Should you build your own Miro?
Online collaborative whiteboard for diagrams, workshops, and planning
A simple multiplayer whiteboard is doable; Miro's value is scale, templates, integrations, facilitation, permissions, and reliability with many users.
ENOriginal research content in English. Original prompt preserved in English.
Build me a personal whiteboard app to replace Miro. Requirements:
- Do not write a canvas engine from scratch: build on the tldraw SDK (React +
Vite). It already does shapes, sticky notes, connectors, and selection well.
- A local web app on localhost:4900 with a board picker: named boards with
thumbnails, create, rename, delete.
- Each board autosaves its tldraw snapshot JSON to SQLite (better-sqlite3 behind a
small Express API) 2 seconds after the last change, keeping the previous 20
snapshots as undo insurance.
- A toolbar button exports the current board as PNG and SVG to
~/Whiteboards/<board-name>.png.
- A template row on the new-board screen seeded from JSON files in templates/:
retro grid, brainstorm columns, weekly plan.
- Works fully offline, binds to localhost, no accounts, no telemetry.
- Optional: share-with-one-person mode over my private network using tldraw's sync
package, two cursors max. Skip it if it costs more than an hour.
- Out of scope: workshop facilitation tools (timers, voting), integrations, and
performance tuning for 50-person boards. This is my thinking canvas, not a venue.
- README: dev and build commands, and where board data lives on disk.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running. · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR
What would building your own look like?
Build a canvas with sticky notes, shapes, connectors, comments, and optional multiplayer sync.
What you will need
- canvas library
- WebSocket/collab backend
- database
- auth
- hosting
- optional template library
They pay for workshops where dozens of people can join and everything still works.
xlarge-board performance
xtemplates
xintegrations
xfacilitation tools
xpermissions
xenterprise controls
Prefer something ready-made?
View all 5 alternatives to Miro →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.
How much does Miro cost?
- Monthly billing
- $10/mo$10/mo · per person
- Per year
- $120/yr$120/yr
- Annual billing
- $96/yr20% cheaper than paying monthly
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$52.26/moR$502/yr
Saved to My list. You will see a notice on this site when the price changes.
You complete the purchase on Miro’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/user | $0/user | Unlimited members and boards, but only the 3 most recently created boards remain editable; 10 AI credits/month; 100 MCP calls/day |
| starter | $10/user≈ $10 | $8/user≈ $8 | Unlimited private boards and project spaces; visitor editing; 25 AI credits/member/month; 500 MCP calls/day |
| business | $25/user≈ $25 | $20/user≈ $20 | Unlimited workspaces and guests; 50 AI credits/member/month; 2,000 MCP calls/day; SSO, advanced diagramming and two-way integrations |
| enterprise | custom | - | 30-member minimum; starts at 2,500 pooled AI credits/month; 10,000 MCP calls/day; SCIM, data residency and organization governance |
Free tierUnlimited members and boards, but only 3 most recent boards editable; 10 AI credits/month and 100 MCP calls/day; no guests or visitors
Billing termsfree + per-member monthly or annual billing; annual saves 20% and is prepaid; automated card billing has no seat minimum, while invoicing is annual-only with 10 Starter or 5 Business licenses
Additional costsNew paid members are prorated immediately, while removed seats stay billable until renewal; extra AI-credit packs, Enterprise Guard and Premium Support cost extra; some data-residency migrations carry fees
verified 2026-10-20 · source ↗
Is it cheaper to build or buy Miro?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.
Starting hours estimated from the analysis (multi-day). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).
Can I rebuild Miro?
Kinda. The core of Miro is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: large-board performance, templates. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does Miro cost?
Miro costs about $10/mo (Starter, checked 10/20/2026), which is $96 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Miro?
Honestly: large-board performance; templates; integrations; facilitation tools; permissions; enterprise controls. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Miro?
Yes: Excalidraw (The best simple escape hatch for collaborative diagrams, workshops, and planning: fast, free, local-first, and pleasantly uninterested in becoming Salesforce.) AFFiNE (An integrated canvas, docs, databases, and planning workspace for teams willing to accept a younger product and real self-hosting chores.) CryptPad (Encrypted collaborative whiteboards with persistent folders, permissions, and sharing; fewer templates, far better data boundaries.) All 5 curated free alternatives are at https://viberadar.si/miro/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.