Lucidchart vs Visual Paradigm comparison

"I really like the drag and drop feature because it makes the work easier. It is very easy to use. All the pieces are very good. All the icons and all the fields are available in the left panel. So, I just click, drag, and then edit a piece. When I showed it to my managing director, he was very inspired, and he also got a premium account for himself."

"Lucidchart's capabilities for visualizing and understanding process flows or workflows is excellent. The way that you put together the parts of charts and edit the chart are all very intuitive and easy to use."

"The interface is very good and easy to use. We don't need documentation on how to use it. It is self-explanatory, which is very convenient for a new user."

"The collaboration, hands-down, is the top feature. It is valuable because our company doesn't believe in working in silos... While I may be the one leading the efforts, it's very important that my team gets buy-in on decisions being made when we're designing. It's critical, especially in this virtual environment, when we're not in an office to have a team meeting and able to whiteboard something. Lucidchart is an extremely useful tool for our team."

"I love the simplicity and how clean all the different boxes, arrows, and charts can be. Especially with something complicated like our sales flow, it could be really easy to be all cluttered and everything like that, but my favorite feature is how clean it is, how straightforward it makes our flow look, and how easy it is to understand. Lucidchart accommodates both Mac and PC users which is important to us because at my company right now, our sales floor and then every other computer we have as a company is a Mac, but a lot of our employees actually have PCs and Android as well. So it's really beneficial because if we're ever on the go or we need to make a change, it's versatile and is open for both Mac and PC."

"It is important to me that the solution accommodates both Mac and PC users because the developers in our company use Mac, then the business people use Windows. The technical people create the technical architecture using Lucidchart. So, it is important that it is compatible with both the systems."

"Using Lucidchart for documenting processes is great. The elements are ready to use and it is quick to do."

"Creating flowcharts and documentation is easy to do and the results are very nice."

"Some of the most valuable features of this process modeling tool are process simulation and process animation."

"I like the fact that this solution is complete."

"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup was straightforward."

"I find it very user-friendly for my purposes, which is creating business process models that I can publish as HTML pages. It has worked flawlessly for my project, and my clients are able to utilize it as an internal web portal for their process documentation and other needs."

"Using the Component Diagram, Visual Paradigm helps with design and control, reusing components."

"I love Visual Paradigm because it has many different types of diagrams. For any field of engineering, we can find a diagram."

"The most valuable feature of Visual Paradigm is the ability to design form flows, add libraries, create organizational charts, and connect them all together."

"Visual Paradigm is simple and easy to use."

"A couple of times when I tried to move a line, connecting two shapes on an organizational chart, occasionally the line doesn't move as intuitively as I think it should. I have to fiddle around with it a few times to get it to do what I want it to do."

"I would like an on-premises version of the software that I can just download and use. I think that it's easier that way."

"As far as I know, LucidChart can’t be automated with Visual Basic .Net like Visio."

"There were some things I wish were a little bit more user-friendly. For instance, when you're putting all the stuff onto a document or PDF, there's a set limit of width and height. It would have been very nice in certain situations to be able to drag people on the far edges and move them back up so that everything fits nicely onto the page."

"Perhaps it already exists, but if there were software to install the solution on a Mac, that would be helpful. I see that it's not in the App Store, so that's something that could be improved."

"One of the issues has been that, as far as I understand, even to view it, the other person needs a Lucidchart account unless you send them a PDF. That's been a bit of an issue because some people in our organization don't have Lucidchart accounts, only certain people have logins. If we just want to collect comments from people, that's been a bit complicated."

"One of the major drawbacks is that we have to extract the work in Lucidchart as an image when we want to create a presentation."

"They should make it more user-friendly. The only option is either to use the existing template with already existing colors and gradients. If you want to do custom colors and gradients, then it's too complicated to use and should be simplified."

"The solution can be heavy on resource usage."

"The solution could be more compatible with other products in the future."

"Takes up a lot of resources."

"Visual Paradigm can improve by having better process mining tools and model integration."

"The user interface is not easy to navigate, so it should be made easier."

"From time to time, we experience some troubles when we work as teams."

"The solution can improve by updating the user interface, and graphics."

"I would like to see the ability to easily export to groupware, such as Atlassian Confluence."

"I have only used the trial version and have not yet paid for it, or explored the pricing options."

"The pricing and licensing are fine, though I wish they didn't require you to buy the licenses in batches of five."

"Pricing comes in at about $100 for a year's subscription, which is very reasonable if this is a tool that you will use more than once."

"I have a subscription as an individual user for one year, and it is not expensive."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty fair. I don't really know what group pricing looks like, but right now, I pay $10 a month for my Lucid subscription. One thing I would say is that I do worry about my bosses being okay with paying $10 a month for every single employee because we would have around 20 people. It makes me a little nervous about whether they are going to pay $200 a month for people to be able to use this software. At the same time, from where I'm sitting, it's totally worth it. We save a thousand dollars from using this software. It's still a no-brainer."

"The price was low enough to make me think that it was fine, I'll go for it. I think it's $80 or so. It's not too expensive."

"One of the reasons we were able to get approval within two hours from our management was that it was cheap enough. We have a 3% or 10% collaboration package, which comes out to be 70 bucks a year. It was very cheap, and we had no issues actually getting the full version. It was very affordable for a business."

"I pay $95 a year for it. It seems like a reasonable price."

"This product is fairly cheap, but if you want more complex features, e.g. integration with other products, it does require an additional cost."

"This is an open-sourced solution, it is free to use."

"I rate Visual Paradigm's pricing a five out of ten."

"You can move between the tiers from month to month so you are not restricted to one pricing model."

"You can use Paradigm on a subscription basis and you can choose from different tiers of subscription."

"The pricing of Visual Paradigm is very appropriate and affordable. There are no hidden costs involved."

"Visual Paradigm has two models available. One of them is the educational edition, and another is the business edition. For my personal usage, I use the educational version mostly. In a project, my customers have to purchase a license."

"Over the years I've seen an increase in price, and it makes it difficult for a single person company, like me, to decide whether to extend the license."