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Miro charges per editor seat, not per viewer — but “editors” and “visitors” mean very different things depending on your plan. Before committing to a tier, you need to understand board limits, who can actually edit, and where the pricing jumps get steep.
This guide breaks down Miro’s four plans for 2026, calculates real costs at team sizes of 3, 10, 25, and 50 editors, and compares Miro against FigJam and Lucidspark so you can make a genuinely informed call.
Miro Plans at a Glance
Free — $0/month
– 3 editable boards (permanent)
– Unlimited team members as editors
– Unlimited visitors (view-only)
– 2,500+ templates
– Basic integrations (Slack, Google Drive, Jira)
– No SSO, no advanced security
– Best for: small teams experimenting with visual collaboration
Starter — $10/editor/month (billed annually) | $12 monthly
– Unlimited boards
– Unlimited editors and visitors
– Custom templates
– Password-protected boards
– Private boards and projects
– Jira two-way sync
– Miro Assist (AI features, limited)
– Best for: growing teams that hit the 3-board wall
Business — $20/editor/month (billed annually) | $24 monthly
– Everything in Starter
– Unlimited Miro Assist usage
– Advanced collaboration: voting, timer, video chat
– Board export (PDF, image)
– SAML SSO
– Advanced admin controls
– Salesforce integration
– Smart meetings
– Best for: organizations needing governance and AI access
Enterprise — Custom pricing (typically $25–$40+/editor/month)
– Everything in Business
– SCIM provisioning
– Data residency (EU/US)
– Dedicated customer success
– Advanced compliance and audit logs
– Volume licensing discounts
– Best for: 50+ seat orgs with IT/security requirements
Board Limits: The Free Plan’s Biggest Catch
The Free plan caps you at three editable boards — not three boards per person, three total for the entire workspace. Once you hit that limit, you can archive old boards to free up slots, but archived boards can’t be edited.
This trips up a lot of teams. You start a retrospective, a product roadmap, and an org chart. Three boards, done. The fourth project forces a decision: archive something or upgrade.
What the Free plan gets right is that all workspace members can edit those three boards — there’s no per-seat charge. So a 10-person startup can genuinely use Miro for free as long as three active boards is enough.
On Starter and above, boards are unlimited. That alone is the core upgrade trigger for most teams.
Visitors vs. Editors: What the Distinction Actually Means
Miro separates users into two types:
- Editors — can create and modify content on boards. You pay for these seats on paid plans.
- Visitors — can view boards and leave comments, but can’t edit sticky notes or move objects. Free on all plans, unlimited.
This matters for external stakeholders. A client reviewing a wireframe? Visitor. A developer adding notes to a sprint board? Editor. You only pay for people who actively contribute to boards.
On the Free plan, everyone in your workspace is technically an editor but you’re still capped at three boards. On paid plans, you pay $10–$20/month per editor seat, so there’s a real incentive to classify stakeholders as visitors wherever possible.
Miro Assist: AI Features by Plan
Miro Assist is Miro’s AI toolkit, and access differs significantly by plan:
| Feature | Free | Starter | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miro Assist access | No | Limited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI text generation | No | Yes (capped) | Yes | Yes |
| AI mind map generation | No | Yes (capped) | Yes | Yes |
| AI image generation | No | Yes (capped) | Yes | Yes |
| AI sticky note clustering | No | Yes (capped) | Yes | Yes |
The Starter plan gives you a taste of Miro Assist — enough to generate a few mind maps or cluster sticky notes from a brainstorm — but if your team runs frequent retrospectives or workshops, you’ll hit the cap and need Business tier for unrestricted access.
Collaboration Features: Voting, Timer, and Video Chat
Three features that come up constantly in team collaboration are only available on Business and Enterprise:
- Voting — team members vote on sticky notes or items during workshops. Essential for prioritization exercises like dot voting.
- Timer — a built-in countdown visible to all participants, useful for timeboxing workshop activities.
- Video chat — embedded video call within the Miro board, so you don’t need to run a separate Zoom/Meet window alongside.
If you run design sprints, retrospectives, or facilitated workshops, the absence of voting on Starter is a real limitation. Teams often work around it with third-party tools or just accept that the Starter plan isn’t designed for facilitated sessions.
Security and Admin: SSO and SCIM
| Feature | Free | Starter | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAML SSO | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SCIM user provisioning | No | No | No | Yes |
| Data residency (EU/US) | No | No | No | Yes |
| Audit logs | No | No | Basic | Advanced |
| Advanced admin controls | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Password-protected boards | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SAML SSO is locked to Business tier and above — unlike some competitors that include SSO on mid-tier plans. If your IT team requires SSO as a prerequisite for tool approval, you’re looking at $20/editor/month minimum.
SCIM (automated user provisioning/deprovisioning) is Enterprise-only. For orgs with 50+ seats cycling through onboarding and offboarding, manual seat management on Business becomes operationally painful fast.
Data residency — the ability to choose whether your data lives in EU or US data centers — is also Enterprise-only. This matters for GDPR compliance teams in Europe.
