Org charts and org design
Asked as “org chart software”, and as “organizational design tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
01The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
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01ChartHop27%
ChartHop27%02Organimi17%
Organimi17%03OneDirectory12%
OneDirectory12%04OrgChart12%
OrgChart12%05draw.io8%
draw.io8%06Lucidchart6%
Lucidchart6%07Pingboard4%
Pingboard4%08Miro4%
Miro4%09Creately2%
Creately2%10Orgvue2%
Orgvue2%11Functionly0%
Functionly0%12SmartDraw0%
SmartDraw0%13Microsoft Visio0%
Microsoft Visio0%14Microsoft PowerPoint0%
Microsoft PowerPoint0%02What they warned about
Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Microsoft Visio58%
15 of 26 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Tools like **Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, SmartDraw, and Miro** are excellent for design, but they are dangerous for official organizational documentation.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Lucidchart23%
12 of 52 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“they are dangerous for official organizational documentation... **Why to avoid:** These tools separate the "map" from the "territory."” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Microsoft PowerPoint80%
8 of 10 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“You will spend hours moving boxes in PowerPoint or Visio only to have the document become obsolete by next week.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
OrgChart28%
8 of 29 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Starts around $105/month with a 100-employee minimum.” Kimi K2, budget prompt
03What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
60 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 705 links across 126 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · Gartner31 answers · 32 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Org Chart Studio27 answers · 40 citations · 10 models
27 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
26 answers · 38 citations · 9 models
vendor site · People Managing People25 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 32 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Peerdom18 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
17 answers · 36 citations · 8 models
vendor site · OneDirectory17 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Jostle15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 30 citations · 8 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
30 answers · 11 models
27 answers · 10 models
25 answers · 9 models
22 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 7 models
17 answers · 9 models
16 answers · 8 models
15 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 6 models
04How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best org chart software for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which organizational design tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top org chart tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best org chart software for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an org chart software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which org chart tools should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Organimino first choiceChangedno first choiceOrganimiagainst: Pingboardno first choiceagainst: ChartHop, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio
Three alternatives
Ingentis org.manager, Lucidchart, OneDirectoryTwo alternatives
Lucidchart, OrgChartThree alternatives
Connecteam, Creately, draw.ioGPT-5.4 miniOrgChartOrgChart, OrganimiChangedagainst: Nakisa Workforce Planning, OrgvueLucidchart, Microsoft VisioCanva, Lucidchartagainst: Microsoft Visio, Pingboardno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
OneDirectory, OrganimiOne alternative
CanvaTwo alternatives
Google Sheets + draw.io / diagrams.net, OrganimiGemini 3.5 FlashChartHopChartHopHeldagainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Mirono first choicedraw.ioagainst: The OrgChartHop, OrgChartagainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visioagainst: Canva, ChartHop, Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, The Org, Workday Planning
Six alternatives
Lucidchart, OrgChartHub, Organimi, Pingboard, Prolifiq Relationship Map, TeamOhanaFour alternatives
Organimi, Orgvue, Pingboard, TeamOhanaSeven alternatives
ChartHop, Lucidchart, Miro, OneDirectory, Organimi, Pingboard, TeamOhanaFive alternatives
ChartHop, Google Slides, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, OrganimiSeven alternatives
BambooHR, GoProfiles, HiBob, Organimi, Pingboard, Rippling, SiftPerplexity SonarOneDirectoryOrgvueChangedno first choiceOrganimiagainst: Lucidchartno first choiceagainst: Creately, Google Drawings, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, draw.io
Four alternatives
Ingentis org.manager, OrgChartHub, Orgvue, PingboardThree alternatives
ChartHop, Creately, PingboardTen alternatives
ChartHop, Creately, GoProfiles, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, Organimi, Pingboard, Sift, SmartDrawTwo alternatives
Creately, draw.ioGrok 4.1 FastLucidchart, PingboardChartHopChangedagainst: Workdayno first choicedraw.ioOneDirectory, OrgChartagainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visioagainst: Excel, Functionly, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, OrgChart, Organimi, The Org, Vizzlo
Three alternatives
ChartHop, OneDirectory, OrganimiFour alternatives
Creately, Lucidchart, Orgvue, PingboardThree alternatives
Miro, Organimi, Syncfusion Org Chart MakerFour alternatives
Functionly, Ingentis org.manager, Organimi, SiftMistral SmallOneDirectoryMiroChangedMicrosoft VisioCreately, Organimino first choiceagainst: Lucidchartagainst: ChartHop, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, Pingboard
Four alternatives
Lucidchart, Miro, Organimi, VismeFour alternatives
Asana, Holaspirit, Lucidchart, NotionSix alternatives
ChartHop, Creately, Ingentis org.manager, Miro, OneDirectory, draw.ioThree alternatives
Lucidchart, Miro, draw.ioDeepSeek V4 FlashChartHop, PingboardChartHopChangedagainst: Creately, OrgvueChartHopOrganimiagainst: Factorialno first choiceagainst: ChartHop, Functionly, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, Organimi, SmartDraw
Three alternatives
Functionly, Lucidchart, OrgChartOne alternative
FunctionlySeven alternatives
GoProfiles, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, Organimi, Pingboard, SmartDrawThree alternatives
Creately, Lucidchart, draw.ioLlama 4 MaverickOneDirectoryChartHopChangedno first choiceLucidchart, Miro, Organimi, Vismeno first choicenothing named
Four alternatives
Lucidchart, Miro, Organimi, VismeFour alternatives
Functionly, MindManager, Nakisa, OrgvueOne alternative
CreatelyQwen 3.7 FlashChartHopChartHopHeldno first choiceagainst: Microsoft VisioOrganimiChartHopagainst: Lattice, Mural, NaviPulse, SAP, SAP SuccessFactors, Workdayagainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Miro, Mural, Oracle PeopleSoft, OrgPlus, SAP
Three alternatives
Lucidchart, Organice, TropicTwo alternatives
