Hookdeck vs Ujex Ingress for AI Agents
Hookdeck is the right pick if webhook development is the entire problem (event inspection, replay, filtering matter most). Ujex Ingress is the right pick when you also need agent-aware auth, audit, budgets, and integration with the rest of an agent stack — same Firebase project as your memory and email.
What each one is
Hookdeck: an Event Gateway for webhooks. Sources, connections, destinations, events. Inspection, replay, filtering, retries. CLI for local development; managed cloud for production. Open-source CLI.
Ujex Ingress: the ingress subsystem of Ujex. Three-tier tunnels — Quick (no signup, ephemeral via bore), Standard (cloudflared, persistent), Stable (user-owned Cloudflare Tunnel, custom domain). Auth via Ujex agent identity; events tagged in audit log.
Capability matrix
| Hookdeck | Ujex Ingress | |
|---|---|---|
| Local-dev tunnel | ✓ (CLI) | ✓ (Quick tier) |
| Stable URL on custom domain | ✓ (paid) | ✓ (Stable tier) |
| Event inspection / replay | ✓ Excellent | Basic (audit log) |
| Event filtering / transformation | ✓ | Limited |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auth via agent identity | API keys | Ujex device keys + scopes |
| Spend cap integration | ✗ | ✓ (Governor) |
| Audit trail (hash-chained) | Standard logs | ✓ Hash-chained |
| Self-hostable | Cloud-managed | ✓ (Apache-2.0) |
| Free tier | 10k events/mo | 1k events/mo · stable tier limited |
Pick Hookdeck if
- Webhook development is the entire problem you're solving
- You want excellent event inspection, replay, filtering
- Standard webhook patterns (Stripe, GitHub, Linear) are most of your traffic
Pick Ujex Ingress if
- You're already on Ujex for memory / email / audit
- You want agent identity to authenticate inbound webhooks
- You want spend caps to apply to webhook-triggered work
- You want self-hostable
Use both
Yes, you can. Hookdeck for the developer-flow webhooks (Stripe → my agent for payment events). Ujex Ingress for the agent-internal webhooks (one agent calls another's URL, both authenticated as Ujex agents).
FAQ
Does Hookdeck have an MCP server?
Yes — Hookdeck CLI ships with MCP server capabilities for AI agents.
Can Ujex Ingress run my own Cloudflare Tunnel?
Yes — the Stable tier uses your Cloudflare account and custom domain. The Quick tier uses bore against our relay.