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Amity vs Chameleon

Amity logo

Amity

Customer Success

Customer Success for Growing Teams

From
$300/month
Rated
-
Chameleon logo

Chameleon

Customer Success

In-product tours, tooltips and surveys that a product team can build without engineering

From
$279/month
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Amity amity Social Cloud is priced per Monthly Active User (MAU) rather than a flat seat fee, with tiers of $0.06/$0.09/$0.14 per MAU (USD) on Basic, Advanced and Max plans as archived in 2022, so cost scales directly with app usage rather than user count.; Chameleon the entry price is high for the category: $279 a month at 2,000 tracked users and $750 at 5,000 on Pro, so a product with a large free tier is paying substantially for users who may never convert.
  • They diverge on capability: Amity covers Health scores, Chameleon covers Tours and tooltips.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Amity and Chameleon actually diverge.

Attributes where Amity and Chameleon differ
AttributeAmityChameleon
Starting price$300/month$279/month
Pricing modelsubscriptionPer month by monthly tracked users
Founded2014Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Customer Success).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Amity

  • Health scores
  • Customer segments
  • Playbooks
  • Task management
  • Alerts
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Slack

Only in Chameleon

  • Tours and tooltips
  • Launchers and checklists
  • Microsurveys
  • HelpBar
  • Behavioural targeting
  • No-code builder
  • Localisation
  • A/B testing of experiences

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Amity

  • Customer Successnot Chameleon
  • Smbnot Chameleon
  • Ease Of Usenot Chameleon

Chameleon

  • A B2B SaaS product where new accounts stall before reaching the action that predicts retention, and you need a guided path to itnot Amity
  • Announcing and driving adoption of a new feature to a specific segment without shipping a releasenot Amity
  • Collecting targeted in-product feedback from users who just completed a workflow, rather than by emailnot Amity
  • Reducing support tickets by putting contextual help and a searchable command bar inside the productnot Amity

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Amity

  • Amity Social Cloud is priced per Monthly Active User (MAU) rather than a flat seat fee, with tiers of $0.06/$0.09/$0.14 per MAU (USD) on Basic, Advanced and Max plans as archived in 2022, so cost scales directly with app usage rather than user count.

Chameleon

  • The entry price is high for the category: $279 a month at 2,000 tracked users and $750 at 5,000 on Pro, so a product with a large free tier is paying substantially for users who may never convert.
  • Billing is by monthly tracked users, counting any uniquely identified profile seen in 30 days, which means seasonal or occasional-login products pay for people who log in twice a month.
  • Pro caps live experiences at 20, and mature onboarding programmes exceed that quickly, so the practical plan for a serious deployment is Growth at $1,250 a month on annual billing.
  • There is no mobile SDK, so a company with an iOS or Android app alongside its web product needs a second onboarding tool and a second set of content.
  • It is not an analytics product, so audience definitions depend on a working Segment, Amplitude or Mixpanel integration; if your event tracking is unreliable, your targeting will be too, and the tool will get the blame.

Pricing, plan by plan

Amity

$300/month
  • Starter$300/month
    • Health scores
    • Segments
    • Basic playbooks
  • Growth$600/month
    • Advanced automation
    • Custom reports
    • API

Chameleon

$279/month
  • Startup$279/month
    • From 2,000 monthly tracked users
    • Core tours, tooltips and surveys
    • 14-day trial
  • Pro$750/month
    • From 5,000 monthly tracked users
    • Maximum 20 live experiences
    • 10 seats, 5 languages, 20 custom events
  • Growth$1250/month
    • From 5,000 monthly tracked users, annual billing required
    • Unlimited live experiences
    • HelpBar and Ranger agent included
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Unlimited seats and languages
    • 50 custom events
    • Quoted individually

Which should you pick?

Choose Amity if

  • You need health scores.
  • You also want customer segments.

Choose Chameleon if

  • You need tours and tooltips.
  • You also want launchers and checklists.

Questions people ask

Is Amity or Chameleon better?
Neither clearly leads. Amity starts at $300/month and Chameleon at $279/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Amity or Chameleon?
Amity starts at $300/month and Chameleon at $279/month.
Does Amity or Chameleon run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Amity best used for?
Amity is most often used for customer success, smb, ease of use. Of those, customer success and smb are not what Chameleon is typically brought in for.
What can Amity do that Chameleon cannot?
Amity covers Health scores, Customer segments, Playbooks, Task management. Chameleon covers Tours and tooltips, Launchers and checklists, Microsurveys, HelpBar.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Amity: Where can I find Amity pricing?

Amity's main corporate website does not display pricing. Amity operates multiple business units (Amity Solutions, Amity Accentix, Tollring, EGG Digital). You would need to visit the individual business unit websites or contact their sales team for pricing.

Source
Chameleon: What is a monthly tracked user?

A uniquely identified user profile sent to Chameleon within the previous 30 days. Anonymous visitors you never identify do not count, but any logged-in user does.

Chameleon: Does Chameleon work on mobile apps?

No. It is a web tool delivered by a JavaScript snippet. Native mobile onboarding requires a different product.

Chameleon: Do I need engineering to use it?

Only for the initial snippet installation and for identifying users with the properties you want to target. After that, building experiences is no-code.

Chameleon: Was Chameleon at trychameleon.com?

Yes, and that domain now redirects to chameleon.io. It is the same product, not a rebrand of substance.

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