Miro alternatives are sought by teams that hit one of two walls. On the free plan only three boards stay editable, and on the paid plans every member who creates boards takes a full seat, so the bill follows headcount rather than use. They move to a cheaper per-user whiteboard, to a flat-bundle or free-to-view model, or to a tool with more structure than an open canvas.
Pricing: Free plan; per member per month, published; Enterprise quoted
Established in: United States
Built for: Companies that want the largest template library and many integrations in one board
Not for: Small teams trying to keep private boards without paying
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Why buyers look past Miro
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Three editable boards, then the oldest locks
Miro's Free plan lets you create unlimited boards, but only the three most recent remain editable. That is enough to try the product and not enough to run a team's regular work on it. The Free plan also has no Guest or Visitor roles, so anyone you invite becomes a Member and, once you upgrade, a paid seat. Private boards and selective access begin at Starter.
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Pricing follows seats, not boards
Miro prices per member: Starter is listed at $8 and Business at $20 per member per month, billed yearly, and Enterprise is quoted from 30 members. A member is anyone who creates boards and content. Guests do not take a seat but only exist from Business, and the step from $8 to $20 is where many teams start comparing. Invoicing is annual-only, with a minimum of 10 licences on Starter or 5 on Business; card payment has no minimum.
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The structured features sit on the upper tiers
Starter adds unlimited private boards, visitor editing, facilitation tools such as timer and voting, and 25 AI credits per member per month. The tools for structured work, including data tables with tree views, 4,700+ shapes for technical and process diagrams, and Engage activities, are listed on Business. Single sign-on is also on Business, and EU data residency is an Enterprise option. Teams that want a template-led or diagram-led tool without that jump look elsewhere.
Free plan; weekly, monthly and annual Pro plans, published
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a small group needs a simple drawing board at the lowest per-user price
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What each one does differently
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FigJam
United States · Free Starter plan; per seat per month, published
FigJam is sold through Figma's seat model, and its pricing page lists a Collab seat at $3 per month on Professional with full FigJam access, against a Full seat at $16. That suits teams where few people need design tools. The free Starter plan is limited to one folder and three files, and FigJam lives inside Figma's account structure.
Switch from Miro if your team already pays for Figma and most whiteboard users could sit on a cheaper seat.
United States · Free plan; per member per month, published; Enterprise quoted
Mural is the closest like-for-like replacement and mirrors Miro's limits: Free allows three editable murals at a time, with unlimited visitors who can only view. Team+ is $9.99 per member per month billed annually, which is above Miro Starter, so the saving is on Business, listed at $17.99, not at the entry level.
Switch from Miro if you want a near-identical workshop tool and the saving is at the Business tier.
Switzerland · Free plan; per user per month, published; Enterprise quoted
Collaboard is Swiss software with a published ladder: Free gives three whiteboards and five participants per board, Basic is $6 per user per month billed yearly, and Advanced adds unlimited participants. Basic lets up to 20 guests edit without logging in. Cloud hosting can be chosen in the Netherlands, Switzerland or Germany, and Enterprise offers self-hosting.
Switch from Miro if guests must edit without accounts and you want to choose where the data is hosted.
Germany · Free plan; per user per month, published; on-premises quoted
Conceptboard is a German vendor whose Free plan allows three active boards of up to 100 objects each. Starter is 5 euros per user per month with unlimited boards but only five active projects, and Advanced starts at 10 euros. Data centres are in Germany, with optional IONOS or StackIT hosting and on-premises hosting on special plans.
Switch from Miro if German hosting and an on-premises option matter more than the size of the template library.
Finland · Free plan; flat monthly bundles of editor seats, published
Sketchboard sells bundles of editor seats rather than a strict per-member price: Team is $20 per month for five editors and Business $39 for ten, each with unlimited free viewers and extra editors at $5. Free allows three editable boards and up to five users. Its plans are defined by editor seats and storage (1 GB on Starter), not by an activity or facilitation suite.
Switch from Miro if a handful of people edit while many others only view, and you want a flat monthly bundle.
