🆚 Google Drawings vs. Mermaid

Type

Content creation platform
Charting library

About

Google Drawings is a cloud-based diagramming and illustration tool that allows users to create simple vector graphics, diagrams, and visual content directly in a web browser.

It supports collaborative real-time editing with comments and version history, insertion of shapes, connectors, text boxes, images, and charts.

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Mermaid is an open-source JavaScript diagramming and charting library that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions into dynamically generated diagrams and visualizations.

It supports flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, entity relationship diagrams, state diagrams, pie charts, timelines, and other diagram types, and includes a live editor, integrations with documentation and development tools, and browser-based rendering.

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Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Google Workspace
Business Starter (30 GB) $84/user/year
Business Standard (2 TB) $168/user/year
Business Plus (5 TB) $264/user/year
Free version ✔️ Mermaid.js, open source
Mermaid Charts
Free version ✔️ 3 diagrams
Plus $120/user/year
Premium $240/user/year
Enterprise Custom

Categories

Content Creation › Rank #21
Online Collaboration › Rank #33
Vector Graphics Editors › Rank #8
Charting › Rank #23
Charting › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Mermaid charting library is 10 times more popular than Google Drawings.
Total websites

Market share

Charting

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Mermaid is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Google Drawings is more popular in Vietnam and Mexico.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
France
China
Vietnam
Spain
Japan
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Mermaid is more popular than Google Drawings in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#90,570
#282,188
#284,308
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Rank
#5,749
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See also

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