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Webhook Relay forwards webhooks. Hookbase does that and lets you send outbound webhooks to your customers, with 4 transform engines, schema validation, circuit breakers, and an AI assistant.

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Why Teams Switch from Webhook Relay to Hookbase

Complete Webhook Platform

Webhook Relay forwards webhooks. Hookbase handles inbound AND outbound — receive, route, transform, deliver, and send webhooks to your customers.

Modern Transform Engine

Webhook Relay uses Lua scripting. Hookbase offers JSONata, JavaScript, XSLT, and Liquid with a visual builder.

Built-in Provider Verification

Hookbase verifies signatures from GitHub, Stripe, Shopify, and 10+ providers automatically. Webhook Relay leaves this to you.

Hookbase vs Webhook Relay: Feature Comparison

See how Hookbase compares to Webhook Relay across 26 features for webhook management.

Feature
Hookbase
Webhook Relay
Notes
Webhook forwarding & routing
Both route inbound webhooks
Outbound webhooks (send to customers)
Event types, subscriptions, customer portal
Localhost tunnels
Both offer tunnel-to-localhost
Bidirectional tunnels
Webhook Relay exposes full HTTP services
Provider signature verification
Hookbase: 10+ providers built-in
Payload transforms
JSONata, JS, XSLT, Liquid
Lua, WASI
Hookbase: 4 engines + visual builder
Schema validation
JSON Schema on inbound routes
Circuit breakers
Auto-disable failing routes
Failover destinations
Automatic failover routing
Automatic retries
Both retry failed deliveries
Event replay
Replay past webhook deliveries
Real-time dashboard
Live SSE event stream
Cron job scheduling
Built-in cron for scheduled tasks
AI Assistant
Natural language webhook queries
Notification channels
Slack, PagerDuty, Discord, Teams alerts
Custom domains
Both on paid plans
Audit logs
Hookbase: Business plan
Kubernetes operator
Both have K8s operators
Static outgoing IPs
Both offer fixed egress IPs
Data warehouse ingestion
Both support Snowflake, BigQuery
Ephemeral / zero-storage mode
Both support transient / zero-storage mode
Multi-language SDKs
Go, Node, Python, .NET
Go
Hookbase: 4 official SDKs
Free tier
200 events/mo
150 webhooks/mo
Hookbase: more generous free tier
Starting price
$7/mo
~$10/mo
Hookbase starts lower

Where Webhook Relay Shines

Credit where it's due — Webhook Relay has real strengths in specific areas.

IoT & home automation

Integrations with Home Assistant and IoT devices for forwarding webhooks to local networks.

Bidirectional tunnels

Expose full HTTP services bidirectionally, not just receive webhooks on localhost.

If your primary need is IoT forwarding or bidirectional tunneling, Webhook Relay may be the better fit.

Where Hookbase Wins

Outbound Webhooks

Send events to your customers with a full event type system, subscriptions, and a customer-facing portal. Webhook Relay only handles inbound forwarding.

Transform Power

4 engines (JSONata, JavaScript, XSLT, Liquid), a visual builder, and a template library. Webhook Relay offers Lua scripting and experimental WASI.

Security & Compliance

Audit logs, field-level encryption, IP filtering, and automatic signature verification for 10+ providers out of the box.

Developer Experience

AI assistant for natural language queries, real-time SSE dashboard, official Python SDK, and a CLI with a terminal UI.

Two Platforms in One

Receive & Route Webhooks

Receive webhooks from any provider, verify signatures, apply transforms, and route to multiple destinations with retries and circuit breakers.

https://ingest.hookbase.app/your-org/stripe

Send Webhooks to Your Customers

Build an outbound webhook system for your product. Event types, customer endpoints, automatic retries, and a portal your customers can self-manage.

POST /api/applications/{appId}/messages

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