HookieBoth receive webhooks, verify the sender's signature, retry deliveries to your services and let you replay them. Hookdeck is a mature event gateway with a large free event allowance and a local-development CLI. Hookie keeps every payload as a searchable record you can export, routes it into named datasets, and adds AI steps, workflows and forms, on flat plans with no overage billing.
Side by side
Hookdeck's column is from its own site, checked on 7 October 2026. Prices and limits change, so check hookdeck pricing before you decide.
| Hookie | Hookdeck | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Receive, store, route and deliver webhooks, forms and events | An event gateway for inbound webhooks (sending to your customers is a separate product, Outpost) |
| Free plan | 1,000 events a month, 7-day retention, no card | 10,000 events a month, 3-day retention, 1 user |
| Entry paid plan | Pro $9.99/mo: 100,000 events, 30-day retention, up to 3 members. Team $39.99 per member/mo: 300,000 events, 90 days | Team from $39/mo with 10,000 events included, then metered; 7-day retention |
| Beyond the allowance | None billed. Pro and Team get 10% grace, then new events get a 429 until the 1st or an upgrade | Metered per additional event |
| Retries and replay | 8 attempts over about a day with backoff, then dead-lettered; replay one delivery or every failure in a window | Up to 50 automatic retries, scheduled up to 7 days out; unlimited manual and bulk retries |
| Provider signatures | Checks Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, Slack, Standard Webhooks and custom HMAC signatures on ingest | Verifies provider signatures at the gateway (Stripe, GitHub and Shopify among them) |
| Stored payloads | Every payload stored whole before routing, searchable, exportable to CSV or XLSX | Events are kept for the plan's retention and can be inspected and retried |
| Local development | No tunnel to your machine; watch events arrive in the console's live tail, or over SSE or WebSocket | A free CLI that forwards webhooks to localhost, no account needed |
| AI agents | Hosted MCP server, OpenAPI 3.1, a CLI, and agent self sign-up onto Free | Not found on their site as of the date checked |
When Hookdeck is the better pick
- You need webhooks tunnelled to localhost while you develop: Hookdeck's CLI does that for free, and Hookie's does not.
- Your volume is high and spiky: a larger free allowance and metered events can cost less than a fixed tier.
- You want more than a day of automatic retries.
When Hookie is
- You want every payload kept whole and searchable, not only while it is being retried, and exported when someone asks for a spreadsheet.
- You want a price that cannot grow with a traffic spike: Hookie bills no overage on any plan.
- You collect forms and alerts too, or want AI to read events as they arrive.
Try it on the free plan: create an endpoint, or read the Stripe, GitHub and Shopify guides and pricing.
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