Zapier moves webhook data into Sheets with a Catch Hook trigger plus a Create Row action, which bills a task per row and, on free and Starter plans, polls on a delay. Requex writes the row itself the moment the request lands — no task counter, no polling window, and the raw payload stays inspectable for debugging. It is free.

Zapier is a genuinely good product and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. If your workflow spans eight apps with branching and filters, use Zapier. But an enormous number of Zaps are one trigger and one action: catch a webhook, add a row to a sheet. Paying per row for that, and accepting an extra hop to get it, is the part worth reconsidering.

Where the two differ

	Zapier	Requex
Cost per row	One task, counted against your plan	Free, uncounted
Latency	Instant on paid tiers; polling delay on lower plans	Written as the request is handled
Raw payload kept	Trigger sample only	Full request log, searchable
Column matching	Bound to the columns present at setup	Re-read from the live header row each delivery
Retries	Automatic, with replay	None — errors surfaced on the connector
Multi-app workflows	Thousands of integrations	Sheets and HTTP forwarding

The two rows that matter most

Column matching

Zapier binds an action to the columns it saw when you built the Zap. Someone inserting a column in the middle of the sheet is a well-known way to start writing values into the wrong fields, and the Zap keeps reporting success while it does it. Requex reads the header row on every delivery and matches by name, so a reordered sheet still lands correctly, an inserted column is left empty rather than overwritten, and a removed column drops that value instead of shifting the rest across.

Retries — where Zapier wins

Requex delivery is fire-and-forget. The request is saved and answered first, then copied to the sheet, so a broken destination can never fail the response your sender is waiting on. The cost is that there is no retry queue: if Google rejects a write, the connector records the error and shows it in red, and that row is not written. Zapier will retry and let you replay. If a missing row is unacceptable rather than merely annoying, that is a real reason to pay them.

The mitigating detail is that the request itself is never lost — it is in the Requex log regardless, so you can always see what should have been written.

Which to use

Use Zapier when the workflow touches several apps, needs branching or filters, requires guaranteed delivery with replay, or when the person maintaining it should never have to look at a JSON payload.

Use Requex when the job is genuinely webhook-to-spreadsheet, when volume makes per-task pricing irritating, when you want the raw payload kept for debugging, or when you are still figuring out the integration and want to see exactly what a service sends before committing.

Plenty of teams run both: Requex on the endpoint for capture and debugging, Zapier for the multi-app automations further downstream.

Switching over

Create a webhook at requex.me, swap the URL in whatever service was pointing at your Catch Hook, connect Google in Settings → Connectors, and rebuild the field map — it is the same mapping you already have in the Zap, written as templates. Leave the Zap turned on for a day and compare the two sheets before you switch it off.

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