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Lucidchart

Lucidchart is a diagramming product from Lucid, built for teams that need to create and share visual diagrams · lucid.co ↗

#3Best rank (small business)
14/14Models named it
15First choices
46Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inOrg charts and org design #3 small businessSuccession planning #56
What AI models recommend in org charts

Strongest at small business. Ranked 10 of 99 for enterprise buyers.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Best for: well-rounded professional visual diagrams and data-linked diagramming ... Best for creating org charts from existing data”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · 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 question · first choice
“Best all-rounder; data-linked diagramming; professional templates ... If you want a *picture*, use Lucidchart or Visio.”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
“The best org chart software for a mid-market B2B company includes Lucidchart, Planfix, and Miro.”Llama 4 Maverick · Direct question · first choice

What gives them pause

“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 question · warning
“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-constrained question · warning
“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 question · warning
“Why be cautious: While popular, Lucidchart is a general diagramming tool, not a dedicated HR/org chart system.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Lucidchart, over the 186 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of Lucidchart →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Lucidchart's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
teams
Price stated
Pricing
Free plan or trial
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Integrations
100
Certifications
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, FedRAMP, TX-RAMP, ISO 27001
Customers named
Google, GE, NBC Universal, Docusign, Ping Identity, TV 2 DANMARK, Western Union, Flybuys Australia Limited
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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Lucidchart came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 164 of the 186 answers that named Lucidchart and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

planfix.com102
zapier.com93
forbes.com87
softwareadvice.com69
g2.com62
fitsmallbusiness.com51
capterra.com48
getapp.com44
goprofiles.io38
theorgchart.com37

631 of the 631 domain citations in answers naming Lucidchart came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Lucidchart across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510113
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash04217
Perplexity Sonar12025
Grok 4.2020226
Mistral Small21014
DeepSeek V4 Flash03216
Llama 4 Maverick11305
Qwen 3.7 Flash11024
Kimi K214016
GLM 4.7 FlashX13015
MiniMax M2.521003
GPT-6 Luna01012
Muse Glimmer 30B20103

What it publishes

Addresses on lucid.co
10,011
subdomains included
Content
2,462
counted in the table below
Documentation
6
Product · Integration
21 · 120
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog1,62572026-09-24Pay equity, Succession planning
Template or tool51302026-02-04Succession planning
Glossary or explainer8822026-09-10Pay equity, Succession planning
Comparison8002026-03-18
Case study64undated
Webinar or virtual event5602025-02-06
Conference or event1812026-07-01
Report or ebook15undated
News or press3undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page lucid.co exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.