France · Free plan; paid plans monthly or yearly, published
Draft.io is built around cards, lists and facilitation rather than an open canvas. Its Free plan has unlimited editable drafts, unlimited participants and unlimited guest editors, capped at 500 objects across all drafts. Paid plans start at 10 euros per member per month, or 100 euros a year, and a dedicated instance or on-premise setup sits on Enterprise.
Switch from Miro if your boards are really card walls and the free plan's limit is objects rather than boards.
Canada · Quoted per member for Business; Personal plan at zero cost
Stormboard is organised around sticky notes, templates and reports rather than freeform drawing, and it exports workshop output into Microsoft Office and Google Workspace documents. Its free Personal plan allows five members per storm, while Business is charged per user. It is Canadian-made and lists data-hosting options in Canada.
Switch from Miro if workshop results must end up as structured reports instead of a board people screenshot.
United States · Free plan; Starter per host per month, published; Enterprise quoted
Klaxoon is sold per host, not per member: Starter is $24.90 per host per month billed annually, limited to four hosts, with up to 20 contributors per activity. Free allows five contributors per activity, one open activity and 50 ideas per board. It is headquartered in Rennes and now trades as Klaxoon by Wrike.
Switch from Miro if a few facilitators run sessions for many participants who never need a paid seat.
Australia · Free plan; per-user and flat monthly plans, published; on-premises quoted
Creately leans toward diagramming: Free gives unlimited canvases and collaborators but only 45 items per canvas, and paid plans raise that to 1,000, 1,500 or 3,000. Its Business plan is described as for unlimited users, and an on-premises Enterprise edition exists. The vendor is Cinergix, headquartered in Melbourne.
Switch from Miro if the work is diagrams and process maps and you want one plan covering unlimited users.
United States · Free plan; per editor per month, published
Whimsical is priced per editor, with viewers always free, and Pro is listed at $10 per editor per month. Free has unlimited boards but caps creation at 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks per month, with a watermark on exports. It focuses on flowcharts, mind maps, wireframes and docs, not on running workshops.
Switch from Miro if you mostly draw flowcharts and wireframes and only a few people need to edit.
United States · Free plan with three boards; Plus per user per month, published
Zoom Whiteboard comes bundled with Zoom Workplace: Basic is free with three concurrently editable whiteboards and unlimited collaboration through public links without sign-in. Unlimited boards come with Whiteboard Unlimited, included in Zoom Workplace Business and up. It lists an importer for Miro, MURAL and Visio boards, but it is a feature of a meeting suite.
Switch from Miro if your team already lives in Zoom and wants to bring existing Miro boards across.
Czechia · Free plan; one paid plan per user per month, published
Excalidraw is the minimal option: the editor needs no account, collaboration is real-time by link, and the core is MIT licensed and published as an npm package. Free offers one scene; Plus is $6 per user per month with unlimited scenes and cloud storage. Its pitch is quick hand-drawn sketching, not structured workshop formats.
Switch from Miro if you sketch diagrams quickly, want an open-source core and need few workshop features.
Not stated by the vendor · Free plan; weekly, monthly and annual Pro plans, published
Ziteboard keeps pricing simple and individual: Free allows three owned boards with unlimited shared boards and collaborators, Pro is $9 monthly or $85 a year, and team pricing falls from $8 to $4.50 per user per month with size and term. Free limits data traffic and colours. It is positioned as a drawing whiteboard, not a structured planning tool.
Switch from Miro if a small group needs a simple drawing board at the lowest per-user price.
Miro stays the right choice when the whiteboard is shared infrastructure for many teams and the structured formats earn their keep. Its Business tier combines unlimited guests, data tables, a large shape library for technical diagrams, Engage activities and single sign-on, and Enterprise adds EU, US, Australia or Japan data residency. A company that runs workshops with external clients every week and has already standardised on those features will pay more elsewhere in migration time than it saves in licences.
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What moving off Miro involves
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Count who edits, not who is invited
Because Miro charges every member and exempts only guests and visitors, the saving depends on how many seat holders really create boards. If most people only view, seat models that treat viewers as free (Whimsical, Sketchboard, Figma's Collab seat) change the arithmetic. If most create content, a per-user tool at $5 to $10 is the comparison.
