HookGet vs Svix
The category leader, and the authors of the Standard Webhooks specification.
In short
- Choose Svix if: You need the embeddable portal, transformations, a compliance report today, or mTLS to destinations.
- Choose HookGet if: You want the same signature scheme and a retry schedule you can set per endpoint, and the step up from free is $29 rather than $490.
- Both sign with, or are compatible with, Standard Webhooks — so consumers usually do not change.
- Every line about Svix below was read off their own pages on 16 August 2026, and links to the page it came from.
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.
Where Svix is stronger
- An embeddable consumer portal, on every tier — fully unbranded from the Professional tier up. source
- Transformations and connectors are included from the free tier, so payloads can be reshaped per destination. source
- SOC 2 Type II from the Professional tier, and stated compliance with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, PIPEDA, GDPR and CCPA. source
- Object storage, message broker and database destinations on the Enterprise tier — delivery is not only HTTPS. source
- Their server is open source under the MIT licence, with Docker images and pre-built binaries. source
- They wrote the signature specification the rest of the category, including us, now implements. source
Trade-offs to weigh
- The free tier covers 50,000 messages a month; the next tier starts at $490 a month. If your volume outgrows free before your budget reaches $490, that step is the thing to plan around. source
- The retry schedule is fixed — eight attempts spread over about 27 hours — and a custom schedule is an Enterprise-tier item. source
- mTLS and OAuth 2.0 to destinations, audit logs, OIDC/SAML SSO and custom signature schemes are Enterprise-tier. source
Where HookGet is different
| Capability | HookGet |
|---|---|
| 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 HookGet does not have
If any of these is a requirement, Svix or another option in the comparison is the better answer, and we would rather you found that out here.
| 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 |
Moving between them
Consumers that verify Standard Webhooks signatures do not change. What needs planning is the destination list, the secrets and any feature 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 Svix?
For delivery and signatures, largely yes — both sign with or are compatible with Standard Webhooks, so consumers usually need no change. Anything you use that we list as not built is not a drop-in, and the honest answer is to check that list before you plan a move.
When should I stay with Svix?
You need the embeddable portal, transformations, a compliance report today, or mTLS to destinations.
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. Svix's schedule is also eight attempts, spread over about 27 hours, and it is fixed unless you are on their Enterprise tier — their retry documentation is the current source.
Verified 16 August 2026 against: Svix's site. Re-checked at least every 120 days.