Webhooks · Reviewed 23 Oct 2026

Hook0

Open-source webhook platform for sending, signing, retrying, and monitoring events.

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Hook0 at a glance

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Hook0 is an open-source webhooks-as-a-service platform that lets developers send webhooks with a single API call, handling deliverability, retries, and security S1. It is used by developers who need to provide webhook functionality to their users without building and maintaining the infrastructure themselves S1 S87. The main practical value is reducing the time to first webhook from multiple engineering sprints to about 30 minutes, with features like HMAC signatures, two-phase retries, and delivery logs S87 S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Hook0 is an open-source webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) platform S1.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of building and maintaining webhook infrastructure, which typically requires multiple engineering sprints S87.
  • Intended users: Developers who need to send webhooks from their applications and let their users subscribe to events S1.
  • Product scope: It is a single platform offering a cloud service, a self-hostable open-source version, and a REST API S87.
  • Positioning: Hook0 positions itself as a fully open-source alternative to proprietary webhook services, with no open-core tier S87.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to be fully open-source (SSPL-1.0) and bootstrapped, with no VC pressure on pricing S87 S1.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
SaaS developersOffer webhooks to their users so they can integrate and receive event notifications S1.
E-commerce platformsNotify subscribers about order refunds or shipment deliveries S1.
Marketing automation teamsAutomate back-office workflows and keep stakeholders informed as data evolves S1.
Internal service developersUse internal webhooks to communicate between services instead of a heavy event bus S1.
Long-running job runnersStart long-running jobs and get notified when they complete S1.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Event deliverySend webhook events via a single REST API call; Hook0 handles delivery to multiple subscriber endpoints S1.
HMAC signaturesEvery payload is signed with HMAC-SHA256 to prevent forgery and tampering S87 S1.
Retry logicConfigurable two-phase retries: fast retries for flaky endpoints, then slow retries over days for outages S87 S1.
Delivery monitoringLogs every delivery attempt with request/response details, status codes, and latency; inspect and replay events S1 S87.
Subscriber portalA drop-in UI where your users manage their endpoints, secrets, and event filters S87 S1.
Dead letter queueCaptures events that exhaust their retry budget for later inspection S89 S87.
Event filteringSubscribers receive only the event types they subscribe to, with optional filtering by business info S1.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
REST APIAPISend events, manage applications and subscriptions, query logs, and trigger replays S87.
Python SDKSDKSend events from Python applications S89.
Node.js SDKSDKSend events from Node.js applications S89.
MCP ServerAI interfaceAllows AI assistants to interact with Hook0 S1.
ZapierIntegrationConnect with 3000+ apps and offer webhooks without code S1.
OpenAPI specificationAPI documentationGenerate clients or plug into existing tooling S87.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
DeveloperFree forever S81Up to 100 events per day S871 developer, 7-day retention, extra events blocked (HTTP 429) S81
Startup€59 per month excl. VAT, billed monthly S81Up to 30,000 events per day S8125 developers, 14-day retention, overage €0.003/event S81 S1
Pro€190 per month excl. VAT, or €1,824 per year S81Up to 100,000 events per day S81Unlimited developers, 30-day retention, overage €0.0001/event S81 S1
EnterpriseCustom, billed per year S81Custom S81Custom SLA and dedicated support S81
On-premise Pro€500 per month plus €1,000 setup, or €6,000 per year S81 S1Up to 1,000,000 events per day S81Dedicated instance with managed updates S81

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
infobip.com111webhook services
svix.com111webhooks as a service
cyclr.com112webhook services
reddit.com112webhooks as a service
sendbird.com113webhook services
magicbell.com114webhook services
github.com114webhooks as a service
workato.com115webhook services
hookdeck.com115webhooks as a service
unito.io116webhook services

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.6%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresOur JSON REST API, SDKs, and MCP Server for AI assistants make it easy to trigger webhook events from your application and let your users connect to every available SaaS.https://www.hook0.com/
featuresOur JSON REST API, SDKs, and MCP Server for AI assistants make it easy to trigger webhook events from your application and let your users connect to every available SaaS.https://www.hook0.com/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordVolume 720 · https://www.hook0.com/hook0-vs-hookdeck
Important pagehttps://www.hook0.com/hook0-vs-hookdeck · 1 sampled keywords · best position 9
Competitor gap1 first-page appearances across webhook services

