Hookdeck vs Upstash QStash
On the evidence we track, Hookdeck leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for webhooks infrastructure. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Hookdeck
LeaderHookdeck provides infrastructure for managing webhook and event-driven workflows. It receives events from sources, applies transformations and filtering, deduplicates messages, and reliably delivers them to multiple destinations with built-in observability and retry logic.
Upstash QStash
A managed intermediary service that ensures messages reliably reach HTTP APIs through automatic retries, parallel routing to multiple endpoints, and ordered processing.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Hookdeck
LeaderFree tier up to 10k events/month. Team plan from $39/month plus metered events. Premium from $499/month with SLAs.
- DeveloperFree
- 10,000 events/month
- 3-day retention
- 1 user
- SoC2 compliance
- TeamFrom $39/month
- pay-as-you-go events
- 7-day retention
- Slack integration
- Better Stack Uptime integration
- incident.io integration
- PremiumContact sales
- uptime and latency SLAs
- SSO/SAML/SCIM
- HIPAA compliance
- premium support
- support manager
- +3 more
Upstash QStash
Pricing not documented yet.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Hookdeck
Leader- Slack
- Salesforce
- Xero
- Zendesk
- Zapier
- Discord
- GitHub
- Stripe
- Shopify
- Vercel
- Cloudflare
- Google Cloud
- Amazon SQS
- AWS EventBridge
- Apache Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Google Pub/Sub
- Coinbase
- Webflow
- DocuSign
- n8n
- Clerk
- Zoom
- +40 more
Upstash QStash
- Vercel AI SDK
- Cloudflare Workers
- LLM providers (general)
- LLM APIs
Hookdeck or Upstash QStash: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.