Hookdeck Review, Pricing & Features

Hookdeck is a webhook and event gateway built by Alexandre Bouchard and Maurice Kherlakian. Compare its Developer, Team, Growth and Enterprise pricing.

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Developer Tools
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Last updated
July 18, 2026
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Overview

Hookdeck was founded in 2020 by Alexandre Bouchard and Maurice Kherlakian in Montreal, Canada, after the pair grew tired of losing critical webhook events from providers like Stripe, Shopify and Intercom due to timeouts, downtime or bugs in their own receiving endpoints. Rather than continuing to hand-roll retry logic and logging for every integration, they built Hookdeck as dedicated infrastructure that sits in front of any application and guarantees webhooks are queued, retried and delivered reliably.

The company has raised roughly 5.5 million dollars, including a 2.4 million dollar seed round backed by Matrix Partners in 2022, and operates as a lean team of under 10 people out of Montreal. It positions itself as an 'event gateway' rather than a narrow webhook tool, covering both receiving inbound events and sending reliable outbound webhooks to customers.

Key Features

Incoming webhooks are ingested into a durable queue with automatic retries and configurable backoff, so a slow or temporarily down destination does not result in lost events. Developers get detailed request and response logs for every event, transformation and filtering rules to reshape payloads before delivery, and fan-out delivery to route one event to multiple destinations.

For local development, a CLI forwards live webhooks to localhost for easier debugging, and for teams that need to send their own reliable webhooks to customers, Hookdeck offers outbound delivery infrastructure comparable to what large platforms like Stripe build in-house. Enterprise features include SOC 2 compliance, SSO/SAML/SCIM and metrics export to tools like Datadog.

Pricing

Hookdeck's Developer plan is always free and includes 10,000 events per month with 3-day retention, enough for testing and small projects. The Team plan starts at 39 dollars per month with unlimited users and metered overages beyond the included events.

The Growth plan starts at 499 dollars per month and adds uptime and latency SLAs, SSO/SAML/SCIM and 30-day retention, while Enterprise is fully custom-priced with dedicated support and negotiated SLAs. Additional event volume beyond each plan's quota is billed on a declining per-100,000-events scale, so cost per event drops significantly at higher volumes.

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Always-free Developer tier is genuinely usable for testing and small projects
  • Reliable queueing and automatic retries prevent lost webhook events
  • Covers both inbound receiving and outbound sending of webhooks
  • CLI makes local webhook development and debugging much easier
  • Founders bring deep, direct experience with the exact problem the product solves

Cons

  • Growth plan at 499 dollars per month is a steep jump from the 39 dollar Team tier
  • Enterprise pricing is custom and not published
  • Small team size (under 10 people) compared to larger infrastructure vendors
  • Data retention on lower tiers (3 to 7 days) is short for deep historical debugging
  • Usage-based overage pricing requires careful monitoring for high-volume senders

Pricing

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hookdeck free?

Yes, the Developer plan is always free and includes 10,000 events per month, 1 user and 3-day retention.

Who founded Hookdeck?

Hookdeck was founded in 2020 by Alexandre Bouchard (CEO) and Maurice Kherlakian (CTO), based in Montreal, Canada.

How much does Hookdeck cost?

Paid plans start at 39 dollars per month for Team, 499 dollars per month for Growth, and custom pricing for Enterprise, with metered overages for events beyond each plan's included quota.

What is an event gateway?

An event gateway like Hookdeck sits between event sources such as Stripe or Shopify and your application, queueing, retrying and logging every webhook so events are not lost even if your endpoint is briefly down.

Does Hookdeck help with local webhook development?

Yes, Hookdeck provides a CLI that forwards live webhooks to localhost, making it easier to debug integrations during development.

What are alternatives to Hookdeck?

Common alternatives include Svix for webhooks-as-a-service, AWS EventBridge for general event infrastructure, and lighter tools like ngrok or Webhook.site for local testing only.

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