Miro vs. Microsoft Visio

Miro

8,629 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visio

356 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Miro	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Miro empowers cross-functional teams to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro’s AI capabilities keep teams in the flow of work, and scale shifts in ways of working.	$10 per month per user
Microsoft Visio	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visio, a diagramming tool for building flowcharts, diagrams (e.g. network diagrams), org charts and floor plans, available online as a subscription and also in enterprise level packages (e.g. Visio Professional).	$5 per month per user

Pricing

Miro

Microsoft Visio

1. Free - To discover what Miro can do. Always free: $0
2. Starter - Unlimited and private boards with essential features: $8
per month (billed annually) per user
3. Business - Scales collaboration with advanced features and security: $16
per month (billed annually) per user
4. Enterprise - For work across the entire organization, with support, security and control, to scale: contact sales
annual billing per user

Visio Plan 1: $5.00
per month per user
Visio Plan 2: $15.00
per month per user
Visio Standard 2024: $309.99
one-time fee On-premises diagramming solution, licensed for one PC
Visio Professional 2024: $579.99
one-time fee On-premises diagramming solution, licensed for one PC

Pricing Offerings
Miro	Microsoft Visio
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

Monthly billing also available at $10 per month for the Starter plan, or $20 for the Business plan.

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Key User Insights
	Miro	Microsoft Visio
Considered Both Products	Miro Howard Bouk Senior Technology Consultant in Information Technology at HMB Consulting Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Miro OmniGraffle is and probably will be my goto product for creating technical diagrams. There is a great ecosystem for obtaining shapes to use in diagrams and I can create my own shapes to reuse in other diagrams. The control through boards and layers is incredible and flexible. … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Meredith Graduate Consultant in Professional Services at Blueprint Project Solutions (Oil & Energy, 11-50 employees) Chose Miro Miro gives more of a modern look to the charts that we produce and is far easier to use compared to Visio. The downsides of Miro in this comparison is that some clients request for the final outputs to be completed in Visio (for uniformity with their other processes in the … Incentivized Helpful? Shawn McMurray Business Owner at 90 Days to Victory (Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees) Chose Miro Milanote doesn't offer the mind map functionality and is so rigid. Microsoft Visio is overpriced, does not have a collaborative feature, and was very clunky. Adobe PhotoShop is a great artistic tool, but it is not easy to use for brainstorming. I tried. Incentivized Helpful? Jerry Duford Release Train Engineer in Engineering at Priority Health (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Miro Miro is the more collaborative option, offering the ability for many individuals to work on the same item real-time. Though it does create some duplicate entry, we've found this added cost is minimal compared to the opportunity cost of lost collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Sachdev Senior Cloud Consultant in Information Technology at Red Hat (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Miro MS Visio used to require it to be installed on the computer to use it but Miro can be used via the browser no client installation is required. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Compared to Visio, I found Miro's UI a lot more friendly and easy to use, it was not "clunky" as Visio, and its overall presentation was just nicer and more pleasant to use. Miro had a lot more features and templates available as well. I think overall, it was the look and feel, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Miro's real power lies in bringing tools and artefacts from varied sources together into a single place for better collaboration. Miro's also the easiest to use and integrates well with other softwares. So, instead of trying to replace them, Miro complements them which drives a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Blood and water. Of couse, Miro is a blood. It cannot be a comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Zoom's whiteboard tool was no where near as refined and you are not able to save. Not a real comparison but we wouldn't use it at all now. Visio is an example of where it's a tool that is too complex for the average architecture conversation, Miro is much more flexible and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Miro is much more user-friendly and has a greater variety of diagramming icons and components Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro It's better. I used to be a Mural fan when Miro first launched, but Miro immediately outpaced Mural in terms of performance, ease of use, and killer features. There was a time where mapping complex systems required a lot of custom shape creation in Visio, especially when the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Miro fits arbitrarily into any communications platform, but the direct integration could be stronger. Miro is more full-featured than the whiteboard features in Zoom or Teams. draw.io and Visio are a more single-user experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro monday.com is a useful tool but unlike Miro it is basically used for project management and tracking deadline. It does not have the capabilities of Visual Planning like Miro has. Microsoft Whiteboard is also used