Alternatives to Webhook Relay

A webhook gateway that receives, transforms and forwards webhooks to public URLs, private servers or localhost. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Webhook Relay.

  • Hookdeck

    A hosted webhook gateway that receives, queues, filters and routes webhooks and external events.

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    Hookdeck is a hosted gateway that filters, routes and queues incoming webhooks, can pause connections while receivers are down, and has a CLI for localhost testing.

  • Convoy

    A self-hostable webhook gateway for sending and receiving webhooks with retries, signatures and rate limiting.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Convoy is an open-source webhook gateway you can self-host, handling incoming and outgoing webhooks with retries, signing and rate limiting, but it requires PostgreSQL.

  • smee.io

    A free webhook payload delivery service that forwards events to an application running on localhost.

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    smee.io is a free service that forwards webhook payloads to localhost through its client, but it is meant for development only and offers no transforms or retries.

  • ngrok

    A tunnelling agent and gateway that exposes a local app to the internet with request inspection.

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    ngrok exposes a local app through a public URL tunnel with request inspection, rather than relaying webhooks, and also covers SSH and RDP access.

  • Stripe CLI

    Stripe's command-line tool for building and testing Stripe integrations, including forwarding and triggering webhook events.

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    Stripe CLI forwards Stripe webhook events to a local server for free, but it only covers Stripe integrations and needs a Stripe account.

  • Pinggy

    A tunneling service that gives localhost a public URL over SSH, with a web debugger for traffic.

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    Pinggy gives localhost a public URL over plain SSH with a web debugger for replaying requests, but free URLs change on reconnect and there are no payload transforms.

  • Tunnelmole

    An open-source tunneling tool that gives a server running on localhost a public HTTPS URL.

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    Tunnelmole is an open-source, optionally self-hostable tunnel that gives a local port a public HTTPS URL, without retries or payload transformation.

  • LocalXpose

    A hosted tunneling service with a client binary that exposes local servers to the internet.

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    LocalXpose is a hosted tunnel with a closed-source client for Windows, macOS and Linux and automatic TLS, exposing whole local servers rather than relaying webhooks.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.