HookGet vs Hook0 (2026)
A small, EU-first webhook service from France — bootstrapped, six years in service, source-available under SSPL-1.0.
In short
- Choose HookGet if: You want the EU story with dead letters and replay, circuit breakers, gap repair, failure alerts that exist today, and a free tier measured in tens of thousands rather than hundreds.
- Choose Hook0 if: You want EU hosting from a small independent European company, per-subscription retry control, and a portal for your subscribers.
- Both sign with, or are compatible with, Standard Webhooks — so your consumers usually do not change.
- The verdict: Hook0 if you want a small independent European vendor with an embeddable portal and per-subscription retry control. HookGet if you need dead letters, replay, breakers and gap repair, or a free tier you can actually build on.
What a month costs, both ways
The first thing worth knowing, because it is the thing that moves. Every figure is from that vendor's own published pricing, read on 20 August 2026; ours is computed from our plans rather than typed here.
| A month of… | HookGet | Hook0 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 million deliveries | $199 on Pro | €190 Pro |
| 10 million deliveries | $399 on Pro | €890 Pro, €190 + 7M metered |
| 20 million deliveries | $449 on Scale | €1,890 Pro, €190 + 17M metered |
| 50 million deliveries | $809 on Scale | €4,890 Pro, €190 + 47M metered |
At a glance
Every cell in the Hook0 column links to the page it was read from. The rows where we lose are in the table too — a comparison you cannot check is an advertisement.
| Capability | HookGet | Hook0 |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ✅ 10,000 deliveries a month, 2 endpoints | ❌ 100 events a day, extra blocked; 1 application, 7-day retention source |
| First paid step | ✅ $199 a month, including 2 million deliveries | ℹ️ €59 a month (Startup), including roughly 900,000 source |
| Past the allowance | ✅ $25 per additional million on Pro, $12 on Scale | ℹ️ €0.003 per event on Startup — €3,000 per million; €0.0001 on Pro source |
| EU hosting | ✅ Frankfurt, no region premium | ✅ France, built for GDPR source |
| Years in service | ❌ New. We are the newest product on this page, and if a long track record is what you are buying, that is a real answer | ✅ Six years, bootstrapped, with an explicit longevity statement source |
| Consumer portal | ℹ️ Embeddable, white-label and self-service on every plan — your logo and colour, but served from our domain, not a subdomain of yours | ✅ Embeddable, with your own subdomain and logo source |
| Retry control | ✅ 8 attempts over ~21 hours, settable per endpoint | ✅ Two-phase schedules, per subscription source |
| Dead letters and replay | ✅ Kept, inspectable, replayable with the original event id | ℹ️ Not stated on their site source |
| Failure notification | ✅ Email to owners and admins, plus an event on the pipeline | ❌ Marked "coming soon" source |
| Dashboards | ✅ Delivery timelines, endpoint health, usage | ❌ Marked "coming soon" source |
| Gap repair | ✅ Re-queues events published but never attempted | ℹ️ Not stated on their site source |
| Uptime SLA | ❌ None published — measured uptime is public at api.hookget.com/status, a contractual figure is not | ✅ 99.9% source |
| Self-hosting | ❌ Not an offer you can take today: it runs and is verified end to end, but without a licence it is available on request rather than as a download | ✅ Free forever — under the SSPL, which is source-available rather than OSI open source source |
| Agent interface (MCP) | ✅ 57 tools over the same API | ✅ An MCP server for AI assistants source |
How to read this page. Every claim about another product below was read off that company's own public pages on 20 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, including the rows where we lose. If we have something wrong, tell us and it is fixed the same day.