for collaborative brainstorming, and planning. However, Miro is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Lucid is the closest in functionality, but we find it is easier to "guest" in contractors and other external contributors using Miro. Visio is useful for architecture diagrams, but the online colloboration and it's usefulness for other use cases mean that it is used less. Figm… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Diagramming and shaping elements are much better in Miro; in fact, I typically do the diagrams in Miro and then copy and paste them as slides in powerpoint. Online collaboration is much more intuitive and real-time in Miro, as you can see the different cursors for all the … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Kikke Head of PMO in Information Technology at Kerv (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Miro We use a lot of products, each have their advantage. Miro has the best templates and also provides the best training. Lucid has some better data centre hosting location options and also account management team is very good. Incentivized Helpful? Farhan Karim Business Analyst in Information Technology at Dunelm (Furniture, 10,001+ employees) Chose Miro We use both in our business. While lucid's process mapping cuntionality is better than Miro's, i find that Miro is more intuititve and user friendly to use and has a better overall UX. The templates in Miro are also better in my opinion than the ones that can be found in Lucid. Incentivized Helpful? Ivan Belis Technology Coach in Information Technology at LCM (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Miro Miro focuses more on collaboration, and that was the key feature we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Glyn Morgan Business Architect in Information Technology at IDG, Inc (Research, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Miro Miro has more visualization tools, capabilities, and better ease of use than others I have tried. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro My main perception is that Miro offers more unlimited capabilities as it is not tied to a format or set of tools. This has great benefits in terms of creativity and collaboration. However, it does not offer native integration as other platforms would. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Viso is much more difficult to use and to share. Sharing in a hybrid environment has become essential. Miro is much easier to share. Incentivized Helpful? Gary Lee VP Technology - Digital Engagement in Engineering at RGP, Inc (Staffing & Recruiting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Miro Miro stacks up well against tools mentioned. It is intuitive and simply to get started. The minimal learning curve allows resources to become productive without any formal training. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro Miro is more modern, more easy to use, and much more flexible than Visio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miro I like Figma for similar reasons. I think what edged out Figma was the talktrack for me. Importing and dragging and dropping files and it turning out how you might expect or it uploading at all can be more difficult in across the board in but my recollection was Canva did this … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Cost benefit is significant with Microsoft Visio vs Miro, as it is included in the MS 365 Suite. While it has less capability overall than Miro, for flowcharts specifically it is great. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio and Miro are both diagramming and visual collaboration tools, but they have some differences in terms of their capabilities and intended uses.One main difference between the two is the range of diagram types that they support. Microsoft Visio is primarily … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio defaults to more professional looking diagrams and has a simpler UX/UI, however it lacks hugely on the collaboration and engineering design templates side of things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is a much more improved software. Its technological features are very advanced compared to the ones from other softwares. It makes it easy to create work of quality, to analyze and visualize any process or data and generate ideas of any kind. It is the easiest … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Foster Director, Marketing Operations in Marketing at Many (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Even though it’s a more expensive solution, Vizio is built for the enterprise. Therefore, it integrates perfectly with our existing Microsoft stack, and quite frankly, because it’s such a more mature product, it provides exactly the functionality we need and expect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is more aligned for professional presentation where a process flow is very important to be read and understood. Microsoft Visio is the market leader in this field and has all the great options. Comparing to other tool Microsoft Visio is great for flow charts and … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Miro	Microsoft Visio
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (5571 ratings)	8.1 (70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (149 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (104 ratings)	8.0 (5 ratings)
Availability	9.8 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (46 ratings)	7.3 (14 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (3586 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	7.9 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (3934 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.2 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.8 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)