Lucidchart vs Visual Paradigm comparison

"Lucidchart is a 10 out of 10 when it comes to documenting things such as processes, systems, and new teams. It's just so user-friendly. The fact that even if you've never used Lucidchart, if you take a template and adapt it, you'll inevitably find something to fit your needs, but it's also perfect for building from scratch. It's the ease of use, clarity, and the different functionalities that make it incredibly useful."

"In general, this product has improved our organization because it makes accessing up-to-date processes and planning a lot easier."

"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."

"It gives information about the roles and responsibilities of any architecture system and the exact system flow, business flow, or process flow. It also gives information about how the development team should take it forward. It shows the gap analysis in the flow charts and makes it easy to define the actor and his roles and responsibilities in the organization."

"Lucidchart's ability to create a visualization that people prefer to look at, over reading written documents, has definitely saved me a lot of time. Moreover, it has helped to make my code bug-free because I no longer have broken endpoints."

"I like the panel on the left of the screen that has all of the shapes that are available to use in the charts. It's easy to use because you can just drag and drop."

"The most valuable features are the different templates that they have already created, as well as all the different shapes you can use in the process charts because each shape stands for a different element or thing that's being done. It's easy to distinguish between different steps using the already set-out shapes."

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

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

"The application is easy to use and provides informative diagrams."

"Visual Paradigm allowed me to create UML diagrams efficiently."

"Visual Paradigm is simple and easy to use."

"The initial setup is extremely straightforward."

"It is a scalable solution since it can be used at an individual level as well as for enterprise-sized businesses."

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

"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."

"I don't know if I will be able to add some animations if I want to. I believe the problem may be the program's process flows but if I want to transfer it into a PPP or any other document, I can only do image transfer."

"In terms of improvement, there can be more templates. There are good templates but there could still be more."

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

"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."

"Sometimes, I have created charts with a lot of layers, which locks down parts of the chart and hides parts of the chart to edit it. If they have a better way to deal with specific layers when it gets complex, then that would be helpful. I would like to see something like an illustrator program, where they have a pallet of these layers that I want and don't want as well as being able to see each layer individually. That is the one thing that could be helpful."

"When my colleague initially tried to edit the file that I shared with him, he had some trouble. This is something that should be improved."

"Although it comes with a lot of pre-existing tools, it would help if it had some more design templates. By now, they must know what kinds of things people are trying out, and that should help them create more templates. I would also like to see a little more automation."

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

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

"More flexibility when choosing the type of diagram would be nice."

"The product's versioning capability needs improvement."

"In terms of room for improvement in Visual Paradigm, I tried looking for one. I'm pleased with the tool, but it would be great if you could integrate Visual Paradigm with more tools. For example, when moving from Visual Paradigm to another tool, such as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, the process could be improved a bit. Still, I wonder if it's not limited by the standards Visual Paradigm follows, such as XMI files. It could be connected to limitations related to the standards rather than a tool limitation. When you move projects from Visual Paradigm into Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect via XMI files, you lose all your notes from the elements, so this is an area for improvement in Visual Paradigm. TOGAF support is an additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Visual Paradigm. I'd also like the tool to have ArchiMate support. If both TOGAF and ArchiMate could be supported in Visual Paradigm and made part of a lower level of licensing or cheaper licensing models, that would be best for me."

"The solution can be heavy on resource usage."

"I was looking to generate code from the diagrams, but it was not totally clear how to do it."

"Its pricing is very affordable and reasonable for the features that it provides. I am using its basic plan, and for my usage, it is perfectly reasonable. It suits perfectly."

"The pricing is very reasonable, and they have a free trial available that you can play with."

"I was using the paid version, but at $12 USD per month, I canceled the plan because it was a little bit too expensive for me."

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

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

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

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

"There is a nominal charge for the paid version of the product. They have a free version available and from what I could see, there was not much difference between it and the pro version."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Visual Paradigm's pricing is not expensive."

"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."