Arcade vs Hexus
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentHexus compared with Arcade
Arcade produces the most polished demo output in this category at $50 a seat, with brand kits and a Figma plugin, and reserves HTML capture for Enterprise. Hexus matches the entry price at $40 annually and adds AI script and voiceover generation plus video output, but its own output is competent rather than beautiful. Choose Arcade when the demo sits on a homepage and visual polish converts; choose Hexus when volume and format breadth matter more than craft.
Choose Arcade if
Marketing and sales teams at B2B SaaS companies that want good-looking interactive demos and product videos on the website, in launch emails and in outbound, with one flat $50 seat price and no audience meter, and that can live with recapturing screens rather than editing HTML when the product changes.
Choose Hexus if
Go-to-market teams at small and mid-sized B2B software companies that need interactive demos, product videos, and how-to guides from the same source material, and that can either live comfortably inside the one-seat $49 tier or genuinely justify the $499 Growth tier.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Arcade | Hexus |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Onboarding | Onboarding |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $50/mo ($42.50 billed annually) (free plan available) | $49 per month, or $40 per month billed annually (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription with unlimited demo views on every tier, metered secondarily by AI credits. There is no monthly active user charge, because the demo is hosted by Arcade rather than running inside your product. | Per-plan subscription with seats bundled rather than sold individually, an AI avatar credit allowance on the higher tiers, and no monthly active user or viewer meter. |
| Free plan | One seat, one published demo and one published video, 200 AI credits a month, unlimited AI demo creation, AI voiceover, hotspots, chapters, camera recording, background music and mobile view. | No |
| Free trial | No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path | A self-serve trial is available directly from the site with no sales call; registration is open at the Hexus app |
| Best for | Marketing and sales teams at B2B SaaS companies that want good-looking interactive demos and product videos on the website, in launch emails and in outbound, with one flat $50 seat price and no audience meter, and that can live with recapturing screens rather than editing HTML when the product changes. | Go-to-market teams at small and mid-sized B2B software companies that need interactive demos, product videos, and how-to guides from the same source material, and that can either live comfortably inside the one-seat $49 tier or genuinely justify the $499 Growth tier. |
| Setup time | Under an hour for a first demo, and often under thirty minutes. Install the Chrome extension, walk the flow, add hotspots and a CTA, publish, embed. There is no engineering involvement at any point and nothing to install in your own product. | Around fifteen minutes to a first demo. Install the extension, record, let the AI generate the script and narration, edit, publish. No developer is required to install Hexus and no developer is required to publish an asset, because nothing is installed inside your product. HTML-based demos on Growth take longer to get right because you are working with a captured clone rather than screenshots. |
| Learning curve | Low. Arcade is the easiest tool in this segment to get a good-looking result from on the first attempt, which is precisely why teams that struggled to make demos with other tools end up here. The hard part is editorial rather than technical: most first demos are two or three times longer than they should be, and cutting them down is the skill. | Low for capture and generation, moderate for the multi-format workflow. The discipline that has to be learned is treating the capture as the source of truth and refreshing it rather than patching three downstream assets separately, which is the only way the product's central promise actually pays off. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension capture, Desktop application capture, Figma plugin, Hosted demo playback with no script in your product, Website and email embeds, MP4 and GIF export | Browser extension for capture, Web application editor, Hosted demo center on Growth, Embeds and share links, Video export up to 1080p at 60fps on Growth |
| Compliance | GDPR, Enterprise security review available at the top tier | Enterprise security controls are listed as an Enterprise-tier feature; no independent audit certification is published on the public pricing pages |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Acquired by Olto, Inc. in March 2026; previously venture-backed and independent |
Strengths and limitations
Arcade
Strengths
- The best-looking output in this segment with the least effort, largely because brand kits enforce consistency across every creator rather than relying on individual taste.
- No audience meter of any kind: unlimited demo views on every tier including free, so a demo that goes viral costs the same as one nobody watches.
- Four capture paths (Chrome extension, desktop app, Figma plugin, camera) cover more source material than any competitor here, and the Figma plugin uniquely lets you demo a feature that does not exist yet.
- The same capture becomes a clickable demo, an MP4, a GIF, a translated version or an AI-narrated video, so one piece of work serves the website, ads, email and social.
Limitations
- HTML capture is Enterprise-only, so on the $50 tier your demos are image-based and cannot be repaired by editing markup after a UI change.
- Demos decay silently. A capture is frozen on the day it was made, and a stale demo keeps running perfectly while showing an interface that no longer exists, which is a worse failure mode than a visibly broken in-app tooltip.
- AI credits (800 a month on Growth) turn a flat per-seat price into a variable one for teams that lean on voiceover, text-to-video and translation.
