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    Autodesk 3ds Max

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAutodesk offers 3ds Max, 3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation. The vendor states that users can produce professional-quality 3D animations, renders, and models with an efficient and flexible toolset to help create better 3D content in less time.

    $235

    per month per user

    Creately

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Creately is a visual collaboration platform that supports genograms, flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, and UML diagrams. Featuring template-based AI diagram generation, Creately boasts speed and accuracy in visual planning.

    $8

    per month (single user)

    draw.io

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/Adraw.io is an online diagramming tool with integrations with Jira, Google, and Confluence available free online or at cost depending on integration chosen.

    $5

    per month

    Pricing
    Autodesk 3ds MaxCreatelydraw.io
    Editions & Modules
    Monthly Subscription
    $235
    per month per user
    Yearly Subscription
    $1875
    per year per user
    3-Year Subscription
    $5625
    3 years per user
    Creately Personal
    $8
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    Creately Team
    $8
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    Creately Team
    $60
    per year per user
    Creately Personal
    $60
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    Creately Business
    $149
    per month Unlimited Users
    Creately Business
    $1,068
    per year Unlimited Users
    Up to 10 Users
    $5
    per month
    Up to 20 Users
    $11
    per month
    Up to 50 Users
    $27.50
    per month
    Up to 75 Users
    $41.25
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    Up to 100 Users
    $55
    per month
    Up to 200 Users
    $95
    per month
    Up to 500 Users
    $152.50
    per month
    Up to 750 Users
    $190
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    Up to 1,000 Users
    $227.50
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    Up to 2,000 Users
    $377.50
    per month
    Up to 5,000 Users
    $827.50
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    Up to 10,000
    1,577.50
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Autodesk 3ds MaxCreatelydraw.io
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFlex pricing available for limited usage. Minimum plan $300 for 100 tokens. 3ds Max costs 6 tokens per day.Discounted prices for non profits, educational institutes, and charities.
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    Creately
    Chose Creately
    Creately's folder system is a novel feature that beats its competitors. It helps keep everything organized. In addition, there are many more customization possibilities, especially in the shapes and in the library of templates and drawings. It has an intelligent drawing …
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    User Ratings
    Autodesk 3ds MaxCreatelydraw.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (13 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    9.2
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    User Testimonials
    Autodesk 3ds MaxCreatelydraw.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Autodesk
    For print media for marketing and for 3d animations for web spots and TV ads/movies/programs. It is less suited for quick 3d graphics or images that you get from AI image programs, but it is much more powerful than most AI image programs.
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    Creately
    Creately sells itself as software specializing in a wide variety of areas, which is true in some cases. Visualizing and creating marketing processes, research, user flows, and general flowcharts is an extremely powerful tool. However, in other areas, such as Human Resources, UI/UX prototyping, and Wireframe design, it leaves a little to be desired compared to the competition.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    draw.io can be more suitable for technical documentation for architectures, flow diagrams/charts, and conceptual images of an application infrastructure. However, this tool is not made for business intelligence work nor for dashboarding to monitor the technical components. From the administrative standpoint, this is not well suited for agile ceremony structures like retrospective boards or planning or even quarterly planning boards. The strength of draw.io lies strongly in being a lightweight diagramming tool.
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    Pros
    Autodesk
    • 3ds Max includes some of the inbuild modifiers which can be very good in the case of beginners.
    • 3rd party Rendering support makes 3ds Max a powerful software for rendering out realistic images.
    • Autodesk 3ds max in comparison to its rivals is lightweight and fast, also the animation case also.
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    Creately
    • I like that it supports remote work and that it makes real-time collaboration easy.
    • AI-powered diagramming works well and has been very helpful in explaining complex ideas.
    • It supports data driven workflows.
    • It makes project management easy.
    • It effortlessly boosts team productivity thanks to easy alignment with strategies.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    • Draw.io offers a lot of shapes and customizability of how the diagrams are laid out. We've been able to create a lot of different things with it, and have barely scratched the surface of the sorts of things that we could do.
    • Draw.io is fairly intuitive in the way that you draw shapes and connect shapes together, I was able to figure it out without a tutorial.
    • Draw.io is fast and performant for me compared with some of the alternatives.
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    Cons
