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title: "A Convoy Alternative for Delivering Webhooks Into Private Infrastructure | WebhookRelay"
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  "og:description": "Compare Convoy (getconvoy.io) and Webhook Relay. Convoy is an open-source, self-hostable webhook gateway; Webhook Relay is a hosted service that receives webhooks and forwards them to public, localhost and private destinations via the relay agent, with tunnels, transformations and cron, from $9.99/month."
  "og:title": "A Convoy Alternative for Delivering Webhooks Into Private Infrastructure"
  description: "Compare Convoy (getconvoy.io) and Webhook Relay. Convoy is an open-source, self-hostable webhook gateway; Webhook Relay is a hosted service that receives webhooks and forwards them to public, localhost and private destinations via the relay agent, with tunnels, transformations and cron, from $9.99/month."
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# **A Convoy Alternative for Delivering Webhooks Into Private Infrastructure**

Compare Convoy (getconvoy.io) and Webhook Relay. Convoy is an open-source, self-hostable webhook gateway; Webhook Relay is a hosted service that receives webhooks and forwards them to public, localhost and private destinations via the relay agent, with tunnels, transformations and cron, from $9.99/month.

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[Convoy](https://www.getconvoy.io) (getconvoy.io) is an open-source, self-hostable webhook gateway, built in Go and backed by Y Combinator. It handles both inbound and outbound webhooks, with features like retries, rate limiting, static outbound IPs and circuit breaking. If you're evaluating it against Webhook Relay, the key difference is the **operating model**: Convoy is software you run and maintain yourself, while Webhook Relay is a hosted service that can also deliver webhooks into private infrastructure that has no public IP.

## [TL;DR](#tldr)

- **Want a self-hosted open-source gateway and willing to run and maintain it yourself?** Convoy is built for that and is a solid choice.
- **Want a fully managed, hosted webhook service with no infrastructure to operate?** That's Webhook Relay.
- **Need delivery to localhost, an internal service or a Kubernetes pod?** Webhook Relay's relay agent does this natively; Convoy delivers to HTTP endpoints.
- **Want tunnels, scheduled/cron webhooks and a free request bin too?** Webhook Relay includes all three.

## [Convoy vs Webhook Relay](#convoy-vs-webhook-relay)

|  | Convoy | Webhook Relay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Operating model | Self-hosted open source | Hosted service |
| License / source | Open source (MPL 2.0, as of 2026) | Hosted (closed) |
| Inbound + outbound webhooks | Yes | Yes |
| Retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking | Yes | Retries + ordered delivery |
| Static outgoing IP | Yes (outbound proxy) | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/static-outgoing-ip/) |
| Deliver to public endpoints | Yes | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/webhook-multiple-destinations/) |
| Deliver to **localhost / private network** | No (HTTP endpoints) | Yes ([relay agent](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/webhooks/)) |
| General-purpose tunnels | No | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/tunnels/) |
| Scheduled / cron webhooks | No | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/cron/) |
| Transformations | Yes | [JS / Lua + AI](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/transform-webhooks/) |
| Kubernetes operator | Run it yourself | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/webhook-kubernetes-integration/) |
| Consumer-facing free request bin | No | [Webhook Bin](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/webhook-bin/) |
| Hosting / ops burden | You run and maintain it | Fully managed |
| Starting paid price (managed) | Self-host / cloud (verify status) | $9.99/mo |

_Competitor details reflect publicly documented information as of 2026; verify current license, status and features on getconvoy.io and GitHub._

## [Where Convoy is strong](#where-convoy-is-strong)

- **Open source and self-hostable.** Convoy is open source (MPL 2.0 as of 2026) and you can run the whole gateway on your own infrastructure. If avoiding a third-party SaaS for compliance, data-residency or cost reasons matters to you, that's a real advantage.
- **A proper webhook gateway.** It handles both directions — ingesting webhooks from providers and sending webhooks out — with retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking and rolling secrets, which is a thoughtful feature set for a platform team.
- **Static outbound IPs.** Convoy supports routing outbound webhook events through a forward proxy with a static IP, useful when a receiving system needs to allow-list your sender.
- **You own the deployment.** Because it's your instance, you control scaling, retention and configuration end to end.

If you specifically want a self-hosted open-source gateway and you're prepared to run and maintain it yourself, Convoy is a reasonable pick and we'd happily point you there.

A practical caveat: as of 2026, Convoy's cloud offering and overall project momentum appear to have slowed. Verify its current status, roadmap and uptime on getconvoy.io and GitHub before relying on the hosted version in production.

## [Where Webhook Relay is different](#where-webhook-relay-is-different)

### [It's fully managed, not self-hosted](#its-fully-managed-not-self-hosted)

The most basic distinction is that Webhook Relay is a hosted service. There's no gateway to deploy, no database to operate, no upgrade path to babysit, and no on-call rotation for the webhook layer itself. You point providers at a stable URL and run a lightweight agent where you need delivery. With Convoy you own all of that operational surface.

### [Delivery into private networks](#delivery-into-private-networks)

This is the core technical difference. Convoy delivers to HTTP endpoints; the receiving service has to be reachable from the gateway. Webhook Relay's relay agent instead makes an **outbound** connection and forwards webhooks to wherever you point it:

```
relay forward --bucket payments http://localhost:8080/stripe
# or an internal host with no public IP
relay forward --bucket payments http://payments.internal:9000/hook
```

No inbound firewall rules, no public IP required, including a first-class [Kubernetes operator](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/webhook-kubernetes-integration/) for delivering into your cluster. This is closer to a secure outbound tunnel into your own infrastructure than to endpoint-to-endpoint delivery.

### [Tunnels, cron and a free request bin](#tunnels-cron-and-a-free-request-bin)

Webhook Relay also offers general-purpose [localhost tunnels](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/tunnels/) for exposing any local service to the internet — not just webhooks — which Convoy doesn't do. It runs [scheduled (cron) webhooks](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/cron/) natively, useful for heartbeats and periodic jobs. And the free [Webhook Bin](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/webhook-bin/) lets anyone inspect incoming requests in the browser with no account required, a consumer-facing inspector Convoy doesn't ship.

### [Fan-out, transformations and static IP](#fan-out-transformations-and-static-ip)

Like Convoy, Webhook Relay can [fan a single webhook out to multiple destinations](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/webhook-multiple-destinations/), reshape payloads in flight with [JavaScript or Lua transformations](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/transform-webhooks/), and give you a [static outgoing IP](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/features/static-outgoing-ip/) for allow-listing — but without you running and scaling the gateway yourself.

## [When to pick which](#when-to-pick-which)

- **Pick Convoy** if you specifically want a self-hosted, open-source webhook gateway, you're comfortable running and maintaining it, and self-hosting matters more to you than a managed service. Verify its current status before committing.
- **Pick Webhook Relay** if you want a fully managed hosted service — especially delivery into localhost, internal services or Kubernetes — plus tunnels, cron and a free request bin, without operating any infrastructure, starting at $9.99/month.

[Start free](https://my.webhookrelay.com/register) or [compare plans](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/pricing/). New to webhooks? [Inspect one in the browser](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/convoy-alternative/webhook-bin/) first.

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