Hookdeck
Event gateway that queues, routes and retries inbound webhooks
Hookdeck is a developer tools tool for Developers and Small businesses, offered as freemium ($39/mo). Based in Canada. Popular alternatives include Context.dev, Windmill, Cursor.
About Hookdeck
Hookdeck is webhook infrastructure from Hookdeck Technologies, a Montreal company whose founders began building it in 2020, led by co-founder and CEO Alexandre Bouchard. Its Event Gateway sits between webhook providers such as Stripe, Shopify or GitHub and your app, so incoming events are verified, queued and delivered even when your endpoint is slow or down.
The gateway verifies signatures, buffers events in durable queues, retries failures with exponential backoff, and lets you filter, route, fan out, deduplicate and transform events with JavaScript. Issues group failures, alerts go to Slack, Teams or PagerDuty, and failed events replay in bulk. A CLI forwards events to localhost, and configs can live in Terraform. Developer is free for 10,000 events a month; Team and Growth add retention, users, SLAs and compliance, with overage from $3 per 100,000 events.
It fits teams whose products depend on third-party webhooks. Svix and Convoy cover similar ground, ngrok only tunnels to localhost, and Pipedream is a workflow runtime where webhooks are one trigger. Hookdeck's open-source Outpost handles the outbound side. Costs rise with volume and throughput above 5 events per second, and SSO and HIPAA need Growth.
On November 3, 2026 Hookdeck launched Hookdeck Inspect, a free webhook tester that needs no account, and it was ranked #9 on Product Hunt's daily leaderboard for that date. Buying tip: start on Developer and estimate monthly events before choosing Team.
Key features of Hookdeck
- Signature verification and authentication for incoming webhooks
- Durable queues with retries and exponential backoff
- Filters, routing, fan-out, deduplication and JavaScript transformations
- Issues, alerts to Slack, Teams or PagerDuty, and bulk replay
- CLI that forwards events to a local server for development
- Terraform provider and API for configuration as code
- MCP server so Claude or Cursor can inspect gateway resources
- Free Inspect tester with live URLs and sample webhooks
Pros and cons
Pros
- Free Developer plan with 10,000 events a month
- Works with any framework, with no SDK required
- Retries are included in event pricing
- SOC 2 Type II listed, with HIPAA on Growth
- Inspect needs no account for quick payload checks
Cons
- Event and throughput metering makes high volume costly
- Only 5 events per second per destination included before add-ons
- SSO, SCIM and HIPAA require the $499 Growth plan
- Free plan keeps events for only 3 days
- Inspect sample webhooks are not signed with your secret
Hookdeck pricing
Hookdeck uses a freemium model.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | $0 | 10,000 events/mo, 3-day retention, 1 user |
| Team | $39 / mo | From $39; pay-as-you-go events, 7-day retention, unlimited users |
| Growth | $499 / mo | From $499; 30-day retention, SSO/SCIM, HIPAA, uptime SLA |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom retention, SLAs and contracts, Slack Connect support |
Source: hookdeck.com · checked on Nov 4, 2026
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How Hookdeck compares in Developer tools
- Rank by votes
- #2 / 91
- Starting price
- $39
- Free alternatives
- 23
0 votes from members
95% above the category median ($20/mo)
Free or open-source tools in Developer tools
Hookdeck ranks #2 of 91 developer tools tools by community votes and is priced above most tools in the category.
Common use cases
- 1Receiving Stripe or Shopify webhooks without losing events during outages
- 2Testing webhook handlers locally through the CLI
- 3Routing one provider's events to several internal services
- 4Smoothing traffic spikes before they reach a fragile backend
- 5Replaying failed events in bulk after a bug fix
- 6Checking a webhook payload with Inspect before writing any code
Best for
Engineering teams that depend on third-party webhooks and want queuing, retries and observability without building it themselves.
Not ideal for
Teams that only need a local tunnel or a general workflow automation tool (ngrok, Pipedream).
Integrations
- Stripe
- Shopify
- GitHub
- Slack
- PagerDuty
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Terraform
Our take
Hookdeck is a mature, focused choice for inbound webhook reliability, and Inspect is a useful free entry point. Model your monthly events and peak throughput first, because those, not seats, set the bill.
FAQ
- What is Hookdeck?
- Hookdeck is a Developer tools tool: Event gateway that queues, routes and retries inbound webhooks.
- How much does Hookdeck cost?
- Hookdeck uses a Freemium model; paid plans start at $39 per month.
- What are the best alternatives to Hookdeck?
- Community-listed alternatives to Hookdeck include Context.dev, Windmill, Cursor, Postman.
- What does Hookdeck integrate with?
- Hookdeck integrates with Stripe, Shopify, GitHub, Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog and more.
- Which platforms does Hookdeck support?
- Hookdeck is available on web.
- Who is Hookdeck for?
- Engineering teams that depend on third-party webhooks and want queuing, retries and observability without building it themselves.
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