Hexus 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
Editorial assessmentHexus compared with Supademo
The closest comparison at the top of the range. Supademo is $50 per creator for Scale and $350 per month annually for Growth with five bundled creators and HTML plus sandbox demos, and it is bootstrapped, profitable, and independent. Hexus is $40 for one seat and $400 for five with HTML demos. Supademo has the strongest maintenance tooling in this category through targeted screenshot replacement and no acquisition overhang; Hexus counters with video and guide generation from the same capture. If independence and maintenance decide it, Supademo; if the three-format output is the reason you are shopping, Hexus.
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.
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 | Hexus | Supademo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Onboarding | Onboarding |
| Starting price | $49 per month, or $40 per month billed annually (free trial) | $0 (Free), then $50/mo per creator ($38 billed annually) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | 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. | 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 | No | One creator or admin seat, five guided demos, fifty video recordings, AI text personalization, the full editor and unlimited demo views. |
| Free trial | A self-serve trial is available directly from the site with no sales call; registration is open at the Hexus app | No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path |
| Best for | 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. | 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 | 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. | 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 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. | 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 | 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 | 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 | Enterprise security controls are listed as an Enterprise-tier feature; no independent audit certification is published on the public pricing pages | GDPR, Custom data residency available on Enterprise |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | New York City, United States |
| Ownership | Acquired by Olto, Inc. in March 2026; previously venture-backed and independent | Bootstrapped and founder-owned |
Strengths and limitations
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.
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
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.
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
Hexus
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 profileSupademo
MomentumSupademo 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.
Read the full Supademo profileHexus 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.