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
Webhook AdminWebhook Delivery Services Compared: Svix, Hookdeck Outpost, Convoy, Hook0, DIY and Webhook AdminGrounded web searchWith one or two endpoints and modest volume, putting the HTTP call on your job queue's retry (SQS, Cloud Tasks, Sidekiq, BullMQ) is enough. In the Hacker News thread below, one commenter says they run billions of webhooks this way on Sidekiq. ... What tends to come later: a UI to find a specific delivery, replay for failed events, auto-disabling and alerts for dead endpoints, secret rotation, SSRF protection, and static IPs. In that thread, "How do you handle production webhook delivery reliabil
Bright CodingHook0: The Open-Source Webhook Server That Lets Your App Speak to the World / Bright CodingGrounded web search- TL;DR: Hook0 is an MIT-licensed, Rust-built webhook server that gives any SaaS the power to emit real-time events to its users in minutes, not months ... - RFC repo: propose new transports (Kafka, MQTT) - Bug bounties: $100–$2 k via

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • hook0/hook0 — # hook0/hook0 ... Open-source webhook server that helps you provide webhooks to your users. It handles for you a great amount of features that are usually tedious to (re)implement. - Stars: 1477 - Forks: 101 - Watchers: 1477 - Open issues: 5 - License: Other - Homepage: https://www.hook0.com - Default branch: master - Created: 2021-07-20T13:42:17Z ... - Discord (Live Discussions) - Gitlab Issues (Report Bugs, Questions, Feature Requests) - Twitter (Latest News) - Website (Login, sign up)
  • Hook0: Free Webhook Platform, HMAC Signatures, EU Hosting — Hook0 is an Open-Source Webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) that makes it easy for developers to send webhooks. Developers make one API call, and Hook0 takes care of deliverability, retries, security, and more.
  • Webhook Platform: Send, Sign, Retry, Monitor / Hook0 — Hook0 is an open-source webhook platform that sends events to your subscribers with HMAC-SHA256 signatures, two-phase retries that back off over days, and a dead letter queue when an endpoint stays down. Every delivery is logged with request, response, status code and latency, and you can replay any event from the dashboard. A drop-in subscriber portal lets your users manage their own endpoints, secrets and event filters, so support stops fielding secret-rotation tickets. Run it self-hosted on D
  • Hook0 Pricing: Free Tier, and What Happens When You Go Over — Hook0 has a free Developer plan with 100 webhook events a day, HMAC signatures and delivery monitoring, and no credit card. Paid Cloud plans start at €59 a month for Startup, with Pro for higher volume. On paid plans, overage is billed per event rather than blocked (€0.003 on Startup, €0.0001 on Pro), so a traffic spike never interrupts delivery. Retries, HMAC signing and delivery logs are included, with no per-endpoint fees. Hook0 Cloud runs on EU
  • Webhook API: One REST Call to Deliver Events / Hook0 — takes care of delivery. It signs each request with HMAC-SHA256, retries failed endpoints in two phases (fast retries for short blips, slow ... delivery logs. Pass your own event_id and Hook0 deduplicates on it, so a retried call never fires twice
  • Releases · hook0/hook0 · GitHub — ## Release list ## frontend/v1.2.1 frontend/v1.2.1 hook0-bot released this 21 Sep 23:01 frontend/v1.2.1 `ea5ac0a` ... :1.2.1` (DockerHub) - `ghcr.io/hook0/hook0-frontend:1.2.1` ... GHCR) - `registry.gitlab.com/hook0/hook0/hook0-frontend:1.2.1`
  • Explanation / Hook0 Documentation — ​ Webhooks that just work. - Straightforward API - Documentation with working examples - Multiple SDKs - Local development support: `hook0 listen` forwards webhooks to a port on your machine (Hook0 CLI vs ngrok for receiving webhooks on localhost)
  • Hook0 — Hook0 (also written "hook zero" or "hook0") is an open-source webhooks-as-a-service platform. Developers make one API call — Hook0 handles retries, HMAC signatures, delivery monitoring, and EU-hosted compliance. ... /hook0 - GitHub: github.com/hook0 - Web

