# Miro — Design

Miro by RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2/5), as of 2026-10-16. Provenance: Rest of world; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro (https://miro.com)
- Category: [Design](https://whats-best.ai/software/design.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): Rest of world
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/miro
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/miro/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/miro/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-16 · oldest source captured 2026-10-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S2]
- Starting price: “€8/month per member, billed yearly” (vendor’s words) [S2]

## The panel's verdict

Miro — RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro of San Francisco, per the terms of service — is a collaborative AI whiteboard. Collaboration and handoff score strongest at 5 to 6: a documented five-step handoff, copy-to-Figma with fully editable elements, MCP pushes to Claude Code generating a React app from a prototype, and REST APIs and WebSDKs on every plan. AI administration scores 4 to 5, with per-feature access control, prompt blocking, provider and model choice, your own API key and an audit trail. Weakest are pricing transparency and sovereignty, each spanning 2 to 4: AI credits and MCP call limits are published per plan, but no per-seat price figure appears and Enterprise is listed as Custom; data residency is offered in the EU, US, Australia or Japan, and we found no public information on a subprocessor list or where AI processing runs. Design scores sit at 4 without spread — templates and clickable prototypes, no public information on reusable components or team libraries. The 2-to-4 spreads mark severity, not conflicting findings.

**Speaks for it:**
- Developer handoff is unusually concrete: a documented five-step process, copy-to-Figma with fully editable elements, and an MCP push to Claude Code that generates a React app from the prototype.
- AI administration is granular — per-feature access control, prompt blocking before sensitive data or source code reaches a model, provider and model choice, your own API key, and an audit trail of AI interactions.
- REST APIs and WebSDKs are included on every plan, alongside named Jira and Confluence integrations.
- The terms state that the customer retains all intellectual property and other rights in Customer Content.
- The plan comparison publishes AI credits per member per month and MCP calls per day for each plan, from 100 to 10,000.

**Held against it:**
- The captured pricing pages show no per-seat price figure; Enterprise is listed as Custom and add-ons such as Enterprise Guard appear as paid add-ons without prices.
- The documented board-data export runs through a third-party Marketplace app, and we found no public information on whole-file export in a documented format or on file access after cancellation.
- We found no public information on whether customer files or prompts train the vendor's models, on named providers, on commercial-use rights for generated output, or on indemnity.
- We found no published subprocessor list, no stated AI processing location, and no statement of which plan the EU residency option requires.
- We found no public information on reusable components, team libraries, variables or design tokens — the substance of a managed design system.

**Best for:**
- You need collaborative early prototyping — clickable prototypes stakeholders can comment on, react to and vote on, generated from screenshots, PRDs or workshop output.
- Your bottleneck is designer-to-developer handoff, and your stack includes Figma, Jira, Confluence or coding agents such as Claude Code.
- You need admin-level control over AI use — blocking prompts containing source code, choosing providers and models, running on your own API key, with an audit trail streamed to your security tools.
- You want company fonts, colours, styles and templates centralised in a Brand Center and applied across boards in one click.

