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What it is
Hookdeck provides infrastructure for receiving, managing, and delivering webhooks and other external events. Its Event Gateway ingests and queues incoming events, then can transform and deliver them with controls for signature checks, conditional routing, retries, logs, alerts, tracing, and replay. Outpost adds event delivery for APIs, SaaS, and PaaS products, with managed and self-hosted options. Listed destinations include webhooks, Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, AWS EventBridge, Apache Kafka, and the Event Gateway. The CLI forwards webhook events to a local web server and can replay or inspect forwarded data. The Developer plan is free, with up to 10,000 events and three-day retention; the dashboard locks after that event limit until upgrade or the next billing period. Paid plans start at $39 a month. A 14-day trial for inviting team members is available, subject to Developer plan usage limits.
Spec sheet
- What it does
- Hookdeck provides managed infrastructure that receives, queues, routes, transforms, observes and delivers webhooks and external events.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Product
- Hookdeck provides infrastructure for receiving, managing, and delivering webhooks and external events.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Audience
- Hookdeck describes its Event Gateway as infrastructure for event-driven systems that need to receive events from external providers and deliver them to their systems.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Platforms
- The CLI installation guide lists macOS, Windows, Linux, and Docker installation options.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Trial
- The pricing FAQ states that there is a 14-day trial for inviting team members, while Developer plan usage limits still apply.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Integrations
- Team integrations include Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Better Stack Uptime, incident.io and Sentry; Growth exports metrics to Datadog, New Relic and Prometheus.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Security
- The Event Gateway page displays SOC 2 Type II, SCIM, RBAC, SSO, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA badges.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Support
- The pricing page lists community Slack support for Developer, Team, and Growth, and Slack Connect with premium support for Enterprise.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Company
- The company page identifies Alex Bouchard as co-founder and CEO and Maurice Kherlakian as co-founder and CTO.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- AI workflows
- Documentation describes connecting OpenAI, Claude and ElevenLabs workflows with delivery timeouts up to 15 minutes and concurrency caps.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- API and infrastructure as code
- Hookdeck exposes an API for configuring connections and retrieving events and provides a Terraform provider.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Changelog news
- The changelog records Node.js transforms on October 12, 2026, two-way Sentry integration on October 5, and EventBridge, Cloudflare Queues and destination proxies on October 2.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Company identity
- The legal company name shown on Hookdeck's company page is Hookdeck Technologies Inc.; founders listed are Alex Bouchard and Maurice Kherlakian.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Hookdeck as privately held software-development company headquartered in Montreal, with 11–50 employees and a 2020 founding year.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
- Developer tools
- CLI forwards webhooks to localhost, Console provides a test capture URL, and Radar alerts on third-party webhook latency.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes product concepts, quickstarts, guides, API reference, CLI reference, MCP resources and configuration references.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Event Gateway
- The Event Gateway ingests, queues, transforms, and delivers inbound webhooks and events with operational control and observability.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Event handling
- The Event Gateway supports signature verification, conditional filtering and routing, configurable retries, event queues, logs, alerts, tracing, and replay.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Funding
- Crunchbase identifies Hookdeck Technologies Inc. as a Montreal seed-stage company and lists 11 investors, including Chris Nguyen and Brian Vallelunga; the funding amount is not publicly shown there.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
- Inbound gateway
- Event Gateway sits between webhook providers and applications, providing durable queues, filtering, transformations, retries and delivery control.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Independent API assessment
- Anchor Terminal reports a public OpenAPI 3.0.1 specification with 135 operations, a 240-requests-per-minute API-key limit and a beta MCP server that defaults to read-only tools.Read 15 Oct 2026 · anchorterminal.com
- Licence
- Outpost is distributed under Apache License 2.0, while Hookdeck's hosted Event Gateway is delivered as a service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Limit: CLI and integrations
- G2 reviewers mention troublesome multi-instance CLI setup, a desire for n8n integration and missing loop-prevention safeguards.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Limit: pricing
- Several G2 reviewers describe throughput or overall pricing as high, steep or less suitable for small workloads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Limit: static IPs
- A G2 reviewer reports that rotating cloud IPs prevent client IP allowlisting unless the customer self-hosts, reducing the convenience of the managed service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Observability
- The platform records requests, events and attempts and provides metrics for latency, throughput, errors and backpressure.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Open-source repository
- The public Outpost repository describes a Go and Docker-distributed, Apache-2.0 system with at-least-once delivery, tenant isolation, retries, fan-out, OpenTelemetry and webhook signature rotation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Outbound delivery
- Outpost adds outbound webhook and event delivery for SaaS or platform products and can be managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Plan limits
