Alternatives

Convoy alternatives for webhook gateways

The strongest Convoy alternatives are Hookdeck Outpost when you want an open-source outbound build without the $999/mo tier gating transforms, Svix when compliance drives the decision, and Hooksbase or Hookdeck when you would rather not operate webhook infrastructure at all — Convoy remains the better choice if self-hosting is a requirement rather than a preference.

Pricing and capability claims verified as of 2026-06 from public pricing pages and documentation. Hooksbase is one of the options below — it is our product, and its limitations are listed alongside everyone else's.

How to compare Convoy alternatives

Whether self-hosting is a requirement or a preference

This decides the shortlist on its own. If data residency or a compliance rule means the infrastructure has to be yours, the managed options are out regardless of features. If it is a cost preference, price the operational time honestly — running webhook infrastructure in production is a real ongoing commitment, not a one-off deployment.

Which channels can start an event

Most options here accept HTTP and nothing else. If any part of your workload arrives by email, through a form, or on a schedule, an HTTP-only tool means running separate infrastructure for each of those and reconciling the results.

What happens after the last retry

Every option retries. The difference is what exists when retries are exhausted — a dead-letter path you can inspect and re-drive, or a log line. Ask this before comparing retry counts, because the counts matter far less than the floor underneath them.

Whether a replay is the same event

Replay means two different things. Re-running against current configuration produces something that resembles the original; re-sending a persisted snapshot reproduces it. When you are replaying to investigate a failure, only the second one tells you anything.

What is Convoy?

Convoy is an Apache 2.0 open-source webhook gateway handling both incoming and outgoing webhooks, positioned for teams that want full control without vendor lock-in. The managed cloud offering is secondary to the self-hosted build.

Convoy key features

• Open-source under Apache 2.0, handling both inbound and outbound webhooks
• Message broker connectors including Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, and Pub/Sub
• Circuit breaking on failing endpoints
• Portal links for your own consumers
• Self-hosted Community, self-hosted Premium, and a sales-gated cloud tier

Convoy advantages

• Genuinely free forever if you self-host, with no per-message billing
• Broker connectors are in the open-source tier rather than gated
• No lock-in between the self-hosted and cloud builds
• A large open-source community relative to the size of the team

Convoy disadvantages

• The low cost assumes you have the DevOps capacity to run it in production
• Cloud pricing is not published and requires contacting sales
• JavaScript transforms sit behind the $999/mo Premium tier
• No email, form, or scheduled ingest channels, and observability trails Hookdeck and Svix

Convoy alternatives

Best for open-source outbound delivery at low cost per event: Hookdeck Outpost

Apache 2.0-licensed outbound webhook delivery infrastructure from the Hookdeck team, available managed or self-hosted. A separate product from the Event Gateway, aimed at SaaS builders sending webhooks to their own customers.

Where it is strong: Full parity between the self-hosted and managed builds, a strong destination matrix including EventBridge, SQS, S3, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka, aggressive per-event pricing, and no vendor lock-in.
Where it falls short: Outbound-only, with no ingest of any kind — you still wire up receiving yourself — and it is a separate product from the Event Gateway, so using both means integrating two things. It reached GA in April 2026, so it is newer than the alternatives it competes with.
Pricing: Self-hosted free. Managed Starter $10 per million events with 50,000 free a month, Growth $499/mo base plus per-event, Enterprise custom. Retries are not charged.

Best for enterprise compliance and outbound webhooks at scale: Svix

Webhooks-as-a-service for the sending side — you hand it an event and it delivers to your own users' endpoints with signing, retries, and a portal they can inspect. Svix authored the Standard Webhooks specification and publishes an open-source server.

Where it is strong: The broadest compliance stack in the category — SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI-DSS — plus a white-label consumer portal, multi-region data residency, the widest destination matrix, and a self-hostable server.
Where it falls short: The jump from Free to $490 Professional with nothing in between is hard on a growing team. It is outbound-first: Ingest is newer and less mature than Dispatch, and there are no email, form, or scheduled ingest channels.
Pricing: Free at 50,000 messages a month, Professional $490/mo, Enterprise custom. Retries are not counted against quota.

Hooksbase vs Svix, head to head

Best for multi-channel ingest feeding an AI agent: Hooksbase

Our product

Event infrastructure for AI agents. Accepts events over HTTP, inbound email, HTML form post, and scheduled cron, verifies provider signatures on the way in, routes and transforms them, and delivers to HTTP or typed cloud destinations with retries, ordering, signing, deterministic replay, and a dead-letter path.

