About
Whimsical is a web-based whiteboard and diagramming product for technical teams. It provides boards for infinite-canvas work, diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, and wireframes, with real-time multiplayer editing, comments, templates, image and video embeds, and version history.
The free plan includes 3 team boards, 3 teams, 10 guests, unlimited workspace members, file uploads up to 5 MB per file, and 7-day version history. The pricing page also states that viewers are always free and that users can create 2 free workspaces.
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a genuinely usable starter plan, but it is capped on boards, teams, guests, file size, and version history, so it lands well below the $10 Pro plan. Compared with Pro, it keeps most collaboration basics and many core features, but the tighter limits and missing private-team/admin controls make it feel worth about $3/month rather than anywhere near the full paid price. A credit card is required to sign up, which adds a bit of friction.
What's included in the free tier
- Unlimited workspace members
- 3 team boards
- 3 teams
- 10 guests
- Upload files up to 5MB each
- 7-day version history
- Real-time collaboration
- Editors included
- Unlimited viewers
- Public share links with view-only access
- Notification inbox included
- Live Whimsical embeds for public and private content
- Third-party embeds included
- Slack integration included
- Desktop app included
- Every member is an admin
- Role management included
- Custom color themes included
- Custom templates included
- Backlinks included
- Auto-join workspace based on domain matching
- 2 free workspaces
- 20 AI credits per workspace total
See Whimsical pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- team boards
- Unlimited
- teams
- 6
- guests
- 50
- file upload size
- 1GB each
- version history
- 90 days
- Unlimited team boards
- Private teams
- 6 teams
- 50 guests
- Upload files up to 1GB each
- 90-day version history
- Admin roles
- Voting
Business
- teams
- Unlimited
- guests
- 200
- file upload size
- 10GB each
- total storage
- starting at 2TB
- SSO / SAML
- SCIM and more security controls
- Unlimited teams
- 200 guests
- Upload files up to 10GB each
- User offboarding file transfers
- Flexible licensing
- Priority support
Pricing extracted from Whimsical's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