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipAt Hook0, we are an independent European company founded on principles of software sustainability and ethical data practices. Our code is fully open-source.source
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyWe use cookies on Hook0.com and its subdomains (including app.hook0.com) to analyze site usage, measure advertising performance, and improve your experience. Privacy Policysource
Security and complianceSigned & Encryptedsource
Uptime and status page/ BetterUptime / Czech Republic, Europe / Uptime monitoring, status page, and on-call management / EU processing (no transfer outside EEA) /source
Domain registered2020-09-02—
Domain expires2029-09-02—

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Product FAQFAQAnswers common product, workflow, pricing, privacy, ownership, API, and team questions. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Offered as a managed cloud service (Hook0 Cloud) and as a self-hostable open-source version S87.S87
Platforms and appsWeb application; no native mobile or desktop apps mentioned S91.S91
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides a REST API, Python and Node.js SDKs, and an MCP server for AI assistants S87 S89 S1.S87 S89 S1
Data ownership and exportHook0 does not lock your data; account data is retained for 30 days after deletion to allow export S1 S94.S1 S94
Performance and reliability claimsClaims to reduce time to first webhook to 30 minutes, with two-phase retries and dead letter queue for reliability S87.S87
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2020-09-02 — OVH sas
Domain expires2029-09-02
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2027-01-13
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversdonald.ns.cloudflare.com, melissa.ns.cloudflare.com

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

20

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 9 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 87/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 20
  • Notices: 8

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text9https://www.hook0.com/
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/entitymap
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/entitymap
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text9https://www.hook0.com/
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/eu-webhook-infrastructure
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/eu-webhook-infrastructure
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.hook0.com/eu-webhook-infrastructure
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/webhook-platform
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/webhook-platform
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.hook0.com/webhook-platform
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/webhook-api
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/webhook-api
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.hook0.com/webhook-api
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/self-hosted-webhooks
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/self-hosted-webhooks
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.hook0.com/self-hosted-webhooks
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/sovereign-webhooks
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/sovereign-webhooks
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.hook0.com/sovereign-webhooks
warningMissing meta description—https://www.hook0.com/security
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.hook0.com/security
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.hook0.com/security
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.hook0.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.hook0.com/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Hook0: Free Webhook Platform, HMAC Signatures, EU Hosting13060200 mshttps://www.hook0.com/
200EntityMap — Hook011739257 mshttps://www.hook0.com/entitymap
200Hook0: Free Webhook Platform, HMAC Signatures, EU Hosting1306054 mshttps://www.hook0.com/
200EU Webhook Infrastructure: Hosted in France by Default \Hook011684204 ms
200Webhook Platform: Send, Sign, Retry, Monitor \Hook011454112 ms
200Webhook API: One REST Call to Deliver Events \Hook011164253 ms
200Self-Hosted Webhooks: Docker & Kubernetes \Hook01108137 ms
200Sovereign Webhooks: Digital Sovereignty by Design \Hook012033342 ms
200Hook0 - Security and Compliance1137897 mshttps://www.hook0.com/security

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct39.8%
search33.6%
search organic32.0%
search paid1.6%
social6.3%
social organic5.6%
social paid0.7%
referrals10.0%
paid referrals3.4%
mail3.2%
gen ai1.6%
affiliate2.1%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages mention competitors Svix and Hookdeck in pricing comparisons S81, but no detailed feature-by-feature comparison is provided. Evidence gaps include lack of independent customer reviews, detailed security certifications beyond PCI for Stripe, and specific uptime SLAs for cloud plans. Open questions remain about the exact scope of the Enterprise plan and the level of support included in the free tier.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from hook0.com, including the homepage, pricing, webhook platform, webhook API, GDPR subprocessors, privacy policy, and security pages. The collection used static and browser rendering rendering, with a sitemap mapping 106 URLs. External proof search was performed but no additional verification requests were made. Limitations: the report relies solely on vendor-published information; no independent customer or third-party reviews were collected.

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