# Hookdeck review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Gateway for receiving, queueing and routing webhooks Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Hookdeck's Event Gateway sits between webhook senders and your API. It accepts inbound requests, queues and rate-limits delivery, retries failures and logs each event. The company also sells Outpost for sending webhooks and a CLI for testing them on localhost. Plans are billed by events delivered. - **Category:** Automation - **Made by:** Hookdeck Technologies Inc. - **Website:** https://hookdeck.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you pass 10,000 events a month on the free plan, as the dashboard locks. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Hookdeck has a free plan, and paid plans start at $39 per month and up, plus usage beyond 10,000 events. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Developer plan: $0 a month with up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention and 1 user. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Enterprise | Custom | Premium support, a support manager, Slack Connect channel, custom security compliance, SLAs and contracts. | Read from https://hookdeck.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hookdeck before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Growth plan discounts for eligible startups** (Startups): The pricing page says eligible startups can get a discount on the Growth plan and should contact Hookdeck for details. Source: https://hookdeck.com/pricing ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Teams receiving webhooks from services such as Stripe or Shopify that need queueing and retries - Developers debugging webhooks on localhost ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Hookdeck receives webhooks, queues them and retries failures. Developer is free at 10,000 events a month with 1 user and 3-day retention, the dashboard locks past the cap, and Team starts at $39 with a static IP at $100 extra. - **Value for money: C.** Team starts at $39 a month, inside the category's dearer quarter at $49, and Growth is $499. Extra events are metered. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Developer is free but capped at 10,000 events a month, 1 user and 3-day retention; the dashboard locks past it. - **Features: C.** Queueing, retries and debugging for incoming webhooks. Outpost for sending webhooks is priced separately. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You point providers at Hookdeck and set up routing. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web dashboard with Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Sentry and Datadog connections. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hookdeck's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among automation tools - Hookdeck's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 54 of the 134 other automation tools we grade, and level with 35. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 39 of 134) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $39 a month, against a middle price of $22.17 for the category: 44 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/automation ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Hookdeck you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $468 a year. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus **Tags:** Workflow automation, Public API ## Alternatives - [Svix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/svix): Webhook sending service for SaaS and API products. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-svix) - [Webhook Relay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webhook-relay): Webhook gateway and tunnels that forward to any destination. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-webhook-relay) - [Inngest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inngest): Durable execution for background jobs, event-driven apps and agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-inngest) - [Trigger.dev](https://toolgpa.com/tools/trigger-dev): Open-source platform for long-running background tasks and AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-trigger-dev) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://hookdeck.com/pricing - https://hookdeck.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hookdeck Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).