Svix vs Webhook Relay (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Svix and Webhook Relay share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and Webhook Relay starts cheaper, at $8.99 a month against $20 a month.
Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Svix grades higher on the free plan. Webhook Relay grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Webhook Relay
Webhook gateway and tunnels that forward to any destination
Which one is for you
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
Pick Webhook Relay if
- Fits if you need webhooks to reach a machine behind your firewall
- Works for a developer testing with a few hundred webhooks a month
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're staying free, with only 150 webhooks and 2 destinations a month
- Watch out: extra webhooks and outbound packs, such as +100k for $5 a month on Basic, cost more
- Watch out: only Basic shows a monthly price; the rest are yearly figures
- Skip it if you need a no-code builder, because it only forwards
How we grade them
| 2.4GPASvixFair | 2.4GPAWebhook RelayFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | BBasic is $8.99 a month billed yearly ($9.99 monthly), inside the cheaper quarter of $12.42. Business is $71.99 and Pro $224.99. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree: 50k messages a month at 50 messages per second with 7-day retention. | CFree Starter: 150 webhooks a month, 2 destinations, no card. That runs out fast. |
| Features | COutbound webhooks and a customer portal. It does that one job fully, and it's a smaller job than general automation. | CForwarding webhooks to destinations such as Kubernetes. Extra webhooks and outbound message packs are billed on top. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You add the SDK to your product, so it takes a developer. | CNo store rating on record. You set up forwarding for each endpoint. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb dashboard with AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake and OpenTelemetry connections. | BWeb dashboard with Kubernetes, Claude, Cursor and Codex connections. |
| Best for | sending webhooks from your own product | forwarding webhooks to private machines |
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: Svix and Webhook Relay. How we grade
Price against what you get
Svix starts at $20 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Webhook Relay starts at $8.99 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Webhook Relay starts $11.01 a month lower. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 11 score higher than Svix for less, and 1 scores higher than Webhook Relay 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
| Svix | Webhook Relay | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $20 per month and up | $8.99 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | $0 a month for up to 50k messages, 50 messages per second and 7-day payload retention. | Free Starter plan: 150 webhooks a month, up to 2 destinations, no credit card required. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Svix Inc. | Webhook Relay |
| Price read from | svix.com | webhookrelay.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Webhook Relay
- The free plan allows only 150 webhooks a month and 2 destinations.
- Pricing was shown on the yearly toggle; only the Basic monthly price ($9.99) was stated for monthly billing.
- Over the included webhook count, extra webhooks are billed at the rates listed for each plan.
- Outbound message packs are extra: for example Basic +100k messages costs $5 a month.
Key features
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.
Webhook Relay
- Webhook gateway
- Receives webhooks and forwards them to several destinations, public, private or local, with forwarding rules and durable retries.
- Tunnels for local servers
- Exposes local servers to the internet, with custom subdomains and custom domains on paid plans.
- Transformation
- Webhooks can be modified, filtered and routed without extra servers, including an AI-assisted transformation option.
- Outbound webhooks
- Sends signed webhooks from your product to your customers on every plan. A message is one accepted publish, and retries do not count again.
- MCP and agent skills
- An MCP server lets agents such as Claude, Cursor and Codex manage buckets, destinations and webhook replay.
Plans
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.
Webhook Relay
Free Starter$0
150 webhooks a month, 2 destinations, outbound webhooks for 50 customers and 50k messages a month, MCP.
Basic$8.99
per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly)
5,000 webhooks a month, 10 destinations, 8 bidirectional tunnels, custom subdomains. Extra webhooks $5 per 1k.
Business$71.99
per month, billed yearly
60,000 webhooks a month, 50 destinations, long log retention, 40MB webhooks, priority support. Extra $10 per 10k.
Pro$224.99
per month, billed yearly
1M webhooks a month, 200 destinations, wildcard certificates, dedicated support. Extra webhooks $100 per 1M.
EnterpriseCustom
SAML SSO, SOC 2 report, 24x7 support, uptime SLAs, invoice and PO billing, custom outbound limits.
Ways to pay less
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.
Webhook Relay
- Annual discount
10% off with yearly billing
The pricing page offers a Bill Yearly toggle marked 10% off, which gives Basic at $8.99 a month against $9.99 billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Svix or Webhook Relay?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Webhook Relay is cheaper to start with: $8.99 a month, against $20 a month for Svix. Svix starts at $20 per month and up, and Webhook Relay starts at $8.99 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Svix or Webhook Relay?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Svix and Webhook Relay 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.