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Hookdeck vs Mailcast

Hookdeck is an event gateway focused on routing webhooks, not email forwarding.
HookdeckA reliable event gateway for event-driven applicationsMailcastEmail forwarding for your startup

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What it is
Hookdeck:Hookdeck provides a reliable event gateway to receive, process, and deliver webhooks with routing, filtering, transformation, and rate-limiting.
Mailcast:Mailcast forwards email sent to your domain to any address, webhook, or SMTP with advanced filtering and rewriting.
Best for
Hookdeck:Scalable webhook routing and observability
Mailcast:Domain email forwarding with webhook integration
Who it’s for
Hookdeck:Developers and teams building event-driven applications that rely on webhooks.
Mailcast:Startups, freelancers, small teams needing custom domain email forwarding.
Pricing
Hookdeck:Freemium
Mailcast:Freemium
Plans
Hookdeck:Developer $0 /month · Team $39 /month · Growth $499 /month
Mailcast:Free $0 per month · Starter $5 per month · Essential $9 per month · Premium $19 per month · Personal $24 per year
Works with
Hookdeck:Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Better Stack, Uptime, incident.io
Mailcast:Gmail, Google Workspace, SMTP
DevHunt upvotes
Hookdeck:30
Mailcast:0
Launched on DevHunt
Hookdeck:Mar 2024
Mailcast:Dec 2025

Hookdeck features

  • Receive & Debug Webhooks. Capture inbound webhooks locally or in the cloud with full observability.
  • Filter, Transform & Route. Apply custom filters, transformations and routing rules before delivery.
  • Queue with Rate Control. Manage delivery spikes with back-pressure handling and rate-limiting.
  • Auto-detect Issues & Replay. Detect failing events, get alerts and replay missed deliveries.
  • Outpost Delivery Platform. Add managed webhook delivery to your API or SaaS with tenant and subscription management.
  • Metrics & Alerts. Monitor latency, throughput and error rates; receive alerts for third-party latency.
  • Secure & Compliant. SOC2 compliance and optional HIPAA, SSO, SCIM for higher plans.
  • CLI & Console Tools. Command-line interface for local testing and a web console for payload inspection.
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Mailcast features

  • Catch-all forwarding. Forward all incoming mail for a domain to a single address so nothing is missed.
  • Pattern matching aliases. Create email aliases using regular-expression patterns.
  • Multiple actions per alias. Send mail to several addresses, webhooks, or both from one alias.
  • Conditional forwarding. Define rules that decide whether an action is taken for each email.
  • Email rewriting. Modify subject lines or replace content before forwarding.
  • Webhook output. Send email data as JSON, form data, or attachments to your API endpoints.
  • SMTP sending. Send email from your alias addresses via SMTP.
  • Logging & privacy. TLS-encrypted delivery, logs kept 7 days, only subject logged.
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