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Hookdeck
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 verification, conditional filtering and routing, retries, logs, alerts, tracing, and replay. Outpost adds event delivery to 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 Hookdeck Event Gateway. The CLI can forward webhook events to a local web server and replay or inspect forwarded data. The free Developer plan includes up to 10,000 events and three-day retention; exceeding the event limit locks the dashboard until upgrade or the next billing period. Paid plans start at $39/mo. A 14-day trial for inviting team members is listed, subject to Developer plan usage limits. Developer support is through community Slack, while Enterprise lists Slack Connect with premium support.
For and against
For
- Event Gateway supports retries, routing, logs, and replay.
- Outpost offers managed and self-hosted options.
- CLI can forward, replay, and inspect webhook events.
- Free Developer plan includes up to 10,000 events.
Against
- Developer retention is limited to three days.
- Exceeding 10,000 events locks the dashboard.
- Paid plans start at $39/mo.
The verdict
Hookdeck covers inbound event handling and outbound delivery, with CLI tools and multiple destinations. The free Developer plan has event and retention limits, and the dashboard locks after its event cap is exceeded.
Who it suits
Hookdeck suits event-driven systems that need to receive events from external providers and deliver them to their own systems. Outpost also targets APIs, SaaS, and PaaS products that need event delivery.
Plans and prices
Self-hosted Outpost
Apache 2.0 licensed · any cloud · minimal dependencies · community support
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Developer
10,000 events · 3-day retention · 1 user · SOC 2 compliance
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Starter Outpost
First 50,000 events free · uncapped throughput · unlimited seats · 7-day retention
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Team
10,000 included events · pay-as-you-go · 7-day retention · unlimited users
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Growth Outpost
50,000 included events · 30-day retention · 99.99% uptime SLA · SSO/SAML/SCIM
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Growth
30-day retention · uptime and latency SLAs · Datadog, New Relic and Prometheus export · read-only role
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
Self-hosted
Open source · Apache 2.0 licensed · community support
Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Starter
Uncapped throughput · unlimited seats · 7-day retention · $10 per million events
Read 28 Sep 2026 · hookdeck.com
Enterprise Outpost
99.999% uptime SLA · custom retention · premium support · custom security and compliance
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hookdeck.com
On the record
- AI workflows
- Documentation describes connecting OpenAI, Claude and ElevenLabs workflows with delivery timeouts up to 15 minutes and concurrency caps.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API and infrastructure as code
- Hookdeck exposes an API for configuring connections and retrieving events and provides a Terraform provider.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- 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.hookdeck.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- 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.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- The company page identifies Alex Bouchard as co-founder and CEO and Maurice Kherlakian as co-founder and CTO.hookdeck.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Company identity
- The legal company name shown on Hookdeck's company page is Hookdeck Technologies Inc.; founders listed are Alex Bouchard and Maurice Kherlakian.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Hookdeck as privately held software-development company headquartered in Montreal, with 11–50 employees and a 2020 founding year.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer tools
- CLI forwards webhooks to localhost, Console provides a test capture URL, and Radar alerts on third-party webhook latency.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes product concepts, quickstarts, guides, API reference, CLI reference, MCP resources and configuration references.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Event Gateway
- The Event Gateway ingests, queues, transforms, and delivers inbound webhooks and events with operational control and observability.hookdeck.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Event handling
- The Event Gateway supports signature verification, conditional filtering and routing, configurable retries, event queues, logs, alerts, tracing, and replay.hookdeck.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- 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.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Inbound gateway
- Event Gateway sits between webhook providers and applications, providing durable queues, filtering, transformations, retries and delivery control.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- 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.anchorterminal.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- 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.hookdeck.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Outpost is distributed under Apache License 2.0, while Hookdeck's hosted Event Gateway is delivered as a service.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: CLI and integrations
- G2 reviewers mention troublesome multi-instance CLI setup, a desire for n8n integration and missing loop-prevention safeguards.g2.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing
- Several G2 reviewers describe throughput or overall pricing as high, steep or less suitable for small workloads.g2.com · read 15 Oct 2026
The review
Hookdeck is infrastructure for teams that receive webhooks and external events and need controlled delivery into their own systems. It is best suited to developers running event-driven services, especially where retries, routing and operational visibility matter. The main trade-off is that its free Developer tier stops being practical once event volume outgrows its fixed cap.
Overview
Hookdeck’s Event Gateway manages inbound events from receipt through queuing, transformation and delivery. It is aimed at replacing fragile point-to-point webhook handling with a managed flow that can be inspected and controlled. Outpost extends the product toward outbound delivery for APIs, SaaS and PaaS products, and can be used as a managed service or self-hosted.
This is specialized infrastructure rather than a general-purpose productivity app. It makes sense when external event traffic is part of a production system; teams without webhook or event-delivery workloads will find little reason to adopt it. Hookdeck is included in Webhook Management Software.
