Lucidspark
6.4Lucid Software's whiteboard with the Lucid AI assistant and tight Lucidchart integration — voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier
Lucidspark is the whiteboard product from Lucid Software (makers of Lucidchart) — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, private-mode brainstorming, anonymous voting sessions, timers, the Lucid AI assistant (prompt-to-board, clustering, summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier; Breakout Boards and the Jira/Azure DevOps card sync are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.
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Miro
7.1Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a 7,000+ template library (300+ retro formats among them), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Engage live polls and word clouds, real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Flows and Sidekicks ship as AI Workflows, a paid Enterprise product.
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Lucidspark scores 6.4 overall and is best for engineering and PM teams already on Lucidchart who want sticky-note retros and brainstorming on the same platform — and whose security review favours a SOC 2 / ISO 27001 vendor. It offers a free tier.
Miro scores 7.1 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. It offers a free tier.
Lucidspark leads on open platform. Miro leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Lucidspark | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Mid-market | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, unlimited shapes per board, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode and Lucid AI — no voting, timer or facilitator tools | 3 editable boards, ~10 AI credits/mo, 100 MCP calls/day, full template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards, SSO, guests or two-way integrations |
| Starting price | $9/user/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo (Team plan, 24 users at $10/user) | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2011 |
| HQ | South Jordan, US | Amsterdam, NL |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia | United States · European Union · Australia |
| Languages | 10 (English, Spanish, German, …) | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV · JSON | Image · PDF · CSV |
| Features | 38 | 39 |
| Integrations | 7 | 11 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Lucidspark | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓ | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | ✓note | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓note | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | ✓note |
Lucidspark — pros
- + Tight integration with Lucidchart — switch between diagram and whiteboard on the same canvas
- + <em>Private mode</em> hides sticky note authors until the session ends, and a voting session can be set fully anonymous
- + Strong enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, US/EU/AU data residency
- + Official Lucid MCP server is GA and shipping monthly — search boards, summarise them, generate synced Jira cards from Claude or ChatGPT
- + Lucid AI is included on every tier today, free plan included
Lucidspark — cons
- − Voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the $10/user Team tier — the free plan's three boards can't run a facilitated retro
- − Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps are Enterprise-only
- − No health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup
- − AI is general brainstorming/clustering, not retro-aware — no sentiment, action-item extraction or trend insight across retros
- − Retro template depth trails Miro and Mural, and the REST API needs a Team or Enterprise account
Miro — pros
- + Enormous template library (7,000+ board templates, 300+ retro formats) plus the Miroverse community gallery
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by colour, tag, author, keyword and sentiment — real time saved on a 60-sticky board
- + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way card sync
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are bundled with Business; participants join by QR code with no Miro account
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001 (AI governance) and US/EU/AU data residency
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter (annual). The tier that actually matters for retros — Business, with two-way Jira sync, SSO and Engage — is $480/mo
- − No health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team pulse; Engage Scales reads the room once, it doesn't draw a trend line
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and data residency are Enterprise-only (30-seat minimum)
- − No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard; actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps cards
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