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Check the free plan's actual limit
Miro limits editable boards to three. Mural and Zoom Whiteboard use the same limit, Collaboard and Conceptboard allow three boards but add participant or object caps, and Draft.io, Whimsical and Creately cap the content instead. Match the limit to how your team works, because a free tier that caps objects fails in a different place than one that caps boards.
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Plan the content move before the contract
Boards, templates and integrations are rebuilt by hand in most tools. Zoom Whiteboard lists an importer for Miro boards, but we have not tested how faithfully it converts frames, connectors or tables. Pick two or three live boards, move them in a trial, and keep the old plan until the people who use them every week have signed off.
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Questions about replacing Miro
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What is a cheaper alternative to Miro?
At the entry level Miro Starter is $8 per member per month billed yearly, which is below Mural's $9.99 for Team+.
Cheaper per-user prices are Collaboard Basic at $6 (5 euros in its comparison table), Conceptboard Starter at 5 euros, Excalidraw Plus at $6 and Ziteboard team plans from $4.50. Figma's Collab seat at $3 applies only if the team has Figma.
What are the limits of Miro's free plan?
The Free plan has unlimited members and three editable boards; you can create more boards, but only the three most recent stay editable.
There is no Guest role, so anyone you invite becomes a Member. Private boards and selecting who can see which board start at Starter, and the Free plan includes 10 AI credits per month.
Does Miro charge per editor?
Miro charges per member. On Starter and Business you pay for each member added to the workspace, and members get full access and can create boards.
Guests (Business and Enterprise) and visitors do not take a seat. Whimsical and Sketchboard use the word editor and give viewers away free, which is the closest equivalent.
Which Miro alternative is most structured?
Draft.io works with cards and lists, Stormboard with sticky notes, templates and exported reports, and Klaxoon with activities and host-led sessions. Creately is the most diagram-oriented.
Miro itself offers tables, timelines and kanban on every plan, with deeper data tables on Business, so the structured alternatives trade canvas freedom for a stricter format.
Is there a Miro alternative that can be hosted in Europe or self-hosted?
Collaboard offers hosting in the Netherlands, Switzerland or Germany and self-hosting on Enterprise. Conceptboard hosts in Germany and offers on-premises options.
Draft.io lists a dedicated instance on Enterprise, and Creately sells an on-premises edition. Miro offers EU data residency, but as an Enterprise feature from 30 members.
Can I import Miro boards into another tool?
Zoom Whiteboard lists an importer for Miro, MURAL and Visio boards on its pricing page. We found no equivalent claim on the other vendors' pages, and we did not test conversion quality.
Treat everything else as a manual rebuild, or export images and PDFs from Miro for reference.
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Checked 2 October 2026
Miro: pricing and plan comparison: Free plan with three editable boards, Starter $8 and Business $20 per member per month billed yearly, guest and visitor roles, invoicing minimums, Enterprise from 30 members and regional data hosting.
Miro: Terms of Service: Operating entity RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro, San Francisco address.
Mural: pricing: Free plan with three editable murals, Team+ $9.99 and Business $17.99 per member per month billed annually, view-only visitors on Free.
Figma: pricing: Seat prices including the $3 Collab seat on Professional and the $16 Full seat, FigJam included in the seats.
Conceptboard: pricing: Free limit of three boards and 100 objects, Starter 5 euros and Advanced from 10 euros per user per month, German data centres, optional IONOS or StackIT hosting, on-premises on special plans.
Klaxoon: pricing: Per-host pricing, Starter $24.90 per host per month billed annually with up to four hosts, Free limits on contributors, activities and ideas.
Klaxoon: about us: Headquartered in Rennes, France; acquired by Wrike in 2025; brand evolving into Klaxoon by Wrike.
Creately: plans and pricing: Free plan with unlimited collaborators and 45 items per canvas, item limits on paid plans, Business plan for unlimited users, OnPrem edition.
Creately: about us: Cinergix Pty Ltd, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
Whimsical: pricing: Per-editor pricing, viewers free, Free limit of 50 board objects per month, Pro $10 per editor per month.
Zoom Whiteboard: plans and pricing: Basic free with three concurrently editable whiteboards, plan inclusion in Zoom Workplace, Whiteboard Unlimited, Miro and MURAL importer.
Excalidraw+: pricing: Free plan with one scene and unlimited collaborators, Plus $6 per user per month.
