WebhookLens vs Svix

Looking for a Svix alternative with a real-time dashboard, payload transforms, and alerting baked in — plus a self-host option that doesn't require an enterprise contract? Here's the side-by-side.

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TL;DR

Pick WebhookLens if…

  • You're sending webhooks OR receiving them — WebhookLens is a proxy, not a sender-only SaaS.
  • You need live visibility: real-time stream, inspector, replay, alerting.
  • You want transforms and smart routing without a separate workflow tool.
  • You'd rather pay €12/mo than $75/mo for the paid tier.

Pick Svix if…

  • Your use case is purely sending webhooks to your API customers (webhook delivery-as-a-service).
  • You need the largest per-hour throughput and Svix's operational scale.
  • Your compliance team has approved Svix's SaaS terms and you don't need self-hosting.

Feature comparison

Feature WebhookLens Svix
Webhook proxy (receive + forward)✓Sender-focused
Webhook sending-as-a-serviceNot the focus✓
Self-hosted option✓ (ELv2, free)Community edition only
Real-time live stream (WebSocket)✓✕
Payload transforms✓✕
Smart routing (multi-target)✓✕
Built-in alerting✓✕
CLI tunnel for local dev✓✕
Buffer / pause endpoint✓✕
EU data residency✓ (Hetzner Germany)Optional (enterprise)
Starting priceFree / €12/moFree / $75/mo

When Svix is the right choice

Svix is excellent if your business model is "my API delivers webhooks to my customers" — you register endpoints on behalf of your users and Svix handles signing, retrying, fanning out. It's the best-in-class for that job.

WebhookLens sits on the other side: you are the consumer receiving webhooks from Stripe/GitHub/Shopify/etc., and you need to inspect, transform, replay, route. If your problem is inbound visibility and control, WebhookLens is the better fit.

You can run both. Svix for outbound webhooks to your API users, WebhookLens for inbound. They solve different problems.

Migration

If you're currently using Svix as a proxy for inbound webhooks (pushing into Svix endpoints) and want to switch:

  1. Sign up free — Developer tier, 500 events/mo, no credit card.
  2. Create endpoints with the same names you had in Svix.
  3. Repoint your webhook providers at WebhookLens proxy URLs.
  4. Use the WebhookLens CLI (webhooklens-cli listen) to tunnel webhooks to your local dev — replaces Svix Play.

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