- The Developer plan includes up to 10,000 events and 3-day retention; the pricing FAQ says the dashboard locks after exceeding 10,000 events until upgrade or the next billing period.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Praise: debugging controls
- G2 reviewers repeatedly praise pausing, inspecting, replaying and retrying events, along with routing and environment controls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Praise: ease and reliability
- G2 reviewers repeatedly describe quick setup, an intuitive dashboard, reliable webhook handling and useful visibility into failures.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Queueing and rate control
- Hookdeck queues bursts and applies per-destination throughput limits; traffic above a configured ceiling is queued instead of rejected.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Rating on G2
- 4.8 out of 5 from 71 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Retries and replay
- Failed deliveries can be retried automatically or manually, and bookmarked requests can be replayed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Routing
- Connections route requests from sources to destinations, with fan-out to multiple destinations supported.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- SDKs
- Outpost provides Go, Python and TypeScript SDKs and an MCP server; the public TypeScript SDK repository is Apache-2.0 licensed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Security and compliance
- Hookdeck publicly lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and PIPEDA support, plus SSO, SCIM, RBAC and MFA controls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Self-hosting
- Outpost can be deployed with Docker or Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, GCP, Railway or Fly.io using the same codebase as the managed service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Service incidents
- Hookdeck's status history records elevated latency on October 15–16, 2026, a July 7–8 ingestion degradation lasting 2 hours 59 minutes and a May 24–25 delivery degradation lasting 2 hours 4 minutes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · status.hookdeck.com
- Transformations
- Transformations run customer JavaScript on events to reshape, verify, decode or generate payloads before delivery.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
- Trial terms
- The pricing FAQ says the 14-day trial permits inviting team members while Developer-plan usage limits continue to apply, and no credit card is required.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Plans and prices
Developer Free Always $0 /month 10,000 events · 3-day retention · 1 user · SOC 2 compliance Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Developer Free Always $0 /month Up to 10,000 events · 3-day retention · 1 user · 100,000 included discarded requests Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Self-hosted Free Always free Open source · Apache 2.0 licensed · community support Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Self-hosted Outpost Free Always free Apache 2.0 licensed · any cloud · minimal dependencies · community support Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Starter Free Pay-as-you-go; first 50k events free Uncapped throughput · unlimited seats · 7-day retention · $10 per million events Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Starter Outpost $10 a month Pay-as-you-go $10 per million events First 50,000 events free · uncapped throughput · unlimited seats · 7-day retention · SOC 2 · OpenTelemetry Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Team $39 a month Starts at $39 /month 10,000 included events · pay-as-you-go · 7-day retention · unlimited users · Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Better Stack Uptime, incident.io and Sentry integrations Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Growth $499 a month Starts at $499 /month 30-day retention · uptime and latency SLAs · Datadog, New Relic and Prometheus export · read-only role · SSO/SAML/SCIM · HIPAA Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Growth Outpost $499 a month Starts at $499 + $10 per million events 50,000 included events · 30-day retention · 99.99% uptime SLA · SSO/SAML/SCIM · HIPAA · multi-region Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Growth $49,910 a month Starts at $499 + $10 per million events 50k included monthly events · uncapped throughput · 30-day retention · HIPAA compliance · multi-region (US, EU, Asia) Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Enterprise Priced on request Inquire for plans Premium support · support manager · Slack Connect · custom security compliance · custom SLAs · custom contracts Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Enterprise Outpost Priced on request Inquire for plans 99.999% uptime SLA · custom retention · premium support · custom security and compliance · custom contracts Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Supports signature verification and conditional routing
- Retries, tracing, and replay are available
- CLI forwards events to a local server
- Self-hosted option is available
Limits
- Developer plan has a 10,000-event limit
- Developer retention is limited to three days
- Dashboard locks after exceeding the Developer event limit
Who it suits
Hookdeck suits teams building event-driven systems that receive events from external providers and route them onward. It offers both a managed Event Gateway and self-hosted delivery options.
Hookdeck in depth
Read the full write-up
Hookdeck is event infrastructure for software that receives webhooks and other external events. It is best suited to developers and teams running event-driven systems; its standout case is pairing delivery controls with inspection and replay, though the free Developer plan has a hard usage ceiling.
Overview
The Event Gateway takes inbound events through ingestion, queues, transformation, and delivery. Its controls address the failure-prone parts of webhook operations: signature verification, conditional filtering and routing, configurable retries, logs, alerts, tracing, and replay. That breadth makes Hookdeck more compelling for teams that need to diagnose and recover event flows than for projects with only occasional, low-stakes callbacks.
Outpost adds outbound delivery for APIs, SaaS, and PaaS products, with managed and self-hosted options. The Hookdeck CLI forwards events to a local web server and supports inspection and replay, which gives developers a way to work with forwarded event data during local development. Hookdeck is focused infrastructure, so it is a poor fit if webhook and event delivery are peripheral to the software being built.
Hookdeck is included in Webhook Management Software.
