# Excalidraw Plus review (2026): is it worth $6 a month per user, billed yearly? > Paid workspace for Excalidraw with cloud scenes and team access Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Whiteboards & Mind Maps - **Made by:** Excalidraw - **Website:** https://plus.excalidraw.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan for Plus, as there is only a 14-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Plus. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Plus | $6 per 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 https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Excalidraw Plus before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 14% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page lists $6 per user a month billed annually against $7 billed monthly, and labels the annual option as a 14% saving. Source: https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Teams that already sketch in Excalidraw and want scenes stored centrally - Workshops that need comments, voice and presentations on one canvas - Buyers who want a SOC 2 Type 2 whiteboard vendor ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** $6 a seat billed yearly sits between the category's cheaper quarter at $5 and its middle at $8.25. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 14-day free trial of Plus; the card requirement is not stated, and the free editor is a separate product with local storage. - **Features: C.** Cloud 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you draw everything yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Notion and Obsidian links and a beta API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/whiteboards ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it. - You could not: A diagram editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Notion and Obsidian among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Notion, Obsidian **Tags:** Whiteboard, Diagrams, Real-time collaboration, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Excalidraw](https://toolgpa.com/tools/excalidraw): Open-source whiteboard for hand-drawn style sketches and diagrams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/excalidraw-vs-excalidraw-plus) - [tldraw](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tldraw): Free online whiteboard with a local desktop app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/excalidraw-plus-vs-tldraw) - [Miro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/miro): Online whiteboard for team brainstorming, diagrams and planning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/excalidraw-plus-vs-miro) - [Whimsical](https://toolgpa.com/tools/whimsical): Whiteboard for flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and docs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/excalidraw-plus-vs-whimsical) - [Eraser](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eraser): AI diagramming and docs canvas for engineering teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eraser-vs-excalidraw-plus) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing - https://plus.excalidraw.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/excalidraw-plus Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).