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Index Vendors › draw.io · September 2026 Edition
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draw.io

32Judge labels
6First choices
8Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Org charts for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 13% of its 15 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In org charts · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named draw.io for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Org charts and org designWorkforce planning and analytics8%5 of 8113%15accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for draw.io yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated draw.io across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash10001
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast10001
Mistral Small02002
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.511013

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative4 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels6
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“start with draw.io (free) or Canva (free tier) for basic needs” MiniMax M2.5 · Org charts · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with draw.io if you're comfortable building charts manually” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Org charts · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with draw.io—it's versatile, powerful, and zero cost/risk.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Org charts · budget prompt · first choice
“Draw.io is the best overall free tool” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Org charts · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid using general diagramming tools for org charts ... these lack org-specific layout automation. Creating messy connector routing in dense charts is a common problem.” MiniMax M2.5 · Org charts · negative prompt · hard negative
“tools like draw.io, Google Drawings, Miro, and sometimes Creately are often described as manual diagramming tools ... they do not provide strong native HR-to-org-chart automation” Perplexity Sonar · Org charts · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as draw.io, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and draw.io was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Lucidchart29 of 323Not in the top three
Organimi24 of 3210Not in the top three
Creately20 of 322Not in the top three
Miro19 of 321Not in the top three
Microsoft Visio13 of 321Not in the top three
Pingboard12 of 321Not in the top three
Canva11 of 320Not in the top three
ChartHop10 of 322Not in the top three
Microsoft PowerPoint9 of 320Not in the top three
Org Chart Studio8 of 320Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named draw.io. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 30 of the 32 answers that named draw.io and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com21
orgchartstudio.com20
learn.g2.com17
creately.com16
gartner.com16
fitsmallbusiness.com15
peerdom.com14
theorgchart.com12
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
teamohana.com10

151 of the 151 domain citations in answers naming draw.io came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as draw.io

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as draw.io; a claim can dispute any of them.
draw.io (diagrams.net) 6Draw.io (diagrams.net) 2Draw.io 1Draw.io (Diagrams.net) 1draw.io (Diagrams.net) 1draw.io (now diagrams.net) 1
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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when draw.io's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as draw.io, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at drawio.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.