    Autodesk
    • working in 2d is very frustrating and unreliable. It just lacks the precision
    • How scaling affects units (or doesn't) There needs to be a way for modifiers to address a change of scale in the object.
    • Booleans are not intuitive. Especially for architecture, creating an opening and putting a door or a window is an incredibly cumbersome process.
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    Creately
    • The transition Creately made this year to their new non-Flash platform seems to almost function like a beta release in some instances.
    • Customer support sometimes takes a while to return and the responses are not always the best or most helpful. Follow up isn't great, either.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    • When very elaborate diagrams are needed, it lacks the amount of tools and customization needed
    • Since this is an online tool, it can freeze and that causes you to lose that work up to that point
    • Performance can lag with very complex diagrams
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Autodesk
    It satisfies 95% of my 3d visualization need. The left over 5% is handled by a few other programs. If Max just can't perform a specific task I can do that elsewhere and then bring it back to Max to finish up. But, it's rare that this occurs in my work
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    Creately
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
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    Usability
    Autodesk
    It is a very difficult program to learn to use and even harder to use well. But once you get to using it it is a great software package to know how to use. Getting to be good at using it takes lots of use.
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    Creately
    Creately is one of its Kind. The software has a straightforward interface and very supportive customer services providers. It is very well suited in diagramming and collaboration.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    The UI is intuitive. It allows a new user to start diagramming almost instantly. Manipulating elements, linking them together, etc. are all easy to do. Draw.io nevertheless a broad variety of diagram templates to help get started and also of shapes to use in diagrams. Some situations can make it a bit tricky to use, such as when having multiple shapes on top of each other (e.g. shapes placed within swimlanes) but that's a minor issue.
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    Support Rating
    Autodesk
    I have contacted support many times and have had a good experience. They have always been helpful
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    Creately
    It definitely could be better, but it may also depend on the type of license you are subscribing to.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    The support for draw.io is pretty decent, considering it is a free website. I had a question one time when I was trying to do something, so I sent an email to their support email and got a response fairly quickly with an answer to my question. They also have some excellent support tools on their support website for helping you get more familiar with their program, and I found that very helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Autodesk
    Sketch-up week to be vertically integrated to produce concept all the way to high-end render, an animation (effects, particles, soft-body, etc..) All 3 other softwares are fully capable, it just comes down to what software an operator is most familiar with and if it works in the production pipeline for the client.
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    Creately
    Creately's folder system is a novel feature that beats its competitors. It helps keep everything organized. In addition, there are many more customization possibilities, especially in the shapes and in the library of templates and drawings. It has an intelligent drawing capability superior to all the competition, allowing more customization and detail.
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    draw.io is open-source and free for many uses, which means minimal upfront cost and good value.It works in the browser, also has a desktop version (so you can use offline) which helps teams that may not always be online or want local backups. Useful when you want a diagram tool that “just works” without huge ecosystem lock-in.For organisations that value control, less vendor-dependency, this is a plus.
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    Return on Investment
    Autodesk
    • 3ds Max has one of the best control tools that can help someone to sculpt almost anything. With the vertex tool and polyline edit function we can create almost any complex geometry.
    • Default rendering is equipped with almost everything that is needed for process, V-Ray for 3ds Max is the best 3rd party plugin for getting crisp renders.
    • The four view port tools for viewing the model helps from each and every angle. The moment and selection tools in the 3ds Max are quit easy to operate.
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    Creately
    • Helped the team work collaboratively by sharing on the ideas on Canvas
    • Boosted the client engagement whenever this tool is used
    • Made the work easier by providing the predesigned templates
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    JGraph (Draw.io)
    • draw.io has surely impacted our organization positively by saving some crucial time.
    • It has not really impacted much monetarily to be honest.
    • The ROI we got from draw.io is that it has made complex things clear for everyone in our organization.
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    Screenshot of templated instructions for Creately AIScreenshot of the AI base templates and text promptsScreenshot of real-time collaborationScreenshot of the AI org chart toolScreenshot of certifications