Astah Professional vs. Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Astah Professional | N/A | N/A | Astah Professional is a desktop modeling tool developed by Change Vision, Inc. It combines UML, ER diagrams, data flow diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps in a single application. It is aimed at software architects and development teams who model across more than one notation. Deployment Astah Professional is an installable desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is not a cloud or SaaS product. Models are saved as local files, so the tool… | $11.99 per month per user |
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas. | $0 per month |
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| Additional Details | Astah Professional is available under six license types: a monthly subscription ($11.99/month), an annual subscription ($129.99/year), a perpetual license ($279), a floating license ($230), an organizational license ($140), and an academic license ($48). A 20-day free trial is available. AI features (AI Chat Copilot, the MCP server, and AI-Powered Code Reverse) require the user's own API key for a supported AI service: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. API usage is billed separately by the AI provider and is not included in the Astah license price. Astah Viewer, which opens Astah Professional models for review, is free. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | 96% Would buy again 1099 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | 98% Delivers good value for the price 876 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 98% Happy with the feature set 1118 Answers | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | 99% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 600 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 99% Implementation went as expected 732 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | OmniGraffle Score9.8 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | OmniGraffle Score9.8 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Enterprises | OmniGraffle Score9.8 out of 10 | Miro Score9 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - | 9.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.1 |
| Usability | - | 8.7 |
| Availability | - | 9.1 |
| Performance | - | 9.1 |
| Support Rating | - | 7.7 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 9.1 |
| Configurability | - | 9.1 |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.1 |
| Product Scalability | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 9.1 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 9.1 |
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