**Avoid if:**
- You need a governed design system — reusable components, team libraries, variables or design tokens — rather than a templated canvas.
- You must compute an annual cost from public pages before talking to sales, including how guests or viewers are billed.
- Your procurement requires an EU-based contracting entity; the captured terms name RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro of San Francisco, USA, or a Miro affiliate named in an order.
- Your exit plan depends on whole-board export in a documented format rather than a third-party Marketplace app or copy-to-Figma.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Product Designer | The Frontend Engineer | The Brand Marketer | The Agency Owner | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Design, prototyping & design systems | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Collaboration, review & developer handoff | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Brand assets & governance | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Files, formats & portability | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| AI features & rights to the work | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Product Designer** (v1.0): Owns the design system of a B2B software product. Wants components with variants, tokens with modes, prototypes that test a real flow, and library releases that are versioned and reviewable — a design system is a product, not a page of nicely arranged buttons.
- **The Frontend Engineer** (v1.0): Turns the designs into code and gets the ticket when they disagree. Wants an inspect mode without a paid seat, tokens exported in a documented format, components mapped to the code ones, and an API that reads the whole file rather than a screenshot of it.
- **The Brand Marketer** (v1.0): Keeps the brand consistent across twelve sales offices that make their own flyers. Wants locked templates non-designers can use, guidelines inside the tool, licence and expiry dates on every stock image, and a clear answer on whether a generated image may go on a trade-fair stand.
- **The Agency Owner** (v1.0): Runs a design agency of fifteen and hands every project over to the client at the end. Wants files that export with layers and components intact, guests who are not billed as editors, and terms that say the client owns the work — and what happens to it after a cancellation.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Reviews every tool where unreleased products, customer screenshots and employee photos end up. Wants the contracting entity and hosting region named, the AI providers on the subprocessor list, and training on customer files excluded for the whole organisation in the terms — not behind a toggle each user has to find.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read "free for viewers", "commercially safe AI" and "export anytime" on every page in this category. Reads instead for the click that turns a reviewer into a billed editor, the plan the IP indemnity actually covers, and whether the export keeps a single component.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Age restriction: 16 [S3]
- Badges: compliant · compliant · certified · ready [S12]
- CCPA: CCPA [S13]
- Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001 · SOC 2 Type II · SOC 3 · NIST · TISAX · GDPR [S2]
- Certifications: yes · yes · yes · yes [S7]
- Certifications: compliant · compliant · certified · ready [S8]
- Certifications: yes · yes · yes · yes [S9]
- Certifications: compliant · compliant · certified · ready [S10]
- Certifications: compliant · compliant · certified · ready [S11]
- Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001 · SOC 2 Type II · SOC 3 · NIST · TISAX · GDPR [S2]
- DPA: yes [S4]
- Dpf certification: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- EU data residency all plans: yes [S2]
- Footer badges: ISO 42001 READY · ISO 27001 CERTIFIED · SOC 2 COMPLIANT · GDPR COMPLIANT [S2]
- GDPR: yes [S5]
- GDPR: compliant [S6]
- GDPR: EU/US GDPR [S13]
- GDPR: yes [S6]
- GDPR: yes [S9]
- GDPR: compliant [S11]
- GDPR: compliant [S10]
- International transfers scc: yes [S3]
- Irap: IRAP [S13]
- ISO 27001: yes [S5]
- ISO 27001: ISO/IEC 27001 [S13]
- ISO 27001: yes [S9]
- ISO 27001: certified [S11]
- Iso42001: ready [S5]
- Iso42001: ISO/IEC 42001 [S13]
- Iso42001: ready [S9]
- Iso42001: ready [S11]
- ISO 27001: certified [S6]
- ISO 27001: yes [S6]
- ISO 27001: certified [S10]
- ISO 42001: ready [S6]
- ISO 42001: yes [S6]
- ISO 42001: ready [S10]
- Microsoft sspa: Microsoft SSPA [S13]
- SAML SSO plans: Business · Enterprise [S2]
- Security commitment: yes [S3]
- Security whitepaper: yes [S13]
- SOC 2:  [S5]
- SOC 2: compliant [S6]
- SOC 2: SOC 2 Type II [S13]
- SOC 2: yes [S6]
- SOC 2: yes [S9]
- SOC 2: compliant [S11]
- SOC 2: compliant [S10]
- Trust center: yes [S13]
- Two fa all plans: yes [S2]
- US opt out page: yes [S3]
- US sale sharing: no [S3]

**Data**
- Export capability: export to external data management applications [S11]
- Retention policy: as long as necessary for stated purposes; per Customer instructions and law [S3]
- User rights: access · portability · erasure · correction · objection_and_restriction · withdrawal_of_consent [S3]

**Hosting**
- Data residency options: EU · US · Australia · Japan [S13]

**Integrations**
- Apps: yes [S10]
- Compare API: yes [S2]
- Count: 250+ [S9]
- Count: 250 [S9]
- Developer platform: yes [S6]
- Developer platform: yes [S10]
- Enterprise APIs: Enterprise [S2]
- Mappl export: Convert Miro board data (sticky notes, shapes, text boxes) to table format and export to a data management application [S11]
- Marketplace apps: Miro Marketplace · mappl.io spatial tables [S11]
- Mcp tools: MCP integrations with Confluence, Jira, and coding agents like Claude Code [S8]
- Rest APIs all plans: yes [S2]
- Templates prototyping: AI Prototype Template · Website Prototype Template · Mobile App Prototype AI Template · Localise Prototypes · Responsive Mockups from Desktop to Mobile · Getting Started With Prototyping in Miro [S5]
- Webhooks or sdks: yes [S2]

