# Hook0 vs Hookdeck (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Hook0's 64.6 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hook0 leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. 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 Hook0's 64.6 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hook0 leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks send.

- Hook0: B 64.6, rank #313 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hook0.min.md
- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #24 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- Hook0, good for A product that has to send signed webhooks to its own customers' endpoints with retries, replay and a delivery log, and that wants EU hosting or the option to self-host the same code. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 87 against 74; Transparency & trust, 84 against 76.
- 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 Reliability, 90 against 70; Schema & documentation, 90 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 65; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Hook0 loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Hook0 | Hookdeck |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hook0 | Hookdeck |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | FGRibreau SARL | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` |
| Licence | SSPL-1.0 for the server (source available, not an OSI licence). The SDKs and the `hook0-mcp` server are MIT per crates.io and npm. Hook0 Cloud is a hosted service under Hook0's terms of service | Proprietary hosted service under Hookdeck's terms of use. The Hookdeck CLI, which contains the MCP server, is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 23 | 17 |
| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-27 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-09 | 2023-10-12 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 507 npm/wk, 11 PyPI/wk | 18k npm/wk |