Developer Tools · head to head
Cody vs Hookdeck
Hookdeck
Developer Tools
Event gateway that receives, queues, retries and replays inbound webhooks
- From
- Free
- Rated
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: Cody sourcegraph now publishes a single Enterprise plan starting at $16K, with no free or individual Pro tier listed on the pricing page; Hookdeck pricing meters delivered events, so fan-out multiplies the bill: one inbound event routed to four services counts as four deliveries.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Cody and Hookdeck actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Developer Tools).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Cody
Nothing recorded that Hookdeck does not also cover.
Only in Hookdeck
- Ingest and persist
- Automatic retries
- Filters and fan-out
- Transformations
- Local development CLI
- Rate limiting
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Cody
- Code completion and intelligent autocomplete in IDEsnot Hookdeck
- Developer chat with codebase context awarenessnot Hookdeck
- Automated debugging and error identificationnot Hookdeck
- Customizable prompts for workflow automationnot Hookdeck
Hookdeck
- A payments integration where losing a Stripe event during a deploy causes an order to go unfulfillednot Cody
- Fanning one provider webhook out to several internal services without each subscribing separatelynot Cody
- Debugging a partner integration by replaying the exact failing payload after shipping a fixnot Cody
- Receiving production-shaped webhooks on a developer laptop without running a public tunnelnot Cody
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Cody
- Sourcegraph now publishes a single Enterprise plan starting at $16K, with no free or individual Pro tier listed on the pricing page
- sourcegraph.com/cody redirects to the documentation rather than a Cody product or pricing page
- AI features are metered as credits included per user, and exceeding the allocation requires buying a higher volume bucket
- Volume credit buckets are sold as an add-on rather than included
- A customer success manager and premium support are optional paid extras on top of the Enterprise plan
- Standard support is 24x5 rather than 24x7, with round-the-clock coverage sold as an upgrade
- The published $16K figure is a starting price that scales with team size, so the actual cost is quoted rather than listed
Hookdeck
- Pricing meters delivered events, so fan-out multiplies the bill: one inbound event routed to four services counts as four deliveries.
- Free-tier retention is three days, which is shorter than the time it typically takes to notice a failing integration, so the payloads needed for a replay are often already gone.
- It becomes a single point of failure in front of every third-party integration, and an outage there means every provider webhook queues or fails at once.
- The transformation layer runs JavaScript in a constrained environment, so anything that needs a database lookup or an external call has to happen downstream instead.
- For a team already running Kafka or SQS the value is mostly the console and the replay UI, which is a hard cost to justify against infrastructure they already operate.
Pricing, plan by plan
Cody
FreeNo published plan breakdown. See the Cody review.
Hookdeck
Free- DeveloperFree
- Up to ten thousand events per month
- Three-day retention
- One user
- Team$39/month
- Ten thousand events included
- Unlimited users
- Pay as you go metering above the included events
- Growth$499/month
- Ten thousand events included plus metered usage
- Thirty-day retention
- Uptime and latency SLAs
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- Negotiated event volume
- Custom retention
- Dedicated support
Which should you pick?
Choose Hookdeck if
- You need ingest and persist.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- You also want automatic retries.
Questions people ask
- Is Cody or Hookdeck better?
- Neither clearly leads. Cody starts at Free and Hookdeck at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Cody or Hookdeck?
- Cody starts at Free and Hookdeck at Free.
- Does Cody or Hookdeck run on more platforms?
- Cody runs on Web. Hookdeck runs on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- Can I use Cody for free?
- Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
- What is Cody best used for?
- Cody is most often used for code completion and intelligent autocomplete in ides, developer chat with codebase context awareness, automated debugging and error identification, customizable prompts for workflow automation. Of those, code completion and intelligent autocomplete in ides and developer chat with codebase context awareness are not what Hookdeck is typically brought in for.
- What can Cody do that Hookdeck cannot?
- Hookdeck covers Ingest and persist, Automatic retries, Filters and fan-out, Transformations.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Cody: Is Cody free?
Cody offers a free tier for individual developers via VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and the web app. Unlimited free usage is available for solo developers.
SourceHookdeck: Is there a free plan?
Yes, ten thousand events a month with three-day retention and one user.
Cody: What does Cody Enterprise cost?
Cody Enterprise pricing is custom and requires contacting Sourcegraph sales. It is available for Sourcegraph Enterprise customers and must be quoted based on your deployment and usage needs.
SourceHookdeck: How is usage counted?
By delivered events, so a single inbound webhook fanned out to three destinations counts as three.
Cody: What LLMs does Cody use?
Cody uses the latest large language models for code completions, chat, and debugging. It leverages Sourcegraph's advanced Search API to pull codebase context from local and remote repositories.
SourceHookdeck: Can I replay a failed webhook?
Yes, individually or in bulk from the console, with the original payload.
Hookdeck: Does it work for outbound webhooks too?
Yes, the same queueing, retry and observability applies to webhooks you send.
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