One workspaceinstead of five tools
Most teams stitch their workday together from Miro, Lucidchart, Notion, Google, and a coding agent. OpenCharts is the AI-native canvas that covers every step from research to shipped artifact, and pairs with the coding agent through MCP.
Bundled, AI-native, fairly priced
All-in-one canvas
Flowcharts, whiteboards, notes, presentations, code, image canvas, file storage, team chat, and a community forum — one workspace, one login.
AI-native, not bolted on
Theo generates from prompts and documents inside every canvas. Included on every plan, even Free — no "AI add-on" surcharge.
3–5× cheaper
Miro + Notion + Google Slides costs $25+/user/mo across three subscriptions. OpenCharts Pro gives you everything for $24.99/mo total.
Honest takes on each tool
What we're better at, what they're still better at, and where we work together.
Miro owns the freeform whiteboard. OpenCharts pairs that canvas with structured diagrams, AI extraction, and slide decks so brainstorms turn into shippable artifacts.
- AI extraction from PDFs, PowerPoints, and images
- Structured flowcharts with 20+ node types
- Notes and AI presentations in the same workspace
- 200-person facilitation rituals (timers, voting, breakouts)
- Marketplace of mature workshop integrations
Lucidchart is the diagram editor enterprises already know — OpenCharts is the AI-native canvas that ships generation, real-time multiplayer, and the rest of the workspace on the free plan.
- AI flowchart generation from a PDF or prompt on the free plan
- Whiteboards, notes, and AI presentations in the same workspace
- Unlimited free real-time collaborators
- Specialized stencil libraries (AWS official iconography, niche ERDs)
- High-fidelity Visio import for legacy stencils
Notion is excellent at docs and databases; OpenCharts gives you the diagrams, whiteboards, and decks Notion can only embed.
- Native, editable flowcharts and whiteboards (not embeds)
- AI flowchart generation from a PDF or prompt
- AI presentation builder with PPTX export
- Long-form docs, wikis, and relational databases as a source of truth
- Mature page templates and database views for project tracking
Many teams keep Notion as the doc/wiki layer and use OpenCharts for every diagram, whiteboard, and slide deck Notion would otherwise need to embed.
Most teams default to Google when they need to research, write, and present — then end up juggling Search, Docs, Slides, and Drawings. OpenCharts is the AI-native canvas where research, diagrams, notes, and decks live together.
- AI Deep Research that cites sources and lands in your workspace, not 20 open tabs
- Real editable flowcharts and whiteboards (not Google Drawings)
- AI presentation builder that ships polished decks from one prompt
- Gmail, Calendar, and Drive as core collaboration infrastructure
- Free shared document storage at unlimited team scale
OpenCharts exports straight to Google Drive and PPTX. Many teams keep Gmail + Drive + Sheets in Google and use OpenCharts as the AI canvas where research, diagrams, notes, and decks come together.
Claude Code writes and ships code in your terminal. OpenCharts is where the thinking happens — Deep Research, flowcharts, whiteboards, notes, and decks — and where Claude Code can read and write artifacts through MCP.
- Editable flowcharts, system diagrams, and architecture whiteboards
- Deep Research that cites sources and lands in your workspace
- Notes, AI presentations, and decks tied to the codebase you're shipping
- Reading and writing production code directly in your real repo
- Running long agentic coding loops from your terminal
Connect Claude Code to the OpenCharts MCP server (19 tools, bearer auth) and it can read your flowcharts, notes, and decks AND write new artifacts into the canvas while it ships code in your repo.
Director Mode vs the video studios
20 video models from 11 labs, picked per take inside one studio. See how it stacks up against Runway, Higgsfield, and 8frame.
Runway is the editor professionals know, now with a model menu attached. Director Mode starts from the other end: you direct in plain language, every note becomes a new take the thread keeps, and 20 models from 11 labs are one tap away inside the plan you already have.
- Directing by note: every change is a new take that remembers the last, kept in a thread you can branch
- A saved cast with a seven-angle turnaround, a voice, and rules, held across up to 200 scenes
- Story Mode, Lyric Video, Perform, and Final Cut in the same studio
- A full timeline editor with ProRes, PNG-sequence, and HDR export
- Act-Two performance capture and Ruby SDR-to-HDR conversion
Runway's Aleph edit model is one of the models Director Mode offers, so footage you shot or rendered can be restyled with it without leaving the set, and the result lands in the take thread like any other take.
Higgsfield is a model buffet with a camera-preset library and credits that expire every month. Director Mode is a set: the same class of frontier models, a take thread that never forgets, a cast that holds across 200 scenes, and one plan that covers everything else you make.
- Directing by note: every change is a new take that remembers the last, and the thread keeps all of them
- A saved cast with a seven-angle turnaround, a voice, and rules, held across up to 200 scenes
- Re-shoot a finished take from a new camera: the Camera Studio rebuilds the frame as a 3D set you orbit, and the engine renders the same action from where you stood
- 70-plus one-click cinematic motion presets, a longer list than the Camera Studio's named moves
- Soul ID face training and a deep catalog of social effects, face swaps, and UGC templates
8frame asks you to build the pipeline before you make the picture. Director Mode skips the graph: describe the shot, direct the changes, and frontier models render take after take with nothing ever lost.
- No graph to build: talk, watch the take, give the next note
- Every take kept in a branchable thread, and scenes continue from the take you starred
- A saved cast with a seven-angle turnaround, a voice, and rules, held across the whole production
- Node-based pipelines you can save, re-run, and share as templates
- Several artists working on one shared canvas, with agency-sized seat plans
Grouped so the story reads at a glance
Public list pricing, side by side
The closest comparable plans. Annual billing assumed where applicable.
- All canvases
- AI on every plan
- Unlimited collaborators
- Includes decks + code + image
- Whiteboard + diagramming
- AI as add-on
- Min 2 seats
- No native presentations
- Diagrams only
- AI as add-on
- Min 3 seats
- No notes / presentations
- Docs + databases
- AI add-on $10/user
- No real diagrams
- No whiteboard / slides
Pricing reflects publicly listed plans at time of writing. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest rates.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I import my Miro, Lucidchart, or Google Slides boards into OpenCharts?
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What's the AI cost compared to Miro AI / Lucid AI / Notion AI / Gemini for Workspace?
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