Convoy vs HookBytes
Convoy
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| Figure | Convoy | HookBytes |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $999/mo | $29/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 3 |
| Spec score · Webhook Management Software | 9.4 (#1) | 8.4 (#10) |
| Dynamic endpoints | URL templates allow Convoy to select a destination per event through its dynamic-events API. | It provisions webhook endpoints with HMAC authentication and custom routing rules. |
| Retries | Failed webhook deliveries can be retried automatically, including constant-time or exponential-backoff strategies. | It delivers events asynchronously with exponential backoff and a dead letter queue for failed events. |
| Security | Security features include HMAC signatures, static IPs, IP blacklisting, and replay attack prevention. | The page describes HMAC authentication and says webhook payloads are stored safely. |
| Self-hosting | Community and Premium editions run inside the customer environment, including private networks or on-premises infrastructure. | The open-source offering is a self-hosted Laravel webhook gateway with full source code access. |
Plans
In their own words
Convoy
Convoy is a webhook gateway for sending and receiving events, with automatic retries for failed deliveries. It supports both incoming and outgoing webhooks and can ingest events from Amazon SQS, Apache Kafka, Google PubSub, RabbitMQ, and HTTP. A developer portal lets users inspect deliveries and configure or debug endpoints. Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry support provide observability, while separate control-plane and data-plane architecture uses PostgreSQL for event durability. Security features include HMAC signatures, static IPs, IP blacklisting, and replay attack prevention. Convoy is available through web and API access, and can be self-hosted; those deployments keep payloads, secrets, and logs in the customer’s infrastructure. Convoy states that it is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant and offers SSO, SAML, private networking, RBAC, and a 99.999% uptime SLA. The Community plan is free forever for one user and one organization. Premium costs $999 a month, and a 14-day trial is listed. Convoy is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
HookBytes
HookBytes provides webhook infrastructure as a managed cloud service or an open-source self-hosted gateway. It creates dynamic endpoints with HMAC authentication and custom routing rules, then delivers events asynchronously with exponential backoff and a dead letter queue for failed deliveries. Users can search, filter, inspect, and replay events through the dashboard or CLI. Stored payloads include event history and metadata such as headers and delivery status. The Open Source plan is a self-hosted Laravel gateway with full source access, an MIT license, community support, and unlimited webhooks at free. Cloud Starter costs $29 a month for up to 100K webhooks monthly, standard support, a 99.9% uptime SLA, email and Slack alerts, API rate limiting, and real-time monitoring. Enterprise has custom pricing, unlimited webhooks, a 99.99% uptime SLA, multi-region deployments, dedicated support, on-premise options, and custom integrations. HookBytes is available through API, self-hosted, and web platforms.