Comparison
WavelengthA Miro alternative for when the output is a process, not a canvas
Wavelength turns a spoken process into a structured AI flowchart. It draws the people, steps, systems, decisions, and data stores in process order while someone talks. When someone explains how work moves, Wavelength gives you an accurate diagram of it before the meeting ends.
Miro is built for divergence: an infinite canvas and twenty people on a board at once. Wavelength is built for convergence: one diagram of how the work moves. This page covers the moment that matters for a process map: somebody walks you through a process out loud, and you need to capture it accurately while they talk.
The demo needs no account. The free plan needs no card.
The actual difference
Both end in something visual. They differ in what the tool assumes about your session.
 Miro |  Wavelength | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Infinite collaborative whiteboard | Voice and transcript to process diagram |
| Session it assumes | Divergent: many people, many ideas, no fixed shape | Convergent: one person explaining how something works |
| How the artifact gets made | You place elements on the canvas | You describe it out loud, or paste a transcript |
| Output | Whatever you built: notes, clusters, frames, diagrams | A structured flow: actors, systems, decisions, data stores |
| Real-time multiplayer | Yes | Shared team folders and per-flow collaborators on Pro |
| Shows its uncertainty | Not applicable, you built it | Yes, inferred links render dashed amber until confirmed |
| Free tier | 3 editable boards | 5 saved flows, no card |
| Paid entry price | $8 per member per month, billed annually | $4.99 per month for one user. Teams: Pro at $9.99 per seat. |
Miro pricing checked October 10, 2026: Free keeps 3 editable boards. Starter is $8 per member per month and Business is $20 per member per month, both billed yearly. Enterprise has custom pricing from 30 members. Check the Miro pricing page before you buy.
What changes when you switch to Wavelength
Run the workshop in Wavelength, and the flow builds from what the room says. Sticky notes, dot voting, and a timer sit on the same canvas. See live sessions and workshops.
Where a whiteboard costs you something
The failure case is narrow and it is not about features. Someone says this on a call:
"Returns start when the customer fills in the web form. The support team checks the order. If it is older than 30 days, they send a refusal email. If not, the warehouse inspects the item and finance issues the refund."
In Miro you now have a choice. Start placing shapes, which means you stop listening and miss whatever comes next. Or drop sticky notes fast and sort them later, which produces a wall of text with none of the structure that made it a process: no direction, no branch, no owner.
Wavelength takes that same sentence and separates it. The web form becomes the trigger. Support, the warehouse, and finance become actors. Older than 30 days becomes a decision, with the refusal email on the yes side. Each team keeps its own step, so every handoff shows on the flow.
The dashed amber lines
When Wavelength connects two things you did not explicitly say were connected, it draws that link dashed and amber rather than solid. You confirm it or you fix it. An AI diagram you have to re-verify line by line is worth less than no diagram, so we made it tell you where it guessed.
Run the whole session in Wavelength
Current-state capture is a spoken description, and Wavelength draws it as the process owner talks. Share your screen so the room corrects the map live. The dashed amber links show the group what to confirm before anyone leaves.
For the redesign, keep going on the same canvas. Wavelength has sticky notes, a pen, and frames for ideas, and the future-state flow starts from a map everyone already agreed on. The process mapping workshop guide covers the sequencing in more detail.
Common questions
Does Wavelength have an infinite canvas?
No. It has a canvas sized to your flow, with drag, right-click editing, and click-to-reshape on connections. It is a diagram editor, not a whiteboard.
Can several people edit a Wavelength flow?
On Pro, yes: team invites you set up once, shared team folders, per-flow collaborators and invite links. Everyone you invite works on the same flow.
What if the meeting already happened?
Paste the transcript. Same diagram, built between meetings. See transcript to flowchart.
What can I export?
PNG, PDF, PowerPoint, draw.io, Mermaid, and BPMN 2.0 on every plan, plus an email recap on Pro.
Other comparisons
See Wavelength vs Lucidchart, Wavelength vs Visio, Wavelength vs diagram as code, and the comparison index.
Try it before you decide
The demo runs on your own sentence rather than a canned example. Describe something, watch it draw, then drag the nodes and correct it. No account, nothing saved.
Free plan. No card.