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Hookdeck
Hosted webhook infrastructure: an Event Gateway that receives inbound webhooks, queues, filters, transforms, retries and routes them to your API with logs and replay, Outpost for sending webhooks to your own customers, and a CLI that forwards webhooks to localhost.
Webhooks from Stripe, Shopify or GitHub stop getting lost when your server is down or flooded, because they are queued, rate-limited and replayable instead of hitting your app directly.
APIFree tierCommercial OKFor your project
- Official API
- Official API · Free tier 240 requests per minute per API key; Developer plan up to 10,000 events/month, 3-day retention, 1 user
“The Hookdeck REST API allows you to set up connections, retrieve events, and perform actions programmatically.” hookdeck.com/docs/api
- Key
- Needed
“You'll need to include an API key in every API request.” hookdeck.com/docs/api
- Formats
- JSON
- Data download
- Not stated
- Price
- Free tier · from $39/mo Developer plan, always $0/month: up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention, 1 user
“Team Starts at $39 /month Everything in Developer, plus Pay-as-you-go 7-day retention Unlimited users” hookdeck.com/pricing
- License
- Hookdeck Terms of Use (cloud); Apache 2.0 (self-hosted Outpost and CLI) Hosted Event Gateway and Outpost cloud under the Terms of Use; self-hosted Outpost under Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Commercial use OK
“If you are using the Services on behalf of a company, association or other legal entity (a "Legal Entity"), you affirm that you have the authority to bind that Legal Entity to these TOU.” hookdeck.com/terms
- Credit
- Not stated
- Embedding
- Embedding unclear
- Using the website
- Free tier
Read on Hookdeck's own pages on Oct 24, 2026 · license or terms · API docs · pricing. Check the license page before you ship.
For your agent
- REST: Authorization: Bearer <project API key> to https://api.hookdeck.com/2026-09-01/...; MCP: run the hookdeck CLI as an stdio server (command hookdeck, args gateway mcp; add --allow-write for changes) after hookdeck login or HOOKDECK_API_KEY; hookdeck listen forwards webhooks to localhost; docs pages are available as .md
- Stay under 240 API requests per minute per key and honor the X-RateLimit headers
- Keep the project API key server-side; MCP starts read-only unless you pass --allow-write
llms.txt: hookdeck.com/docs/llms.txt · MCP: hookdeck gateway mcp (stdio server in the Hookdeck CLI)
Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/hookdeck/agent.md before using Hookdeck.
Quick answers
Does Hookdeck have an API?
Yes. Hookdeck has an official API documented at https://hookdeck.com/docs/api.
Does the Hookdeck API need a key?
Yes, you need an API key. Limits: 240 requests per minute per API key; Developer plan up to 10,000 events/month, 3-day retention, 1 user
Is Hookdeck free?
Yes, there is a free tier: Developer plan, always $0/month: up to 10,000 events, 3-day retention, 1 user Paid plans start at $39 a month.
Can I use Hookdeck in a commercial project?
Yes. Its terms say: "If you are using the Services on behalf of a company, association or other legal entity (a "Legal Entity"), you affirm that you have the authority to bind that Legal Entity to these TOU."
What you can build
- A Stripe or Shopify webhook pipeline that queues bursts, retries failed deliveries and lets you replay events after a bug fix
- Outbound webhooks for your own SaaS with a customer portal, using managed or self-hosted Outpost
- Local webhook development: forward a provider's test events to localhost with the CLI
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