# Convoy vs Hookdeck (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Convoy's 62.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Convoy leads on maintenance & community. Both do events webhooks send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Convoy's 62.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Convoy leads on maintenance & community. Both do events webhooks send.

- Convoy: B 62.2, rank #308 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convoy.min.md
- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #23 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- Convoy, good for A product that has to send signed webhooks to its customers' endpoints with retries, replay and a delivery log, or receive third-party webhooks and route them inward. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 80 against 74.
- Hookdeck, good for Teams that receive third-party webhooks and want queueing, retries, replay and an agent that can inspect failures or pause a connection. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 69; Security & auth, 67 against 53; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Transparency & trust, 76 against 67. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Convoy loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Convoy | Hookdeck |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 92 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Convoy | Hookdeck |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Frain Technologies Inc. | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Elastic Licence 2.0 for the gateway (source available, not an OSI licence). The convoy.js SDK is MIT per npm. Convoy Cloud is a proprietary hosted service under Convoy's terms of use | Proprietary hosted service under Hookdeck's terms of use. The Hookdeck CLI, which contains the MCP server, is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 17 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated |  | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-06-01 | 2023-10-12 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.9k stars, 2.3k npm/wk, 679 PyPI/wk | 18k npm/wk |