# Convoy vs Pusher Channels (slim)

> Convoy scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Pusher Channels leads on transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Convoy scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Pusher Channels leads on transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks send.

- Convoy: B 62.2, rank #398 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convoy.min.md
- Pusher Channels: D 51.9, rank #663 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.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 63; Schema & documentation, 78 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 45.
- Pusher Channels, good for Pushing live updates from a server to browsers and mobile apps, with presence and server-signed private channels. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 78 against 67. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Convoy loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Convoy | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 92 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 35 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 45 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Convoy | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Frain Technologies Inc. | Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api-<cluster>.pusher.com` |
| 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 Bird's general terms and product specific terms. The client and server libraries on GitHub are MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2024-11-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-06-01 | 2026-08-31 |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Popularity | 2.9k stars, 2.3k npm/wk, 679 PyPI/wk | 2.2k stars, 1.4M npm/wk, 638k PyPI/wk |