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title: "A Hookdeck Alternative for Delivering Webhooks to Private Infrastructure | WebhookRelay"
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  "og:description": "Compare Hookdeck and Webhook Relay for webhook infrastructure. Both queue, retry and transform — but Webhook Relay also delivers to localhost and private networks, tunnels, and schedules webhooks, from $9.99/month."
  "og:title": "A Hookdeck Alternative for Delivering Webhooks to Private Infrastructure"
  description: "Compare Hookdeck and Webhook Relay for webhook infrastructure. Both queue, retry and transform — but Webhook Relay also delivers to localhost and private networks, tunnels, and schedules webhooks, from $9.99/month."
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# **A Hookdeck Alternative for Delivering Webhooks to Private Infrastructure**

Compare Hookdeck and Webhook Relay for webhook infrastructure. Both queue, retry and transform — but Webhook Relay also delivers to localhost and private networks, tunnels, and schedules webhooks, from $9.99/month.

![A Hookdeck Alternative for Delivering Webhooks to Private Infrastructure](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/images/blog/heroes/alternative.jpg)

[Hookdeck](https://hookdeck.com) is a polished webhook-infrastructure product: ingest, queue, retry, filter, transform and route webhooks, with a clean console and strong reliability. If you're comparing it with Webhook Relay, the products overlap a lot — the deciding factor is usually **where the webhook needs to end up**.

Hookdeck delivers to public HTTP endpoints. Webhook Relay does that too, _and_ delivers to **localhost, private servers and Kubernetes** through a lightweight agent.

## [TL;DR](#tldr)

- **Delivering to a public URL or SaaS?** Both are great. Choose on price and ergonomics.
- **Delivering into private infrastructure** (on-prem API, internal service, K8s pod, a dev laptop in production-like flows)? Webhook Relay's agent does this natively.
- **Want tunnels and scheduled/cron webhooks too?** Webhook Relay includes both.

## [Hookdeck vs Webhook Relay](#hookdeck-vs-webhook-relay)

|  | Hookdeck | Webhook Relay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ingest, queue, retry | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering / routing | Yes | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/features/forwarding-rules/) |
| Transformations | Yes | [JS / Lua + AI](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/features/transform-webhooks/) |
| Deliver to public endpoints | Yes | Yes |
| Deliver to **localhost / private network** | Dev CLI only | Yes (relay agent) |
| General-purpose tunnels | No | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/tunnels/) |
| Scheduled / cron webhooks | No | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/cron/) |
| Kubernetes operator | No | Yes |
| Static outgoing IP | Add-on | [Yes](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/features/static-outgoing-ip/) |
| Free webhook inspector | Console | [Webhook Bin](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/webhook-bin/) |
| Starting paid price | ~$39/mo | $9.99/mo |

_Competitor details reflect publicly documented plans as of 2026; verify current pricing on hookdeck.com._

## [Where Hookdeck is strong](#where-hookdeck-is-strong)

- A mature, well-designed console and developer experience.
- Solid reliability and a deep set of guides.
- A good fit when every destination is a **public HTTPS endpoint**.

If that describes your setup and the price works, Hookdeck is a fine choice.

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

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

This is the core distinction. Webhook providers can only call public URLs — but your handler often lives somewhere private. The [relay agent](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/webhooks/) makes an outbound connection and tunnels webhooks to:

```
relay forward --bucket payments http://localhost:8080/stripe
# or an internal host
relay forward --bucket payments http://payments.internal:9000/hook
```

No public IP, no inbound firewall rules. Hookdeck's CLI covers local development, but Webhook Relay treats private delivery as a first-class production feature, including a [Kubernetes operator](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/features/webhook-kubernetes-integration/).

### [Tunnels and cron in the same product](#tunnels-and-cron-in-the-same-product)

Beyond webhooks, Webhook Relay gives you general-purpose [localhost tunnels](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/tunnels/) and [scheduled (cron) webhooks](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/hookdeck-alternative/cron/) — useful adjacent jobs you'd otherwise wire up with separate tools.

### [Lower entry price](#lower-entry-price)

For small and mid-size teams, $9.99–$79.99/month covers a lot of ground before you reach enterprise tiers.

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

- **Pick Hookdeck** if all destinations are public endpoints and you want its specific console/DX.
- **Pick Webhook Relay** if you need to reach private infrastructure, want tunnels and cron in one place, or want a lower starting price.

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

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## **Start forwarding webhooks in minutes **

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