Request Inbox vs WebHook Tester

Both are self-hosted software development - testing projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Request Inbox and WebHook Tester are closely matched on maintenance health (24 vs 28). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Request InboxWebHook Tester
Health score 24/100 28/100
Commits (11 mo) 27 47
Commits (last 3 mo) 10 0
Stars 6 541
Latest release 11 Oct 2025 13 Apr 2026
Licence Apache-2.0 MIT
Built with Docker Docker, Go, deb, K8S
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Request Inbox

Collect and inspect HTTP requests for testing and debugging. Create and manage inboxes, capture detailed request data, configure custom responses.

24/100
At risk

Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.

Maintenance 5/40
Releases 11/25
Community 0/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 13% of tracked projects; popularity in the bottom 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 11 commits 2026-05: 6 commits 2026-06: 3 commits 2026-07: 0 commits 2026-08: 7 commits

WebHook Tester

Powerful tool for testing WebHooks and more.

28/100
At risk

Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.

Maintenance 7/40
Releases 16/25
Community 5/20
Momentum 0/15

Commit activity more than 18% of tracked projects; popularity more than 24%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 4 commits 2025-11: 16 commits 2025-12: 3 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 7 commits 2026-03: 5 commits 2026-04: 7 commits 2026-05: 5 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 0 commits 2026-08: 0 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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