Where it is strong: Four ingest channels in one project rather than HTTP alone, provider-verified inbound for Stripe, GitHub, Clerk, Slack, and Resend, typed outbound to SQS, EventBridge, Pub/Sub, and S3-compatible storage from Pro, and replay that reads persisted snapshots so a replay re-sends what was originally dispatched.
Where it falls short: It is not an execution engine — there is no durable multi-step workflow, and no topic fan-out to many subscribers, since routing selects one destination per delivery. It is hosted-only with no self-hosted build, and it is a young product without the enterprise compliance surface Svix carries.
Pricing: Free at 5,000 deliveries a month with no card. Starter $25/mo, Pro $79/mo, Business, and Enterprise. Flat tiers — retries are not billed as additional messages.

Best for inbound webhook observability and alerting: Hookdeck Event Gateway

A hosted event gateway for inbound webhooks. Point a provider at a Hookdeck source and it queues, retries, filters, transforms, and forwards each event to your destination, with delivery history and alerting over the top.

Where it is strong: Deep inbound filtering, the most developed alerting and issue-management interface in the category, 120+ pre-configured sources with signature verification, and metered pricing that stays inexpensive at moderate volume.
Where it falls short: HTTP-only inbound — no email, form, or scheduled ingest — and no typed outbound beyond HTTP re-delivery, since outbound is a separate product in Outpost. The free tier is capped at one user and 3-day retention, and Growth is a 12x jump from Team.
Pricing: Developer $0 at 10,000 events a month with 3-day retention, Team $39/mo plus metered overage, Growth $499/mo, Enterprise custom.

Hooksbase vs Hookdeck Event Gateway, head to head

Best when the requirements are genuinely narrow and stay that way: Building it yourself

A queue, a worker, and a retry loop on infrastructure you already run — Cloudflare Queues, SQS with a Lambda, or a Postgres-backed job table.

Where it is strong: Complete control, no per-event cost, and nothing new in the vendor stack. For one provider and one consumer with no compliance requirement, this is often the correct answer.
Where it falls short: The work is not the queue, it is everything around it: signature verification per provider, idempotency, a retry budget, a dead-letter path, payload persistence, replay, and delivery history. Each is small and none is interesting, and together they become a service someone has to own.
Pricing: Infrastructure cost only, plus the engineering time to build and operate it.

Overview of Convoy alternatives

Option	Best for	Pricing
Hookdeck Outpost	open-source outbound delivery at low cost per event	Self-hosted free. Managed Starter $10 per million events with 50,000 free a month, Growth $499/mo base plus per-event, Enterprise custom. Retries are not charged.
Svix	enterprise compliance and outbound webhooks at scale	Free at 50,000 messages a month, Professional $490/mo, Enterprise custom. Retries are not counted against quota.
Hooksbase	multi-channel ingest feeding an AI agent	Free at 5,000 deliveries a month with no card. Starter $25/mo, Pro $79/mo, Business, and Enterprise. Flat tiers — retries are not billed as additional messages.
Hookdeck Event Gateway	inbound webhook observability and alerting	Developer $0 at 10,000 events a month with 3-day retention, Team $39/mo plus metered overage, Growth $499/mo, Enterprise custom.
Building it yourself	the requirements are genuinely narrow and stay that way	Infrastructure cost only, plus the engineering time to build and operate it.

See it on your own events

The Hooksbase free plan covers 5,000 deliveries a month with no card. Point one event source at it and compare the delivery history against whatever you are evaluating.

Start free See the four ingest channels

Frequently asked questions

Convoy alternatives, answered.

What is the best Convoy alternative?

Hookdeck Outpost, if you want to stay on open source — it is Apache 2.0 like Convoy, has full parity between self-hosted and managed, and does not gate transforms behind a $999/mo tier. If the goal is to stop operating the infrastructure, Svix, Hookdeck, and Hooksbase are managed alternatives depending on whether your problem is outbound, inbound, or multi-channel ingest.

Is Convoy free?

The self-hosted Community edition is free forever and genuinely open source. Self-hosted Premium is $999/mo and adds JavaScript transforms, OpenTelemetry export, RBAC, and circuit breaking. Cloud pricing is not published. So it is free in licence terms, with your own infrastructure and operational time as the real cost.

What is the difference between Convoy and Hookdeck?

Convoy is open source and built to be self-hosted, with the managed offering secondary. Hookdeck is a managed product with a more developed interface for filtering, alerting, and issue management, and no self-hosted build. The choice usually comes down to whether you want to operate it.