included — wizard step | Included — Context + Users + logged-in indicator, configurable via UI or API without scripting |
| Authenticated scanning — token/OAuth2/multi-step | Included — wizard step (Bearer, API Key, Cookie, OAuth2 Client Credentials) | Not confirmed as scriptless in official docs; ZAP documents a static-token environment-variable method and HTTP Sender scripts as the fallback for handling auth yourself |
| CI/CD automation | Included — vooki-pro-cli | Included — Automation Framework (automation.yaml, exit-code gating), official Docker images |
| Automated retest | Included — re-runs the originating detector automatically | Included — official Retest add-on (fixed "Medium" strength regardless of the original scan's settings) |
| Compliance-mapped reports | Included — 7 frameworks | Not found in the reviewed official documentation |
| Report formats | HTML, PDF, DOCX, JSON, SARIF (CLI) | HTML, JSON (incl. SARIF), XML, Markdown, PDF — via the Report Generation add-on |
| AI-assisted triage | Included — local, offline (ThreatLens) | 2026 additions: LLM alert review, LLM-assisted OpenAPI import, an official MCP server for external AI assistants — cloud/API-oriented, not described as local |
| Support model | Support portal + email included with license; no SLA documented | Community support; ZAP's own FAQ describes it as "subject to change without notice"; no SLA documented |
"Not found in the reviewed official documentation" means the capability was not confirmed in official sources at the time of writing — it does not mean the capability is absent.
ZAP's automation, API scanning, reporting and retest capabilities are all real, officially documented, and well-maintained — they're distributed as Marketplace add-ons rather than bundled into the minimal install. A team willing to assemble and maintain that add-on stack can cover much of the same ground as Vooki Pro's built-in equivalents. The practical difference is who owns the assembly and maintenance work, not whether the capability exists.
ZAP's own FAQ confirms form-based authentication — Context, Users, a regex-based logged-in/out indicator — is configurable through the UI or API without writing a script. What isn't confirmed in official docs is a scriptless path for OAuth2 or other multi-step flows; ZAP's "Handling Authentication Yourself" page documents a static-token environment-variable method for simple cases and names HTTP Sender scripts as "likely to be the most useful type" when you're handling auth yourself. Vooki Pro's six built-in auth methods, including OAuth2 Client Credentials, are configured as a single wizard step with no scripting in any case.
We looked specifically for an official compliance-framework report template in ZAP's documentation and didn't find one. SARIF output is useful for code-scanning tool integration but isn't a framework-mapped audit report. Vooki Pro generates reports mapped to 7 frameworks (OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS v4, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX) directly from scan results.
ZAP's AI features only arrived in 2026 and center on an MCP server letting external AI assistants drive ZAP via its REST API — integration and orchestration, not an in-product local triage model. ThreatLens has been part of Vooki Pro's core scan workflow and runs fully on-device.
Desktop app, local storage only, AI runs on-device after a one-time ~5GB download, scanning needs no internet beyond the target, but the license re-validates roughly daily while online (about a week of offline tolerance between checks). $399–$999/year per domain, no seat limits. Trial requests are reviewed by Vooki Pro's team before the license and installation instructions are issued.
Desktop, CLI, or Docker — runs locally or in your own CI infrastructure; no official hosted ZAP scanning service. Free and open source under Apache v2. Checkmarx separately sells its own commercial DAST product built on ZAP technology — a distinct commercial offering, not a paid-support tier for open-source ZAP itself.
You want compliance-ready reporting, a guided setup, and local AI triage without assembling and maintaining your own add-on stack, and a license-tied support channel matters to your team.
Budget is the primary constraint, your team is comfortable configuring Contexts/sessions and maintaining add-ons, and you want the flexibility of an open-source tool you can extend and script freely — ZAP's scripting model is also a strength for teams with unusual auth flows that off-the-shelf wizards don't anticipate.
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ZAP — joining the Software Security Project
ZAP Ownership
Checkmarx press release
Businesswire, 24 Sept 2024
ZAP FAQ — automatic form auth
ZAP — Handling Authentication Yourself
ZAP 2.14.0 release notes
ZAP FAQ — community services
Vooki Pro: live features.html, docs/reports.html, docs/cli.html (verified 2026-10-22).
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