Every free diagramming tier that clears our bar in 2026: 4 offers meet the criteria and 6 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 7 of them: on 4 the page we cite did not answer, and on 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Online real-time diagrams (flowchart, UML, network). Free plan: unlimited users, 6 sheets max, real-time editing, PNG export, templates & shapes, comment & chat, code-to-graph, kanban tool, media library. In-app video chat limited to 3 users; 50 activity entries per diagram; no revision history or premium templates.
Relationship maps with animation, decorations, filters, clustering, spreadsheet imports, etc. The free tier allows unlimited public projects. Graph size unlimited. Free private projects for students. Sandbox mode is available if you prefer not to leave your file publicly online (upload, edit, download, discard).
AWS/Azure architecture diagramming — Free plan: single user only, manual diagrams limited to a 12x15 component grid, unlimited private diagrams, PNG/PDF/SVG export, private shared links, basic cost calculations. No live-scan/auto-discovery, team management, infinite canvas, version history, API access, or SSO. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-11-06, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free description-to-diagrams tool for developers. Create informal UML class, object, or entity-relationship diagrams using your keyword. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Online diagrams stored locally in Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox. Free for all features and storage levels. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-28, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
interactive diagrams that allow users to see their infrastructure from multiple perspectives and levels of detail. Charts can be expressed in code. The free tier has unlimited private diagrams with up to 3 viewers. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-04, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Collaborative whiteboard — 3 editable boards, unlimited team members, 10 AI credits/month, 5 Talktracks, 250+ app integrations including Microsoft, Slack, Google, and Adobe. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-16, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-07, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free open-source white-boarding and diagramming tool with intelligent arrows, snapping, sticky notes, and SVG export features. Multiplayer mode for collaborative editing. Free official VS Code extension available as well. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
An online diagram tool with collaboration features. Free plan with three editable documents, 100 professional templates, and basic collaboration features.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| drawDB | Free | Free and open-source online database diagram editor with no signup required. | stable | 2026-10-30 |
| cacoo.com | Free | Online real-time diagrams (flowchart, UML, network). Free plan: unlimited users, 6 sheets max, real-time editing, PNG ex... read found the page different · 2026-11-07 |
stable | 2026-11-07 / 2026-10-12 |
| Kumu.io | Free | Relationship maps with animation, decorations, filters, clustering, spreadsheet imports, etc. The free tier allows unlim... | stable | 2026-11-04 |
| Cloudcraft | Free | AWS/Azure architecture diagramming — Free plan: single user only, manual diagrams limited to a 12x15 component grid, unl... | not published page states no amount · 2026-11-06 |
2026-11-06 / 2026-08-26 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free diagramming offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
4 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.