HookGet vs Hookdeck (2026)
An event gateway with the strongest local-development story in the category, plus Outpost — their Apache-2.0 sending engine, self-hostable free or managed at $10 per million.
In short
- Choose HookGet if: You want per-endpoint secrets and rotation as the default rather than as configuration, a fixed source address at no extra charge, and you do not want to operate any of it.
- Choose Hookdeck if: You want a true local tunnel, queues and buses through Outpost, OpenTelemetry, or you would genuinely rather run the engine yourself under Apache-2.0.
- Both sign with, or are compatible with, Standard Webhooks — so your consumers usually do not change.
- The verdict: Hookdeck if you want a real tunnel, non-HTTP destinations, or to self-host under Apache-2.0. HookGet if you want a secret per destination rather than one per project, and would rather not operate anything.
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 | Hookdeck |
|---|---|---|
| 2 million deliveries | $199 on Pro | $519 Outpost Growth, $499 + $10/M |
| 10 million deliveries | $399 on Pro | $599 Outpost Growth |
| 20 million deliveries | $449 on Scale | $699 Outpost Growth |
| 50 million deliveries | $809 on Scale | $999 Outpost Growth |
At a glance
Every cell in the Hookdeck 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 | Hookdeck |
|---|---|---|
| First paid step | ✅ $199 a month, including 2 million deliveries | ℹ️ $39 for Event Gateway Team — which includes 10,000 events, the same as their free tier source |
| Free tier | ℹ️ 10,000 deliveries a month, 3-day retention — and it blocks rather than bills | ℹ️ 10,000 events a month, 3-day retention, 1 user source |
| Past the allowance | ℹ️ $25 per additional million on Pro, $12 on Scale. Managed Outpost is $10 per million and genuinely cheaper per event — the tier that carries an SLA and 30-day retention is $499 plus that meter | ✅ Outpost: $10 per million, first 50,000 free. Event Gateway: from $3.00 per 100,000 source |
| Secret per destination | ✅ One per endpoint, rotatable with an overlap window | ❌ Computed from the project secret; per-destination means a custom signature source |
| Signature scheme | ✅ Standard Webhooks, HMAC and ed25519 (v1a), per endpoint | ℹ️ Their own scheme, with custom signature options source |
| Consumer portal | ✅ Embeddable and white-label on every plan, no account needed — and your customer can move their own destination, rotate their key and pause deliveries from it | ℹ️ Outpost ships a user portal for destinations and metrics source |
| Transformations | ℹ️ Declarative, never customer JavaScript | ✅ Unlimited JavaScript transformations on every tier source |
| Filtering | ✅ Event type and payload attributes, per endpoint | ✅ Filtering on inbound traffic, every tier source |
| Local development | ℹ️ A signed listener CLI — real signatures, nothing opened to the internet. Not a tunnel | ✅ hookdeck listen, a real tunnel, free source |
| Queue and bus destinations | ✅ SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, Service Bus, EventBridge natively; Kafka via the Confluent REST proxy, RabbitMQ via the management API — every plan. Outpost speaks native Kafka and AMQP; ours are HTTP doors, stated plainly | ✅ Outpost: SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka source |
| Object storage destinations | ✅ Any S3-compatible bucket, every plan | ℹ️ Not listed among Outpost destinations source |
| mTLS / OAuth2 to destinations | ✅ Every plan | ℹ️ Not stated on their pricing page source |
| Fixed source address | ✅ One address to allowlist, every plan, no charge | ℹ️ A $100 static IP add-on source |
| OpenTelemetry | ✅ Traces, metrics and logs on every plan — a span per attempt, delivery counters and duration histograms, and a log stream of failures, OTLP over HTTP | ✅ Traces, metrics and logs from Outpost source |
| Self-hosting | ℹ️ Runs and is verified, but has no public licence yet | ✅ Outpost under Apache-2.0, free forever source |
| Compliance | ℹ️ A published control list, SOC 2 committed on contract need | ✅ A SOC 2 report on request, on every plan including free source |
| Uptime SLA | ❌ None published — measured uptime is public at api.hookget.com/status, a contractual figure is not | ✅ 99.999% from Growth; 99.99% on managed Outpost Growth source |
| SSO | ❌ Not built — four roles and an audit log | ℹ️ SSO, SAML and SCIM from Growth ($499) source |
| Agent interface (MCP) | ✅ 57 tools over the same API | ✅ An MCP server through their CLI source |
| Hosting | ✅ EU, Frankfurt, with no region premium | ℹ️ Data residency is not stated on their pricing page 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 Hookdeck is stronger
- A local tunnel CLI —
hookdeck listenforwards real events to localhost, and they position it as a free replacement for ngrok. source - Unlimited transformations on every tier, including the free one, plus filtering on inbound traffic. source
- Outpost is Apache-2.0 and self-hosting it is always free, with community support. source
- Outpost delivers to AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, AWS EventBridge and Apache Kafka, not only to HTTPS endpoints. source
- Outpost supports OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs — the telemetry goes into the tooling you already run. source
- Managed Outpost is $10 per million events with the first 50,000 free and no base fee — among the lowest published prices in the category. source
- A SOC 2 report is available on request on every Event Gateway plan, including the free one. source
- A published 99.999% uptime SLA from the Growth tier, and 99.99% on managed Outpost Growth. source
- They run an MCP server too, through the same CLI — an assistant can operate their gateway as it can ours. source
Trade-offs to weigh
- The Hookdeck signature is computed from the project's secret. A per-destination secret means configuring a custom signature or another destination auth method instead. source
- Retention is 3 days on the free tier, and the free tier is one user and 10,000 events a month. source
- Event Gateway overage starts at $3.00 per 100,000 events — $30 per million at the lowest volume band. source
- SSO, SAML and SCIM start at Growth, which is $499 a month. source
- A static IP your consumers can allowlist is a $100 add-on rather than part of the plan. source
- Inbound URLs live on their domain (
hkdk.events) — although that is true of every hosted gateway, ours included. 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 Hookdeck.
| 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 Hookdeck
You want a true local tunnel, queues and buses through Outpost, OpenTelemetry, or you would genuinely rather run the engine yourself under Apache-2.0. If any of those is load-bearing for you, Hookdeck is the better product and we would rather you knew it now than three weeks into a migration.
When to choose HookGet
You want per-endpoint secrets and rotation as the default rather than as configuration, a fixed source address at no extra charge, and you do not want to operate any of it. 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 Hookdeck?
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 Hookdeck?
You want a true local tunnel, queues and buses through Outpost, OpenTelemetry, or you would genuinely rather run the engine yourself under Apache-2.0.
Is HookGet cheaper than Hookdeck?
Not meaningfully, and we would rather say so. Managed Outpost is $10 per million with no base fee; at 10 million a month that is $100 against our $399. Self-hosted Outpost is free. Choose on per-endpoint secrets, EU hosting and not operating anything — not on 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. Check the current schedule in their documentation — it is the kind of detail that changes.
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: Hookdeck's site. Re-checked at least every 120 days.