Is Arcade or Supademo cheaper?

Arcade starts at $0 (Free), then $50/mo ($42.50 billed annually) (free plan available). Supademo starts at $0 (Free), then $50/mo per creator ($38 billed annually) (free plan available).

Arcade vs Supademo

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

Both sides assessed

Arcade compared with Supademo

Supademo matches Arcade's $50 entry price, is more generous at the free tier (five guided demos and fifty video recordings against Arcade's one demo and one video), and ships screenshot replacement specifically so you can refresh a screen without rebuilding the flow. Arcade wins on visual polish, brand-kit consistency and the Figma plugin. Choose Supademo if demo maintenance and free-tier headroom decide it; choose Arcade if how the demo looks decides it.

Supademo compared with Arcade

Arcade and Supademo cost the same at $50 a seat. Arcade produces better-looking output faster, enforces consistency with brand kits, and offers a Figma plugin, but reserves HTML capture for Enterprise. Supademo gives you five free demos instead of one, screenshot replacement for keeping demos current, and HTML plus sandbox demos at $450. Choose Arcade if polish decides it; choose Supademo if maintenance and capture breadth decide it.

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 Supademo if

Small and mid-sized B2B SaaS teams that want interactive demos for prospects and are realistic about maintenance, especially teams that will reuse the same captures in the help center and in-app demo hub, and that value a bootstrapped vendor with no investor-driven pricing pressure.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Arcade	Supademo
Category	Onboarding	Onboarding
Starting price	$0 (Free), then $50/mo ($42.50 billed annually) (free plan available)	$0 (Free), then $50/mo per creator ($38 billed annually) (free plan available)
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.	Freemium per-creator subscription with unlimited demo views on every tier. There is no monthly active user charge because demos are hosted by Supademo rather than running inside your product. The AI Demo Agent is priced by usage on top.
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.	One creator or admin seat, five guided demos, fifty video recordings, AI text personalization, the full editor and unlimited demo views.
Free trial	No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path	No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path
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.	Small and mid-sized B2B SaaS teams that want interactive demos for prospects and are realistic about maintenance, especially teams that will reuse the same captures in the help center and in-app demo hub, and that value a bootstrapped vendor with no investor-driven pricing pressure.
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.	Under an hour for a first demo. Install the Chrome extension, walk the flow, add hotspots, publish, embed. Nothing is installed in your product and no engineering ticket is needed. The exception is in-app embedding, where triggering demos programmatically inside your own application does require a developer to wire the trigger once.
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 the editor, moderate for the library. Making one demo is easy. Running thirty demos across a website, help center and sales sequences without letting them rot is an operational discipline, and AI Command plus screenshot replacement are the tools that make that discipline affordable rather than theoretical.
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	Chrome extension capture, Desktop application capture, Mobile and tablet screenshot demos, Hosted demo playback, Website, email and help center embeds, In-app embedding inside your own product
Compliance	GDPR, Enterprise security review available at the top tier	GDPR, Custom data residency available on Enterprise
Founded	2021	2022
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States	New York City, United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Bootstrapped and founder-owned

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.

Supademo

Strengths

The most generous free tier in this segment: five guided demos and fifty video recordings with no expiry, which is enough to run demos in production without paying.
Screenshot replacement directly addresses demo decay, the one recurring cost in this category that no vendor's marketing page mentions, and it turns a UI change from a rebuild into an edit.
AI Command performs bulk update, translation, analysis and reorganization across a demo library through natural language, which is how a thirty-demo library stays current without a dedicated owner.
The widest capture surface here: web via Chrome extension, native software via the desktop app, and mobile or tablet via screenshot upload, which is the only mobile demo story in this whole comparison set.

Limitations

HTML demos and sandbox demos are both on the $450 Growth tier, a nine-fold jump from Scale with no tier in between.
Demos still decay. Screenshot replacement makes the repair cheap but nothing detects that a demo has gone stale, so a captured flow can misrepresent your product for months while working perfectly.
No native A/B testing, which Storylane offers on its Growth tier and which matters for a demo sitting on a high-traffic landing page.
The in-app capabilities are demos embedded in your product, not real in-app guidance: no live DOM anchoring, no attribute-based segmentation, no event-driven checklists, so it does not replace an onboarding platform.

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.

Supademo

Freemium per-creator subscription with unlimited demo views on every tier. There is no monthly active user charge because demos are hosted by Supademo rather than running inside your product. The AI Demo Agent is priced by usage on top.

Free$0
Scale$50
Growth$450
EnterpriseCustom

Supademo is the best value in this segment at the bottom of the range and the most honest about what happens after you buy. Five guided demos and fifty video recordings for nothing is more free product than Storylane, Arcade or Floik offer, and $50 for branching, variables and analytics matches Arcade and Storylane on price while adding desktop and mobile capture that neither includes at that tier. The screenshot replacement feature is worth more than it looks on a pricing page, because demo maintenance is the recurring cost nobody budgets for and this is the tool that makes it cheap. The weak point is the same shape as everywhere else in this category: HTML and sandbox demos live at $450, nine times the Scale price, with no intermediate step. Judged on cost per useful outcome for a small team, this is the one to start with, and the bootstrapped, profitable vendor is less likely than its funded rivals to reprice you at renewal.

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 profile

Supademo

Momentum

Supademo is where a small team should start in this segment, and often where it should stay. The free tier is five real demos rather than a teaser, $50 buys branching, dynamic variables and analytics that match anyone else at that price, and the capture surface is the widest here, covering web, native desktop and mobile. More importantly, it is the only vendor that has built proper tooling for the problem that actually costs you money over two years: screenshot replacement and AI Command mean a redesign turns into an afternoon of edits rather than a rebuild of your whole library. The gaps are real but narrow. HTML and sandbox demos cost $450, nine times the Scale price, with nothing in between. There is no A/B testing. And the in-app features are demos embedded in your product, not genuine in-app guidance, so this is a complement to an onboarding platform rather than a substitute. Being bootstrapped and profitable is the quiet reason to trust the price you sign.

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