What is Excalidraw?
Hand-drawn style canvas for sketching diagrams, wireframes and flowcharts together.
Who is Excalidraw best for?
Excalidraw is best for engineers and product teams who sketch diagrams and wireframes together in a browser.
Quick technical diagrams
Shapes, labelled arrows that bind to boxes and shape libraries cover architecture and flow sketches in a few minutes.
Live sessions with others
Anyone with the link can join a scene in real time, and excalidraw.com encrypts the session end to end.
Developers embedding a canvas
The editor ships as the @excalidraw/excalidraw npm package for React apps, and drawings save as open .excalidraw JSON files.
Teams that need saved workspaces
Excalidraw+ adds unlimited scenes and folders in the cloud, comments, presentations, PDF and PPTX export and 100 AI requests a day.
How much does Excalidraw cost?
Excalidraw is free to use and to self-host under the MIT licence, and Excalidraw+ costs $6 per user a month for cloud storage, sharing rights and more AI requests.
- Docker image or npm package
- No analytics or tracking in the image
- No sharing or live collaboration
- 1 infinite scene with the full editor
- Unlimited collaborators, end-to-end encrypted
- 10 AI requests a day
- Unlimited scenes and folders saved in the cloud
- Comments, presentations, PDF and PPTX export
- 100 AI requests a day, or your own key
Paying yearly saves 14% on Plus, which starts with a 14-day free trial. Excalidraw+ takes card payments only. Full pricing on plus.excalidraw.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is Excalidraw open source?
Yes. Excalidraw's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
135,590stars
+1,828 (+1.4%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 6 years
- Latest release
- 21 Apr
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- excalidraw/excalidraw
What are the best Excalidraw alternatives?
Excalidraw is an open source alternative to Eraser AI, Whimsical and Miro. draw.io does the same job and is open source too.
Eraser AIFreeArchitecture and sequence diagrams from prompts, code or a repo.
WhimsicalFreeWhiteboards for diagrams, wireframes and mind maps.
MiroFreeShared infinite canvas where teams sketch diagrams, run workshops and plan roadmaps with AI help.
draw.ioOpen SourceDiagram editor for flowcharts, network maps, UML and cloud architecture, in the browser or offline.
Questions about Excalidraw
What is Excalidraw?
Hand-drawn style canvas for sketching diagrams, wireframes and flowcharts together.
Who is Excalidraw for?
Excalidraw is best for engineers and product teams who sketch diagrams and wireframes together in a browser.
Is Excalidraw free?
Yes. Excalidraw has a free Self-hosted plan: docker image or npm package.
How much does Excalidraw cost?
Excalidraw's paid plans are Plus at $6 per user per month.
Is Excalidraw open source?
Yes. Excalidraw's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Excalidraw alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Eraser AI, Whimsical, Miro and draw.io.
Where can I try Excalidraw?
On its official website, excalidraw.com.
Can I self-host Excalidraw?
Yes. The maker publishes a Docker image, excalidraw/excalidraw, that runs the client on your own domain with no analytics, but self-hosted copies do not yet support sharing or live collaboration.
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