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Excalidraw pricing
Excalidraw publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the technology tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Excalidraw pricing is free, then $6/month. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $6/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Excalidraw plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excalidraw+ | $6/month | 4 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Excalidraw feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Hand-drawn style diagrams
- Real-time collaboration
- Infinite canvas
- Shape libraries
- Text support
- Image import
- Export options
- Keyboard shortcuts
Integrations
- GitHub
- Notion
- Obsidian
- Roam Research
Security
- End-to-end encryption
- Local storage option
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Desktop support
Localization
- English language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Spanish language support
- Chinese language support
- Japanese language support
People bring Excalidraw in for wireframing and diagramming, real-time collaborative whiteboarding, hand-drawn-style illustrations for docs and decks, embedding a whiteboard into third-party apps via the npm package, visual planning and note-taking. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Excalidraw are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Technology
Across the 3 technology tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $400/month. Excalidraw starts at $6/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excalidraw (this page) | Free, then $6/month | - | - | |
| Personetics | On request | quote | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Zeta | On request | quote | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Finxact | On request | quote | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Thought Machine | On request | quote | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Alkami | On request | quote | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Datadog | $15/month | - | - | vs Excalidraw |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Excalidraw badges page.
Before you pay for Excalidraw
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at $6/month. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Excalidraw runs on web, and is published by Excalidraw of Brno, Czech Republic. The full record is on the Excalidraw review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
Excalidraw pricing questions
- How much does Excalidraw cost?
- Excalidraw publishes a single tier, Excalidraw+, at $6/month.
- Does Excalidraw have a free plan?
- Yes, Excalidraw is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- Is Excalidraw expensive for a technology tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 technology tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $400/month; Excalidraw starts at $6/month.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Excalidraw have a free tier: Canny.
- What am I actually paying for with Excalidraw?
- The record lists 24 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for wireframing and diagramming, real-time collaborative whiteboarding, hand-drawn-style illustrations for docs and decks.
- Does Excalidraw charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Excalidraw prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Excalidraw against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Excalidraw covering price, platforms and features.