Svix
Webhooks as a service that makes it super easy for API providers to send webhooks.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 72% of tracked projects; popularity more than 60%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 3.4k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.5.0 · 11 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Docker, Rust |
Is Svix actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 678 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 340 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 70% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v2.5.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 16 projects we track in Software Development - API Management, Svix ranks #3 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Svix actually does
Svix is an open-source webhooks-as-a-service platform designed to help API providers manage and dispatch outgoing webhooks reliably. It handles standard delivery concerns such as retries, rate limiting, and signing to ensure endpoints receive data securely. Built using Rust and distributed via Docker under the MIT licence, it provides a self-hosted alternative to managed webhook infrastructure.
Best fit: Development teams building public APIs who need a dedicated system to handle outgoing webhooks without relying on third-party cloud services.
Worth knowing: Deploying and operating a dedicated webhook delivery pipeline introduces additional infrastructure complexity compared to writing ad-hoc queuing logic within your existing application.
Deployment notes
Because it is packaged as Docker containers, you will typically need to provision persistent storage for state, configure a reverse proxy for TLS termination, and connect a separate relational database to store delivery logs and configuration.
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