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Convoy
Open source webhooks gateway you self-host, handling both sending and receiving
As of 31 August 2026, Convoy has a free plan and paid plans start at $999/month. A self-hostable webhook gateway that covers outbound fan-out and inbound ingestion in one service, with a free open source community edition and a premium tier at a flat 999 US dollars a month. Softwr lists it under APIs. Convoy is made by Frain Technologies, available on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud.
Overview
What Convoy does
Convoy is a webhook gateway written in Go that sits between your services and external endpoints. Outbound, it fans events to subscribed endpoints with retries, signatures, rate limiting and delivery logs; inbound, it ingests webhooks from third parties, verifies them, deduplicates and pushes them into a message broker or your services, which is the half most webhook vendors ignore. It uses Redis and Postgres for its own state and can be driven by Kafka, SQS, Google Pub/Sub or AMQP as an event source. The commercial shape is unusual. The Community edition is free and self-hosted with the core gateway, retries and broker support. Premium is a flat 999 US dollars a month, also self-hosted, adding portal links, JavaScript payload transformations, a webhook catalogue, OpenTelemetry export, role-based access control, circuit breaking and white labelling. Because that price is flat rather than per message, a high-volume platform pays the same as a low-volume one, which inverts the economics of usage-billed competitors at scale and makes it worse value at small scale. Buyers are engineering teams who either cannot route customer webhook traffic through a third party for compliance reasons, or whose volume makes per-message pricing untenable. The trade-off is that self-hosting is the default: you run Convoy, Redis and Postgres, and you are on call for the thing that delivers your customers' events. Convoy is a small startup, and betting core customer-facing infrastructure on it carries the risk that implies.
What people use it 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
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.
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What people choose instead of Convoy
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- ConvoyvsInngest
Inngest: If your need is durable event-driven workflows rather than webhook delivery specifically
- ConvoyvsKong
Kong: If webhook delivery is one part of a broader API gateway requirement
Pricing
What Convoy costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Community
Free
- Self-hosted open source gateway
- Inbound and outbound webhooks
- Automatic retries and message broker support
- Community support only
Premium
$999 /mo
- Flat rate irrespective of message volume
- Portal links and payload transformation
- RBAC, circuit breaking and white labelling
- OpenTelemetry export and priority support
Enterprise
On request
- SAML SSO
- Dedicated support with SLA
- On-premises deployment assistance
- SOC 2 compliance support
Cloud
On request
- Hosted by Convoy
- 14 day trial limited to one project and 100 events a day
- Usage-based tiers above the trial
- No self-hosting required
Capabilities
Features
Inbound and outbound
One gateway for both sending webhooks and ingesting third-party ones
Broker-driven ingestion
Consume events from Kafka, SQS, Google Pub/Sub or AMQP
Payload transformation
JavaScript functions to reshape payloads per endpoint
Portal links
Shareable customer-facing pages for endpoint management and debugging
Circuit breaking
Automatic suspension of endpoints that fail persistently
Retry policies
Configurable exponential and constant backoff per subscription
OpenTelemetry export
Traces and metrics exported into existing observability stacks
Role-based access control
Team permissions and white labelling on premium tiers
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Convoy really open source?
Yes, the community edition is open source and self-hostable, covering both inbound and outbound webhooks with retries.
What does premium cost?
A flat 999 US dollars a month, self-hosted, regardless of message volume.
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.
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.
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