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 Figma AI if product designers already in Figma who will spend AI credits on Make / image / chat. Skip Figma AI if
Figma Make composer. Starter Free (150 AI
Best for
Excalidraw A whiteboard you start at a public $
Figma AI Prompt-to-UI inside Figma’s seat
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
Figma AI No free plan
Lowest paid
Excalidraw Plus $7/user/mo
Figma AI Professional Full $16/mo
Next step up
Excalidraw
Figma AI Organization Full $55/mo yearly
Watch out
Excalidraw Comments, cloud scenes, and presentations print on Plus
Figma AI Make is credit-metered
Last checked
Excalidraw 2026-10-23 · plus.excalidraw.com/pricing
Figma AI 2026-10-20 · 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 pageproduct designers already in Figma who will spend AI credits on Make / image / chat.
Read the Figma AI page