Peutly vs Stepshots. Here is when each one wins.
Stepshots Pro is €19 a month and Peutly Screenshot is $45, and on that plan the two record the same thing: each click becomes a screenshot step you annotate. The difference is what sits around it. Peutly Screenshot adds lead forms, AI voice-over and unlimited hosted demos, and the same extension captures the real DOM once you move to Essentials at $175. Both tools also offer a sandbox prospects can click around in, built in very different ways. This page is about where that extra money earns its place and where it does not.
Stepshots pricing, as Stepshots publishes it
Every figure below is copied from their own pricing page, last read on 6 November 2026. Where they publish no number, we say so instead of estimating one.
| Plan | Monthly | Seats and what is included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | Just the owner 1 hosted demo in a personal workspace. Guided tours carry a Stepshots badge. |
| Pro | €19 | Up to 5 members, no per-seat billing 30 hosted demos, view analytics and drop-off, custom branding, embed anywhere, unbranded guided tours, AI sandbox hosting (generated with your own AI key), priority support. 14-day trial. The pricing page has a yearly toggle, but the yearly figure was not readable when we checked. |
| One Pro Demo | €29 one-time | Adds to Free or Pro One extra hosted demo without the Stepshots badge, with analytics and a per-step tour funnel, without a subscription. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom Everything in Pro plus custom demo volume and seats, invoicing, purchase orders and dedicated support. |
The seat maths. Neither tool charges per seat, but Stepshots caps team size: Free is just the owner, Pro covers up to 5 members, and more than that means talking to them about Enterprise. It also caps what you publish: 30 hosted demos on Pro. Peutly has no user or demo cap on any plan. If a handful of people publish a handful of demos, neither cap costs you anything and the price difference is real money.
What each price buys. Peutly records screenshot tours on Screenshot, at $45 a month, and captures the real DOM from Essentials, at $175 a month, so the demo is your actual interface and stays editable afterwards. Both come out of the same extension and workspace. Stepshots does not offer DOM capture on any plan, "Each step becomes a screenshot you can edit." Demos are screenshots on every plan. A --dom recording flag exists, but only as input for AI sandbox generation, and it is stripped before upload.. The two prices buy different kinds of product.
The matrix
Stepshots is an interactive demo platform. Rows marked missing for Peutly are things we genuinely do not do, not things we are about to ship.
| Feature | Peutly | Stepshots |
|---|---|---|
| What each step actually is Stepshots: "Each step becomes a screenshot you can edit." Peutly Screenshot records a screenshot per click too. From Essentials the same extension can replay the HTML your app rendered instead, so the viewer clicks the real interface and a renamed button is a text edit rather than a re-record. | A screenshot, or the real DOM from Essentials | A screenshot |
| Entry price for a paid plan Stepshots publishes prices in euros and Peutly in dollars, so the gap moves slightly with the exchange rate. Peutly Screenshot is a bit over twice Stepshots Pro; real DOM capture starts on Essentials at $175. | $45 / month | €19 / month |
| Per-seat billing | ||
| Team members | Unlimited | Up to 5 on Pro |
| Hosted demos | Unlimited | 30 on Pro |
| One-off purchase without a subscription Peutly has no one-off option. If you need exactly one demo and nothing after it, theirs is the cheaper shape. | €29 per demo | |
| CI check that catches a broken demo Stepshots verifies demos against your UI and flags ones that have gone stale. Peutly has no equivalent: you notice a stale demo when someone tells you. | ||
| Sandbox prospects can explore freely The two are built differently. A Peutly sandbox is a clickable copy of an HTML demo you captured, so it replays what your product actually rendered; it needs the paid Unlimited sandboxes add-on on Growth, and the trial includes one. A Stepshots sandbox is rebuilt by an AI model on your own machine from a DOM-enabled recording, with synthetic data, using your own Anthropic key (they say roughly $1 to 2 per attempt) or a local Claude Code install. Hosting it is included in Pro. Their docs note that generation quality varies from run to run. Neither is a live instance of your product. | Growth add-on | Pro |
| Guided tours on your live app Stepshots can replay a recorded demo as a spotlight overlay on your real site with one script tag. Peutly demos play in its own player or an embed, not on top of your app. | ||
| API keys and a React SDK Stepshots has an open-source CLI, API keys and a React embed component. Peutly is driven from the Chrome extension and the web app, with no public API. | ||
| AI voice-over | 56 languages and accents | |
| Lead capture forms at any step | ||
| Per-session event timeline Stepshots lists analytics with a per-step funnel. Peutly adds a per-session timeline and identifies viewers who submitted a form. | Growth+ | |
| Custom share domain | Growth+ | |
| Password-protected demos | Growth+ | |
| Forward events to GA4, Segment or Heap | Growth+ | |
| Outgoing webhooks | Growth+ | |
| 1080p video export | Growth+ | |
| Demo collections | Unlimited on Growth |
Where Peutly wins
Start on screenshots, move to HTML without switching tools
Peutly Screenshot records the same kind of tour Stepshots does. When a demo needs to be your real interface, Essentials adds DOM capture in the same extension and the same workspace, and your screenshot demos stay where they are. Stepshots demos stay screenshots on every plan; its step beyond that is an AI-generated sandbox replica.
