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Convoy vs Hookdeck

Hookdeck scores higher on the AgentReady, 56/100 against 49/100. They differ on 6 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Convoy. The complete solution for secure, scalable, and reliable webhook delivery.

Hookdeck. Reliable infrastructure to work with webhooks and external events — without managing it yourself.

Where Convoy is ahead

Convoy passes llms-full.txt / full agent docs and machine-readable metadata, and Hookdeck does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

Where Hookdeck is ahead

Hookdeck passes mcp discoverable, and Convoy does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: official typescript sdk and mcp integration available. Convoy misses those.

And on operate, retry behavior documented. Convoy misses it.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, official python sdk, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Both sit at 87/100 here. Convoy misses mcp discoverable; Hookdeck misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs, machine-readable metadata.

Understand. Both sit at 23/100 here. Convoy misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Hookdeck misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. Hookdeck leads 71 to 45. Convoy misses agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, official typescript sdk, official python sdk, mcp integration available; Hookdeck misses agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, official python sdk.

Operate. Hookdeck leads 41 to 39. Convoy misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Hookdeck misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Convoy starts at $0/forever and has a free tier. Hookdeck starts at $0/mo and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Hookdeck clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Convoy and Hookdeck. Alternatives to each: Convoy, Hookdeck.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["getconvoy", "hookdeck"]}