How Much Does Hookdeck Cost in 2026?

Hookdeck solved a specific problem better than building it yourself: reliable inbound webhook handling. When Stripe/Shopify/GitHub sends your app a webhook and your service is momentarily down, Hookdeck retries with exponential backoff, logs every attempt, and notifies you of persistent failures. Building this yourself takes 2-3 weeks of engineering time plus ongoing maintenance. Developer free covers 10,000 events/month with 3-day retention and 1 user — genuinely usable for side projects and MVPs. Team at $39/month base includes events in base + pay-as-you-go at $0.33 per 100k additional events. For an app processing 500k events/month: $39 + ($0.33 × 4) = $40.32/month. For 5M events/month: $39 + ($0.33 × 49) = $55.17/month. Extremely economical for mid-volume apps. The 7-day retention on Team is enough for most debugging needs. Growth at $499/month adds uptime/latency SLAs, Datadog metrics export, SSO/SAML/SCIM, 30-day retention — for production teams with compliance needs. Enterprise is custom with Slack Connect channel and dedicated support. Where Hookdeck wins: purpose-built for webhook reliability, transparent pay-as-you-go pricing ($0.33/100k is cheapest in category), SOC 2 included on free tier, event retries included (no surcharge). Where it loses: Team base of $39/month is above Svix Free tier ($0), throughput base of 5 events/second can be tight for spiky traffic, pay-as-you-go event rates require monitoring to prevent bill surprises.