How much does Miro cost in 2026?

Starter: $8 per seat a month on annual billing ($10 billed monthly); Business: $20 per seat a month on annual billing ($25 billed monthly). 3 editable boards, with unlimited boards you can view and share. Checked October 26, 2026.

What is a cheaper alternative to Miro?

Microsoft Whiteboard (Included in Microsoft 365 (from $7/user/mo)), FigJam (Collab seat $3/user/mo billed yearly on Figma Professional; the free Starter plan is limited to 3 team files), Excalidraw (Free at excalidraw.com; Excalidraw+ from $6/user/mo). Free live sketching with unlimited collaborators; you give up Miro’s templates, voting and timers.

Online whiteboard for workshops

Should you build your own Miro?

Q: Should you build your own Miro?

Switch. Five people on Miro Starter pay about $1,440 over 3 years. Microsoft Whiteboard comes with Microsoft 365, Excalidraw is free and open source, and a FigJam Collab seat is $3 a month. You give up Miro’s 7,000+ templates, voting and timers for big workshops. Building your own board would cost about $3,700 over 3 years.

Switch to Microsoft Whiteboard, FigJam or Excalidraw. Each is free or a fraction of Miro’s price for everyday whiteboarding.

SWITCH

Short answer

Five people on Miro Starter pay about $1,440 over 3 years. Microsoft Whiteboard comes with Microsoft 365, Excalidraw is free and open source, and a FigJam Collab seat is $3 a month. You give up Miro’s 7,000+ templates, voting and timers for big workshops. Building your own board would cost about $3,700 over 3 years.

Buy for 3 years: $1,440
Build and run for 3 years: $3,745
Verdict: SWITCH

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Cheaper options

Already includedMicrosoft WhiteboardIncluded in Microsoft 365 (from $7/user/mo)Sticky notes, inking and templates inside Teams meetings; it is thinner than Miro for large workshops.CheaperFigJamCollab seat $3/user/mo billed yearly on Figma Professional; the free Starter plan is limited to 3 team filesSticky notes, voting and templates in a tool designers already use; the free plan’s 3-file limit suits only light use.Open sourceExcalidrawFree at excalidraw.com; Excalidraw+ from $6/user/moFree live sketching with unlimited collaborators; you give up Miro’s templates, voting and timers.

Miro pricing in 2026

Plan	Billed yearly	Billed monthly
Starter Typical	$8/seat/mo	$10/seat/mo
Business	$20/seat/mo	$25/seat/mo

Free plan: 3 editable boards, with unlimited boards you can view and share

Paying too much? The Free plan is enough if you only work on 3 boards at a time.

Per member, in USD from Miro’s pricing page. Yearly billing is $8 and $20; monthly billing is $10 and $25. Checked October 26, 2026.

Run your own numbers

Defaults are a typical small team at $30/hour. Change anything.

If you buy Miro

Plan

Seats

If you build it

Your time, $ per hour

Hours to build

Upkeep, hours per month

Hosting and services, $ per month

Buy

$1,440

Build

$3,745

Buying is about $2,305 cheaper over 3 years.

3-year totals. Building includes your time, upkeep, running costs and one month of an AI app builder ($25). Change any number to match your situation.

What you’d build

The open-source Excalidraw canvas embedded in your app
Live cursors and shared editing through a small sync server
A board list with login and share links
Image and PDF export
A few templates for retros and brainstorms

A small server for the live-sync service plus storage for saved boards.

What you’d give up

Miro’s 7,000+ templates and facilitation tools
Voting, timers and private mode for workshops
Smooth performance on very large boards
Integrations with Jira, Slack and Google Drive

Risks the price doesn’t show

Live syncHigh

Several people drawing at once means merging edits without losing strokes.

Large boardsMedium

Boards with hundreds of images get slow unless you tune rendering.

Board storage and sharingMedium

Saved boards need versioning, access rules and clean-up of old files.

When the verdict flips

Stay on Miro if you run workshops with voting, timers or hundreds of templates. Switch to BUILD only if you want whiteboards inside your own product.

Sources

Miro pricing

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