# Hookdeck vs PubNub (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) to PubNub's 68.1 (B) for sending webhooks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against PubNub's 68.1 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. PubNub leads on maintenance & community. Both do sending webhooks.

- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #25 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- PubNub: B 68.1, rank #230 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pubnub.min.md
- 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 76; Schema & documentation, 90 against 77; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 71; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40; Transparency & trust, 76 against 64. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- 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 Maintenance & community, 83 against 74.

| Category | Hookdeck | PubNub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hookdeck | PubNub |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. | PubNub Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` | `https://ps.pndsn.com` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Hookdeck's terms of use. The Hookdeck CLI, which contains the MCP server, is Apache-2.0 | 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.pubnub/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2023-05-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-10-12 | 2026-04-01 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 18k npm/wk | 284k npm/wk |