Customer Success · head to head
Amity vs UserGuiding

UserGuiding
Customer Success
No-code product adoption tooling priced on monthly active users rather than per seat
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The short version
- Only UserGuiding has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- 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.; UserGuiding pricing is by monthly active user, so a freemium product pays for a large population of users who will never convert, and a strong growth quarter produces a bill increase rather than a saving.
- They diverge on capability: Amity covers Health scores, UserGuiding covers No-code flow builder.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Amity and UserGuiding actually diverge.
| Attribute | Amity | UserGuiding |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $300/month | Free |
| Pricing model | subscription | Per month by monthly active users |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Platforms | Web | Web, Chrome extension |
| Founded | 2014 | Unknown |
Identical on both: 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 UserGuiding
- No-code flow builder
- Onboarding checklists
- Resource centre
- In-app surveys and NPS
- Session replay
- AI assistant
- Feature requests and roadmap
- Segmentation
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Amity
- Customer Successnot UserGuiding
- Smbnot UserGuiding
- Ease Of Usenot UserGuiding
UserGuiding
- A software company that needs onboarding flows shipped this month without taking engineering off the roadmapnot Amity
- A product team replacing a stale help centre with in-app guidance where users actually get stucknot Amity
- A team wanting to test whether a checklist raises first-week activation before investing engineering time in a real onboarding experiencenot Amity
- A support organisation deflecting repetitive tickets with a resource centre and AI assistant 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.
UserGuiding
- Pricing is by monthly active user, so a freemium product pays for a large population of users who will never convert, and a strong growth quarter produces a bill increase rather than a saving.
- Flows are built as an overlay on your interface and break when the underlying markup changes, so every significant front-end release carries a maintenance task nobody owns.
- Session replay and the AI assistant are gated to the Growth tier at double the Starter price, so the feature list that sold the product is not what the entry plan delivers.
- Analytics are adequate for guidance performance but shallower than a dedicated product analytics tool, so most teams end up running it alongside Amplitude or Mixpanel rather than instead of them.
- Complex single page applications and heavily componentised interfaces need careful element targeting, and teams report brittle selectors that fail silently rather than raising an error.
Pricing, plan by plan
Amity
$300/month- Starter$300/month
- Health scores
- Segments
- Basic playbooks
- Growth$600/month
- Advanced automation
- Custom reports
- API
UserGuiding
Free- Support EssentialsFree
- Entry support-oriented tier
- Limited monthly active users
- Core in-app guidance
- Starter$174/month
- Billed yearly
- Product tours, tooltips, hotspots and checklists
- In-app surveys and NPS
- Growth$349/month
- Billed yearly
- Higher monthly active user allowance
- Session replay
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- Custom monthly active user volumes
- Security review and single sign-on
- Dedicated support and onboarding
Which should you pick?
Choose UserGuiding if
- You need no-code flow builder.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Chrome extension.
- You also want onboarding checklists.
Questions people ask
- Is Amity or UserGuiding better?
- Neither clearly leads. Amity starts at $300/month and UserGuiding at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Amity or UserGuiding?
- UserGuiding has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $300/month for Amity and Free for UserGuiding.
- Does Amity or UserGuiding run on more platforms?
- Amity runs on Web. UserGuiding runs on Web, Chrome extension.
- Can I use UserGuiding for free?
- Yes. UserGuiding has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Amity starts at $300/month.
- 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 UserGuiding is typically brought in for.
- What can Amity do that UserGuiding cannot?
- Amity covers Health scores, Customer segments, Playbooks, Task management. UserGuiding covers No-code flow builder, Onboarding checklists, Resource centre, In-app surveys and NPS.
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.
SourceUserGuiding: How is UserGuiding priced?
By monthly active users, not by internal seat. Starter is around one hundred and seventy four dollars a month billed yearly and Growth around three hundred and forty nine dollars, with a free tier and a quoted Enterprise plan.
UserGuiding: Does it need engineering?
A one-time snippet install, then flows are built visually. Ongoing engineering involvement is usually needed only when interface changes break element targeting.
UserGuiding: How does it compare on cost to Pendo?
Materially cheaper at the published tiers, but the comparison changes if your monthly active user count is large relative to your revenue.
UserGuiding: Is session replay included?
Only from the Growth tier upward, not on Starter.
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