- It does nothing for signed-up users, so it complements an in-app onboarding platform rather than replacing one; two purchases, not one.
Hexus
Strengths
- The only tool in this category that generates interactive demos, narrated videos, and how-to guides from a single capture, which is a real reduction in production work rather than a packaging claim.
- One-click repurposing between formats, so the website demo and the sales email video do not diverge as separate projects.
- AI script generation and voiceover on the entry tier rather than gated at the top, which is unusually generous placement.
- The strongest marketed answer to content staleness in this category through automatic syncing of product changes across generated assets, worth testing precisely because it would matter so much if true.
Limitations
- The gap between $49 and $499 with nothing in between is the defining weakness, and it lands hardest on exactly the small teams this directory serves.
- Acquired by Olto in March 2026 and now operating as a component of a larger AI agent platform, which introduces roadmap and continuity risk no amount of reassurance removes.
- Starter is a single seat with a watermark, no demo center, no integrations, and basic analytics only, so it is a solo plan rather than a small-team plan.
- Localization, closed captions, custom domain, custom branding, and SSO are all Enterprise, which is a long list of ordinary requirements behind an unpriced tier.
Pricing compared
Arcade
Freemium per-seat subscription with unlimited demo views on every tier, metered secondarily by AI credits. There is no monthly active user charge, because the demo is hosted by Arcade rather than running inside your product.
- Free$0
- Growth$50
- EnterpriseCustom
At $50 a seat with unlimited views and unlimited published demos, Arcade is priced almost identically to Storylane and Supademo and beats all of them on how the output looks with the least effort, which for a small marketing team is the thing that actually determines whether demos get made. The free plan is genuinely usable rather than a trial in disguise. The value case weakens in two specific places. AI credits mean the flat price is only flat if you use AI lightly, and heavy narration or translation work quietly converts your subscription into a metered one. More importantly, HTML capture sits on Enterprise, so on the $50 tier every demo is an image-based artifact that can only be maintained by recapturing it. If your product ships UI changes monthly, that maintenance cost is real and it is invisible on the pricing page. Buy Growth for polish and speed; look at Storylane or Supademo if editable captures matter more than looks.
Hexus
Per-plan subscription with seats bundled rather than sold individually, an AI avatar credit allowance on the higher tiers, and no monthly active user or viewer meter.
- Starter$49
- Growth$499
- EnterpriseCustom
Starter at $40 annually is fair for one person who wants AI-scripted, AI-narrated interactive demos, and it undercuts Storylane, Arcade, and Supademo, all of which sit around $50 per creator. Growth at $400 is a different conversation entirely: at that price it is competing with Supademo's $350 annual Growth tier for five bundled creators and with Storylane's higher tiers, and it wins only if the video and guide generation from the same capture is genuinely saving you a production role. The absence of anything between the two tiers is the real cost, because the natural buyer for this product is a two-to-four person go-to-market team and that team has no plan to buy. The meter itself is the right one, per creator with unlimited viewers, which is worth noting against the in-app guidance half of this category where UserGuiding publishes only its 2,000 monthly active user price, Inline Manual publishes exactly one point, and Candu publishes no thresholds at all. Hexus at least lets you model your bill exactly; it just does not give you many points to choose from.
Editorial verdict on each
Arcade
Arcade is the interactive demo tool to buy when you want demos that look good and you want them made this week. The four capture paths are the widest in the segment, the Figma plugin genuinely lets you demo a feature that does not exist yet, brand kits keep a whole team's output consistent, and at $50 a seat with unlimited views there is no audience meter to model. The free plan never expires, so evaluating it costs nothing. Two caveats decide whether it is right for you. AI credits mean the flat price is only flat if you use AI lightly. And HTML capture is Enterprise-only, so on the $50 tier every demo is an image that can only be maintained by recapturing it, which is a real recurring cost at any company that ships UI changes monthly. If editable captures matter more than looks, Storylane or Supademo are the better buys. If looks and speed matter most, nothing here beats Arcade.
Read the full Arcade profileHexus
Hexus is the only tool in this category that turns one capture into a demo, a video, and a how-to guide, and for a go-to-market team drowning in content production that is a genuinely different value proposition rather than a repackaged one. AI script generation and voiceover on the $40 entry tier are well placed, the automatic syncing claim is the most ambitious answer to staleness anyone here offers, and the Growth tier brings HTML demos, a demo center, and real CRM integration. Two things should give a small buyer pause. The pricing has nothing between $49 for one seat and $499 for five, which strands exactly the teams this directory is written for, and the March 2026 acquisition by Olto means you are now buying a component of someone else's platform rather than an independent product. Try Starter if you are one person. Below $499, compare Guidejar and DemoWay honestly first.
Read the full Hexus profileArcade profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Hexus last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.