The price anchor
| Hookscope | Pipedream | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $29/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $348 |
| 5-year total | $69 | $1,740 |
| 10-year total | $69 | $3,480 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($29/mo, ~$348/yr); the Hookscope column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Three months of Pipedream costs more than Hookscope does, ever. Even against Webhook.site Pro (~$10/mo) it pays for itself in under 7 months.
- After 1 year: Hookscope has cost you $69 total — Pipedream has cost $348.
- After 3 years: Hookscope is still $69 — the subscription is at $1,044.
- After 5 years: Hookscope is still $69 — the subscription is at $1,740.
What you get for $69 once
- Bins that accept anything. Named capture endpoints — every HTTP method, any content type, any subpath. Huge or malformed payloads get truncated and flagged, never rejected.
- Full capture. Method, path, query params, headers, raw body, pretty-printed JSON with syntax highlighting, source IP, size, timestamp.
- Live inspector. Request list updates every 2 seconds. Detail tabs for headers / raw body / pretty body / query, plus method filter and body search.
- Replay. Send any captured request to any target URL — headers and body preserved, hop-by-hop headers stripped. Target's response shown inline, full replay history per request.
- Auto-forwarding. Set a target URL per bin and every new capture forwards immediately, with the result recorded on the request row — inspect production webhooks without dropping them.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $69 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/hookscope-mvp, always. The $69 gets you the 1-click Windows installer and updates instead of npm i && npm start.
Isn't Pipedream way more than a request bin?
It is — Pipedream is a full workflow-automation platform, and if you need webhooks to trigger multi-step integrations, it's genuinely great. But if you're paying $29/mo mostly to inspect and replay JSON, Hookscope does that part for $69 once.
Does forwarding retry on failure?
No — forwarding is fire-once by design, to keep behavior predictable. The result (status or error) is recorded on each request row, and you can replay any capture manually. If you need a durable retry queue, that's the cloud platforms' territory.
Is the live view websockets?
It's plain 2-second polling — deliberate, to keep the whole thing one simple, hackable process. In practice the request appears about as fast as you can alt-tab to it.
Hookscope — $69, one time
Or get Hookscope plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.