webhooks.xyz
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webhooks.xyz vs n8n
An open-source workflow automation platform with a webhook trigger node.
What n8n does well
Hundreds of integrations, a visual editor, code nodes, and a free self-hosted edition.
Where webhooks.xyz differs
- n8n is a general automation tool. A webhook is one trigger among many. webhooks.xyz is only about receiving webhooks, so inspection, verification, retries and replay are the whole product, not nodes you assemble.
- A failed n8n execution retries only if you configure it per workflow. Here the queue, retries and replay exist for every bin by default.
- n8n has no inbox view for raw requests as they arrive. You read executions after the fact.
Pick n8n when
You want multi-step automations across many apps, or you must run everything on your own servers.
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 | n8n | |
|---|---|---|
| Instant URL that shows requests | ● | ◐The webhook node shows test executions. There is no live request list. |
| Mock responses | ● | ● |
| Signature verification | ● | ◐Header or basic auth on the trigger. HMAC verification is a code node you write. |
| Destinations with retries and replay | ●Free and Dev have the same retries and replay. Only retention differs. | ◐Retries are a per-workflow setting. Failed executions can be retried by hand. |
| Local tunnel (CLI) | ● | – |
| Failure alerts | ● | ◐An error workflow can send a message when a run fails. |
| Actions with your own keys | ● | ● |
| Full API | ● | ● |
| Inbound email parse | ● | ◐An IMAP trigger reads a mailbox you own. There is no address per webhook. |
| 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. | ●AI nodes (OpenAI, Anthropic and others) extract fields inside a workflow. |
| 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. | ●The Code node runs JavaScript or Python. Self-hosted, it runs in task-runner processes you control. |
| 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. | ● |
| Import from other tools | ● | – |
| Private relay for closed networks | ●whx relay inside your network takes deliveries over one outbound connection. | ◐Self-hosting inside your network covers this case. |
| Self-hostable | ○Coming soon: one container in your own cloud account, maintained by us (Business plan). | ● |
| Free tier you can use for real | ●10 days of history and every feature with small limits. Dev has 30 days. | ◐Self-hosted is free. Cloud has no permanent free tier. |
● yes ◐ partly or with caveats ○ coming soon here – no
Pricing
The self-hosted community edition is free. n8n Cloud starts at about €20–24 a month, billed by workflow executions.
| n8n plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Community (self-hosted) | free | All core features, you run it |
| Starter cloud | about €20–24 / month | 2,500 executions, 5 active workflows |
| Pro cloud | about €50–60 / month | 10,000 executions, more workflows |
| 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 n8n
- Keep n8n for automations. Put a bin in front of its webhook node as a destination, so n8n gets retries and a replay queue.
- Move signature checks to the bin and delete the code nodes that did them.
Questions
- Do I have to choose?
- No. A bin can forward to an n8n webhook node. You get inspection, verification and retries, and keep your workflows.
Facts about n8n 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.