As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates Conceptboard 3/5 and Miro 3.5/5 in Online Whiteboard. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Conceptboard and 6 pick Miro. Conceptboard scores higher on 2 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty and Pricing transparency). Miro scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (Sharing, permissions & administration, Integrations, import & export, Canvas, templates & content, plus 2 more). Provenance — Conceptboard: EU-Made; Miro: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The lean splits by criterion. Miro is ahead on canvas and content (6.3 vs 4.5), facilitation (7.2 vs 5.8), integrations and export (6.8 vs 4.3) and access and administration (7.5 vs 4.8), with six judges leaning Miro and none leaning Conceptboard on each. Conceptboard is ahead on sovereignty (8.0 vs 6.0, six lean Conceptboard) and pricing transparency (6.2 vs 5.5, four lean Conceptboard, two tie). Security and deployment is the open split: three judges lean Miro, three tie. The weighted totals are higher for Miro for the workshop facilitator (6.6 vs 5.3), product team lead (6.8 vs 5.8), M365 admin (7.3 vs 5.6), works-council member (6.6 vs 6.4), public-sector judge (6.4 vs 6.0) and skeptic (6.4 vs 5.8). The verdicts themselves split, too — Miro on sovereignty (5 to 7), Conceptboard on pricing transparency (5 to 7) — and the Conceptboard verdict reports different figures across captured pages for third-country transfers.
Choose Conceptboard if
Sovereignty decides the purchase: six judges lean Conceptboard on sovereignty (8.0 vs 6.0), and its verdict rests the score on a German contracting entity, hosting in the Frankfurt region on named IONOS and AWS infrastructure, a published data processing agreement, and ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018.
You need an air-gapped deployment: the Conceptboard verdict documents a self-hosted Data Center Edition that runs fully air-gapped.
Your procurement wants documented hosting choices in Germany: the verdict names hosting on IONOS and AWS in the Frankfurt region, with IONOS or STACKIT as paid options.
You must state your costs up front: four judges lean Conceptboard on pricing transparency, where its verdict records published tiers and concrete free-plan limits — alongside 'additional fee' add-ons and unexplained guest counting.
Choose Miro if
Guests must join without accounts: six judges lean Miro on facilitation (7.2 vs 5.8), and its verdict documents joining by QR code or link with no account.
Your team needs SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning: the verdict has SAML starting on the Business plan, with SCIM provisioning and Enterprise audit-to-SIEM, and six judges lean Miro on access and administration (7.5 vs 4.8).
Integration breadth decides the buy: six judges lean Miro on integrations and export (6.8 vs 4.3), though the captured pages give different figures for its integration count (over 160 on one, 250+ on others).
You need canvas basics on day one: six judges lean Miro on canvas and content (6.3 vs 4.5), and we found no public information on sticky notes, freehand drawing or connectors in the captured Conceptboard pages.
An administrator must be able to block AI outright: the Miro verdict documents this control, and on security and deployment three judges lean Miro with three ties (7.2 vs 6.5).
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Skeptic
Has seen a free plan with "unlimited members" that locks every board after the third, "EU data residency" that covers the database but not the AI, and an export that turns two years of workshops into a stack of PNGs. Reads that a product is "enterprise-grade" and asks who can open a board shared by link, whether the boards train anyone's model, what the export keeps — and what leaving would cost.
Conceptboard
Miro
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Canvas, templates & content
Conceptboard
A template library for workshops and retrospectives, templates adaptable to the organisation and saved as team templates, Kanban and Gantt views, sections for presentations, and files from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox on the board are documented, with per-board object limits stated for the free plan. We found no public information on the canvas basics — sticky notes, freehand drawing, shapes and connectors — nor on tables, mind maps, search across boards, or any AI content features. What the pages prove is a shared workspace with templates and project views, short of the structured-data and diagramming level.
Miro
An infinite canvas with sticky notes and frames, 7,000+ templates, flowcharts through UML and sequence diagrams on a single board, and AI-generated slides are all on the record. We found no public information on search across all boards, documented object or participant limits for large boards, tables and kanban on the same board, or templates managed centrally for the organisation.
Workshop facilitation & participation
Conceptboard
Timer, voting, live moderation that guides the audience through the content, presentation sections clicked through in order, and guest contributor access for externals are documented, with boards running inside Teams and Webex meetings. An external audit against EN 301 549 and BITV 2.0 from July 2025 is published — partially compliant, with none of the templates marked accessible and not all PDFs accessible. We found no public information on anonymous or private note modes, breakout areas, participant limits per session, or the locking of objects.
Miro
Joining by QR code or link without an account, a timer, dot voting and polls, a private anonymous mode, Bring Everyone to Me, presentation mode through frames, breakout frames, locking of sections and a statement about enterprise accessibility standards are all documented. We found no published accessibility conformance report, no participant limit beyond 'up to 50 participants' for Engage activities on paid plans, and no export of vote results.
