Is Scribe or Supademo cheaper?

Scribe starts at $0 (Basic), then $13 per seat per month on annual billing with a five-seat minimum (free plan available). Supademo starts at $0 (Free), then $50/mo per creator ($38 billed annually) (free plan available).

Scribe 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 assessment

Scribe compared with Supademo

Different halves of the category. Supademo builds interactive click-through demos aimed mainly at prospects who have not signed up, and it is the strongest tool in this comparison set on maintenance because targeted screenshot replacement fixes one screen without rebuilding the flow. Scribe documents how to use software for people who already have access. A team that buys Scribe expecting to run a demo on its marketing site has bought the wrong product, and the reverse is equally true.

Choose Scribe if

Small and mid-sized teams of five or more people who need to document how work is done inside third-party software, especially operations, IT, support, and finance teams, and any buyer whose security review will ask about HIPAA, FERPA, or SOC 2 Type II before a documentation tool is approved.

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	Scribe	Supademo
Category	Onboarding	Onboarding
Starting price	$0 (Basic), then $13 per seat per month on annual billing with a five-seat minimum (free plan available)	$0 (Free), then $50/mo per creator ($38 billed annually) (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-seat subscription with a five-seat minimum on the team rate, no monthly active user meter, and no charge for people reading published guides.	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	Basic includes unlimited web application capture, quick customization, and shareable links for a single user, with no cap on how many guides you create.	One creator or admin seat, five guided demos, fifty video recordings, AI text personalization, the full editor and unlimited demo views.
Free trial	No fixed-length trial is advertised; the free Basic tier is the evaluation path	No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path
Best for	Small and mid-sized teams of five or more people who need to document how work is done inside third-party software, especially operations, IT, support, and finance teams, and any buyer whose security review will ask about HIPAA, FERPA, or SOC 2 Type II before a documentation tool is approved.	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 ten minutes to a first published guide. Install the extension, sign in, record a process, adjust a few step descriptions, publish. No developer is needed to install Scribe and no developer is needed to publish a guide, which is the structural advantage documentation tools have over in-app guidance platforms that require a script in your own product before anything renders.	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	Near zero to create. The organizational work is deciding who owns each guide and building the habit of rerecording after the underlying software changes, since Scribe will not flag it. Larger deployments also have to settle who is allowed to publish, because permission granularity below Enterprise is limited.	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, Microsoft Edge extension, Windows desktop app, macOS desktop app, Mobile capture on Pro, Web app for editing, organizing, and sharing	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	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, FERPA	GDPR, Custom data residency available on Enterprise
Founded	2019	2022
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States	New York City, United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Bootstrapped and founder-owned

Strengths and limitations

Scribe

Strengths

The best first-pass capture quality in this segment; drafts arrive close enough to publishable that most guides need only light editing.
The widest compliance surface of any documentation tool here, covering SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and FERPA, which shortens or removes a security review.
Per-creator pricing with unlimited readers and no monthly active user meter, so audience growth never moves the bill.
Enormous distribution and adoption, with six million reported users, which means colleagues have often already used it and internal rollout is not a change management project.

Limitations

The five-seat minimum on Pro Team, combined with a Personal rate at nearly double the per-seat price, makes two-to-four-person teams the worst-served buyer on the card.
Nothing detects that a guide has gone stale; the screenshots keep looking correct after the software they document has been redesigned, and you learn about it from a confused reader.
Automatic redaction is Enterprise, so on Pro the only protection against publishing sensitive data in a screenshot is a person remembering to blur it.
No translation below Enterprise, which is a hard stop for a small multilingual team.

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

Scribe

Per-seat subscription with a five-seat minimum on the team rate, no monthly active user meter, and no charge for people reading published guides.

Basic$0
Pro Personal$25
Pro Team$13
EnterpriseCustom

Per creator, Scribe is the cheapest serious documentation tool here once you clear five seats, and it pairs that with the widest compliance surface in the segment, which is a combination nothing else in this comparison set offers. The meter is also the right one: you pay for people writing, not people reading, so unlike the in-app guidance half of this category there is no bill to model against audience growth. That contrast is stark. UserGuiding publishes only its 2,000 monthly active user price, Inline Manual publishes exactly one point on its curve, and Candu publishes no thresholds at all, so a small business cannot forecast any of those without a call. With Scribe you can forecast exactly, and the only cliff is structural rather than hidden: five seats. The weak spot is the gap between Pro and Enterprise, which is wide, unpriced, and contains the two things a growing business most predictably needs, automatic redaction and translation.

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

Scribe

Scribe is the default answer in the process documentation corner of this category, and for teams of five or more it is also the cheapest good one. The capture quality is the best here, the compliance surface covering SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FERPA is wider than anything else in the segment, exports keep your documentation portable, and per-creator pricing means the bill never moves when your guides get popular. Two caveats decide whether it is right for you. The five-seat minimum makes small teams pay either $65 a month or a punitive per-seat rate, and the Pro-to-Enterprise gap is wide, unpriced, and holds the two things a growing business predictably needs next: automatic redaction and translation. Buy it to document work done in software you did not build. Do not buy it to onboard your own product's users or to demo to prospects, because it does neither.

Read the full Scribe 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.

Read the full Supademo profile

Scribe 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.