Is Arcade or Product Fruits cheaper?

Arcade starts at $0 (Free), then $50/mo ($42.50 billed annually) (free plan available). Product Fruits starts at $111/mo (Starter at 1,500 MAU, billed annually) (free trial).

Arcade vs Product Fruits

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 assessment

Arcade compared with Product Fruits

Product Fruits is an in-app onboarding tool for users who have already signed up, metered by monthly active users. Arcade shows the product to people who have not signed up, metered by creator seats. They cover opposite halves of the funnel, so the real question is where you are losing people: at the website, which is Arcade's job, or after signup, which is Product Fruits'. Many product-led teams eventually run one of each.

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 Product Fruits if

Bootstrapped and seed-stage SaaS teams that want real onboarding tooling plus a knowledge base and an AI support agent for close to a hundred dollars a month, and small European product teams that want a vendor with ISO 27001 and GDPR credentials and a price they can approve without a board conversation.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Arcade	Product Fruits
Category	Onboarding	Onboarding
Starting price	$0 (Free), then $50/mo ($42.50 billed annually) (free plan available)	$111/mo (Starter at 1,500 MAU, 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.	MAU-metered subscription across three published tiers plus a Custom plan, with a slider that recalculates each tier's price by user volume. Annual billing saves 25 percent. AI conversations are metered separately with add-on packs.
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	Yes, with full access to the platform and no credit card required
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.	Bootstrapped and seed-stage SaaS teams that want real onboarding tooling plus a knowledge base and an AI support agent for close to a hundred dollars a month, and small European product teams that want a vendor with ISO 27001 and GDPR credentials and a price they can approve without a board conversation.
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.	Fast by design: the vendor markets no-code, fast implementation as a core selling point and offers a Chrome extension for building before a full install. A first tour is same-day work, and a properly targeted program with custom events is one to two weeks on the Pro tier.
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. The creator agent generates a first draft of onboarding from your own product, so the starting point is editing rather than authoring. Configuring Elvin's sources well is the skill that separates a useful AI agent from one that confidently answers wrong.
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	Web app (JavaScript snippet), Chrome extension for building, Single-page application support, REST API and webhooks, MCP endpoint
Compliance	GDPR, Enterprise security review available at the top tier	ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, Multi-factor authentication and user identity verification
Founded	2021	2019
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States	Prague, Czech Republic
Ownership	Venture-backed	Venture-backed

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.

Product Fruits

Strengths

The best price-to-capability ratio in the category by a wide margin, with a published slider so you can see exactly what your user volume costs before talking to anyone.
Scope that no in-app-only rival matches at this price: onboarding, newsfeed, feedback widget, surveys, and a real hosted knowledge base in one subscription.
Elvin works on both sides of the problem, generating onboarding content for admins and answering user questions in-product, rather than only doing one or the other.
Certifications well beyond what a 27-person company usually carries: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2, and GDPR compliance, with regular third-party audits and no customer data used to train AI models.

Limitations

Starter's caps are restrictive in ways the headline price hides: 15 flows, 2 checklists, 1 language, 5 segments, and no custom events at all.
Elvin's free conversation allowances (20 per month on Starter) are far below real support volume, and add-on packs turn AI support into a variable cost.
SAML SSO, roles, and permissions require the Business tier at $374 per month, which is a big jump from Pro for a security control.
No product analytics worth the name; you will still send events to Mixpanel, Heap, or Google Analytics for real analysis.

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.

Product Fruits

MAU-metered subscription across three published tiers plus a Custom plan, with a slider that recalculates each tier's price by user volume. Annual billing saves 25 percent. AI conversations are metered separately with add-on packs.

Starter$111
Pro$187
Business$374
CustomCustom

On raw capability per dollar, Product Fruits wins this category outright: Starter costs roughly a third of Userpilot's entry tier and includes a hosted knowledge base and an AI agent that Userpilot does not bundle at all. The honest caveat is that Starter's caps are tight enough that many teams will end up on Pro at $187, which is still less than every direct competitor's cheapest plan and buys branching flows, private documentation, custom events, and five languages. Buy Starter to prove the concept, budget for Pro within two quarters, and price the Elvin conversation packs separately if support deflection is the reason you are buying.

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.

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Product Fruits

Best Value

Product Fruits is the value pick in this category and it is not close: for what Userpilot charges to show three tooltips, you get onboarding flows, a hosted knowledge base, a newsfeed, surveys, a feedback widget, and an AI agent that answers your users' questions, from a company carrying ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2. The pressure points are Starter's caps, particularly the total absence of custom events, and Elvin's stingy free conversation allowances, both of which push serious teams to the $187 Pro tier where the product is still cheaper than every competitor's cheapest plan. Start the trial, ignore the 93 percent marketing claim, and judge Elvin on your own documentation.

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Arcade profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Product Fruits last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.