# Hookdeck vs Pusher Channels (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do events webhooks send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-pusher-channels.md (~2,100 tokens) · this version ~680 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-pusher-channels.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hookdeck-vs-pusher-channels
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do events webhooks send.

- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #24 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- Pusher Channels: D 51.9, rank #663 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.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 63; Schema & documentation, 90 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 45; Security & auth, 67 against 52; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; 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.

| Category | Hookdeck | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 35 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 45 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hookdeck | Pusher Channels |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. | Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` | `https://api-<cluster>.pusher.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 Bird's general terms and product specific terms. The client and server libraries on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-11-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-10-12 | 2026-08-31 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 18k npm/wk | 2.2k stars, 1.4M npm/wk, 638k PyPI/wk |