Axel
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Axel, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Axel's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10,000 accepted inbound events / month · 30-day event search · Community support · Webhook ingest and listed destinations · Forever |
| Pro | $20 a month | $20 monthly usage credit · $0.015 per 1,000 accepted inbound events · Destination pushes and retries included · Monthly payment applied to usage; unused credit expires at the end of the billing month |
The facts
Each one read from Axel's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Company
- Axel is operated by rolln, Inc., according to the maker's legal page.checked 7 Oct 2026
What it does
- Compliance
- Axel says its described product controls are not a certification report and directs compliance questions to its security email.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Delivery guarantee
- Axel uses at-least-once delivery with a stable event ID across retries, so signed HTTP receivers should deduplicate.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Durable intake
- Axel stores an accepted event's original payload before returning HTTP 202, then delivers it asynchronously.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed destinations include Postgres, MongoDB, S3, Cloudflare R2, Databricks, BigQuery, and signed HTTP webhooks; generic webhook and custom HMAC sources are supported.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Pro bills only accepted inbound events; rejected requests do not count, and destination pushes and retries are included at no additional cost.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Axel captures, routes, and replays third-party webhooks to databases, warehouses, object storage, and HTTP services.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Replay and history
- The dashboard and CLI can replay retained events, and Axel Cloud provides 30 days of searchable event and delivery history.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Retention
- Default retention is 30 days for raw payloads and event traces, 90 days for dead letters, 30 days for replay-request records, and 365 days for audit logs.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Routing
- Routes support declarative filters and field transforms, and can fan one event out to multiple destinations.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Schema checks
- Data Contracts infer event and field types from source traffic and check for schema changes every five minutes; these checks do not block delivery or guarantee destination acceptance.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The security page says the edge requires TLS 1.2 or newer, raw R2 payload objects are encrypted at rest, source tokens are stored as SHA-256 hashes, and access is workspace-scoped.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- The docs say the public source release for self-hosting is being prepared; self-host operators manage their host, backups, and upgrades.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Free plan includes community support; Axel Cloud customers can also use the configured support address for private account or billing questions.checked 7 Oct 2026
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