Is Convoy or Prisma better?

Neither clearly leads. Convoy starts at Free and Prisma at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Convoy or Prisma?

Convoy starts at Free and Prisma at Free.

Does Convoy or Prisma run on more platforms?

Convoy runs on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud. Prisma runs on Node.js, TypeScript.

Can I use Convoy for free?

Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.

What is Convoy best used for?

Convoy is most often used 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. Of those, a fintech that cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third-party saas for compliance reasons and a high-volume platform for which per-message webhook pricing costs more than the flat premium licence are not what Prisma is typically brought in for.

What can Convoy do that Prisma cannot?

Convoy covers Inbound and outbound, Broker-driven ingestion, Payload transformation, Portal links. Prisma covers ORM, Query builder, Auto-migrations, Node.js.

APIs · head to head

Convoy vs Prisma

Convoy

APIs

Open source webhooks gateway you self-host, handling both sending and receiving

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Prisma

APIs

Modern ORM and API client for Node.js and TypeScript

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Convoy the default deployment is self-hosted, so you operate Convoy plus Postgres and Redis and carry the on-call burden for the system that delivers your customers' events.; Prisma prisma Postgres is billed per operation, with the free tier at 100,000 operations and 500 MB of storage
They diverge on capability: Convoy covers Inbound and outbound, Prisma covers ORM.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Convoy and Prisma actually diverge.

Attributes where Convoy and Prisma differ
Attribute	Convoy	Prisma
Pricing model	Per month, flat rate regardless of volume	usage-based
Platforms	Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud	Node.js, TypeScript
Founded	Unknown	2016

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (APIs).

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 Convoy

Inbound and outbound
Broker-driven ingestion
Payload transformation
Portal links
Circuit breaking
Retry policies
OpenTelemetry export
Role-based access control

Only in Prisma

ORM
Query builder
Auto-migrations
Node.js
TypeScript
GraphQL
REST APIs
Node.js support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Convoy

A fintech that cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third-party SaaS for compliance reasonsnot Prisma
A high-volume platform for which per-message webhook pricing costs more than the flat premium licencenot Prisma
A team that also receives webhooks from many providers and wants ingestion, verification and deduplication in the same gatewaynot Prisma
An engineering group that wants webhook delivery driven directly from an existing Kafka or SQS topicnot Prisma

Prisma

Using a type safe ORM and query layer against a Postgres databasenot Convoy
Adding a managed connection pool and edge cache in front of an existing databasenot Convoy

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Convoy

The default deployment is self-hosted, so you operate Convoy plus Postgres and Redis and carry the on-call burden for the system that delivers your customers' events.
Frain Technologies is a small startup, and putting customer-facing delivery infrastructure on it means accepting real vendor continuity risk on a component that is hard to swap out quickly.
The premium tier at a flat 999 US dollars a month is poor value below substantial volume, while the community edition omits the portal, transformations and RBAC that most production deployments end up wanting.
The hosted cloud trial is capped at one project and 100 events a day, which is too small to properly evaluate the service before committing.
Documentation and the third-party ecosystem are thinner than the established webhook services, so unusual configurations often mean reading the Go source.

Prisma

Prisma Postgres is billed per operation, with the free tier at 100,000 operations and 500 MB of storage
Starter at $10 a month includes 1M operations then charges $0.0080 per 1,000
Storage overage runs from $2.00 per GB on Starter down to $1.00 per GB on Business, so the unit cost depends on the plan
Accelerate charges separately per operation and per GiB of query egress beyond the first 1 KiB
Cache tag invalidations are not included below the Pro plan and are billed per thousand above it

Pricing, plan by plan

Convoy

Free

CommunityFree
- Self-hosted open source gateway
- Inbound and outbound webhooks
- Automatic retries and message broker support
Premium$999/month
- Flat rate irrespective of message volume
- Portal links and payload transformation
- RBAC, circuit breaking and white labelling
Enterprise$undefined/year
- SAML SSO
- Dedicated support with SLA
- On-premises deployment assistance
Cloud$undefined/month
- Hosted by Convoy
- 14 day trial limited to one project and 100 events a day
- Usage-based tiers above the trial

Prisma

Free

FreeFree
- 1M requests/month
- 360 GB-hours memory
- 4 vCPU-hours
Starter$10/month
- 5M requests/month
- 1M database operations ($8 per million overage)
- 10 GB storage ($2/GB overage)
Pro$49/month
- 20M requests/month
- 10M operations ($2 per million overage)
- 50 GB storage ($1.50/GB overage)
Business$129/month
- 100M requests/month
- 50M operations ($1 per million overage)
- 100 GB storage

Which should you pick?

Choose Convoy if

You need inbound and outbound.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud.
You also want broker-driven ingestion.

Convoy review

Choose Prisma if

You need orm.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Node.js, TypeScript.
You also want query builder.

Prisma review

Questions people ask

Is Convoy or Prisma better?: Neither clearly leads. Convoy starts at Free and Prisma at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Convoy or Prisma?: Convoy starts at Free and Prisma at Free.
Does Convoy or Prisma run on more platforms?: Convoy runs on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud. Prisma runs on Node.js, TypeScript.
Can I use Convoy for free?: Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Convoy best used for?: Convoy is most often used 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. Of those, a fintech that cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third-party saas for compliance reasons and a high-volume platform for which per-message webhook pricing costs more than the flat premium licence are not what Prisma is typically brought in for.
What can Convoy do that Prisma cannot?: Convoy covers Inbound and outbound, Broker-driven ingestion, Payload transformation, Portal links. Prisma covers ORM, Query builder, Auto-migrations, Node.js.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Convoy: Is Convoy really open source?

Yes, the community edition is open source and self-hostable, covering both inbound and outbound webhooks with retries.

Prisma: How much does Prisma cost?

Prisma is free to start with 1M requests/month. The Starter plan costs $10/month with 5M requests, the Pro plan $49/month with 20M requests, and the Business plan $129/month with 100M requests. All plans have usage-based overages.

Source

Convoy: What does premium cost?

A flat 999 US dollars a month, self-hosted, regardless of message volume.

Prisma: What is Prisma's overage pricing?

Prisma charges $1 per million requests over the included amount (Starter), $2 per million database operations overage (Pro and Starter), and $1.50-$2 per GB for storage overages depending on the plan. All plans include a hard spend limit on by default.

Source

Convoy: Does it receive webhooks as well as send them?

Yes, inbound ingestion with verification and deduplication is a first-class feature, unlike most webhook services.

Prisma: Does Prisma include data transfer costs?

No, Prisma includes unlimited data transfer with no egress fees on all plans. Prisma ORM remains free across all tiers.

Source

Convoy: Do I have to self-host?

No, there is a hosted cloud, but the trial is capped at 100 events a day and self-hosting is the primary model.

Convoy vs Prisma

Convoy

Prisma

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Convoy

Only in Prisma

What people use each for

Convoy

Prisma

Where each one falls short

Convoy

Prisma

Pricing, plan by plan

Convoy

Prisma

Which should you pick?

Choose Convoy if

Choose Prisma if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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