Key features
- Event Gateway: Ingests, queues, transforms and delivers inbound webhooks and events, giving teams a controlled path between providers and internal services.
- Failure and security controls: Signature verification helps authenticate senders, while conditional filtering and routing direct events to the right destinations. Configurable retries, queues and replay help recover from transient failures or rerun events during diagnosis.
- Operational visibility: Logs, alerts and tracing make event flows observable instead of treating delivery as a fire-and-forget request. Event inspection is supported, with seven-day log retention.
- Outbound delivery: Outpost targets APIs, SaaS and PaaS products. Destinations include webhooks, Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, AWS EventBridge, Apache Kafka and the Hookdeck Event Gateway.
- Developer workflow: The CLI forwards webhook events to a local web server and supports inspection and replay, which is useful when building or debugging integrations before they reach production.
- Deployment and governance: Managed and self-hosted deployment are both supported. The Event Gateway page presents SOC 2 Type II, SCIM, RBAC, SSO, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and PIPEDA badges, making the offering relevant to organizations with formal access and compliance requirements.
Pricing
Hookdeck uses a freemium model, with paid plans starting at $39 per month and a 14-day trial for inviting team members. The trial does not raise the Developer plan’s usage limits.
| Plan | Price and terms | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Always $0/month; up to 10,000 events, three-day retention, one user and 100,000 included discarded requests | A useful evaluation tier for an individual, but the dashboard locks after 10,000 events until an upgrade or the next billing period. |
| Self-hosted | Always free; open source, Apache 2.0 licensed, community support | Best for teams willing to run the infrastructure themselves and accept community rather than premium support. |
| Starter | Pay-as-you-go; first 50,000 events free, then $10 per million events; unlimited seats, uncapped throughput and seven-day retention | The most flexible low-commitment option for variable traffic, trading a fixed bill for metered usage. |
| Team | Starts at $39/month; 10,000 included monthly events, seven-day retention, unlimited users; additional events metered | Fits a collaborative team that needs shared access, though the included volume is modest. |
| Growth | Starts at $499/month; 10,000 included monthly events, 30-day retention, unlimited users; additional events metered | Justified when longer retention and a larger operational budget matter more than the small included quota. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing; custom usage and retention, 99.999% uptime SLA, premium support, custom security and compliance | For organizations requiring contractual reliability, tailored limits and enterprise support. |
Developer, Team and Growth include community Slack support; Enterprise adds Slack Connect with premium support. Starter’s uncapped throughput and unlimited seats make it materially less restrictive than Developer despite its usage-based billing.
Platforms
Hookdeck is offered through web, API, Linux, macOS and Windows environments, with self-hosted deployment available. That combination supports both hosted administration and teams that need to place components in their own environment.
Who it's for
Choose Hookdeck if your product receives events from external providers and you need verifiable signatures, routing rules, retries, replay and traceable logs in one event-delivery layer. It is particularly appropriate for development teams and operators of event-driven systems, and for API or SaaS makers adding outbound delivery. The free Developer plan suits small experiments or low-volume services; sustained traffic should move to Starter or a paid team tier.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Broad control over event handling: Filtering, routing, retries, queues and replay address both normal delivery and failure recovery.
- Useful observability: Logs, alerts, tracing and inspection make it easier to understand what happened to an event.
- Flexible architecture: Managed and self-hosted options, plus Outpost destinations, accommodate different deployment models.
- Strong local-development path: The CLI can forward, inspect and replay webhooks against a local server.
Cons
- Hard free-tier ceiling: Exceeding 10,000 Developer events locks the dashboard until upgrade or the next billing period.
- Short retention on entry plans: Developer keeps events for three days, limiting historical investigation.
- Metered growth costs: Starter, Team and Growth charge for additional events, so higher traffic requires monitoring usage.
- Enterprise pricing is custom: Budgeting requires a sales conversation rather than a published figure.
Alternatives
Dispatch is a fit when a free plan with 10,000 events per month, three days of history and two members is enough, while over-limit events are dropped at ingress. Hook0 suits a narrower webhook-subscription setup with one developer, one application and 100 events per day on its free plan. Hookdeck Outpost is the more focused choice when you specifically want the open-source, Apache-2.0 outbound component. RelayHQ is appropriate for very small endpoint workloads constrained to three endpoints and 500 requests per month. Repost is worth considering for a free 50,000-events-per-month allowance with 30-day history. Svix is an alternative for teams seeking a published $20/month Basic plan with 50,000 free messages per month and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Webhook Management fits readers who prefer a pay-as-you-go plan with 10,000 API requests per month and seven-day logs. Kiosk is an unrelated open-source PDF reader rather than a webhook platform.
Verdict
Hookdeck is a strong choice for developers and teams that need reliable, inspectable handling of inbound and outbound events, with the flexibility to run managed or self-hosted components. Its decisive advantage is the depth of delivery controls and observability; look elsewhere if your traffic will quickly exceed 10,000 free events or if you need predictable, all-inclusive pricing at scale.
