# Convoy vs PubNub (slim)

> PubNub scores 68.1 (B) to Convoy's 62.2 (B) for sending webhooks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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PubNub scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Convoy's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Convoy leads on reliability. Both do sending webhooks.

- Convoy: B 62.2, rank #440 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convoy.min.md
- PubNub: B 68.1, rank #230 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pubnub.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 Reliability, 92 against 76.
- PubNub, good for Live fan-out to many connected clients with presence and history, and for an agent that manages a PubNub account through MCP. Ahead on Security & auth, 63 against 53; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Convoy loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Convoy | PubNub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 92 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Convoy | PubNub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Frain Technologies Inc. | PubNub Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://ps.pndsn.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 service under PubNub's Terms and Conditions. The SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are source-available under the PubNub Software Development Kit Licence Agreement, which is not an OSI licence |
| Tools exposed | none | 17 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.pubnub/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2023-05-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-06-01 | 2026-04-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.9k stars, 2.3k npm/wk, 679 PyPI/wk | 284k npm/wk |