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Alternatives to Convoy
23 apis tools sit alongside Convoy in this directory. Below is what separates each from Convoy on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 4
- Cheaper to start
- 4
- Convoy starts at
- Free, then $999/month
Why people look past Convoy
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Convoy entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
Cost climbs steeply across the tiers
Convoy publishes 4 tiers, from Free up to On request. Teams that outgrow the entry plan can find the next rung a large step, the Convoy pricing page breaks each one down.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Outbound webhook sending as a service, with retries, signing and a customer-facing portal
- Starts $509 a month cheaper, at $490/month.
- Sold on a Per month by message count model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 3 tiers to Convoy's 4.
Unbreakable Agents. Invisible Infra.
- Starts $999 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 3 tiers to Convoy's 4.
Cloud-native API gateway and service connectivity platform
- Starts $999 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 5 tiers to Convoy's 4.
European bank API aggregation with a free restricted production tier for your own accounts
- Sold on a Per connected account per month model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 2 tiers to Convoy's 4.
UK banking-as-a-service from a company that holds its own full banking licence
- No free tier, where Convoy has one.
- Starts $899 a month cheaper, at £100/month.
- Sold on a Per month with usage drawdown model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 3 tiers to Convoy's 4.
"Neobank in a box" for banks in emerging markets, paid on a performance basis
- No free tier, where Convoy has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Per month, flat rate regardless of volume.
- 1 tier to Convoy's 4.
Every Convoy alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convoy (this page) | Free, then $999/month | Per month, flat rate regardless of volume | 4 | |
| SvixIf you would rather buy a managed service with an SLA than operate the gateway yourself | Free, then $490/month | Per month by message count | 3 | vs Convoy |
| InngestIf your need is durable event-driven workflows rather than webhook delivery specifically | Free | Freemium | 3 | vs Convoy |
| KongIf webhook delivery is one part of a broader API gateway requirement | Free | Subscription | 5 | vs Convoy |
| Enable Banking | Free | Per connected account per month | 2 | vs Convoy |
| Griffin | £100/month | Per month with usage drawdown | 3 | vs Convoy |
| Fintech Farm | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Flybits | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Lithic | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Brite Payments | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| i2c | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Fintecture | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Neonomics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Enfuce | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Mambu | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Aiia | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Marqeta | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Highnote | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Meniga | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Paymentology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Ozone API | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Episode Six | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| Backbase | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
| 10x Banking | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Convoy |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Convoy badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (4)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Svix , Free, then $490/month
- Inngest , Free
- Kong , Free
- Enable Banking , Free
What you would be giving up
Convoy is most often brought in for a fintech that cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third-party saas for compliance reasons, a high-volume platform for which per-message webhook pricing costs more than the flat premium licence, a team that also receives webhooks from many providers and wants ingestion, verification and deduplication in the same gateway, an engineering group that wants webhook delivery driven directly from an existing kafka or sqs topic. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Convoy is broadly right and the question is cost, the Convoy pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the APIs category lists everything the directory holds, and best apis tools ranks them.
Convoy runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, cloud. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Convoy alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Convoy?
- 23 other apis tools are listed in this directory, led by Svix, Inngest, Kong, Enable Banking. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Convoy?
- 4 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Svix, Inngest, Kong, Enable Banking.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Convoy?
- Yes. 4 of the alternatives below start under Convoy's $999/month: Svix at Free, then $490/month, Inngest at Free, Kong at Free, Griffin at £100/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Convoy?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: cost climbs steeply across the tiers. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Convoy?
- Convoy is most often brought in for a fintech that cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third-party saas for compliance reasons, a high-volume platform for which per-message webhook pricing costs more than the flat premium licence, a team that also receives webhooks from many providers and wants ingestion, verification and deduplication in the same gateway, an engineering group that wants webhook delivery driven directly from an existing kafka or sqs topic. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Convoy?
- None of the apis tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Convoy alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, APIs, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Convoy against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Convoy covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every apis tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the APIs category, 23 tools beside Convoy. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.