Routing gateway
Hookdeck vs HookDeploy — which is right for you?
Compare HookDeploy and Hookdeck for webhook capture, inspection, and routing. Hookdeck is a production event gateway with persistent history, bulk manual replay, retries, and advanced routing. HookDeploy focuses on fast capture, inspect, transform, and replay for developers and small teams.
Decision brief
Hookdeck is the better fit for production event routing at scale — guaranteed delivery, durable event history, bulk replay, and enterprise routing rules. HookDeploy is the better fit when you want a simpler capture-inspect-replay control plane with visual transformations at a lower price point. Many teams use HookDeploy during integration work and Hookdeck (or their own pipeline) in production.
Strengths at a glance
HookDeploy
- Simpler setup — endpoint URL in seconds, no event gateway configuration
- Free tier for solo developers with no credit card
- Full REST API at api.hookdeploy.dev
- Lower cost for teams that only need capture, inspect, and replay
- Visual payload transformation editor with 23 built-in formatters (Starter+)
- Multiple forward destinations per endpoint (up to unlimited on Team)
Hookdeck
- Enterprise-grade event gateway with retries and dead-letter queues
- Persistent event history with single-event and bulk manual replay
- Advanced filtering, transformations, and routing rules
- Built for high-volume production traffic
- SOC 2 compliance and enterprise SLAs
Best-fit workloads
Choose HookDeploy when
- You are debugging webhook integrations during development or staging
- You need a quick URL to capture and inspect payloads without configuring routing rules
- Your team wants shared endpoint history with role-based access at a lower price point
- You want programmatic endpoint management via a straightforward REST API
- You are a solo developer or small team on a budget
Choose Hookdeck when
- You need production-grade event routing with guaranteed delivery and retries at scale
- You need durable storage plus bulk manual replay across large event windows
- Your architecture requires complex filtering, transformations, or multi-destination routing
- You are processing millions of events per month with enterprise compliance requirements
- You need a full event gateway, not a webhook testing / ops control plane
Feature comparison
Plan qualifiers and linked cells cite first-party competitor documentation where available.
Instant webhook URL
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Request inspection (headers, body)
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Persistent request / event history
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Manual replay
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Multiple destinations
HookDeploy
✓ Up to unlimited (Team plan)
Hookdeck
Visual payload transformation
HookDeploy
✓ Visual editor, 23 formatters, no code required (Starter+)
Hookdeck
Auto-forwarding to your server
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Header injection
HookDeploy
✓ Starter and above
Hookdeck
IP allowlist
HookDeploy
✓ Starter and above
Hookdeck
Secret token auth
HookDeploy
✓ Starter and above
Hookdeck
Blocked request log
HookDeploy
✓ Starter and above
Hookdeck
✗
Event transformations (programmatic)
HookDeploy
✓ Visual editor (Starter+)
Hookdeck
Advanced routing rules
HookDeploy
✗
Hookdeck
Dead-letter queues
HookDeploy
✗
Hookdeck
Free tier
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
REST API
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
HTTP cron jobs
HookDeploy
✓ Built-in
Hookdeck
✗
Team collaboration
HookDeploy
✓
Hookdeck
Payload / event storage
HookDeploy
1GB–50GB storage caps by plan
| Feature | HookDeploy | Hookdeck |
|---|---|---|
| Instant webhook URL | ✓ | ✓ |
| Request inspection (headers, body) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persistent request / event history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manual replay | ✓ | ✓ Single-event and bulk replay |
| Multiple destinations | ✓ Up to unlimited (Team plan) | ✓ Available (called 'connections') |
| Visual payload transformation | ✓ Visual editor, 23 formatters, no code required (Starter+) | ✓ Available via transformation rules |
| Auto-forwarding to your server | ✓ | ✓ |
| Header injection | ✓ Starter and above | ✓ Available |
| IP allowlist | ✓ Starter and above | ✓ Available |
| Secret token auth | ✓ Starter and above | Partial |
| Blocked request log | ✓ Starter and above | ✗ |
| Event transformations (programmatic) | ✓ Visual editor (Starter+) | ✓ |
| Advanced routing rules | ✗ | ✓ |
| Dead-letter queues | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | Partial |
| REST API | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTP cron jobs | ✓ Built-in | ✗ |
| Team collaboration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payload / event storage | 1GB–50GB storage caps by plan | ✓ Persistent event history for plan retention window |
Sources
- Hookdeck Event Gateway — Durable storage and bulk replay positioning
- Receive and Process Webhooks with Hookdeck — Event history and manual/bulk replay
- Hookdeck connections and routing — Multi-destination routing terminology
Coming from Hookdeck? Here's how to switch.
- Sign up at app.hookdeploy.dev and create an organization
- Create a new endpoint — copy the https://hookdeploy.dev/h/{slug} URL
- Update your webhook sender (Stripe, GitHub, etc.) to point at the HookDeploy URL instead of your Hookdeck source URL
- Optionally set forward destinations to proxy webhooks to your existing Hookdeck destination while you transition
- Invite teammates who need access to the shared request history
Common questions
Is HookDeploy a Hookdeck alternative?
For webhook testing and debugging, yes. HookDeploy gives you capture, inspection, replay, and forwarding without Hookdeck's event gateway complexity. For production event routing at enterprise scale — including durable history and bulk replay — Hookdeck is the better fit.
Can I use HookDeploy and Hookdeck together?
Yes. Point senders at HookDeploy for debugging and inspection, then forward to Hookdeck or your production pipeline when ready. Many teams use a testing tool during development and an event gateway in production.
Does Hookdeck support manual replay and payload storage?
Yes. Hookdeck's Event Gateway stores event history for your plan retention window and supports single-event and bulk manual replay from the dashboard or API.
Does HookDeploy support event transformations?
Yes. HookDeploy includes a visual payload transformation editor on Starter and above. Strip PII, rename fields, convert cents to dollars, mask emails, and chain 23 built-in formatters — no code required. Hookdeck offers transformation rules too; HookDeploy's editor is comparable at a lower price point for many developer workflows.
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