At a glance
Is Arclet a good Arcade alternative?
Yes, if your demos are clickable walkthroughs and you want more of them free. Arclet gives you five published demos before you pay and one flat price after. Pick Arcade if you want AI videos and AI visuals from the same tool as your demos.
| Tool | Price, as of September 2026 | Free plan | What you make |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arclet | Free, then Starter at $25/month billed annually ($29 monthly). One creator, unlimited published demos. | One creator, five published demos, unlimited views. | Guided interactive demos from the Chrome extension. |
| Arcade | Free, then Growth at $42.50 per seat/month billed annually ($50 monthly), up to ten seats. | One seat, one published demo, one published AI video, 200 AI credits a month. | Interactive demos, AI videos, and AI visuals. HTML capture on Enterprise. |
Research and trust
The credit meter is the part to test. Build the demo you’d actually ship, then make the AI video you’d want beside it, and watch the balance. Interactive demos cost Arcade no credits, so a team that never makes AI video never feels the meter.
Why pick Arclet over Arcade
Arclet is for teams that sell with clickable walkthroughs and don’t want a meter running. Open the Chrome extension and click through your product once. Every click becomes an editable step. Add tooltips, chapters, and branches, then share a public link your viewers open without logging in.
Free gives you five published demos, not one. Starter is $29 a month, or $25 billed annually, for unlimited published demos, blur and zoom, and branding removal. Nothing on any Arclet plan runs on credits.
Start for freeReword and restyle a hotspot on a real captured screen.
Click through changing a hotspot’s sentence and its look, the editing a flat Starter price buys. These frames show hotspot editing only. They don’t show Arcade’s editor, which we didn’t test hands-on.
When Arcade is the better pick
Arcade is the better pick when AI video matters as much as the demo. Arcade makes interactive demos, AI videos, and AI visuals in one place. Growth adds branching, CTAs and forms, MP4 and GIF export, custom branding, integrations, and a shared team workspace. Enterprise adds HTML capture, custom domains, offline demos, and SSO.
Watch two numbers. Growth is priced per seat, $42.50 a month billed annually, with extra seats at $50 a month. And AI video spends credits: 50 for every 30 seconds, out of 800 a month on Growth.
Choose by the job to be done
People weighing Arcade against Arclet usually have one of three jobs in front of them. Find yours and the price question answers itself.
A demo on your website
A prospect lands on your pricing page and wants to see the product before booking a call. They need a walkthrough they can click, not a video they sit through. Build it on Arclet’s free plan, publish it, and put the link where they already look.
Two people sharing one demo library
Per-seat pricing turns headcount into your bill. Two builders on Arcade Growth cost $85 a month billed annually. Arclet Team includes two creators for $69 a month billed annually. Price the team you have today.
A launch that needs video and demos
If every launch ships a narrated video next to the walkthrough, Arcade builds both, and the credit meter is the price of that. If your demos do the selling and video is occasional, don’t pay for a meter you rarely touch.
Still split? Record your most-used workflow on both free plans. Arclet lets you publish five before you pay.