# Hookdeck vs Upstash QStash (slim)

> Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Upstash QStash's 72.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Upstash QStash leads on transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks receive. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Hookdeck scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Upstash QStash's 72.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Upstash QStash leads on transparency & trust. Both do events webhooks receive.

- Hookdeck: BB 76.9, rank #23 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hookdeck.min.md
- Upstash QStash: BB 72.3, rank #95 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-qstash.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 83; Schema & documentation, 90 against 78; Security & auth, 67 against 61; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Upstash QStash, good for Agents and serverless apps that need a delayed, retried or scheduled HTTP call without running a queue. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 81 against 76.

| Category | Hookdeck | Upstash QStash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hookdeck | Upstash QStash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hookdeck Technologies Inc. | Upstash |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01` | `https://qstash.upstash.io/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| 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 hosted service under Upstash's terms of service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 17 | 10 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.upstash/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-10-12 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 18k npm/wk | 269 stars, 816k npm/wk, 91k PyPI/wk |