Key features
Inbound event handling: Queues, filters, routing, signature verification, retries, and replay provide controls across event processing and recovery. Logs, alerts, and tracing help teams investigate what happened when delivery does not go as planned.
Outbound delivery: Outpost targets products that need to deliver events to customer systems. Its listed destinations include webhooks, Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, AWS EventBridge, Apache Kafka, and the Hookdeck Event Gateway, giving teams several broker and gateway choices.
Local development: The CLI forwards webhook events to a local web server and can inspect or replay forwarded data, useful for developing integrations without treating each event as an opaque request.
Security controls: The Event Gateway page displays SOC 2 Type II, SCIM, RBAC, SSO, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA badges. Enterprise is the plan that explicitly includes custom security and compliance.
Pricing
The free options suit different deployment and workload needs. Developer is free, billed Always $0 /month, with up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention, 1 user, and 100,000 included discarded requests. The 10,000-event ceiling is consequential: after exceeding it, the dashboard locks until an upgrade or the next billing period. Developer also limits teams to one user and keeps events for only three days, so it is best for individual evaluation or small, short-lived workloads rather than a shared operational service.
Self-hosted is free, billed Always free, and provides open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license with community support. It is the option for teams that want to run the software themselves, but it does not include the paid-plan support arrangement. Starter is free, billed Pay-as-you-go: the first 50k events are free, throughput is uncapped, seats are unlimited, retention is seven days, and additional usage costs $10 per million events. Its usage-based structure is a better fit than Developer for teams that need more room and shared access, though costs rise with event volume.
Team starts at $39 a month and includes 10,000 monthly events, seven-day retention, unlimited users, and metered additional events. Growth starts at $499 a month with the same included monthly events and unlimited users, but extends retention to 30 days; that makes its higher starting price chiefly relevant to teams that need a longer event history. Enterprise has custom pricing and custom usage and retention, plus a 99.999% uptime SLA, premium support, and custom security and compliance.
The pricing page gives Developer, Team, and Growth community Slack support; Enterprise gets Slack Connect with premium support. A 14-day trial applies to inviting team members, but Developer usage limits still apply during it. That makes the trial useful for evaluating collaboration, not a way around the free plan’s event cap.
Platforms
Hookdeck lists API, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows platforms, as well as self-hosted deployment. The range accommodates API-based integration and teams that prefer to operate their own deployment.
Who it's for
Hookdeck is a strong candidate for teams receiving events from external providers and delivering them into event-driven systems, especially where retries, routing, replay, and operational visibility matter. Outpost also suits API, SaaS, and PaaS makers adding event delivery to their products. Individual developers can start with Developer, while teams needing unlimited seats can consider Starter or the paid monthly plans. It is less suitable for a simple, low-volume integration that does not need event operations, or for sustained higher-volume use on the capped Developer plan.
Pros and cons
Pro: Inbound controls span verification, routing, retries, and replay, so teams can manage failures rather than only forward requests.
Pro: Outpost and its listed destinations cover outbound delivery across webhooks and several event brokers.
Pro: Starter offers uncapped throughput and unlimited seats, with the first 50k events free.
Con: Developer has a 10,000-event cap and only three days of retention; exceeding the cap locks the dashboard until upgrade or the next billing period.
Con: Team and Growth both start with 10,000 included monthly events, with additional events metered, so higher usage can add to their starting cost.
Con: Growth’s distinguishing listed allowance is 30-day retention, while its starting price is substantially above Team.
Alternatives
Choose Dispatch if its 10,000-event monthly free plan is enough and you prefer two members and public projects, while accepting that over-limit events are dropped at ingress. Hookbridge is another freemium option, with a free 1,000-message plan and paid tiers starting at $10 a month. RelayHQ may suit a small setup that can work within three endpoints, 500 requests per month, one destination per endpoint, and 24-hour log history; its free plan has no automatic retries.
Webhook Relay is another freemium option, with no free trial. Convoy offers a free Community plan with incoming and outgoing webhooks, automatic retries, and message broker support, plus a free trial. Svix may appeal if the $20 a month Basic plan’s 99.9% uptime SLA, 200 messages per second, and 30-day payload retention suit your needs. Webhook Management offers a free Starter plan with 10,000 API requests per month and seven-day log retention. Hook0 is another freemium choice, with a free Developer plan for one developer and 100 events per day.
Verdict
Choose Hookdeck when external event flows are important enough to justify dedicated controls for delivery, recovery, and troubleshooting, especially if outbound product delivery is also in scope. Its free and self-hosted paths make it accessible, and paid tiers add team capacity or longer retention. Look elsewhere if you need a larger included monthly allowance at a predictable starting price, or if a modest webhook utility is all the system requires.
Verdict
Hookdeck covers event intake, processing, delivery, and troubleshooting, with managed and self-hosted paths. The free Developer tier has clear usage and retention limits, while paid plans start at $39 a month.
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