Where Hook0 is stronger
- Hosted in France, built for GDPR, with an explicit longevity statement — no venture capital, revenue from paying users. source
- Two-phase retry schedules configurable per subscription: fast retries with increasing delays, then slow retries at fixed intervals. source
- An embeddable subscriber portal with your own subdomain and logo. source
- A published 99.9% uptime SLA. source
- An MCP server for AI assistants, as we have — this is not a place where we are alone. source
- The full server source is published, and there is a self-hosted option that is free forever. source
Trade-offs to weigh
- The licence is the Server Side Public License by their own description — source-available rather than OSI open source, which matters if you intend to offer it as a service. source
- The free plan is capped at 100 events a day with extra blocked, one application, 10 event types, 10 subscriptions and 7 days of retention. source
- Startup is €59 a month with overage at €0.003 per event; Pro is €190 a month with overage at €0.0001 per event. source
- Dashboards and end-of-retry failure notification are both marked "coming soon" on their own site. source
Where the approach differs — on purpose
Same jobs, different techniques. Each of these is a decision we will defend, with the alternative named for the cases where you should take it — including when that alternative is Hook0.
| Area | The HookGet way |
|---|---|
| Transformations | Declarative, never customer code. Six auditable ops cover the real cases with nothing to escape from — a worker that runs customer JS has every other customer in its blast radius. Need arbitrary logic? Your publisher is the right place for it |
| Filtering | A fixed vocabulary of comparisons over dot-paths, not an expression language: it cannot loop, cannot allocate, and is bounded by the size of the filter rather than by anything in the payload. A missing path matches nothing, so a typo stops deliveries visibly instead of quietly delivering the firehose |
| Local development | A signed listener instead of a tunnel. Your handler verifies real signatures locally and nothing opens your machine to the internet — the reason security reviews wave it through. Prefer push? Any tunnel you already trust works in front of a test endpoint |
| Compliance | Controls you can check today over a badge that attests last year: the compliance page lists every control in production, and SOC 2 is committed the moment a contract needs it |
| Overage | Metering, never blocking, at $25 per additional million on Pro and $12 on Scale — and the free tier blocks rather than bills, so trying it can never cost money |
| Self-hosting | The same engine, one compose file — built and verified end to end on ARM64: migrations, a signed delivery and real SMTP. Available on request today; the public licence is the one thing still to settle |
When to choose Hook0
You want EU hosting from a small independent European company, per-subscription retry control, and a portal for your subscribers. If any of those is load-bearing for you, Hook0 is the better product and we would rather you knew it now than three weeks into a migration.
When to choose HookGet
You want the EU story with dead letters and replay, circuit breakers, gap repair, failure alerts that exist today, and a free tier measured in tens of thousands rather than hundreds. You also get per-endpoint payload filters, dead letters with replay, gap repair, an embeddable white-label portal and both signature schemes — on every plan, including the free one.
Moving between them
Consumers that verify Standard Webhooks signatures do not change. What needs planning is the destination list, the secrets and any capability above that we do not have. The migration guide covers the patterns, including running both in parallel before you commit.
Questions
Is HookGet a drop-in replacement for Hook0?
For delivery and signatures, largely yes — both sign with or are compatible with Standard Webhooks, so consumers usually need no change. Anything in the table above marked ❌ on our side is not a drop-in, and the honest answer is to read those rows before you plan a move.
When should I stay with Hook0?
You want EU hosting from a small independent European company, per-subscription retry control, and a portal for your subscribers.
Is HookGet cheaper than Hook0?
At low volume they are cheaper: €59 against our $199. Our free tier is 10,000 a month against their 100 a day, and past ten million a month we are roughly half — $399 against about €890. Their Startup overage of €0.003 an event is €3,000 a million, which is the number to check before choosing on the entry price.
How do the retry policies differ?
HookGet defaults to eight attempts over about 21 hours and lets you set the schedule per endpoint, which matters when one destination needs a tighter or looser rhythm than the rest. Hook0 offers two-phase schedules configurable per subscription, which is the closest equivalent in the field — their site is the source.
What does HookGet not have that I should know about before switching?
No published uptime SLA, no SOC 2 report (a published control list instead), no SSO with SAML, no Terraform provider, no cross-endpoint FIFO ordering, and no JavaScript transformations — that last one a deliberate position rather than a gap. Public self-hosting runs and is verified but has no licence yet, so it is available on request rather than as a download.
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Recreate one destination, publish one event, and compare the two timelines side by side. That is an afternoon, and it settles the question better than this page can.
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10,000 deliveries a month free, no credit card. The free tier blocks rather than bills, so trying the product cannot produce an invoice — which is not true of every free tier in this category.
Verified 20 August 2026 against: Hook0's site. Re-checked at least every 120 days.