Everything that turns a demo into pipeline
Lead capture forms at any step, a per-session event timeline, identifying which viewer submitted which form, forwarding events into your own GA4, Segment or Heap, and webhooks into your systems. Stepshots reports a per-step funnel. If the demo is a marketing asset that has to produce leads and prove it did, that gap is what the price difference buys.
Narration in 56 languages
Write a script, pick a voice, and Peutly synthesises the audio, with 300,000 characters a month on Screenshot and Essentials. Stepshots has no narration layer. For a demo that has to work in a market where your buyer does not read English comfortably, this is not a nice-to-have.
No cap on what you publish
Stepshots Pro hosts 30 demos. Peutly hosts as many as you make, on every plan. Thirty is plenty until you start making one per feature launch, one per persona and one per campaign, and then it is not.
Your own domain, and a password when you need one
Custom share domain and password-protected demos are on Peutly Growth. Stepshots lists neither. If a demo goes to a named account under an NDA, you need the second one.
Where Stepshots wins
It costs less than half of our cheapest plan
€19 a month against $45 for Peutly Screenshot. If your budget for demo software is a few hundred euros a year and an annotated screenshot tour is all you need, Stepshots is the cheaper way to get it, and a feature list does not change that arithmetic.
The CI check is a genuinely good idea
Stepshots verifies demos against your UI and tells you when one has gone stale. Peutly makes stale demos easy to fix, because the capture stays editable, but it does not tell you that one broke. Theirs is the better answer to the same problem and we do not have it.
Sandbox hosting and live tours come with Pro
Stepshots Pro at €19 hosts AI-generated sandboxes and runs guided tours on your live app from the demos you already recorded. On Peutly, sandboxes need Growth plus the Unlimited sandboxes add-on, and there are no in-app tours at all. If those two are what you want and the screenshot quality is enough, Stepshots gets you there for far less.
You can buy exactly one demo
€29 for a single extra demo without the badge, with funnel analytics and no subscription. If you need one demo for one launch, that shape is simply better than any monthly plan, ours included.
A free tier that publishes something real
Stepshots Free hosts one demo with a badge on it, permanently. Peutly gives you a 7-day trial, plus 7 more days once you install the extension and record, edit and publish a first demo, and then asks for a card.
Choose Stepshots if an annotated screenshot walkthrough, a guided tour on your live app or a self-generated AI sandbox is what you need and every euro counts. Choose Peutly Screenshot if that walkthrough also has to capture leads and speak more than one language, and Peutly Essentials or Growth once the demo has to be your real product, attribute pipeline and live on your own domain. If you want a sandbox that replays your real interface rather than an AI rebuild of it, that is Peutly Growth with the sandbox add-on.
Peutly and Stepshots, the short answers
If we got a fact about their product wrong, email founders@peutly.com and we will correct it.
On screenshot tours the gap is $45 against €19, and it buys lead capture inside the demo, AI voice-over in 56 languages and accents, and no cap on hosted demos. The bigger gap, Essentials at $175, buys a different kind of capture: the real DOM, so the viewer clicks through your actual interface. Growth then adds per-session analytics, event forwarding into GA4, Segment or Heap, webhooks and a custom share domain.
No. Stepshots runs a CI check against your UI and flags demos that no longer match. We do not have that. What Peutly gives you instead is a captured DOM you can edit, so fixing a stale demo means changing the text rather than re-recording it. Knowing it broke is still on you.
Yes. Screenshot is $45 a month, or $36 on annual billing, for screenshot tours with unlimited users. Real HTML capture starts on Essentials at $175. There is no free tier and no one-off purchase; if even Screenshot does not fit the budget, Stepshots Pro at €19 is the one to pick.
Yes, built differently. Peutly turns an HTML demo you captured into a clickable copy, so what prospects explore is what your product rendered. It is available through the paid Unlimited sandboxes add-on on Growth, and the trial includes one sandbox. Screenshot demos cannot become sandboxes. Stepshots has an AI model rebuild your recorded routes as a single HTML file with synthetic data, on your machine and with your own AI key, and hosts the result on Pro.
No. Peutly is a subscription, monthly or annual. Stepshots sells a single extra demo without its badge for €29 one-time, which is a better fit if you need one and only one.
Build the same demo in both. See for yourself.
You get 7 days free, 14 when you finish setup. Build the demo you would actually ship in both tools and let your own funnel data settle it.