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webhooks.xyz vs Zapier
The largest no-code automation platform. 'Webhooks by Zapier' catches and sends requests.
What Zapier does well
Thousands of app integrations and a huge library of ready-made zaps.
Where webhooks.xyz differs
- Zapier charges per task and keeps webhooks behind a paid plan. The equivalent here, a bin plus a Slack action with your own Slack webhook, is free.
- Zapier does not show raw requests live, verify signatures, or retry a delivery to your server with a replay queue.
- If you need the 7,000 integrations, Zapier wins. webhooks.xyz calls your own keys and HTTP APIs instead of wrapping each app.
Pick Zapier when
You want to connect many SaaS apps without code and task pricing suits your volume.
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 | Zapier | |
|---|---|---|
| Instant URL that shows requests | ● | ◐The trigger shows sample requests during setup, not a live list. |
| Mock responses | ● | – |
| Signature verification | ● | – |
| Destinations with retries and replay | ●Free and Dev have the same retries and replay. Only retention differs. | ◐A zap can POST onward. Zapier replays failed zap runs for a limited time on paid plans. |
| Local tunnel (CLI) | ● | – |
| Failure alerts | ● | ◐Zapier emails you when a zap errors repeatedly. |
| Actions with your own keys | ● | ● |
| Full API | ● | ◐A partner API exists for embedding, not for managing your own zaps fully. |
| Inbound email parse | ● | ●Email Parser by Zapier gives an address that triggers a zap. |
| 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 by Zapier and Formatter steps pull fields out of text and mail. |
| 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. | ●Code by Zapier runs short JavaScript or Python steps with time and memory limits. |
| 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-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. | – |
● yes ◐ partly or with caveats ○ coming soon here – no
Pricing
Webhooks need a paid plan, from about $20–30 a month, billed per task.
| Zapier plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 tasks, no webhooks |
| Professional | about $20–30 / month | Webhooks, multi-step zaps, 750+ tasks |
| Team and Enterprise | about $70+ / month | Shared workspaces, SSO |
| 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 |
Use both
Put a bin in front of Zapier. The bin shows and verifies each request, keeps it, and forwards it. Zapier keeps doing what it does well.
Facts about Zapier 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.