Hookdeck vs Svix (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Svix grades higher than Hookdeck: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Svix grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on value for money, features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Hookdeck
Gateway for receiving, queueing and routing webhooks
Which one is for you
Pick Hookdeck if
- Fits if you receive webhooks from Stripe or Shopify and need retries
- Works for developers debugging webhooks on localhost
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you pass 10,000 events a month on the free plan, as the dashboard locks
- Pricey if you want a static IP, an add-on of $100 a month
- Watch out: a support SLA is an add-on on Team and Growth
- Skip it if you need to send webhooks as well, since Outpost is priced separately
Pick Svix if
- Fits if you run a SaaS and need to send webhooks to customers
- Works for small teams starting on the free 50k messages
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you only receive webhooks, since it is for sending
- Pricey if you need static IPs or an unbranded portal, which need Professional at $490
- Watch out: SSO, HIPAA and a BAA are Enterprise with custom pricing
- Tight if you pass 50k messages, because the page doesn't state overage billing
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAHookdeckFair | 2.4GPASvixFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CTeam starts at $39 a month, inside the category's dearer quarter at $49, and Growth is $499. Extra events are metered. | CBasic starts at $20 a month, near the category's middle of $19.99; Professional is $490. The page doesn't say how messages beyond the first 50k are billed. |
| Free plan and trial | CDeveloper is free but capped at 10,000 events a month, 1 user and 3-day retention; the dashboard locks past it. | BFree: 50k messages a month at 50 messages per second with 7-day retention. |
| Features | CQueueing, retries and debugging for incoming webhooks. Outpost for sending webhooks is priced separately. | COutbound webhooks and a customer portal. It does that one job fully, and it's a smaller job than general automation. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You point providers at Hookdeck and set up routing. | CNo store rating on record. You add the SDK to your product, so it takes a developer. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb dashboard with Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Sentry and Datadog connections. | BWeb dashboard with AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake and OpenTelemetry connections. |
| Best for | catching and retrying incoming webhooks | sending webhooks from your own product |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Hookdeck and Svix. How we grade
Price against what you get
Hookdeck starts at $39 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Svix starts at $20 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Svix starts $19 a month lower. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 15 score higher than Hookdeck for less, and 11 score higher than Svix for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
At a glance
| Hookdeck | Svix | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $39 per month and up, plus usage beyond 10,000 events | $20 per month and up |
| Free plan | Developer plan: $0 a month with up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention and 1 user. | $0 a month for up to 50k messages, 50 messages per second and 7-day payload retention. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. | Svix Inc. |
| Price read from | hookdeck.com | svix.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Hookdeck
- Developer is capped at 10,000 events a month; past that the dashboard locks until you upgrade or the billing period renews.
- Extra events are metered, and the page says pricing falls to as low as $0.33 per 100k at volume.
- A static IP add-on costs $100 a month, and a support SLA is an add-on on Team and Growth.
- Outpost, for sending webhooks, is priced separately from the Event Gateway.
Svix
- Free stops at 50k messages a month and 7 days of payload retention.
- Static source IPs, unbranded portal and advanced RBAC need Professional at $490 a month and up.
- SSO, HIPAA and a BAA are Enterprise features with custom pricing.
- The pricing page does not state how messages beyond the included 50k are billed.
Key features
Hookdeck
- Queueing and rate limits
- Inbound requests are always accepted. Delivery above a destination's throughput ceiling is queued, not rejected, within the retention window.
- Connections and transformations
- Connections link sources to destinations, and transformations modify events with custom functions before delivery. Both are unlimited on every plan.
- Issues and metrics
- Issues flag failing events or queue backpressure, and metrics show latency, throughput and error rates. Alerts go to Slack, PagerDuty, Sentry and others.
- Local testing
- A CLI receives and debugs webhooks on localhost, and Inspect previews webhook payloads before they reach your code.
- Outbound delivery
- Outpost, a separate product with its own pricing, handles sending webhooks and events to your own customers.
Svix
- Webhook sending
- Svix Dispatch delivers a product's webhooks to its customers' endpoints with retries and signing. Svix Ingest covers receiving webhooks.
- Embeddable portal
- An application portal can be embedded in a customer dashboard so webhook consumers manage subscriptions and monitor delivery themselves.
- Usage-based counting
- Only attempted messages count toward usage. Messages filtered out by Svix, such as when no endpoints exist, and retries are free.
- Destinations
- Higher plans add object storage endpoints (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage). Enterprise lists Snowflake and OpenTelemetry log streaming.
- Testing tools
- Svix Play is a separate tool for testing webhooks, and the site links an API reference, SDKs and a Terraform provider.
Plans
Hookdeck
Developer$0
Up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention, 1 user, SOC 2 compliance. The dashboard locks if the event limit is passed.
Team$39
per month and up
Pay-as-you-go events, 7-day retention, unlimited users and alert integrations. Extra events from $0.33 to $1.00 per 100k.
Growth$499
per month and up
Uptime and latency SLAs, 30-day retention, metrics export, SSO, SAML, SCIM and HIPAA compliance.
EnterpriseCustom
Premium support, a support manager, Slack Connect channel, custom security compliance, SLAs and contracts.
Svix
Free$0
Up to 50k messages a month, 50 messages per second, 7-day retention, embeddable webhooks UI, Dispatch, Stream and Ingest.
Basic$20
per month and up
99.9% uptime SLA, 200 messages per second, 30-day retention, 50k free messages a month, white label headers.
Professional$490
per month and up
99.99% SLA, 800 messages per second, 90-day retention, unbranded portal, static source IPs and advanced RBAC. 30-day trial.
EnterpriseCustom
99.999% SLA, 24/7 on-call engineer, SSO, mTLS and OAuth, HIPAA and BAA, on-prem options and volume discounts.
Ways to pay less
Hookdeck
- Startups
Growth plan discounts for eligible startups
The pricing page says eligible startups can get a discount on the Growth plan and should contact Hookdeck for details.
Svix
- Startups
Special startup plans
The pricing page says Svix has special plans for early-stage startups and links a Svix for startups page for details.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Hookdeck or Svix?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Svix is cheaper to start with: $20 a month, against $39 a month for Hookdeck. Hookdeck starts at $39 per month and up, plus usage beyond 10,000 events, and Svix starts at $20 per month and up.
Which has a free plan, Hookdeck or Svix?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Hookdeck and Svix have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.