Interactive demo platforms compared: features, pricing models and fit

There are more than 25 interactive demo platforms on the market, and their pricing pages are hard to compare. Some charge per creator, some sell five-seat bundles, some charge a flat fee for unlimited users, and many don't publish prices at all. This page compares them side by side on what actually changes a buying decision.

We build LiveDemo, so we're not neutral. To keep this useful, all competitor data comes from each vendor's public website and was last checked on 5 October 2026, and each tool links to a detailed head-to-head page where you can check our sources. If you only want to see how LiveDemo stacks up, see LiveDemo alternatives instead.

Step 1: pick the right category

The biggest mistake buyers make is comparing tools from different categories. A $34/mo screenshot-and-HTML tool and an enterprise app-cloning platform aren't competing for the same job.

If your goal is a website tour, lead generation or sales follow-up, you're in the first two rows. If your sales engineers run tailored live demos with prospect data, you're in the last two.

Step 2: compare self-serve and team platforms

These are the tools most companies end up choosing between. All of them let one person capture and publish a demo without a services engagement.

A few things stand out:

• Free plans differ a lot. LiveDemo's free plan allows 3 published demos. Folio's allows 2. Storylane, Navattic and Arcade allow 1. HowdyGo has a 14-day trial instead.
• HTML capture is often gated. Storylane starts HTML demos on its $500/mo Growth plan, and Supademo on its $249/mo Business plan. LiveDemo includes it from the free plan, and Navattic's free Starter demo can be HTML or media.
• AI agents are usually sold separately. Only LiveDemo includes an AI agent that guides buyers inside a standard plan ($49/mo Growth). Storylane, Navattic and Supademo sell theirs as separate products or credits.
• Only LiveDemo is open source. That matters if you need to self-host for compliance, or want to avoid lock-in.

Step 3: compare enterprise platforms

These platforms cost more and take longer to set up, but they do things self-serve tools can't, like cloning your application with injected data for live sales calls.

Walnut and Demoboost publish their prices: Walnut Ignite is $575/mo and Accelerate is $1,550/mo, both billed annually, and Demoboost starts at $375/mo billed yearly. Reprise, Demostack and Consensus require a sales conversation. Reprise describes its pricing as an annual platform fee plus per-user licenses.

How the pricing models compare

Headline prices mislead because the models differ. Here's how each one plays out.

Per creator (LiveDemo, Arcade, Supademo, Folio): you pay for each person who builds demos, and viewers are free. It's cheapest for teams with one to five creators. Three creators on LiveDemo Pro cost $102/mo.

Seat bundles (Storylane, Navattic): plans come with a fixed number of seats, such as 5 or 10. It's predictable, but a team of two pays for five.

Flat rate (HowdyGo): one price for unlimited users, from $159/mo. It's cheapest once many people across sales and success build demos.

Annual platform fee plus licenses (Walnut, Reprise, most enterprise tools): you sign an annual contract, often with onboarding included. Budget for a procurement cycle.

Usage-based AI add-ons (Supademo's AI Demo Agent credits, Walnut's AI credit pool, Navattic Agents priced by conversations): the AI bill grows with demo traffic. Ask for a forecast at your expected volume.

For a cost breakdown at 1, 3 and 10 creators, see our guide to demo software for SaaS companies.

Buyer checklist: questions to ask every vendor

Use these questions in trials and sales calls. They surface the differences that pricing pages hide.

1. Which plan includes HTML capture, and what does it cost for our number of creators?
2. How many demos can we publish on that plan? Some plans limit published demos, not just creators.
3. How are AI features billed? Included, per credit, per conversation, or a separate product?
4. Which CRM and marketing automation integrations are native, and on which plan?
5. Can we use our own domain and remove the vendor's branding?
6. What happens to our demos if we cancel? Can we export them as video or GIF?
7. Where is data hosted, and can we self-host?
8. How long until a new team member can publish a demo without help?

How to run a fair trial

Don't compare tools on feature lists alone. Build the same demo in your top two or three choices:

1. Pick one real flow from your product, 5 to 7 steps long.
2. Capture and edit it in each tool, on the free plan or trial, and time how long it takes.
3. Embed each version on a test page and view it on desktop and mobile.
4. Check the analytics each tool gives you after a few test sessions.
5. Price the plan you'd actually need in 12 months, not today.

Most teams can finish this in a day, and it usually makes the decision obvious.

Where LiveDemo fits, and where it doesn't

LiveDemo is a self-serve platform. Its strengths are a generous free plan, per-creator pricing from $34/mo, HTML, screenshot and video capture from Chrome, Figma and desktop apps, Agentic Demos included on the $49/mo Growth plan, and an MIT-licensed codebase you can self-host for free.

It's not the right choice if you need full application cloning with data injection (look at Reprise, Demostack or Saleo), digital sales rooms bundled with demos (Storylane or Walnut), or the broadest catalog of native sales-tool integrations (Navattic or Walnut).

Detailed comparisons

Each of these pages compares LiveDemo with one platform in depth:

• LiveDemo vs Storylane and Storylane alternatives
• LiveDemo vs Navattic and Navattic alternatives
• LiveDemo vs Arcade, LiveDemo vs Supademo and LiveDemo vs HowdyGo
• LiveDemo vs Walnut, LiveDemo vs Reprise and LiveDemo vs Demostack