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 Miro if teams who will stay on Free at $0 (3 editable boards) while they open a first story-map board, then
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Excalidraw A whiteboard you start at a public $
Miro A team 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
Miro $0 · 3 editable boards
Lowest paid
Excalidraw Plus $7/user/mo
Miro Starter $8/mo yearly
Next step up
Excalidraw
Miro Business $20/mo yearly
Runs where
Excalidraw
Miro Hosted
Watch out
Excalidraw Comments, cloud scenes, and presentations print on Plus
Miro Free is 3 editable boards
Last checked
Excalidraw 2026-10-23 · plus.excalidraw.com/pricing
Miro 2026-10-23 · miro.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 Free at $0 (3 editable boards) while they open a first story-map board, then Starter at $8/member/month billed yearly when they need more boards — not Business $20/member/month yearly unless they need the next printed seat, and not Enterprise (custom from 30 members) unless they buy the sales tile.
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