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Figma vs Lucidchart comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Figma
Ranking in Visual Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Lucidchart
Ranking in Visual Collaboration Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Mind Mapping Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Visual Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Figma is 39.8%, up from 37.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidchart is 4.7%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Visual Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Figma39.8%
Lucidchart4.7%
Other55.5%
Visual Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Ponnila Michael Rayappan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at University of Bristol
Has supported project lifecycles with design-first workflows and streamlined developer collaboration
The area of Figma I would prefer to see improved is the responsiveness of the developer tool. When you enable it, you can extract variations, but these variations are not responsive. If I design a page, and there's a way to choose a view, whether it is on mobile or tablet, which then automatically converts it to the responsive layout of the page I design, that would save considerable time. If I design for tablet view, and it automatically adjusts for mobile and different screen variations at the click of some drop-downs, that would be beneficial. Additionally, when we extract code, if it can provide variations for all different types in a responsive way using REM to adjust to different screen sizes and breakpoints, that would be extremely useful to have.
AlexMartin1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Nestlé
Visual collaboration has improved remote workflows and supports faster shared decisions
The best features Lucidchart offers are that it diagrams processes very well. It allows for project management to help with client timelines. It is also easy to use and create diagrams, especially mermaid diagrams. Collaborating is easy. Out of all those features, collaboration stands out to me the most because it is easy to share with team members to do joint design work. Lucidchart has positively impacted my organization by improving productivity and collaboration. In terms of specifics, collaboration helps us come to conclusions. I notice better throughput as it is easy to use. Improved productivity allows us to express ourselves more quickly.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I decided to switch to Figma because it is quick and seamless for my web design use cases."
"The platform is scalable for small—to medium-sized enterprises."
"It is challenging to identify downsides of Figma because for web design, it is the best tool available."
"I recommend Figma to other users because it enables team creation and provides multiple people access to the same project."
"Figma is very user-friendly compared to Adobe XD, and the overall design community was moving towards Figma."
"From a technical perspective, Figma has greater capabilities, and once you start to explore all these features and how to connect Figma with other tools such as Storybook and Zeplin for documentation, it's a tightly coupled system with many different functionalities available which make it excellent, and I will definitely recommend Figma over other designing tools for organizations because the support it provides is extensive and highly technically feasible, making your job considerably easier."
"The way you can create templates is probably most helpful because it gives us a way to very quickly play around and test ideas and different types of layouts."
"I would recommend Figma to other users because I definitely think it is the industry standard."
"The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this product is that I don't need to struggle with creating org charts; it's quick and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use, and just being able to drag and drop."
"The collaboration, hands-down, is the top feature. It is valuable because our company doesn't believe in working in silos... While I may be the one leading the efforts, it's very important that my team gets buy-in on decisions being made when we're designing. It's critical, especially in this virtual environment, when we're not in an office to have a team meeting and able to whiteboard something. Lucidchart is an extremely useful tool for our team."
"In general, this product has improved our organization because it makes accessing up-to-date processes and planning a lot easier."
"It's a very strong diagramming tool."
"Lucidchart's ability to create a visualization that people prefer to look at, over reading written documents, has definitely saved me a lot of time. Moreover, it has helped to make my code bug-free because I no longer have broken endpoints."
"Easy to work on."
"It is a very effective tool for documenting processes and using it has improved our efficiency significantly."
 

Cons

"Figma is costly, especially when sharing with others as you have to upgrade your plan."
"One negative aspect about our main use case or how we used Figma in that project is that the notifications were a little bit difficult to follow."
"There is one aspect of Figma that needs improvement."
"One of the areas for improvement is the onboarding experience. When you first starting using Figma, it can be a little confusing. It would be useful to have some guidance and direction."
"Sometimes the prototype view menu gets in the way of navigation, especially if the prototype has a menu at the top, and most of the time it does."
"I would rate the stability at about six; quite a few bugs occur."
"Typing a prompt to express what I have in mind is quite complicated."
"The solution might not be affordable for teams of five or more people, making it somewhat expensive for small businesses."
"I would like to have access to more colorful and more vibrant icons."
"One of the things that I find frustrating is that all of our Tableau information is on a server, so when I send that out people can't open it and use it."
"There is a basic function that I struggle with, in the interface, which is having to switch between the editing and navigation modes. A lot of clicks are required when switching between edit and navigation modes and I think that many could potentially be avoided by handling the tasks at the same time."
"In terms of improvement, there can be more templates."
"Lucidchart subset their older components or something like that had happened. I don't entirely know the totality of it, but we were forced to upgrade to a different integration with Lucid than what we had. I've had a lot of frustrations with that because I've lost a lot of diagrams. I can't get them back and I'm getting pop-ups that are showing me that our data will be loading and I can't run four or five years of my engineering diagrams"
"I would like to have more text boxes to write more comments so I can write a small note below a picture. I would like some flexibility."
"They could provide more documentation or tutorials of ERDs or DDD on the Lucidchart site."
"The UML diagram that it gave me initially was a huge flow with a bunch of UML tables, and I wasn't going to need that many."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sigma's pricing is reasonable and accessible for both small and large firms."
"I'm happy with the pricing of Lucidchart but I can't say I'm completely happy with it. It could be cheaper for what it offers, about $5 cheaper, or Lucid could charge $5 more and add more features, like automation. Right now, it's $15 per user per month... On the other hand, they have made their billing super-easy for users, such as for people who have to do expense reports. It is probably the easiest platform I'm using when it comes to billing for software as a service."
"We signed up for the month-to-month and it charged us all at once for the whole year. I believe we signed up for the $7.99 one. I think that was the price."
"We chose Lucid based on the price comparison between it and draw.io... Lucidchart was about 15 percent cheaper per user... I was surprised to learn that it came with a separate subscription model and was not included in my existing Lucidchart subscription."
"The price was low enough to make me think that it was fine, I'll go for it. I think it's $80 or so. It's not too expensive."
"Pricing-wise, it is pretty fair. I don't really know what group pricing looks like, but right now, I pay $10 a month for my Lucid subscription. One thing I would say is that I do worry about my bosses being okay with paying $10 a month for every single employee because we would have around 20 people. It makes me a little nervous about whether they are going to pay $200 a month for people to be able to use this software. At the same time, from where I'm sitting, it's totally worth it. We save a thousand dollars from using this software. It's still a no-brainer."
"The pricing and licensing are fine, though I wish they didn't require you to buy the licenses in batches of five."
"I have only used the trial version and have not yet paid for it, or explored the pricing options."
"I had a quick glimpse of it. It was about 100 Canadian Dollars a year for just me. I don't know if there are any additional costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
 

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