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Replace Miro / FigJam with Self-Hosted Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab)

Virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard for architecture diagrams, wireframes, and live encrypted collaboration Stop paying Business ($16/member/mo) ($160/mo for a 10-person team) and run Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab) on a $4.50/mo Linux VPS with full data sovereignty.

10-Seat Annual Savings

+$1,866 / yr

vs Miro / FigJam standard plan

Container RAM & vCPU

128 MB RAM

0.25 vCPU • Migration: Instant

Recommended Cloud Box

$4.50/mo VPS

Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU)

1-to-100 Seat Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Table

Comparing Miro / FigJam (Business ($16/member/mo)) vs Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab) on Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU).

Team Size	Miro / FigJam Cost	Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab) VPS	Net Annual Savings
1 Seat (Solo)	$16.00/mo ($192/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$138 / year
5 Seats	$80.00/mo ($960/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$906 / year
10 Seats	$160.00/mo ($1,920/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,866 / year
25 Seats	$400.00/mo ($4,800/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$4,746 / year
50 Seats	$800.00/mo ($9,600/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$9,546 / year
100 Seats	$1,600.00/mo ($19,200/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$19,146 / year

Production Docker Compose + Caddy Auto-SSL

Copy and run docker compose up -d on any Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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# Production Docker Compose: Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab) (Replaces Miro / FigJam)
services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
      - caddy_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  excalidraw:
    image: excalidraw/excalidraw:latest
    container_name: stack-excalidraw
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "NODE_ENV=production"
    volumes:
      - excalidraw_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

networks:
  stack_net:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  caddy_data:
  excalidraw_data:

Caddyfile (Automatic HTTPS Reverse Proxy):

# Automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS for Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab)
excalidraw.{$DOMAIN:yourdomain.com} {
  encode zstd gzip
  reverse_proxy excalidraw:80
}

Why Teams Switch to Excalidraw (Self-Hosted + Collab)

✓87k+ GitHub stars & beloved by engineers
✓End-to-end encrypted real-time rooms
✓Mermaid-to-diagram AI syntax built in

GitHub Repository excalidraw/excalidraw

Official Website excalidraw.com

Docker Image excalidraw/excalidraw:latest

Database Needed Built-in / SQLite

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