Real Cost at Different Team Sizes (Annual Billing)
| Team Size | Free | Starter ($10/editor) | Business ($20/editor) | Enterprise (est. $30/editor) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 editors | $0 | $360/yr | $720/yr | ~$1,080/yr |
| 10 editors | $0 | $1,200/yr | $2,400/yr | ~$3,600/yr |
| 25 editors | $0 | $3,000/yr | $6,000/yr | ~$9,000/yr |
| 50 editors | $0 | $6,000/yr | $12,000/yr | ~$18,000/yr (before volume discount) |
At 50 seats, Enterprise pricing often includes volume negotiation. Real Enterprise contracts for 50+ seats frequently land below the $30 list estimate — sometimes $22–$28/editor after negotiation. Always request a quote rather than accepting sticker price.
One thing to watch: Miro’s minimum seat purchase on paid plans. Starter requires a minimum of 3 editor seats ($360/yr minimum). If you have a 2-person team, you’re still paying for 3.
Templates and Smart Meetings
All plans get access to Miro’s template library — 2,500+ templates including retrospective formats, product roadmaps, mind maps, and user journey maps. The difference on paid plans is custom templates: you can save your own board formats and reuse them across the team.
Smart meetings (Business+) are Miro’s structured meeting workflow feature — agenda-driven boards with built-in activities like icebreakers, voting rounds, and action item capture. If you run recurring standup or sprint ceremonies, this is worth testing.
Miro vs. FigJam vs. Lucidspark
| Factor | Miro Starter | FigJam Professional | Lucidspark Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per editor/month (annual) | $10 | $12 (part of Figma) | $9 |
| Unlimited boards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visitor/viewer seats | Free, unlimited | Free (limited) | Free, unlimited |
| Native voting | Business ($20) | Yes (Pro) | Yes (Team) |
| SSO included at | Business ($20) | Enterprise only | Enterprise only |
| AI features | Starter (limited), Business (full) | Basic (Figma AI) | Limited |
| Template library | 2,500+ | ~300 | ~1,000 |
| Integrations depth | Strong (Jira, Salesforce, etc.) | Figma-centric | Google Workspace focus |
| Video chat on board | Business only | Yes (cursor chat) | No |
FigJam is priced as part of Figma’s Professional plan ($12/editor vs. Miro’s $10 Starter). It’s tighter and less cluttered than Miro for pure ideation, but the template library and integration depth don’t match. If your team already lives in Figma, FigJam adds minimal friction.
Lucidspark at $9/editor is the cheapest option of the three, and it includes voting at Team tier — something Miro reserves for Business at $20. If facilitated workshops are your main use case and budget is tight, Lucidspark is worth a look. However, Miro’s template library and AI tooling are noticeably ahead.
When to Use Each Plan
Free — Right for: solo users, small teams under 3 active projects, or anyone doing a genuine evaluation before spending money. Not right for: teams with more than three concurrent workstreams.
Starter ($10/editor/month) — Right for: teams that need unlimited boards, basic privacy controls, and custom templates. The sweet spot for 5–15 person teams doing async collaboration without heavy workshop facilitation. Not right for: teams that need voting, timers, SSO, or heavy AI use.
Business ($20/editor/month) — Right for: teams running live workshops with voting and timers, organizations requiring SAML SSO for IT compliance, and power users who want unrestricted Miro Assist. At $20/editor, the jump from Starter doubles your cost — only upgrade if you actually need these features. Not right for: teams that don’t facilitate structured sessions and don’t need SSO.
Enterprise — Right for: 50+ seat orgs with IT provisioning requirements (SCIM), European teams needing data residency, or companies running Miro at scale with dedicated support needs. Not right for: teams that can self-manage seats on Business.
Annual vs. Monthly Billing
Miro charges a 20% premium for monthly billing:
- Starter: $10/editor/month (annual) vs. $12/editor/month (monthly)
- Business: $20/editor/month (annual) vs. $24/editor/month (monthly)
At 10 editors on Business, monthly billing costs $2,880/year vs. $2,400 annual — a $480 difference. Unless your team has genuine seasonality (e.g., you only need Miro for 8 months of the year), annual billing is straightforward math.
Hidden Costs to Watch
Three things that can inflate your actual Miro spend:
- Minimum seat requirements — Paid plans require a minimum of 3 editor seats. Two-person team? You pay for three.
- Guest editor confusion — Miro allows guests from outside your organization to edit boards, but they count as editor seats on your plan. If external collaborators edit boards, they’re adding to your seat count.
- Miro Assist add-ons — Miro has signaled that some advanced AI capabilities may become add-on purchases in future. Monitor your billing notifications when Miro rolls out new AI features.
Bottom Line
Miro’s pricing structure is cleaner than it looks at first glance, but the feature gating is aggressive. The jump from Starter to Business — doubling cost from $10 to $20 — is justified mainly by three things: voting, SSO, and unlimited Miro Assist. If your team doesn’t need any of those, Starter is the right call.
For competitive positioning: Miro’s template depth and integration catalog put it ahead of FigJam and Lucidspark for teams with diverse use cases. But if your primary use is workshop facilitation on a tight budget, Lucidspark’s $9 Team tier with native voting is worth considering before defaulting to Miro Business.
The Free plan is legitimately useful for evaluation and small teams — but three boards runs out faster than you expect.
