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Retry Schedule Calculator

Your endpoint goes down at the moment a webhook fires. When will the sender try again, how many times, and when does it stop? Pick a provider or set your own backoff.

Schedule

Where the presets come from

Svix publishes its schedule: immediately, then 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, 5 hours, 10 hours, 10 hours. Stripe says it retries with exponential backoff for up to 3 days in live mode (3 retries over a few hours in test mode); the exact gaps aren't published, so the Stripe preset is an approximation. Shopify retries 19 times over about 48 hours before removing the subscription; the preset spreads those evenly, which is also an approximation. GitHub does not retry: a failed delivery stays in the app's "Recent deliveries" list for you to redeliver by hand or through the API.

If you are the sender: start small, grow fast, cap the wait, add jitter so a fleet of receivers coming back online doesn't get hit all at once, and tell the receiver how long you'll keep trying. The forwarding feature here uses this kind of schedule.