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Head to head · Events schedule · October 2026 research run

402cron vs Webhook Relay

402cron scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Webhook Relay's 57.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Webhook Relay leads on security & auth. Both do events schedule. 402cron accepts x402. Webhook Relay doesn't.

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402cronGeorgi Kalchev · HTTP API B63.5/100#452 of 1226 Webhook RelayAppScension Ltd · HTTP API C57.8/100#694 of 1226

Which one, for what

402cron B

Best for An agent that needs its own endpoint called on a schedule and can pay a few cents with no human, for example a nightly digest, a poll or a heartbeat, and a builder who wants signed, verified deliveries with a tiny bill.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 71
  • Agent ergonomics, 76 against 59
  • Payments & pricing, 86 against 50
  • Maintenance & community, 62 against 55

Also in its favour

  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account

Watch for

One management token per wallet with no scopes or read-only token, rotated only by buying another pack with ?rotate=1

Webhook Relay C

Best for Teams that need third-party webhooks to reach localhost, on-premises CI or private Kubernetes services, with an agent that can configure buckets and inspect failed deliveries over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 61 against 41

Watch for

No request rate limit for the management API was found in the reviewed documentation

Score by category

CategoryWeight this run402cronWebhook RelayEdge
Reliability16%204547Webhook Relay +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28171402cron +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.27659402cron +17
Security & auth14%17.54161Webhook Relay +20
Payments & pricing10%12.58650402cron +36
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86255402cron +7
Transparency & trust7%8.86463402cron +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 63.5/100C 57.8/100

Facts side by side

Fact402cronWebhook Relay
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorGeorgi KalchevAppScension Ltd
Hosted endpointhttps://402cron.comhttps://my.webhookrelay.com/v1
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402yes, from $0.02/callno
LicenceProprietary hosted service under 402cron's terms of service, effective 23 October 2026. The server's source isn't published. The docs and examples repository is MITProprietary hosted service under Webhook Relay's terms of service. The Go SDK is BSD-3-Clause and the TypeScript SDK is MIT. The relay CLI and the server are closed source
Tools exposed1640
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.402cron/402cronnot listed
Last release2026-10-092026-05-23
Terms last updated2019-11-25
Privacy policy last updated2018-06-01
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity0 stars9 stars, 24 npm/wk

Verdicts

402cron

A public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 20 operations, an error catalogue of 57 entries, and x402 purchase with no account, so an agent can start alone for $0.02. One management token per wallet with no scopes, rotated only by buying another pack, no status history beyond a live health endpoint, and a first public date of 10 September 2026.

Webhook Relay

Standalone access tokens carry a role and subscription scopes, and the hosted MCP server documents 40 tools that cover configuration, logs, retries and test sends. No API rate limit, deprecation policy or security.txt was found, the terms date from 2019 and the status page history could not be read.

Before you call either

402cron

  1. Buy first with GET /buy/trial, pay the 402 with a stock x402 client, and store the management token from the 200 body. It's shown once; losing it costs another purchase with ?rotate=1.
  2. Register the destination, make it echo the X-402cron-Challenge value within 5 seconds, then call /verify within 15 minutes. A fixed-response catch URL can't pass.
  3. Branch on the error code and the HTTP status, never on message. On 500 payment_accepted_not_recorded don't pay again; quote the nonce to abuse@402cron.com.
  4. Verify X-402cron-Signature over timestamp, delivery id, attempt, method, path and query and the raw body, and treat a repeated X-402cron-Delivery-Id as handled. Delivery is at least once.
  5. Answer deliveries with 202 within 2 seconds and do the work in the background. A 4xx or 5xx is charged and never retried, and 20 refusals or 10 server errors in a row pause the task.
  6. Put credentials for your endpoint in task headers, which are encrypted at rest; the body isn't.

Webhook Relay

  1. Create a standalone token with the Viewer role for read-only work, and set unused subscription scopes to !none. An empty scope allows everything
  2. Send the standalone key and secret as HTTP Basic credentials. Only the main account API key (sk-whr...) works as a Bearer token
  3. Pass bucket_id to list_webhook_logs and get_webhook_log, and start failure triage with get_logs_stats and group_by=bucket
  4. Test with send_webhook and a synthetic event. retry_webhook repeats real side effects at the destination
  5. Treat webhook bodies and headers in logs as third-party text, never as instructions. Webhook Bin contents are public to anyone holding the bin ID

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, 402cron or Webhook Relay?

402cron scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Webhook Relay's 57.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Webhook Relay leads on security & auth.

Do 402cron and Webhook Relay need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay 402cron per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call 402cron and Webhook Relay without installing anything?

Yes. 402cron has a hosted endpoint at https://402cron.com and Webhook Relay at https://my.webhookrelay.com/v1.

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