Alternatives

Hookdeck alternatives for webhook infrastructure

The strongest Hookdeck alternatives are Hooksbase when you need ingest beyond HTTP or your consumer is an AI agent, Svix when you are sending webhooks to your own customers and need enterprise compliance, Convoy when you want to self-host, and Hookdeck Outpost when you only need outbound delivery at a low cost per event.

Pricing and capability claims verified as of 2026-08 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 Hookdeck alternatives

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.

How failure affects the bill

Per-message pricing usually counts each delivery attempt, so a destination having a bad day costs more the worse it behaves. Flat tiers move that risk to the vendor. Check this against your own retry profile rather than your happy-path volume.

What is Hookdeck?

Hookdeck is a hosted event gateway for inbound webhooks. You 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. Outbound delivery is a separate product called Outpost.

Hookdeck key features

• Inbound filtering and transformation rules on the event path
• 120+ pre-configured sources with signature verification
• Delivery history, issue management, and alerting
• Metered event pricing rather than fixed capacity tiers
• Metrics export and SSO on the Growth plan

Hookdeck advantages

• The most developed alerting and issue-management interface in the category
• Metered pricing stays inexpensive at moderate volume
• Async buffering removes the processing timeout on your handler
• A large content footprint means most webhook problems have a documented answer

Hookdeck disadvantages

• HTTP-only inbound — no email, form, or scheduled ingest channels
• No typed outbound destinations; outbound is the separate Outpost product
• The Developer tier is capped at one user and 3-day retention
• Growth is a 12x jump from Team, which is a hard step for a mid-sized team

Hookdeck alternatives

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 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 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 teams that want to self-host and operate it themselves: Convoy

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.

Where it is strong: Genuine open source with a large following, message broker connectors including Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, and Pub/Sub in the free tier, circuit breaking, and no per-message billing.
Where it falls short: You need the DevOps capacity to run it — the low cost assumes you operate it in production. Cloud pricing is sales-gated, JavaScript transforms sit behind the $999/mo tier, and there are no email, form, or scheduled ingest channels.
Pricing: Self-hosted Community free forever. Self-hosted Premium $999/mo adds JavaScript transforms, OpenTelemetry export, RBAC, and circuit breaking. Cloud pricing is not published and requires contacting them.

Best for serverless scheduling and topic fan-out: Upstash QStash

A serverless message queue that speaks HTTP. Publish a message to a QStash endpoint and it handles scheduling, one-off delays, retries, topic fan-out to multiple subscribers, and a dead-letter path with no queue infrastructure of your own.

Where it is strong: Scales to zero, which suits bursty and low-volume work, integrates naturally with Vercel and Cloudflare, and offers topic fan-out that most alternatives here do not.
Where it falls short: Retries are billed as separate messages, so a flaky destination costs more the worse it behaves. There is no payload persistence, no replay from stored payload, no delivery history interface, and no signature verification on ingest — it is a queue that posts to URLs.
Pricing: Free to 1,000 messages a day, then $1 per 100K, with fixed plans at $180/mo and $420/mo. Every delivery attempt is billed as a message, including each retry.

Hooksbase vs Upstash QStash, 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 Hookdeck alternatives

Option	Best for	Pricing
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.
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.
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.
Convoy	teams that want to self-host and operate it themselves	Self-hosted Community free forever. Self-hosted Premium $999/mo adds JavaScript transforms, OpenTelemetry export, RBAC, and circuit breaking. Cloud pricing is not published and requires contacting them.
Upstash QStash	serverless scheduling and topic fan-out	Free to 1,000 messages a day, then $1 per 100K, with fixed plans at $180/mo and $420/mo. Every delivery attempt is billed as a message, including each retry.
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.

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Frequently asked questions

Hookdeck alternatives, answered.

What is the best Hookdeck alternative?

It depends on which half of the problem you have. For ingest beyond HTTP — email, forms, or a schedule — feeding an AI agent, Hooksbase is the closest fit. For sending webhooks to your own customers with enterprise compliance behind it, Svix. For self-hosting, Convoy. There is no single answer because Hookdeck sits between several categories.

Is there a free Hookdeck alternative?

Several. Hooksbase is free to 5,000 deliveries a month, Svix to 50,000 messages, and Hookdeck Outpost to 50,000 events on its managed Starter tier. Convoy is free indefinitely if you self-host it. The free tiers differ more in retention and feature gating than in volume, so compare those before the numbers.

What does Hookdeck not do?

It does not ingest anything other than HTTP, so email, form submissions, and scheduled triggers need separate infrastructure. It does not deliver to typed cloud destinations such as SQS or EventBridge — outbound is the separate Outpost product — and its free tier holds only 3 days of history.

Is Hookdeck Outpost the same as Hookdeck?

No. The Event Gateway handles inbound webhooks you receive; Outpost handles outbound webhooks you send to your own customers. They are separate products with separate pricing, and using both means integrating two things.