Arcade vs Consensus

It depends on your size and how you sell. Arcade is the better pick for a mid-market or self-serve team: it has a free plan, costs $50 a seat ($42.50 billed annually), and adds AI video, a Figma plugin, and Page Morph, all bought with a card. Consensus is the better pick for an enterprise selling complex software to buying committees, where Demolytics stakeholder analytics, sandbox demos, and a deep Salesforce and Outreach stack justify a sales-quoted enterprise contract. Neither publishes a written SOP or hosts a branded help center on your own domain, which is where Guidejar comes in.

No. Consensus has no free plan, no self-serve trial, and no published prices. Licenses are per user and quoted by sales, so you can request a sample demo, but a real workspace needs a conversation and a contract. Arcade, by contrast, has a free plan for one user, though it is capped at one published demo and one AI video and keeps the Arcade watermark. Guidejar is self-serve from $19 a seat billed monthly, with a 7-day free trial on paid plans.

Arcade is self-serve: a free plan, then Growth at $50 per seat monthly or $42.50 billed annually, capped at ten seats, with Enterprise custom. Consensus is enterprise and no longer publishes prices: licenses are per user and quoted by sales, with optional usage-based add-ons. Until July 2026 its pricing page listed Starter at $600 a month for five users and Pro at $1,250 for ten, both billed annually, roughly $120 to $125 per user each month. One thing to watch on Arcade Growth: AI video is metered in credits, so a video-heavy team pays more than the seat price alone. Guidejar starts at $19 per seat billed monthly.

Arcade, by a wide margin. Its paid entry is $50 a seat ($42.50 annually), against Consensus’s sales-quoted per-user licenses (the last published entry tier was $600 a month for five users), and Arcade adds a free plan that Consensus does not offer at all. Consensus is enterprise-priced on purpose, with third-party trackers reporting real contracts in the tens of thousands of dollars a year. If cost and self-serve access are what you are optimising for, Arcade wins it clearly, and Guidejar starts lower still at $19 a seat.

Page Morph is Arcade’s pre-recording live-page editor. Before you capture, you turn on Edit Page in the Chrome extension, then click any text or element on the real webpage and rewrite it, and the change persists across clicks and reloads while you record. It solves three problems at once: scrubbing messy test data, anonymising customer names and numbers without a staging environment, and demoing copy that doesn’t exist in the product yet. It is on Arcade’s Growth plan, and neither Consensus nor Guidejar has an equivalent.

Demolytics is Consensus’s buyer-signal analytics: it tracks which stakeholder in a buying committee watched a demo, what they replayed, and who they forwarded it to internally, then surfaces hidden decision-makers and multi-threads the deal. It is the feature Consensus was built around. Arcade has strong analytics of its own, including Audience Reveal, which de-anonymises the companies viewing a demo, and a Leads page, but it reports on viewers and accounts rather than a named buying committee. Guidejar has no equivalent buyer-group layer.

Only in part, and only Arcade. Arcade’s Step-by-Step Guide converts a demo into a static, scroll-through walkthrough, but it doesn’t auto-update, isn’t embeddable, carries no analytics, and is Growth-only. Consensus produces interactive demos and per-buyer landing pages with no written-doc export at all. Neither hosts a searchable, article-based help center on your own domain. Guidejar publishes the same capture as both a clickable Walkthrough View and a live written Scroll View, then puts the whole library on a branded help center at your own domain from the Plus plan.