# Pusher Channels vs Webhook Relay (slim)

> Webhook Relay scores 57.8 (C) to Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D) for sending webhooks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Webhook Relay scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Pusher Channels's 51.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Pusher Channels leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do sending webhooks.

- Pusher Channels: D 51.9, rank #744 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pusher-channels.min.md
- Webhook Relay: C 57.8, rank #597 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/webhook-relay.min.md
- Pusher Channels, good for Pushing live updates from a server to browsers and mobile apps, with presence and server-signed private channels. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 47; Maintenance & community, 76 against 55; Transparency & trust, 78 against 63.
- Webhook Relay, good for Teams that need third-party webhooks to reach localhost, on-premises CI or private Kubernetes services, with an agent that can configure buckets and inspect failed deliveries over MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 71 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 45; Security & auth, 61 against 52; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30.

| Category | Pusher Channels | Webhook Relay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 63 | 47 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 35 | 71 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 45 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 52 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 55 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pusher Channels | Webhook Relay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Pusher Ltd (a Bird company) | AppScension Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-<cluster>.pusher.com` | `https://my.webhookrelay.com/v1` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Bird's general terms and product specific terms. The client and server libraries on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Webhook Relay's terms of service. The Go SDK is BSD-3-Clause and the TypeScript SDK is MIT. The `relay` CLI and the server are closed source |
| Tools exposed | none | 40 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-05-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-11-21 | 2019-11-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-31 | 2018-06-01 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.2k stars, 1.4M npm/wk, 638k PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 24 npm/wk |