Lucidchart vs Visual Paradigm comparison

"There is no alternative to Lucidchart if you want to describe a five-step process with bullet points. I believe every person who ever worked with PowerPoint on any type of documentation and then thought about which tool would actually help to describe what they're trying to do but without the words, would come up with Lucidchart."

"Documenting complicated workflows and technology integrations so that we can go back to it has also been a benefit. And without having to dig into a lot of technical, the codes, the documents, I can simply understand on a high level what's happening."

"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."

"The ability for Lucidchart to create database schemas or modify existing data structures is strong. That's what I initially introduced it for in our organization. The script that Lucidchart provides works with other systems like Oracle, SQL Server, and Postgres that I can copy-paste, and get a quick dump of metadata and import into has saved me a ton of steps that I didn't have to manually create these tables. I had a lot of things where I still had to put in the linkages between tables, but I didn't have to type in every field name, every data type, and everything else that came in. That saved me tons of time."

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

"Lucidchart is a lovely tool for creating visual representations of any process or organization."

"Easy to work on."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use, and just being able to drag and drop."

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

"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."

"Visual Paradigm is simple and easy to use."

"The initial setup is extremely straightforward."

"Stable design software with multiple functions and features. It's simple to install and easy to use."

"The pricing model is attractive."

"The Visual Paradigm business process forms for designing we good. There was not a lot of configuration for the process diagram."

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

"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."

"They could provide more documentation or tutorials of ERDs or DDD on the Lucidchart site. That could be better."

"The flowcharting feature would be improved if it had some kind of prediction capability that helped to create the diagrams, such as the ability to automatically join components with my database."

"The layering is something that can be improved because sometimes, it is confusing for me when I'm trying to get to the layer that I want to edit."

"When you log in the first time, they ask you a lot of questions, such as what are you going to use it for. Half of the things weren't applicable to me. I couldn't see the skip button, so I picked random things because none of the given options was applicable to me. It is a tech startup, and I am in a consultant role. I use it for a variety of things, but the questions were tailored for HR professionals who are creating org structures or IT professionals who are doing data flow diagrams. What if I do both of them depending on the project I'm working on? I just felt that I am wasting time with those questions and just wanted them to stop asking me these questions and get into charting."

"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."

"I would really like to be able to set default appearance settings for new documents because I have a set of appearance settings that I always use. I end up setting that manually every time. There may be a way to do that, and maybe I am not able to find it. This is my only major point of feedback for improvement. There are other little nitpicky things, such as being able to lock layers without them looking like a big red line around them would be nice, but every graphic design software does that, so I understand why they have that. All my concerns are nitpicks. They're not big."

"If it could be a little more visual, in terms of being able to make it stand out a little bit more, then that would be helpful."

"The product can always get better as the industry changes."

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

"For me, what needs improvement in Visual Paradigm is the limited features included in the $99 license, which is the cheapest option. If more features could be included in the cheapest licensing package, Visual Paradigm would be better, especially for businesses that have a limited budget for buying software."

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

"There is a certain inherent complexity when creating UML diagrams."

"It's still early for me to comment since I've only been using it for two months, but the responsiveness when diagramming needs to be improved."

"The solution is not user-friendly. It uses a lot of memory and CPU. You have to have a good computer to use it."

"I would like to see something for visualizing innovation work maps."

"Lucidchart's pricing model is not excessive, as compared to similar products. It is pretty much in line with everyone else."

"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."

"At €167 per user per year, the pricing is slightly higher than Visio, but it's worth it."

"I was using the free version of Lucidchart, which was very helpful."

"I had a quick glimpse of it. It was about 100 Canadian Dollars a year for just me. I don't know if there are any additional costs."

"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."

"The licensing is pretty cost-effective but I haven't considered it on an enterprise level."

"The price and licensing are good."

"Compared to other solutions such as IBM Rational which is expensive, This solution is priced low."

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

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

"I rate the pricing a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Pricing for Visual Paradigm is a four out of five for me. I'm happy with its pricing."

"In terms of pricing, I find Visual Paradigm's subscription services reasonable, especially for the modern and standard editions. However, the premium products can be a bit pricey, especially considering our location in the Middle East. Currently, paying around a hundred dollars per user translates to almost six hundred Egyptian pounds, which can add up. For enterprise licensing, I think the perpetual license option could be more affordable. If it were cheaper, say around five hundred dollars, I would have invested in multiple perpetual licenses long ago. Sometimes, to manage costs, we share accounts among team members or switch access on and off for certain members who aren't actively working on projects. As for additional costs, there are charges for cloud services, which I'm considering because I've already exceeded the free capacity."

"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."

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