Our take
Pick Excalidraw if engineers and PMs who will stay on the forever-free OSS editor at $0 (excalidraw.com; no account) while they open a first playground, then Plus at $7/user/month monthly ($6/user/month billed annually) when they need comments, cloud scenes, and presentations — not a $20 chat seat. Pick FigJam if teams who will stay on Starter Free while they open a first sticky jam, then a Professional Collab seat
Best for
Excalidraw A whiteboard you start at a public $
FigJam A jam board you start at a public $
Free plan
Excalidraw $0 · , Free forever (priceMonthly / priceAnnually: “Free forever”). Infinite canvas. Full editor. Invite collaborators by link. PNG / SVG / JSON save-to-file. Personal library stored in the browser. Image uploads: compressed. AI requests: 10 a day. Mermaid to Excalidraw: unlimited. No account on excalidraw.com
FigJam No free plan
Lowest paid
Excalidraw Plus $7/user/mo
FigJam Professional · Collab seat $3/mo
Next step up
Excalidraw
FigJam Professional · Dev seat $12/mo
Watch out
Excalidraw Comments, cloud scenes, and presentations print on Plus
FigJam FigJam rides Figma seats
Last checked
Excalidraw 2026-10-23 · plus.excalidraw.com/pricing
FigJam 2026-10-23 · figma.com/pricing
engineers and PMs who will stay on the forever-free OSS editor at $0 (excalidraw.com; no account) while they open a first playground, then Plus at $7/user/month monthly ($6/user/month billed annually) when they need comments, cloud scenes, and presentations — not a $20 chat seat.
Read the Excalidraw pageteams who will stay on Starter Free while they open a first sticky jam, then a Professional Collab seat at $3/month when they need paid FigJam — not Full $16 first unless they also need Figma Design, and not Organization $55 unless they need org libraries.
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