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draw.io pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

draw.io (drawio.com) is a whiteboard or diagram tool. Free forever as a web and desktop editor; the paid tiers found are for its Confluence Cloud app, free up to 10 users, then per-user monthly.. Free plan: Free forever: web and desktop editor that saves locally or to your own cloud storage (drawio.com)..

What draw.io costs

  • 1 user: free (Free editor per drawio.com ("Free forever"); saves locally or to your own storage and exports SVG, PNG and PDF. The page does not state watermark-free export or unlimited diagrams; the 0 rests on "Free forever".)
  • 10-person team: free (Confluence Cloud app, Standard edition: flat $0 for 1-10 users (Atlassian listing, referenceQuantity 10). Listing describes real-time collaboration but states no diagram or watermark limits. Host subscription not counted; 11 users would be $22.22/mo (11 x $2.02).)

Plan compared: Free draw.io web and desktop editor (drawio.com). Monthly-billing price for one person, and the total for a 10-person team where everyone edits, on the cheapest plan with unlimited boards or diagrams saved to the cloud. Free plans count only when they meet that bar; annual-only plans are shown as the annual price divided by 12.

What draw.io does

Core: Flowcharts & structured diagrams, Technical diagram libraries, Open source & self-hosting.

Important: Visio & cross-tool import (partly), Desktop & offline.

Also has: Whiteboard canvas (partly), Real-time co-editing (partly), Diagrams from code (partly), Mind maps (partly), Template library (partly), Data-linked diagrams (partly), Embeds in work tools (partly), Wireframes & UI mockups (partly), Media & moodboards (partly).

draw.io price hikes

No price hikes on record for draw.io.

Alternatives to draw.io

draw.io is the cheapest whiteboard or diagram tool we track at 1 user. The others:

draw.io alternatives: 3 whiteboard or diagram tools compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of draw.io

  • Figma (Design tools): covers 48% of draw.io; missing or partial: Flowcharts & structured diagrams (partly), Technical diagram libraries, Open source & self-hosting, Desktop & offline (partly), Diagrams from code

Sources

Pricing page: marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210933/draw-io-diagrams-uml-bpmn-aws-erd-flowcharts. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from the Atlassian Marketplace listing data (Standard $0 for 1-10 users; Advanced $37/mo flat for 1-10) and from drawio.com ("Free forever"). A Sept 22, 2025 Jira/Confluence rate increase reported in a search result from drawio-app.com could not be verified, so it is not recorded, and Jira pricing was not checked.