Lucidchart vs Visual Paradigm comparison

"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."

"The usability is very nice in terms of flowchart components that are available."

"Lucidchart has positively impacted our organization by improving our collaboration across the company."

"The biggest lesson that I have learned from using Lucidchart is that it's a great tool for putting your ideas into something visual and brainstorming with your team."

"Its capabilities for visualizing and understanding these types of workflows are really good."

"Easy to work on."

"Lucidchart has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to identify process bottlenecks and architecture issues earlier, which improves our project outcomes and reduces network load."

"Ease of use is especially critical because if I am conducting brainstorming sessions with my team, I have to be able to quickly put things on the monitor so that I don't lose their attention and focus. Ease of use is definitely helpful when I do that... The fact that I don't get lost within the software and am able to quickly generate visuals onscreen, so that it doesn't break the momentum, is a huge win."

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

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

"I like the structure. I can see the diagrams and everything I created."

"What I like best about Visual Paradigm is its simple GUI, especially since I'm a new user. In my two years of experience with this tool, I didn't find it complex because I was able to learn how to use it via YouTube videos. Visual Paradigm is enough for me. I also find the bridging feature in the tool valuable."

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

"The pricing model is attractive."

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

"It is easy-to-use and it helps understand its data modeling structure through the intuitive user interface."

"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."

"One of the issues has been that, as far as I understand, even to view it, the other person needs a Lucidchart account unless you send them a PDF. That's been a bit of an issue because some people in our organization don't have Lucidchart accounts, only certain people have logins. If we just want to collect comments from people, that's been a bit complicated."

"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."

"It would be nice to have more features that help me visually present information. Since I use it as a canvas, my use case for it is probably very specific. I use it as a way to present information to people visually on a large mind map. So, it would be nice to be able to have more graphical things to clean it up, like a header, banners, or something to help draw attention to certain areas. I would also like more infographic-like features, because I am kind of limited to float chart shapes. This makes the solution a little cumbersome."

"When you want to add text to a connector arrow, I have not figured out how to position the text vertically."

"I choose seven because of those things I mentioned where adjusting different things and drawing the lines is basically not very intuitive at all."

"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."

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

"There was one particular bug that caused some instability issues; Visual Paradigm was having trouble with Microsoft SQL Server system versioning tables and would just lock up in that one particular instance."

"I would like to see something for visualizing innovation work maps."

"More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice."

"There is a certain inherent complexity when creating UML diagrams."

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

"Takes up a lot of resources."

"The product's versioning capability needs improvement."

"I pay $95 a year for it. It seems like a reasonable price."

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

"I have only used the trial version and have not yet paid for it, or explored the pricing options."

"The pricing and licensing are fine, though I wish they didn't require you to buy the licenses in batches of five."

"Lucidchart's pricing model is not excessive, as compared to similar products. It is pretty much in line with everyone else."

"One of the reasons we were able to get approval within two hours from our management was that it was cheap enough. We have a 3% or 10% collaboration package, which comes out to be 70 bucks a year. It was very cheap, and we had no issues actually getting the full version. It was very affordable for a business."

"The pricing and licensing are fine. It has a lot of features that I prefer over some of the other programs, which is good. Being that it is web-based, I feel that it is acceptable that it's on a monthly pay basis. However, I think I pay on an annual basis, which is fine with me."

"This product is fairly cheap, but if you want more complex features, e.g. integration with other products, it does require an additional cost."

"Visual Paradigm's pricing is not expensive."

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

"Compared to other solutions such as IBM Rational which is expensive, This solution is priced low."

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

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

"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."

"You can use Paradigm on a subscription basis and you can choose from different tiers of subscription."