**Legal**
- AI competing models restriction: Developing competing foundation models is prohibited [S12]
- AI human review requirement: yes [S12]
- AI terms scope: AI Terms expand but do not modify the existing Agreement [S12]
- AI third party flowdown terms: yes [S12]
- AI use restrictions: Customers may not use AI Features, Inputs or Outputs to develop, train or improve separate AI/ML models [S12]
- Effective date: 2024-07-17 [S12]
- English version controls: yes [S4]
- Enterprise training consent: enterprise · yes · yes [S12]
- Entity name: RealtimeBoard, Inc. dba Miro [S3]
- Entity name: RealtimeBoard Inc. dba Miro [S4]
- EU representative: Amsterdam · RealtimeBoard BV · NL [S3]
- Footer: 2026 [S10]
- Governing law: California law; venue in state and federal courts in San Francisco, California [S4]
- Notice address: 315 Montgomery Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94104 [S4]
- Output ownership: yes · yes [S12]
- Policies: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, cookie management and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information links present [S10]
- Policy effective date: 2025-08-01 [S3]
- Publication dates: 2021-09-01 · 2021-07-19 [S4]
- US address: RealtimeBoard, Inc. dba Miro · 315 Montgomery St, Suite 900, San Francisco, USA [S3]

**Pricing**
- Business price: Business · 20 [S2]
- Business price: Business · EUR · yearly · 20 [S2]
- Business trial: Business · 14 [S2]
- Business trial: 14 · no [S5]
- Business trial: 14 · Business · yes [S2]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · custom · 30 [S2]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · custom pricing · yes · 30 [S2]
- Free price: Free · 0 [S2]
- Free price: Free · 0 [S2]
- Free start: free · yes [S8]
- Free tier: yes [S9]
- Free tier: Free signup offered ('Get started free', 'Sign up free') [S10]
- Late fee: 0.015 [S4]
- Payment terms: 30 [S4]
- Plans: Business · Enterprise [S10]
- Renewal terms: 90 · 12 [S4]
- Starter price: Starter · 8 [S2]
- Starter price: Starter · EUR · yearly · 8 [S2]
- Yearly discount: 20 [S2]
- Yearly discount: 20 [S2]

