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At a glance
Demostack or Walnut: which should you pick?
Pick Walnut if you want a published price, Presenter seats and AI credits you can budget. Pick Demostack if sales engineers demo from a clone or an overlay on the live product. Demostack builds four kinds of asset, tours, sandboxes, clones and overlays, and bundles them into playbooks. Walnut builds guided and sandbox demos, plus playlists and deal rooms, and prices seats and AI credits.
| Compared | Demostack | Walnut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | No published plan names or prices; “Schedule a demo”. | Ignite, $575 a month billed annually; Accelerate is $1,550. |
| Demo types | Interactive tours, sandboxes, clones (Cloner) and overlays, bundled into playbooks. | Guided demos and sandbox demos, plus playlists and deal rooms. |
| CRM and marketing | Salesforce, HubSpot and Slack; tours can be gated with your own form. | Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot. |
| AI | The pricing page and help centre compared here state no AI credit model. | AI Mode and Buyer Xpert draw on 50,000 yearly credits on Ignite. |
Research and trust
Demostack publishes no price, so a quote is the only comparison. Ask both vendors for year-one pricing on the same scope: builders, presenters, CRM sync and SSO. For Walnut, estimate AI credit use; for Demostack, ask which demo types and integrations the quote includes, because plan gating is not published.
How Demostack and Walnut differ
Demostack
Demostack fits sales engineers who demo live from a clone or an overlay. Demostack builds interactive product tours, sandboxes, clones through Cloner, and overlays. Cloner is a simulated copy of the product front end that replays recorded responses, and an overlay edits the live product while keeping its real-time behavior.
Live demos log to Salesforce opportunities and HubSpot deals, Salesforce can create leads from gated visits, and Slack posts an alert when a visitor opens a tour or sandbox. Playbooks bundle demos, tours and decks for a use case.
Walnut
Walnut fits sales teams that want a posted entry price and Presenter seats. Walnut lists Ignite at $575 a month and Accelerate at $1,550, billed annually only, with 50,000 and 100,000 AI credits a year. Ignite splits three Editor from three Presenter seats, and Scale is custom.
AI Mode and Buyer Xpert draw on the credit pool, and admins track use and buy more from one AI center. Walnut documents sandbox demos and connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot.
What a team pays
Walnut Ignite is billed annually only and includes three Editor seats. Demostack’s cost is a quote, so its cells show no amount.
| Team | Demostack Sales-led | Walnut Ignite |
|---|---|---|
| 1 creator | Custom quote | $575/month billed annually (annual billing only) |
| 3 creators | Custom quote | $575/month billed annually (annual billing only) |
| 5 creators | Custom quote | Annual billing only; extra seat price not published |
Which one to choose
Pick by how the demo runs and how you buy.
Choose Demostack if…
Sales engineers need a demo that runs independently of production, or an overlay on the live product, and you buy through a quote.
Choose Walnut if…
You want to read the entry price, give reps Presenter seats, and budget AI use in credits.
For sales engineers on live calls
Demostack’s Cloner runs independently of production, and an overlay edits the live product. Walnut’s sandbox demos let a viewer explore freely from captured screens.
For a team that needs a budget before a call
Walnut posts Ignite at $575 a month billed annually. Demostack’s pricing page lists what every plan includes with no amount.
For CRM-driven reporting
Demostack logs live demos to Salesforce and HubSpot and alerts Slack. Walnut feeds demo engagement into Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot.
If neither fits
Want a guided demo without a quote or an annual contract? That’s Arclet. Free is one creator and five published demos with unlimited views. Starter is $29 a month, or $25 billed annually, for unlimited published demos, blur and zoom, AI tooltips and branding removal.
Team is $79 a month, or $69 billed annually, with two creators included and more available to add. Arclet has no cloned environment, no overlay on your live product and no CRM logging, and HTML capture isn’t generally available yet, so sales engineering teams that need those should stay with Demostack or Walnut.
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