# Hookdeck vs Svix (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Svix's 74 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Svix leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks receive. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Svix's 74 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Svix leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks receive.

- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #23 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- Svix: BB 74, rank #66 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/svix.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 85; Security & auth, 67 against 61; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Svix, good for A product that must send webhooks to its own customers with signing, retries, replay and a consumer portal, and an agent that builds or operates that integration. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 86 against 81; Maintenance & community, 88 against 74; Transparency & trust, 86 against 76. Also Open source.

| Category | Hookdeck | Svix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 86 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 86 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hookdeck | Svix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. | Svix Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` | `https://api.svix.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 | MIT for the server, SDKs, CLI and Bridge in svix/svix-webhooks. The hosted service runs under Svix's terms of service and has functions the open-source server lacks |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-01-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-10-12 | 2022-11-10 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 18k npm/wk | 3.4k stars, 8.8M npm/wk, 2.4M PyPI/wk |