Miro vs Figma (2026): the whiteboard-first workspace or the design platform with a whiteboard inside?
Miro is the visual collaboration platform built around the infinite whiteboard: workshops, mapping, retrospectives and planning, with AI features woven in, from a free plan and Starter at $8 per member a month billed annually. Figma is the product design platform — interface design, prototyping and Dev Mode — with FigJam, its whiteboard, riding along as a seat type inside the same plan, from a free Starter plan and Professional seats from $3 a month.
| Miro | Figma | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free plan: unlimited boards, but only the 3 most recent stay editable; 10 AI credits a month | Starter free: 3 Figma Design files and 3 FigJam boards, plus unlimited drafts; 150 AI credits a day up to 500 a month |
| Paid tier | Starter $8 per member a month billed annually ($10 monthly); Business $20 per member a month billed annually | Professional: Full seat $16 a month, Dev seat $12, Collab seat $3 — all per seat, billed annually |
| Best for | Teams that live on whiteboards — workshops, mapping, retrospectives — and need unlimited boards | Product teams that design interfaces and want the whiteboard inside the same tool as the design files |
| Standout strength | The deepest whiteboard in the category: 250-plus integrations, Docs, Tables, Slides and Kanban on one board, plus AI workflows and agents on Business | One subscription covers whiteboarding, UI design, Dev Mode and Slides — and the seat model prices stakeholders at $3 a month instead of $16 |
| Watch out for | Everyone on the team needs the same paid seat, so a 30-person team pays $240 a month on Starter, and guest access needs Business | FigJam is not a standalone purchase any more — the $3 Collab seat only makes sense inside a Figma plan, and designers need $16 Full seats |
Miro wins when the whiteboard is the work: a workshop with 30 people, a customer-journey map, a retrospective that needs voting, timers and templates. Its Starter plan at $8 per member a month billed annually is cheap for what it unlocks — unlimited boards, visitor editing and high-resolution exports — and its AI features, from board summaries to AI workflows on Business, are built for facilitation rather than decoration. Figma wins when the whiteboard is one stop on the way to a shipped product: a brainstorm that becomes a wireframe, that becomes a prototype, that a developer inspects in Dev Mode — all in one file.
The pricing models make the comparison tricky. Miro charges the same $8 for every member, so a 30-person workshop costs $240 a month. Figma charges by role — $16 for designers, $12 for developers, $3 for stakeholders — so a 10-person product team with 3 designers, 4 developers and 3 stakeholders costs about $105 a month. If your team designs products, Figma's seat model is the cheaper and more coherent buy. If your team runs workshops and never opens a design file, Miro is the better whiteboard for the money.
Sources: official pricing pages and 2026 comparison coverage. Miro listing · Figma listing
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