Storylane vs Arcade: Which One Fits Your Team
August 27, 2026
Storylane and Arcade are both well-built and are usually shortlisted together, which is exactly why the choice is hard: the feature lists overlap almost completely.
What separates them is shape, not capability, and price at the tier you will actually be on.
Prices here were read from each vendor's public pricing page on 27 August 2026 and move often -- check the vendor before deciding, including us.
What each one is built around
Arcade leans toward the polished, shareable moment — a short flow that looks good in a feed, an email or a launch post, with heavy investment in AI-assisted production.
Storylane leans toward the sales-cycle demo — personalisation tokens, account reveal, CRM integration, and the machinery a sales team wraps around a demo rather than the demo itself.
The prices, side by side
- Arcade Free -- 1 published demo, 1 published video, 200 AI credits a month.
- Arcade Growth -- $42.50/mo per seat ($50 without the discount shown). Branching, CTAs and forms, custom branding, MP4 and GIF export.
- Arcade Enterprise -- custom. This is where **HTML capture** appears.
- Storylane Free -- 1 seat, 1 published demo, lead capture, basic analytics.
- Storylane Starter -- $50/mo -- 1 seat, +$50 per additional seat, unlimited published demos.
- Storylane Growth -- $625/mo -- 5 seats, +$125 each. **HTML demos** start here.
- Storylane Premium -- $1,500/mo -- 10 seats, Hubs, SSO, whitelabel URL.
The seat question decides most of these
Arcade prices per seat outright, which is predictable and gets expensive linearly. Storylane bundles seats into tiers, which is cheaper at five people and much more expensive at six than at four.
Work out how many people will need to EDIT a demo in a year — not view one — and price that. It changes the answer more often than any feature does.
Where a third option comes in
Both free plans allow one published demo, which makes them trials with no clock rather than plans. If you need several live demos — one per product, per campaign, per client — you are on a paid tier immediately at both.
Demorta is the cheaper end of this market: 5 demos free with embedding included, $15.99 for unlimited, and HTML capture on every plan rather than at $625/mo or Enterprise. That is our own product and an obvious bias, so weigh it accordingly — but the HTML difference is a real one worth knowing before you commit.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Storylane or Arcade better?
- They are built around different jobs. Arcade suits short, polished demos meant to be shared in feeds and emails; Storylane suits demos wrapped in sales machinery -- personalisation, account reveal, CRM integration. Pick by which job you actually have.
- How much do Storylane and Arcade cost?
- As of 27 August 2026, Arcade Growth is $42.50 per seat per month ($50 undiscounted) with HTML capture reserved for Enterprise. Storylane runs $50/mo Starter, $625/mo Growth where HTML demos begin, and $1,500/mo Premium. Both free plans allow one published demo.
- Which is cheaper for a small team?
- It depends entirely on seat count, since Arcade charges per seat and Storylane bundles them into tiers. Count how many people will need to edit a demo within a year and price that, rather than comparing headline numbers.
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