Webhook services compared
Four serious products, and the cases where each of them is the right answer — including the ones where it is not us.
In short
- Svix if you need an embeddable consumer portal, transformations, a compliance report, or mTLS to destinations.
- Hookdeck if you want a local tunnel, non-HTTP destinations, or to self-host Outpost under Apache-2.0.
- Convoy if you want an open-core gateway you run yourself; Hook0 if you want a small independent EU vendor.
- HookGet if you want managed EU delivery with per-endpoint retries, secrets and rate limits, and $29 as the first paid step.
How to read this page. Every claim about another product below was read off that company's own public pages on 16 August 2026, and each one links to the page it came from — check it yourself, that is what the links are for. Pricing and features move without anyone telling us, so our build fails if this page goes more than 120 days without a re-check. Everything stated about HookGet is something you can verify in the product today. If we have something wrong, tell us and it is fixed the same day.
Pick by situation
| If this is your constraint | Look at |
|---|---|
| An embeddable portal your customers log into | Svix or Hook0. Outpost ships a user portal too. Not us |
| SOC 2 today | Svix (paid tiers), Hookdeck (on request) or Convoy. Not us |
| HIPAA or PCI-DSS | Svix. Not us |
| mTLS or OAuth2 to destinations | Svix, on their Enterprise tier. Not us |
| Reshaping payloads per destination | Svix or Hookdeck on any tier, Convoy on Premium. Not us |
| A local tunnel for developing against real traffic | Hookdeck. Not us |
| Delivering to queues and buses, not only HTTPS | Hookdeck (Outpost), or Svix on Enterprise. Not us |
| Running it yourself | Hookdeck (Outpost, Apache-2.0), Convoy (open core) or Hook0 (SSPL-1.0). Not us |
| An assistant operating the pipeline (MCP) | HookGet, Hookdeck or Hook0 — we used to call this ours alone, and it is not |
| Retry schedules set per destination | HookGet, or Hook0 per subscription |
| A secret per destination, rotatable, rather than one project secret | HookGet |
| EU data residency without a premium tier | HookGet (Frankfurt) or Hook0 (France) |
| A small step from free to paid | HookGet at $29 or Hookdeck at $39. Every product here has a free tier — compare the caps, not the word "free" |
Where the free tiers actually stop
| Product | Free allowance | First paid step |
|---|---|---|
| HookGet | 50,000 deliveries / month, 3 endpoints, 3-day retention | $29 / month |
| Svix | 50,000 messages / month, 30-day retention | $490 / month |
| Hookdeck | 10,000 events / month, 3-day retention, 1 user | $39 / month |
| Convoy | Community edition, self-hosted, unlimited events | $999 / month for the Premium licence |
| Hook0 | 100 events / day, 1 application, 7-day retention | €59 / month |
Read that table as a shape, not a ranking: Convoy's free column is the whole gateway on your own hardware, and Svix's free column includes an embeddable portal we do not have at any price.
What HookGet does today
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Signature scheme | Standard Webhooks, the open specification |
| Retry schedule | 8 attempts over ~21 hours, settable per endpoint |
| Secret rotation | Per endpoint, with an overlap window so nothing drops |
| Dead letters | Kept, inspectable, replayable — with the original event id |
| Recovery | One call resumes a disabled destination and replays what died |
| Gap repair | Re-queues events that were published but never attempted |
| Auto-disable | 50 consecutive failures, or immediately on 410 Gone |
| Operational events | Disable and recovery are published as events you can subscribe to |
| Inbound sources | 15 providers verified before anything enters the pipeline |
| Rate limiting | Token bucket per endpoint, plus per project and per source |
| Egress safety | Two independent layers against reaching private networks |
| Agent interface | An MCP server over the same API, 18 tools |
| Hosting | EU, Frankfurt, with no region premium |
| Teams | Four roles, expanded per request, with an audit log |
What it does not do
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Embeddable customer portal | Not yet. Your team gets a dashboard; your customers do not get their own page |
| Transformations | Not available. Events are delivered as published |
| Local tunnel CLI | Not available |
| Non-HTTP destinations | Not available. Delivery is HTTPS |
| mTLS / OAuth2 to destinations | Not available |
| Compliance reports | No SOC 2, HIPAA or PCI attestation today |
| Self-hosting | Not available today |
Verified 16 August 2026 against: Svix · Hookdeck · Convoy · Hook0. Re-checked at least every 120 days.