Excalidraw Plus review (2026): is it worth $6 a month per user, billed yearly?
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Excalidraw Plus report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for hand-drawn whiteboards saved to the cloud
Excalidraw Plus adds cloud-saved scenes, folders, sharing, comments and presentations to the hand-drawn Excalidraw whiteboard, at $6 a seat billed yearly. It has no free plan, takes cards only, and workspace libraries are listed as coming soon.
Who Excalidraw Plus is for
- Fits if you already use the free Excalidraw and want scenes saved and shared
- Works for teams that want comments and presentations on a simple canvas
Who Excalidraw Plus is not for
- Skip it if you want a free plan for Plus, as there is only a 14-day trial
- Watch out: payment is by credit card only, and bank transfer is not supported
- Watch out: workspace libraries and library search are marked coming soon
- Watch out: the MCP server and REST API are in public beta
Why Excalidraw Plus gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$6 a seat billed yearly sits between the category's cheaper quarter at $5 and its middle at $8.25.
- CFree plan and trial14-day free trial of Plus; the card requirement is not stated, and the free editor is a separate product with local storage.
- CFeaturesCloud scenes, sharing, comments, presentations and 100 AI requests a day, but workspace libraries are coming soon and the API and MCP server are in beta.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record, and you draw everything yourself.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Notion and Obsidian links and a beta API.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Excalidraw's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/excalidraw-plus#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/excalidraw-plus.svg" alt="Excalidraw Plus: 2.2 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Excalidraw Plus stands among whiteboard and mind map tools
Excalidraw Plus's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 23 of the 98 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 19.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 35 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $6 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 20 of the 69 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 99 whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Excalidraw Plus’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 11 of 98, level with 47
- CFree plan and trialAbove 10 of 98, level with 60
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 98, level with 76
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 98, level with 77
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 35 of 98, level with 55
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 88 whiteboard and mind map tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Excalidraw Plus, or make your own?
Keep it
Nothing Excalidraw Plus does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 5 things listed below take a company.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 56 of the 98 other whiteboard and mind map tools grade higher. It costs $72 a year.
What you could not
- An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- A diagram editor.
- Several people working in it at the same moment.
- It plugs into other products, Notion and Obsidian among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Excalidraw Plus’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Excalidraw Plus?
Excalidraw Plus is the paid workspace built around the open-source Excalidraw whiteboard. It adds cloud-saved scenes and folders, access management, comments, presentations, voice hangouts and a higher daily allowance of AI requests to the hand-drawn style canvas.
Worth knowing
- Plus has no free plan; the free Excalidraw editor is a separate product with local, browser-based storage.
- Payment is by credit card only; the pricing FAQ says bank transfer is not supported.
- Workspace libraries and library search are marked as coming soon.
- The MCP server and REST API are in public beta.
Key features
- Cloud scenes and folders
- Scenes are saved to the vendor's cloud with no limit on their number and can be organized into folders and collections.
- Access management
- Share with edit or view rights, send read-only links and embeds, and manage team members in a workspace.
- Presentations and export
- Frames can be shown as slides, including live presentations, and exported to PDF and PPTX.
- Voice hangouts and comments
- Collaborators can talk and share screens on the canvas and leave comments on a scene.
- AI requests
- Text to diagram and wireframe to code run at 100 requests a day on Plus, or with your own API key.
- MCP and REST API
- A public beta MCP server lets an AI agent draw into a workspace, and a REST API is also in public beta.
Excalidraw Plus pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Excalidraw Plus is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $6 per user / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $6 per user / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial of Plus
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Plus | $6per user / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly) | Unlimited scenes and folders saved to the cloud, sharing with edit or view rights, comments, 100 AI requests a day. |
Read from plus.excalidraw.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Excalidraw Plus before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 14% with annual billing
The pricing page lists $6 per user a month billed annually against $7 billed monthly, and labels the annual option as a 14% saving.
Stated on plus.excalidraw.com
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Common questions
Does Excalidraw Plus have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Excalidraw Plus is listed for Web.
Does Excalidraw Plus have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Excalidraw Plus is listed for Web.
Is Excalidraw Plus open source?
Excalidraw Plus is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Excalidraw Plus have an API?
Yes. Excalidraw Plus offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.