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Org charts and org design · November 2026 Edition

ChartHop vs Lucidchart

Nine of fourteen models named ChartHop first on the direct prompt; three named Lucidchart. Both were named by all fourteen models and ChartHop carries 48 labels and Lucidchart 60, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ChartHop

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

Lucidchart

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share28%11%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate2%22%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels4860A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ChartHop reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.ChartHop vs Organimi · ChartHop vs Functionly · ChartHop vs OrgChart

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the org charts and org design page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ChartHopFirst choices, of fourteen modelsLucidchart
Direct931 against Lucidchart
Paraphrase41
Comparative58
Budget-constrained022 against Lucidchart
Scale-constrained302 against Lucidchart
Negative301 against ChartHop · 8 against Lucidchart
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, ChartHop and Lucidchart were named in the same answer 116 times, of the 419 answers naming ChartHop and the 186 naming Lucidchart. In those answers Lucidchart took the first choice fifteen times and ChartHop thirty-two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where ChartHop and Lucidchart stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
ChartHop Lucidchart first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, ChartHop on the left and Lucidchart on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where ChartHop and Lucidchart stood in it.

ChartHop first, Lucidchart an alternative

9 of 14 modelsLucidchart was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashChartHop alternatives: HiBob, Organimi, Rippling, Sift, TeamOhana
Perplexity SonarChartHop alternatives: GoProfiles, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Organimi
Mistral SmallChartHop, OrgChart alternatives: Functionly, Lucidchart, Workleap
DeepSeek V4 FlashChartHop alternatives: Functionly, OrgChart
Qwen 3.7 FlashChartHop, Organizational Charts alternatives: BambooHR, Rippling, iOrgChart
Kimi K2ChartHop, Pingboard alternatives: Lucidchart
GLM 4.7 FlashXChartHop alternatives: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Pingboard, SmartDraw
MiniMax M2.5Built, ChartHop alternatives: GoProfiles, Lucidchart, OrgChart, Organimi, Workleap
GPT-6 LunaChartHop alternatives: OrgChart

Lucidchart first, ChartHop an alternative

3 of 14 modelsChartHop was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.20Lucidchart alternatives: ChartHop, Creately, Functionly, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Organimi, Pingboard
Llama 4 MaverickLucidchart alternatives: Miro, Planfix
Muse Glimmer 30BLucidchart alternatives: ChartHop, Organimi, Pingboard

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Pingboard alternatives: BambooHR, ChartHop, Factorial, Personio

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniOrgChart alternatives: Lucid, Microsoft Visio, Miro

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Lucidchart leads by fifteen points.
Lucidchart15%#3 of 13
ChartHop0%#8 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: ChartHop leads at mid-market.
ChartHop28%#1 of 15
Lucidchart11%#3 of 15
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
ChartHop leads by fifteen points.
ChartHop16%#2 of 13
Lucidchart2%#8 of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ChartHop

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“full-featured enterprise tiers of tools like ChartHop or OrgChart ... are often costly overkill for small-to-medium businesses” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“If you need the org chart to stay current with HR data ... ChartHop, Workleap Pingboard, FirstHR, BambooHR, Deel, Factorial, or Ingentis org.manager are the best choices.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Lucidchart

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Lucidchart, Visio, Canva, SmartDraw, and similar tools can create polished charts, but they usually require manual updates or imports, so the chart can become stale quickly.” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tools like *Lucidchart* or *OrgChartNow* (good if you have extremely complex custom matrix structures ... though they require more manual maintenance)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
“it produces diagrams that are a visual artifact, not a live system of record, with no role management, governance, analytics” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“Best for: well-rounded professional visual diagrams and data-linked diagramming ... Best for creating org charts from existing data” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want a pure visual diagram and don't mind updating it manually, go with Lucidchart, Visio, SmartDraw, or Creately.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best all-rounder; data-linked diagramming; professional templates ... If you want a *picture*, use Lucidchart or Visio.” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.