$18
per user per month for Loom Business, against $29 per seat per month for Scribe Pro Team on monthly billing
Source: Loom pricing5 seats
is the minimum for Scribe Pro Team; Loom Business has no minimum listed
Source: Scribe pricingPeople search “Scribe vs Loom” when they need to show a teammate or customer how to do something in software. The two tools solve that in opposite ways. With Scribe, you complete the task once and it assembles a numbered guide with screenshots. With Loom, you record your screen and talk, and viewers watch you do it. [1] [2]
That difference decides most cases before price does. A guide is quick to scan and easy to update one step at a time. A recording carries your voice and context but is slow to skim and has to be re-recorded when the product changes.
Pricing below comes from each vendor’s page, checked October 10, 2026. Both change plans often, so confirm before buying.
Quick answer
Use Scribe when people need a reference they can scan for one step, such as an SOP or help article. Use Loom when you want to explain something in your own voice, such as a bug report, an update, or a one-off walkthrough. If you need a polished narrated tutorial video but do not want to record anything, neither is built for that.
| Scribe | Loom | |
|---|---|---|
| What it makes | Step-by-step guide with annotated screenshots | Screen (and camera) recording with your voice |
| How you create | Browser extension records your clicks while you work | You press record and narrate |
| Free plan | Basic, $0: web apps, link and embed sharing | Starter, $0: 25 videos, 5-minute recordings, up to 50 members, 720p |
| Paid plans | Pro Personal $25 annual · $35 monthly; Pro Team $23 annual · $29 monthly (5-seat minimum) | Business $18 monthly (17% off annual); Business + AI $24 monthly |
| Editing | Edit text and steps; edit and redact screenshots; branding | Basic waveform editing on Business; edit by transcript on Business + AI |
| Output formats | Link, embed, PDF, HTML, Markdown on Pro | Link and embed; upload and download videos on Business; up to 4K |
| Enterprise | Custom: PII and PHI auto-redaction, SSO, SAML/SCIM, translation | Custom: SSO (SAML), SCIM, custom data retention, SLA |
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Scribe’s Pro Personal plan is billed per seat, and its Pro Team plan starts at five seats. Loom’s Business plan is per user. Both advertise discounts for annual billing (Scribe shows 20%, Loom 17%).
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What each tool costs for 2, 5 and 10 people
Monthly billing on paid plans, so the numbers are comparable. Totals are our own arithmetic from the published prices. [1] [2]
| Team size | Scribe | Loom |
|---|---|---|
| 2 people | $840/yr — 2 × $35 × 12 on Pro Personal | $432/yr — 2 × $18 × 12 on Business |
| 5 people | $1,740/yr — 5 × $29 × 12 on Pro Team (5-seat minimum) | $1,080/yr — 5 × $18 × 12 on Business |
| 10 people | $3,480/yr — 10 × $29 × 12 on Pro Team | $2,160/yr — 10 × $18 × 12 on Business |
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Loom is cheaper on list price at each size, but they are not substitutes. Loom’s free plan may be all a small team needs; Scribe’s free plan already covers web apps. Choose by job first, then compare price.
How to choose between them
Choose Scribe when the audience scans. Someone searching for “how do I reset a client password” wants step four, not a five-minute video. A guide can be edited one step at a time, exported to PDF, HTML or Markdown on Pro, and embedded in a help center. [1]
Choose Loom when the audience wants a person. Bug reports, async updates, design feedback and sales walkthroughs benefit from tone and context. Loom’s free plan covers most of that for a small team, with the 25-video and 5-minute limits as the thing to watch. [2]
Both break down at the same point for software tutorials. Scribe needs you to perform the workflow, and Loom needs you to perform and narrate it. Whenever the product interface changes, you capture or record again.
Which one should you pick?
SOPs, help articles, onboarding checklists
Scannable, editable step by step, and exportable.
Async updates, bug reports, feedback
Fast, personal, and free for light use.
A very small team on a tight budget
Loom Starter for recordings, Scribe Basic for web-app guides. Upgrade only when you hit a limit.
Customer-facing tutorials that must stay current
Both need a person to capture or record again after each product change. Our guides to Scribe alternatives and Loom alternatives cover tools that avoid that.
When neither Scribe nor Loom is the right tool
If you need a narrated tutorial video for customers and the interface changes often, recording each one by hand does not scale. Bingeable generates that video instead: you give it a product URL and a sentence, and an AI agent performs the workflow in a live browser and returns a captioned, narrated video. It is not a replacement for searchable SOPs or for a quick personal message, which is what Scribe and Loom do well. [3]
For the wider field, see our best Scribe alternatives, the best Loom alternatives for product demos, and the Scribe vs Tango comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Final verdict
Pick by job: Scribe for guides people look things up in, Loom for explanations people want to hear. Their free plans make it cheap to try both on a real workflow.
If what you keep needing is a clean narrated tutorial that stays current as the product changes, that is a third job, and it is the one Bingeable is built for.
Sources
- 1
Scribe — Pricing page — Basic, Pro Personal, Pro Team (starts at 5 seats) and Enterprise, verified October 10, 2026.
- 2
Loom — Pricing page — Starter, Business ($18 per user per month), Business + AI ($24) and Enterprise, verified October 10, 2026.
- 3
Bingeable — Product and pricing — first tutorial free; Starter from $39/month annual.