**Product**
- Admin insights: yes · yes [S9]
- Admin insights: yes [S9]
- Age requirement: 16 [S4]
- AI agent oauth: OAuth 2.1 [S13]
- AI audit trail: yes [S13]
- AI board blocking classification: yes [S13]
- AI canvas: KI zur Beschleunigung von Teamzusammenarbeit und Workflows im gesamten Unternehmen [S1]
- AI capabilities: yes · yes [S9]
- AI credits business: Business · 50 [S2]
- AI credits starter: Starter · 25 [S2]
- AI governance access control: granular control over who gets access to which AI features [S13]
- AI model provider choice: yes [S13]
- AI moderation filters: yes [S13]
- AI moodboard generator: yes [S9]
- AI own API key: yes [S13]
- AI positioning: Miro is positioned as 'The AI Innovation Workspace' for planning, co-creating and building with AI [S10]
- AI prompt blocking: yes [S13]
- AI terms of service banners: yes [S13]
- AI validation: yes [S5]
- AI wireframe generator: yes [S9]
- Atmentions on images: yes [S7]
- Author: Boyan Vakarelov · Founder @ mappl.io [S11]
- Automatic styling: one-click automatic styling of boards and presentations with brand colors and fonts [S9]
- Automatic styling: yes [S9]
- Aws cloud view business: Business · Enterprise [S2]
- Brand center: Brand Center for managing and applying company brand assets (fonts, colors, styles, templates) [S9]
- Brand center: Brand Center lets users manage and apply company brand assets (fonts, colors, styles, templates) [S9]
- Brand guidelines template: Miro offers a Brand Guidelines Template for documenting brand guidelines to ensure consistency across the organization [S10]
- Build from screenshot: yes [S5]
- Business AI credits: 50 [S2]
- Business mcp calls: 2000 [S2]
- Canvas editing: yes [S5]
- Categories: UX · Research & design [S11]
- Coding agent handoff: MCP handoff to coding agent (Claude Code) to generate a React app from the prototype [S8]
- Company count: 250000 [S1]
- Compare enterprise governance: paid add-on · yes [S2]
- Compare mcp free: 100 [S2]
- Compare talktracks: 5 · Unlimited [S2]
- Compare variations: yes [S5]
- Context import sources: screenshots · Confluence · Notion · Miro board [S5]
- CSV export in name: User Interview Tagger (With CSV Export) [S11]
- CSV export via mappl app: third-party app installation · yes · mappl.io spatial tables app from Miro Marketplace [S11]
- Custom sidekicks personas: Sidekicks are configurable, e.g. as a usability expert or a specific user persona [S8]
- Custom templates: yes [S9]
- Customer instapage speed: Instapage · 20 [S7]
- Design handoff board: Miro supports bringing designs, flows, annotations, and decisions onto a shared board for developer handoff [S7]
- Design workshops: yes [S7]
- Editable output: AI-generated prototypes are fully editable [S8]
- Enterprise AI credits: org-wide · 2500 [S2]
- Enterprise guard: paid add-on · yes [S2]
- Enterprise guard: yes · yes [S13]
- Enterprise guard addon: add-on · yes [S2]
- Enterprise mcp calls: 10000 [S2]
- Enterprise plan agreement: Standard ToS covers self-serve and reseller customers; Enterprise Plan under Master Cloud Agreement [S4]
- Feedback on prototype: comment · react · vote [S5]
- Figma handoff: Copy-to-Figma workflow with fully editable prototype elements [S8]
- Free AI trial: Limited trial [S2]
- Free signup: yes [S1]
- Free tier cta: yes [S7]
- Free trial: yes · no [S9]
- Generate from inputs: sticky notes · PRDs · diagrams · code · workshop output [S5]
- Handoff: yes · yes [S5]
- Handoff features: handoff walkthroughs · capturing questions next to the design · visible changelog [S7]
- Handoff steps: Confirm readiness · Package specs and context · Run a handoff walkthrough · Track questions and decisions · Support implementation and QA [S7]
- Interactive prototyping: yes · yes [S6]
- Interview tagger description: Template to categorize and tag user interview highlights during product user research [S11]
- Ip ownership: yes [S4]
- Mappl description: converts Miro board into visual database, works with sticky notes, shapes, text boxes, converts to table format and exports [S11]
- Mcp calls per plan: 100 · 500 · 2000 · 10000 [S2]

**Support**
- Customer success enterprise: Enterprise [S2]
- Help center: yes [S10]
- Help center all plans: yes [S2]
- Policy based: Support per Support Policy; support level identified in Customer's Order [S4]
- Review count: 20,000+ reviews from Capterra, G2 and Trustradius [S10]

40 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/design/miro

## Questions

### Is Miro European?

No. whats-best.ai classifies Miro as Rest of world.

### Where does Miro store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Miro have a free plan?

Yes. Miro has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/6365).

### What are the best alternatives to Miro?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Penpot (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/penpot), [Sketch (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/sketch) and [Frontify (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/frontify) highest among the other 13 Design products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Penpot](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/penpot) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Miro alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/design/miro/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 86 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 10 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 9 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://miro.com/de/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Pricing page: https://miro.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://miro.com/legal/privacy-policy/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Terms of service: https://miro.com/legal/terms-of-service/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Design, prototyping & design systems — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/prototyping/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Design, prototyping & design systems — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/templates/prototypes/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Collaboration, review & developer handoff — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/software-development/developer-designer-handoff/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Collaboration, review & developer handoff — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/product-development/product-design-to-dev-handoff/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Brand assets & governance — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/brand-management/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Brand assets & governance — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/templates/brand-guidelines/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Files, formats & portability — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/templates/user-interview-tagger-with-csv-export/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S12] AI features & rights to the work — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/legal/ai-features-addendum/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S13] AI features & rights to the work — found from sitemap: https://miro.com/ai-trust/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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