Integrations, import & export
Conceptboard
Named integrations run to Teams, Webex, Confluence embedding via iFrame, Jira on the board, and file imports from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive; the terms of use mention APIs for programmatic access without documenting them. Export appears only as the promise to "fully export or delete your data, either automatically or on request" — no format, no structure, no import path into another tool — so the exit cost of two years of workshops cannot be answered from public pages. We found no public information on Slack, two-way Jira sync, webhooks, imports from other whiteboards, or export as PDF, image or CSV.
Miro
Named apps for Slack, Confluence, Jira and Google Workspace (the captured pages give different figures for the count — over 160 on one, 250+ on others), a REST API, Web SDK, Live Embed by iFrame, a marketplace, and documented Visio and Lucidchart import. The exit path is the weak link: the terms allow export 'using the export features described in the Documentation' within 30 days of term end and no captured page names a format, and we found no public information on two-way sync with Jira or webhooks.
Sharing, permissions & administration
Conceptboard
Granular role-based access rights per file, board and project, guest contributors, single sign-on with SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0, and audit logs and admin controls named at the paid tiers are documented, with LDAP support in the self-hosted edition. We found no public information on link-sharing expiry and passwords, centrally set guest or sharing policies, SCIM provisioning, domain capture, retention rules and legal hold, or the transfer of boards when a person leaves. Who can open a given board is answerable; what the organisation controls centrally is not described.
Miro
SAML SSO from the Business plan up, SCIM and just-in-time provisioning, Company/User/Content admin roles, classification labels, audit logs with SIEM integration on Enterprise, and Intelligent Guardrails that stop high-sensitivity boards being shared publicly are all on the record. We found no public information on domain capture, link expiry and password controls, or the transfer of a leaver's boards.
Security, AI controls & deployment
Conceptboard
Encryption in transit and at rest with stated ciphers, ISO 27001/27017/27018 recertified in March 2025, regular penetration tests under a bug bounty, and deployment that goes deep — a dedicated server and a Data Center Edition shipped as an OCI bundle on Kubernetes that can run fully air-gapped — are documented. Deletion is offered "automatically or on request" with no period stated, and the penetration test summary is available only on customer request. We found no public information on AI features and their controls, customer-managed keys, data loss prevention, or what individual activity is tracked and shown to managers.
Miro
TLS 1.3 in transit and 256-bit AES at rest are stated, with bring-your-own keys hosted in the customer's AWS account, AI subprocessors named with their region (Anthropic, United States), admin controls that can block Miro AI or MCP outright, annual independent penetration tests, and deletion on account closure stated as permanent. No on-premises or private-cloud edition appears anywhere we read, no works-council statement, and several of these controls — key management, classification, prompt blocking — are Enterprise paid add-ons.
European sovereignty
Conceptboard
A German contracting entity in Halle with a commercial register entry, boards hosted in Germany on named infrastructure — IONOS and AWS in the Frankfurt region, with IONOS or STACKIT as paid options — a published data processing agreement, ISO certifications, and a self-hosted edition that keeps every board on the customer's own servers. The privacy policy lists the subprocessors and covers website-embedded providers based in third countries under standard contractual clauses, but locations are stated only for some, such as the email provider, and unstated for the help-centre, payment and applicant-management providers. We found no public information on the parent company or ownership.
Miro
AWS's EU region is available on every plan, the data processing agreement is published with EU Standard Contractual Clauses under Dutch law, subprocessors are listed with their regions, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are stated. But the contracting party is RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro of San Francisco under California law, and the named chain — Anthropic for AI, ElevenLabs for captions, Braze for email, Gainsight for support — sits in the United States, with the privacy policy warning that collected data may be transferred to and processed in the United States.
Pricing transparency
Conceptboard
Free-plan limits are unusually concrete — 3 active boards, 100 objects per board, 250 MB storage, 10 MB per upload — and three tiers carry prices: 5€ / user / month for Starter from 1 user, From 10€ / user / month for Advanced at 10+ users on a 12-month term, From 14€ / user / month for Corporate & Government at 100+ users on 24 months, with VAT treatment stated. Single sign-on and the IONOS or STACKIT hosting options are marked "additional fee" without amounts, Special Plans are "On request", the dedicated and on-premises editions are unpriced, and we found no public information on how guest contributors are counted. The terms add a 90-day cancellation notice outside card payments, an annual inflation-based price adjustment, and the vendor's right to delete anonymous free content at intervals without indicating a reason.
Miro
The self-serve tiers are public with their inclusions — Free at €0, Starter at €8/month per member, billed yearly, Business at €20/month per member, billed yearly, each mapped against AI credits, MCP calls, SSO and data residency. But the Enterprise tier is 'Custom pricing—from 30 members', the classification, key-management and AI-trust add-ons carry no figures, and we found no public information on the free plan's limits or how guests and viewers are counted.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Conceptboard
Miro
Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates Miro higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Conceptboard and 6 pick Miro. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Conceptboard or Miro European?
Conceptboard is European (EU-Made). Miro is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Conceptboard and Miro store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Conceptboard: Default not stated; pages mention Germany. Miro: Default not stated; pages mention the EU, the US, Australia and Japan.
Do Conceptboard and Miro have a free plan?
As of 1 Nov 2026, both vendors’ own pages state a free plan. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.