webhooks.xyz
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webhooks.xyz vs Hookdeck
An event gateway for teams that consume webhooks at scale: ingest, queue, transform, route, replay.
What Hookdeck does well
Serious reliability features, a CLI for localhost, filters and transformations, issue tracking, and good observability.
Where webhooks.xyz differs
- Hookdeck is built for engineering teams with volume and a budget. webhooks.xyz aims at one developer or a small team. The free tier is for real use, and Dev is expected to cost well under Hookdeck's entry price.
- Inbound email, actions with your own keys, the AI assistant and import are not part of Hookdeck.
- Hookdeck has deeper transformations, routing and team features today. Those come here in the Team plan.
Pick Hookdeck when
You process millions of events, need SOC 2 paperwork, or want transformations and routing now.
Pick webhooks.xyz when
You receive webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, Shopify or any of 50+ providers and want to see, verify and deliver them reliably, for free, without building a workflow.
Feature by feature
| webhooks.xyz | Hookdeck | |
|---|---|---|
| Instant URL that shows requests | ● | ● |
| Mock responses | ● | ◐You can set the response for a source in limited ways. Mocking is not the focus. |
| Signature verification | ● | ● |
| Destinations with retries and replay | ●Free and Dev have the same retries and replay. Only retention differs. | ● |
| Local tunnel (CLI) | ● | ● |
| Failure alerts | ● | ● |
| Actions with your own keys | ● | ◐Destinations are HTTP, queues and the CLI. No Slack or email actions with your keys. |
| Full API | ● | ● |
| Inbound email parse | ● | – |
| AI help on payloads | ●With your own key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Groq, OpenRouter): explain a request, write a handler, suggest a filter, summarise a day. | – |
| AI parsing: turn a payload or a mail into fields | ◐The assistant reads a request or a mail and answers you. An AI step that writes fields into the pipeline for each request is not built yet. | – |
| Python or JavaScript post-processing | ◐JavaScript functions and JSONata expressions on routes, in a sandbox: 100 ms, 16 MB, no network. No Python and no containers yet. | ◐Transformations are JavaScript in a sandbox, per connection. No Python. |
| Multi-step workflows (like Zapier) | ◐In progress, off until you turn it on: a request starts steps (send, set, if, switch, foreach, wait, http, forward). No catalogue of app actions; connections and HTTP cover them. | –Filters, transformations and fan-out per connection. Not multi-step workflows. |
| Import from other tools | ● | – |
| Private relay for closed networks | ●whx relay inside your network takes deliveries over one outbound connection. | – |
| Self-hostable | ○Coming soon: one container in your own cloud account, maintained by us (Business plan). | ◐Outpost, the outbound delivery component, is open source. The gateway is hosted. |
| Free tier you can use for real | ●10 days of history and every feature with small limits. Dev has 30 days. | ◐A free tier exists with an event cap and short retention. |
● yes ◐ partly or with caveats ○ coming soon here – no
Pricing
Free tier with a monthly event cap. Paid plans start at about $39 a month and scale with event volume.
| Hookdeck plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Event cap per month, short retention |
| Team | about $39 / month | More events and retention, more users |
| Growth and Enterprise | usage based | Volume pricing, SSO, SLAs |
| webhooks.xyz plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, invite-only while in build | All free features, 24 hours of retention |
| Dev | 7-day trial, no card, then about $9 / month | The same features, 30 days of retention |
| Team, Business | coming soon | Transformations, SQL access, published views, SSO, self-hosted |
Move from Hookdeck
- Each Hookdeck source becomes a bin. Each destination becomes a destination here.
- Export your connection list. Import maps sources, destinations and rules.
- Run both for a week. Compare delivery counts, then switch the sender.
Questions
- Is this a Hookdeck alternative for small teams?
- Yes. The reliability basics are the same. The price and the extras differ.
Facts about Hookdeck come from its public docs and pricing pages as of 8 October 2026 (the rows on AI parsing, code and workflows: 15 October 2026). Found an error? Tell us, and we fix it. The webhooks.xyz column includes features that are in progress. The feature list shows what is live.