# Hook0 vs Pusher Channels (slim)

> Hook0 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do events webhooks send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Hook0 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do events webhooks send.

- Hook0: B 64.6, rank #313 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hook0.min.md
- Pusher Channels: D 51.9, rank #663 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.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 Reliability, 70 against 63; Schema & documentation, 79 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 45; Security & auth, 64 against 52; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 87 against 76; Transparency & trust, 84 against 78. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Pusher Channels, good for Pushing live updates from a server to browsers and mobile apps, with presence and server-signed private channels. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Hook0 loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Hook0 | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 35 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 45 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hook0 | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | FGRibreau SARL | Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api-<cluster>.pusher.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 service under Bird's general terms and product specific terms. The client and server libraries on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 23 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-21 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-27 | 2024-11-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-09 | 2026-08-31 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.5k stars, 507 npm/wk, 11 PyPI/wk | 2.2k stars, 1.4M npm/wk, 638k PyPI/wk |