{
    "title": "Miro Alternatives 2027: 10 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/miro/",
    "summary": "The best Miro alternatives in 2027 are Mural (best overall, $9.99/member/mo billed yearly), Whimsical (best free plan) and Excalidraw (best open source, MIT). Miro itself starts at $8/member/mo billed yearly. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 13 Nov 2026; 7 more are compared below, including 2 with a free plan and 4 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Miro",
        "starting_price": "$8/member/mo billed yearly",
        "free_plan": "3 editable boards, unlimited members",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://miro.com/pricing/"
    },
    "task": "online whiteboard and visual collaboration tool",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-13",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-13",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Mural",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$9.99/member/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "3 editable murals, unlimited members",
            "best_for": "Facilitated workshops with open and private rooms",
            "difference": "Free plan allows unlimited members and view-only visitors but only open rooms and one workspace; Team+ is priced at $12 per member billed monthly, a monthly rate Miro does not publish.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.mural.co/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.mural.co",
            "zekai_score": 7.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/mural/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Whimsical",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/editor/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited boards, 50 board objects a month",
            "best_for": "Flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps",
            "difference": "Free plan caps board objects and doc blocks at 50 each per month and includes 10 AI credits per member, so limits count content created rather than boards left editable.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://whimsical.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://whimsical.com"
        },
        {
            "name": "Storyflow",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$7.99/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "3 projects, 1 GB storage (free plan launching late 2026)",
            "best_for": "Client strategy boards for consultants",
            "difference": "Pricing is per account rather than per member, and plans include MCP access so Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok can take actions on boards; the free plan allows 25 such actions a week.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://storyflow.so/pricing",
            "website": "https://storyflow.so",
            "zekai_score": 7.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/storyflow/"
        },
        {
            "name": "CardBoard",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$15/member/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "3 boards, unlimited guests, 1 member",
            "best_for": "Agile story mapping linked to a tracker",
            "difference": "Boards stay connected to a project tracker through sync and CSV import and export, and guests are free on every plan; the free plan is limited to one member and three boards.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://cardboardit.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://cardboardit.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/cardboard/"
        },
        {
            "name": "TeamRetro",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "US$20.83/team/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Agile retrospectives and team health checks",
            "difference": "Priced per team instead of per member (Standard US$250 a year, Business US$350), with no free plan but a 30-day trial that needs no credit card.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.teamretro.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.teamretro.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/teamretro/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Excalidraw",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "$6/user/mo billed yearly (hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Quick hand-drawn style sketches and diagrams",
            "difference": "The editor is MIT-licensed and the free hosted version has unlimited collaborators with end-to-end encryption in the browser; Excalidraw+ adds cloud scenes, folders and PDF or PPTX frame export.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://excalidraw.com",
            "repository": "https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/excalidraw/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT).",
            "runs_on": "Browser app; self-host with Node and yarn or the Docker image.",
            "setup": "moderate: Static React app, but live collaboration needs its own room server.",
            "github_stars": 135600,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-12",
            "last_release": "2026-04-21",
            "zekai_score": 9.1,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/excalidraw/"
        },
        {
            "name": "AFFiNE",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Open-source docs and whiteboard in one workspace",
            "difference": "AFFiNE merges docs and an edgeless whiteboard in one MIT-licensed workspace you can self-host with Docker; its backend server folder has a separate enterprise licence.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://affine.pro",
            "repository": "https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/affine/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes for Community Edition (MIT); enterprise-licensed server parts need a subscription.",
            "runs_on": "Docker host to self-host; web and desktop clients exist.",
            "setup": "moderate: Docker deployment you maintain; the docs cover Render and Sealos too.",
            "github_stars": 74500,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-12",
            "last_release": "2026-11-13",
            "zekai_score": 8.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/affine/"
        },
        {
            "name": "draw.io",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Free diagramming with desktop and Docker options",
            "difference": "draw.io is Apache-2.0 for the code and focuses on diagrams such as flowcharts and UML; the README says it has no real-time collaborative editing.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://app.diagrams.net",
            "repository": "https://github.com/jgraph/drawio",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/drawio/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes for the code; icon and stencil libraries carry separate usage limits.",
            "runs_on": "Desktop app, Docker image, or static web files.",
            "setup": "easy: Desktop installer or one Docker image; no real-time collaboration.",
            "github_stars": 9300,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-04",
            "last_release": "2026-11-04",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/drawio/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Nextcloud Whiteboard",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Whiteboards inside your own Nextcloud server",
            "difference": "Nextcloud Whiteboard is AGPL-3.0 and built on Excalidraw; it stores boards in your Nextcloud, but needs a separate websocket server to save and collaborate.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/whiteboard",
            "repository": "https://github.com/nextcloud/whiteboard",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/nextcloud-whiteboard/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes; AGPL-3.0 means sharing changes if you run it as a service.",
            "runs_on": "A Nextcloud server plus a separate Node.js websocket service.",
            "setup": "moderate: App install plus a mandatory collaboration server to save boards.",
            "github_stars": 232,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-13",
            "zekai_score": 6.1,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/nextcloud-whiteboard/"
        },
        {
            "name": "WBO",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "Simple real-time whiteboard you host yourself",
            "difference": "WBO is an AGPL-3.0 whiteboard where many people draw at once and the server saves each board as an SVG file; it has no sticky-note or workshop tools.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://wbo.ophir.dev",
            "repository": "https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wbo/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes; AGPL-3.0 means sharing changes if you run it as a service.",
            "runs_on": "Docker, or Node.js 26; boards are stored as SVG files.",
            "setup": "easy: One docker run command with a folder for boards.",
            "github_stars": 2700,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-13",
            "last_release": "2026-11-12",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/wbo/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Miro in 2027?",
            "a": "Mural is the best overall Miro alternative on this page ($9.99/member/mo billed yearly). For no cost, Whimsical has a free plan (Unlimited boards, 50 board objects a month). To self-host, Excalidraw is open source (MIT)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Miro?",
            "a": "Yes. Miro has a free plan: 3 editable boards, unlimited members. Paid plans start at $8/member/mo billed yearly, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Miro?",
            "a": "Yes. Excalidraw, AFFiNE, draw.io, Nextcloud Whiteboard, WBO are open source and free to self-host. Mural, Whimsical, Storyflow, CardBoard have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Miro?",
            "a": "Storyflow starts at $7.99/mo, against $8/member/mo billed yearly for Miro, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Miro alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 13 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Excalidraw $30/mo, Storyflow $39.95/mo, Mural $49.95/mo, against Miro $40/mo for Miro. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Mural or Miro?",
            "a": "Free plan allows unlimited members and view-only visitors but only open rooms and one workspace; Team+ is priced at $12 per member billed monthly, a monthly rate Miro does not publish. Choose Mural if you run facilitated workshops and want a published monthly per-member price instead of annual-only figures. Stay with Miro if you need Miro's larger template and app marketplace or a cheaper $8 yearly entry plan."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Miro?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Miro's Free plan keeps only the three most recent boards editable; older boards become view-only even though you can create unlimited boards (11 Nov 2026); Miro's pricing page states that invoicing is no longer available in all countries and remains only for existing users who paid by invoice before the change; invoiced plans need at least 10 Starter or 5 Business licences (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than Miro?",
            "a": "It depends on the job: Mural for facilitated workshops, Whimsical for flowcharts and wireframes, Excalidraw for quick open-source sketches. None replicates Miro's template and app marketplace fully."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/miro/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}