Lucidchart vs Visual Paradigm comparison

"In general, the usability is great. You have a ton of customization options with different colors, different borders, different thicknesses of lines, different types of arrows, et cetera. There's so much variety. You can really make a chart with all sorts of color-coding, and color charts in different colors, link them together, for example, or use different types of arrows for different types of links between the chart elements. That variety, while not a specific feature, is really useful. If you want to make a chart, you can basically do anything."

"It is important that Lucidchart accommodates both Mac and PC users because if you support Mac, that means you also support the mobile applications on the iPad... Some of the other employees have access to an iPad, but not all of them do. When we're trying to talk through a process with them on-the-fly, or at the point of occurrence, it's so much nicer if we can both have it up on the iPad. That's why I would say the Mac support is essential."

"When it comes to documenting things like processes, systems, and new teams, I'd give it an eight or nine out of ten. It's very high because it's fairly intuitive, there's a low learning curve, and it's easy to get immediate output. You can get results very quickly without a lot of direct effort. You don't usually take a week-long series of training. You don't need to go through a lot of hoops to make it work."

"One of the features that I really like is the collaboration aspect of it. During the pandemic, it's very important that we're able to collaborate virtually."

"There is no alternative to Lucidchart if you want to describe a five-step process with bullet points. I believe every person who ever worked with PowerPoint on any type of documentation and then thought about which tool would actually help to describe what they're trying to do but without the words, would come up with Lucidchart."

"Lucidchart's capabilities for visualizing and understanding process flows or workflows is excellent. The way that you put together the parts of charts and edit the chart are all very intuitive and easy to use."

"Lucidchart is a lovely tool for creating visual representations of any process or organization."

"It is important to me that the solution accommodates both Mac and PC users because the developers in our company use Mac, then the business people use Windows. The technical people create the technical architecture using Lucidchart. So, it is important that it is compatible with both the systems."

"The application is easy to use and provides informative diagrams."

"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup was straightforward."

"Stable design software with multiple functions and features. It's simple to install and easy to use."

"The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram."

"The initial setup is extremely straightforward."

"Using the Component Diagram, Visual Paradigm helps with design and control, reusing components."

"It is easy and intuitive to use, not excessively rigid, and quite flexible."

"I love Visual Paradigm because it has many different types of diagrams. For any field of engineering, we can find a diagram."

"It can have more colors or graphics. Currently, it is a little boring. It can have a little bit more fun factor."

"Perhaps it already exists, but if there were software to install the solution on a Mac, that would be helpful. I see that it's not in the App Store, so that's something that could be improved."

"I would like an on-premises version of the software that I can just download and use. I think that it's easier that way."

"They should continue to bring in more shapes. For example, I saw something cool the other day that was a timeline and in between each step, there was a circle. I thought that that was very clean and that's something that I could see myself using. Lucidchart could come up with more visualizations. I'm not a designer so I would like to have more visuals. That would make my job easier because it would make my job much more professional looking but without having to be a designer myself."

"They should make it more user-friendly. The only option is either to use the existing template with already existing colors and gradients. If you want to do custom colors and gradients, then it's too complicated to use and should be simplified."

"I'm not a super user, and there might be a way of doing it that I haven't explored, but I was looking for some specific icons that are just standard icons, and I found the icon library to be very focused on architecture icons. It didn't have as many standard or generic icons."

"In terms of improvement, they should make it very clear, whether it's a single A4 page or two A4 pages, it should be mapped out. Either I don't know how to use it, or it's not there, but having to stick to margins so I can see what's going to be on different pages when I print it or move it to a PDF has been my only challenge so far."

"I would like to have access to more colorful and more vibrant icons."

"There are some connectivity issues that crop up rarely when used with SQL Server."

"The solution is not user-friendly. It uses a lot of memory and CPU. You have to have a good computer to use it."

"The solution's technical support can be improved and accessible for our company location since Visual Paradigm follows a remote support model with some challenges."

"Visual Paradigm's initial deployment was difficult since we did it for the first time. It is challenging to learn to use the product."

"From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams."

"There is room for improvement in the licensing model. I would suggest implementing country-specific pricing, as many other products in India do. This would make Visual Paradigm more affordable and accessible."

"Takes up a lot of resources."

"The product's versioning capability needs improvement."

"Pricing comes in at about $100 for a year's subscription, which is very reasonable if this is a tool that you will use more than once."

"The price of this product is a little bit high. It is probably 20% higher than what I expected to pay for such a solution."

"I have a subscription as an individual user for one year, and it is not expensive."

"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."

"The licensing is pretty cost-effective but I haven't considered it on an enterprise level."

"The pricing is very competitive. It is more cost-effective than some competing products, such as Visio."

"The pricing is very reasonable, and they have a free trial available that you can play with."

"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."

"The pricing of Visual Paradigm is very appropriate and affordable. There are no hidden costs involved."

"I rate Visual Paradigm's pricing a five out of ten."

"Visual Paradigm's pricing is not expensive."

"In terms of pricing, I find Visual Paradigm's subscription services reasonable, especially for the modern and standard editions. However, the premium products can be a bit pricey, especially considering our location in the Middle East. Currently, paying around a hundred dollars per user translates to almost six hundred Egyptian pounds, which can add up. For enterprise licensing, I think the perpetual license option could be more affordable. If it were cheaper, say around five hundred dollars, I would have invested in multiple perpetual licenses long ago. Sometimes, to manage costs, we share accounts among team members or switch access on and off for certain members who aren't actively working on projects. As for additional costs, there are charges for cloud services, which I'm considering because I've already exceeded the free capacity."

"I rate the pricing a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"You can move between the tiers from month to month so you are not restricted to one pricing model."

"Pricing for Visual Paradigm is a four out of five for me. I'm happy with its pricing."

"This is an open-sourced solution, it is free to use."