Does Miro have an MCP server?

Yes. Miro has an official remote MCP server using OAuth. Its current tool surface can create boards and diagrams, read and update board items, search boards, and work with comments and structured content.

Is Miro Free limited to three boards?

Miro currently describes Free as unlimited boards with the three most recent remaining editable. Free also currently includes 10 AI credits per month and 100 MCP calls per day. These limits are time-sensitive and should be checked on Miro’s pricing page.

What is the practical difference for developers?

Miro is a broad visual-workspace product with many formats, templates, and integrations. Excaliwow is intentionally narrower: the persistent artifact is an Excalidraw diagram that a person, REST client, CLI, or MCP agent can revisit and update.

Does Excaliwow include AI generation credits?

No separate Excaliwow AI-credit pool is added. Bring an MCP-capable agent such as Claude or Codex; its own service terms and limits still apply, alongside normal Excaliwow API limits.

Miro alternative for developers · worked comparison

Choose the canvas around the work your team actually does

Miro is a broad collaborative workspace with mature templates, formats, integrations, and an official MCP server. Excaliwow is a narrower Excalidraw workspace built around one persistent agent → browser → agent diagram loop.

Input

Defined scope

Agent

First draft

Canvas

Persistent artifact

Human

Visual review

Decision

Workflow fit

This is not collaboration versus automation. Both products support collaborative boards and agent access; the decision is broad visual work across many formats versus an Excalidraw-native developer workflow.

Product boundary: Miro Free includes three editable boards, a limited AI allowance, and official MCP access. Its MCP can create, read, and update board content. Choose Miro when workshops, templates, structured formats, and a broad integration ecosystem matter more than an Excalidraw-specific workflow. Choose Excaliwow when the durable artifact should be an Excalidraw canvas shared across MCP, CLI, REST, and browser editing.

Decision guide

Miro Free or Excaliwow?

Compare the current free products by the job they support. Limits and plan access are time-sensitive and must be re-checked before publication.

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Job	Miro Free	Excaliwow
Free workspace	$0 with unlimited boards; the three most recent remain editable. Includes 10 AI credits per month and 100 MCP calls per day.	First 10,000 verified accounts keep the core workspace free. 3 diagrams to start, with ways to earn more capacity and no separate Excaliwow AI-credit allowance.
Agent access	Official remote OAuth MCP can create boards and diagrams, read and update board items, and work with comments and structured board content.	Scoped PAT access through MCP, CLI, and REST to create, read, render, and update persistent Excalidraw diagrams.
Collaboration	Broad whiteboarding with templates, Docs, Tables, Slides, Kanban, and 250+ integrations. Free boards are visible to all team members and have no guest or visitor roles.	Live Excalidraw editing, presence, comments, per-diagram invites, and optional read-only public links in a diagram-focused workspace.
Best fit	Cross-functional workshops, facilitation, structured formats, and teams that want a large integration and template ecosystem.	Developers who specifically want persistent Excalidraw canvases that their existing agent and teammates can revise in place.

Choose Miro if…

Your team runs workshops, needs many visual formats and templates, or depends on Miro’s integration ecosystem. Its official MCP is already a capable agent surface, including on Free.

Choose Excaliwow if…

You want the shared artifact to remain an Excalidraw diagram and need the same account canvas reachable through REST, CLI, MCP, and direct browser editing without a separate AI-credit meter.

Reproduce it

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Name the collaboration job first

Choose Miro when the work is a workshop, mixed-format planning board, or integration-heavy team canvas. Use this Excaliwow path only when the desired artifact is a persistent Excalidraw diagram.

Connect the agent you already use

Mint a read + write Excaliwow Personal Access Token, keep publish and delete off, and add the stdio MCP server to your coding agent.

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "excaliwow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@excaliwow/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "EXCALIWOW_TOKEN": "excw_pat_…"
      }
    }
  }
}

Review the same canvas in the browser

Open the returned editor URL, correct the source model by hand, then ask the agent for a targeted update to the same diagram. Invite or share only after the critical path is correct.

Human review

Change what the agent misunderstood

Correct a misplaced system boundary before polishing the layout.
Clarify one ambiguous relationship so reviewers do not infer unsupported behavior.

Same-canvas follow-up

Send the correction back

Update the same diagram in place with the reviewed relationship while preserving the human-positioned regions.

Review the critical path, not the pixels

The page acknowledges Miro Free and official MCP rather than inventing a missing-feature gap.
The repository scope supports every service and flow shown in the diagram.
The human correction changes the system model, not merely colors or spacing.
The follow-up updates the same persistent diagram and preserves named human work.

Common questions

Does Miro have an MCP server?: Yes. Miro has an official remote MCP server using OAuth. Its current tool surface can create boards and diagrams, read and update board items, search boards, and work with comments and structured content.
Is Miro Free limited to three boards?: Miro currently describes Free as unlimited boards with the three most recent remaining editable. Free also currently includes 10 AI credits per month and 100 MCP calls per day. These limits are time-sensitive and should be checked on Miro’s pricing page.
What is the practical difference for developers?: Miro is a broad visual-workspace product with many formats, templates, and integrations. Excaliwow is intentionally narrower: the persistent artifact is an Excalidraw diagram that a person, REST client, CLI, or MCP agent can revisit and update.
Does Excaliwow include AI generation credits?: No separate Excaliwow AI-credit pool is added. Bring an MCP-capable agent such as Claude or Codex; its own service terms and limits still apply, alongside normal Excaliwow API limits.

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