BambooHR, LucidchartSix alternatives
Canva, Creately, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Miro, Org Chart StudioTwo alternatives
Datasnapshots, XenspaceKimi K2OneDirectoryChartHopChangedagainst: Workdayno first choiceOrganimiagainst: ChartHop, OrgChart, Pingboardno first choiceagainst: ChartHop, HiBob, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, The Org
Four alternatives
ChartHop, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, OrganimiThree alternatives
Functionly, Lucidchart, OrganimiFour alternatives
Creately, Lucidchart, Org Chart Studio, draw.ioGLM 4.7 FlashXChartHopChartHopHeldChartHopdraw.ioChartHop, OrgChartagainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Orgvueagainst: FigJam, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, OrgChart, SmartDraw
Four alternatives
Lucidchart, OrgChart, Organimi, PingboardSeven alternatives
Functionly, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Nakisa, Orgvue, WhimsicalFourteen alternatives
Deel, GoProfiles, Ingentis org.manager, Jostle, Lucidchart, Miro, OneDirectory, Org Chart Studio, OrgChart, Organimi, Peerdom, Pingboard, SmartDraw, VizzloFour alternatives
Creately, Lucidchart, Org Chart Studio, OrganimiTwo alternatives
Ingentis org.manager, NakisaMiniMax M2.5OneDirectoryBambooHR, OrgChartChangedagainst: WorkdayChartHop, LucidchartCanva, draw.iono first choiceagainst: Google Drawings, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, draw.io
Four alternatives
Microsoft Visio, Nakisa, Organimi, SmartDrawOne alternative
VisierNine alternatives
BambooHR, Canva, Microsoft Visio, Miro, OrgChart, Organimi, Pingboard, The Org, draw.ioTwo alternatives
Creately, OrganimiBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
05The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 17:55 | yes | 9 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 18:09 | yes | 4 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 21:53 | yes | 13 | 44 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 19:50 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 20:29 | yes | 32 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 19:40 | yes | 7 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 19:31 | yes | 15 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 18:16 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 21:18 | no | 0 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 19:06 | yes | 10 | 41 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 18:42 | yes | 27 | 112 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 18:01 | yes | 11 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 20:25 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 20:35 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 18:13 | yes | 17 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 20:01 | yes | 14 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 20:33 | yes | 8 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 18:57 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 18:58 | yes | 20 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 21:43 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 20:46 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 21:00 | yes | 8 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 19:15 | yes | 11 | 44 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 18:05 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 18:34 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 19:55 | yes | 3 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 21:53 | yes | 15 | 58 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 21:11 | yes | 20 | 10 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 21:04 | yes | 22 | 17 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 21:39 | yes | 9 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 21:39 | yes | 17 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 20:03 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 20:52 | yes | 5 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 18:58 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 19:59 | yes | 9 | 46 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 19:02 | yes | 10 | 58 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 21:32 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 19:44 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 22:08 | yes | 20 | 59 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 19:05 | yes | 20 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 19:57 | yes | 34 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 18:59 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 18:33 | yes | 9 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 18:12 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 19:22 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 19:25 | yes | 9 | 39 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 20:56 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 18:33 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 18:20 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 21:12 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 19:17 | yes | 7 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 21:10 | yes | 20 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 19:03 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 18:13 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 18:00 | yes | 12 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 21:31 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 20:11 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 18:19 | yes | 9 | 33 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 19:56 | yes | 20 | 55 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 18:28 | yes | 5 | 23 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 20:09 | yes | 16 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 18:44 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 20:04 | yes | 21 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 21:42 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-09-17 19:47 | yes | 42 | 20 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 20:23 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 18:44 | yes | 30 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 19:16 | yes | 9 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 18:36 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 20:21 | yes | 30 | 35 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 21:32 | yes | 15 | 150 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 19:39 | yes | 18 | 33 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
Category-scoped readings
Deel HR read as Deel
Ingentis read as Ingentis org.manager
PowerPoint read as Microsoft PowerPoint
SuccessFactors read as SAP SuccessFactors
Unresolved, counted raw
Datasnapshots
Google Sheets + draw.io / diagrams.net
Hirebook
Holaspirit
HumanMap
Kissflow
Microsoft Viva Topics/Org
NaviPulse
Organice
Prolifiq Relationship Map
Syncfusion
Syncfusion Org Chart Maker
Tropic
Visio + Power Automate
Xenspace
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.