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Hookdeck
Event gateway that receives, queues, retries and replays inbound webhooks
As of 31 August 2026, Hookdeck has a free plan and paid plans start at $39/month. Infrastructure that sits in front of your application to absorb inbound webhooks so a deploy or an outage does not silently lose events. Softwr lists it under Developer Tools. Hookdeck is available on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
Overview
What Hookdeck does
Hookdeck is an event gateway. Third-party webhooks are pointed at Hookdeck rather than at your servers; it authenticates and verifies them, persists each event, then delivers to one or more of your endpoints with retry, rate limiting, filtering and transformation in between. Failed deliveries are visible in a console with full payloads, and can be replayed individually or in bulk after a fix ships. The same machinery works for outbound webhooks and for local development, where a CLI forwards production-shaped events to a laptop. What distinguishes it from writing your own queue is the operational surface: the transformation layer runs your JavaScript on the event before delivery, the filtering means one provider connection can fan out to several services, and the retry policy is configured rather than coded. The commercially relevant point is the pricing unit. The Developer tier is free to ten thousand events a month with three-day retention. Team starts at 39 US dollars a month, Growth at 499, and beyond the included ten thousand events all plans meter delivered events in tiers running from three dollars per hundred thousand down to thirty-five cents per hundred thousand above five hundred million a month. A single high-volume Shopify or Stripe integration can therefore cost more than the plan fee. Buyers are teams whose product depends on somebody else’s webhooks and who have already lost events to a deploy window. The trade off is that Hookdeck becomes a hard dependency in the critical path of your integrations, and the short retention on the free tier means an incident discovered on day four has no payloads left to replay.
What people use it for
- A payments integration where losing a Stripe event during a deploy causes an order to go unfulfilled
- Fanning one provider webhook out to several internal services without each subscribing separately
- Debugging a partner integration by replaying the exact failing payload after shipping a fix
- Receiving production-shaped webhooks on a developer laptop without running a public tunnel
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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 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.
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What people choose instead of Hookdeck
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.
- HookdeckvsAbly
Ably: Ably if the requirement is realtime message delivery to clients rather than server-to-server webhook reliability.
- HookdeckvsPipedream
Pipedream: Pipedream if you would rather build the whole integration workflow on the platform than route events to your own code.
Pricing
What Hookdeck costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Developer
Free
- Up to ten thousand events per month
- Three-day retention
- One user
- Console, retries and replay
Team
$39 /mo
- Ten thousand events included
- Unlimited users
- Pay as you go metering above the included events
- Longer retention than the free tier
- Transformations and filters
Growth
$499 /mo
- Ten thousand events included plus metered usage
- Thirty-day retention
- Uptime and latency SLAs
- SSO, SAML and SCIM
- Priority support
Enterprise
On request
- Negotiated event volume
- Custom retention
- Dedicated support
- Contractual SLAs
Capabilities
Features
Ingest and persist
Every inbound event stored before delivery, so an application outage does not lose it
Automatic retries
Configurable retry schedules with manual and bulk replay from the console
Filters and fan-out
Route one provider connection to several destinations by payload rules
Transformations
JavaScript run against the event before delivery to reshape payloads
Local development CLI
Forward live events to localhost without a tunnel service
Rate limiting
Throttle delivery so a provider burst does not overwhelm a downstream service
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 there a free plan?
Yes, ten thousand events a month with three-day retention and one user.
How is usage counted?
By delivered events, so a single inbound webhook fanned out to three destinations counts as three.
Can I replay a failed webhook?
Yes, individually or in bulk from the console, with the original payload.
Does it work for outbound webhooks too?
Yes, the same queueing, retry and observability applies to webhooks you send.
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