Best Piktochart Alternatives in 2026: 12 Tools for Infographics, Reports and Charts

By Camellia · Updated Oct 22, 2026

If you are leaving Piktochart because the free plan stops you at two downloads, pick Canva for general design, Snappa or VistaCreate for cheap graphics, or Napkin AI to turn text into diagrams. If you are leaving because your charts need more depth, look at Datawrapper, Flourish or Infogram. If your reports must follow a strict brand, Visme, Venngage and Infogram are the ones built around brand kits and team controls.

This guide is for owners, marketing heads and agency leads who buy infographic and report tools. We compared twelve alternatives on four things that decide a purchase: what the free plan really lets you finish, what a month costs on the plan you would actually buy, how much chart and data depth you get, and how well each tool holds a brand. Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page, with the billing term stated, and every tool gets a real limitation.

One framing note. Piktochart is a good product that does one job well: fast, template-led visual content for people who are not designers. The reasons teams look elsewhere are specific, and they point to different replacements. We cover those reasons first, because picking the wrong replacement for the wrong reason is how teams end up switching twice. If you want a wider scan of the whole infographic field rather than a Piktochart exit, start with our AI infographic tools roundup.

Key Facts

• Piktochart's Free plan includes 2 PNG downloads, 60 AI credits and 1GB of storage; Pro is $15 monthly or $10 per member per month billed annually, with 500 AI credits.
• Datawrapper's Free plan includes unlimited PNG export, with a "Created with Datawrapper" attribution you must keep; removing it starts at $21 per user per month billed annually.
• Flourish's premium plans are handled through custom contracts, and the Presenter tier requires a Canva Business or Enterprise plan.
• Infogram's paid plans run from $19 to $149 a month billed yearly, and its Free plan allows up to 10 projects with downloads reserved for paid plans.
• Canva's Pro plan is $144 a year for one person, and Business is $250 a year per person; Pro carries 10 times the AI uses of Free.
• Genially bills only its Pro plan monthly; Master, Author and Enterprise are billed annually.

Why Teams Leave Piktochart

Piktochart's pricing page shows five tiers plus discounted education and nonprofit programs. Free gives 2 PNG downloads, 60 AI credits and 1GB. Pro is $15 monthly or $10 per member per month billed annually, with 500 AI credits. Business is $20 monthly or $17 billed annually, with 1,000 AI credits. Enterprise is custom and starts at 101 members. Education is $39 per member per year and Nonprofit is $60 per member per year.

Four reasons come up again and again when people go looking for something else.

The free cap. Two PNG downloads is enough to try the product and not enough to run a small newsletter. If your use is occasional, a free plan with more room, such as Datawrapper for charts or Snappa for graphics, may cost you nothing at all.

AI credit limits. Credits are a meter. Pro's 500 and Business's 1,000 are fine for a team making a few reports a month, and thin for a team that regenerates drafts. You should count how many credits one finished infographic burns before you assume a plan will last the month.

Chart depth. Piktochart is built around layouts, not around data journalism. When the real task is an interactive chart that updates, a map, or a published chart that has to pass a newsroom's review, specialist tools do more.

Brand control at scale. The step from Pro to Business is $7 a month per member on annual billing, but teams with strict style rules, several brand kits and approval flows often want a platform where templates can be locked.

Notice that none of these says "Piktochart is bad." That matters because a free-cap problem and a chart-depth problem have different answers, and the list below is organised around that difference.

Quick Comparison Table

Piktochart Plans for Reference

Prices are the vendor's own, in US dollars, with billing term stated.

Annual billing is cheaper on both paid tiers. A Pro seat paid monthly runs $180 a year against $120 on annual billing, so if you are staying at all, commit annually.

Pricing Side by Side

Two cautions. Credit units are not comparable across vendors, because one Piktochart credit, one Visme credit and one Napkin credit buy different amounts of output. Compare a month of your own workload, not credit counts. And seat models differ: some prices are per member, some per team, and VistaCreate's one price covers up to ten seats. Read the unit on each card before multiplying.

What the Free Plans Actually Allow

For occasional users this table decides the whole question, so it comes before the per-tool sections.

The pattern: Datawrapper and Flourish are the most generous for charts, Napkin AI for quick diagrams, and VistaCreate for general design. Snappa's free cap of three downloads a month is slightly better than Piktochart's two downloads in total.

1. Canva: The general-purpose default

Canva is the tool most Piktochart users already have an account with, which makes it the first replacement to test. Its pricing page shows Free at $0, Pro at $144 a year for one person, Business at $250 a year per person, and Enterprise on request. The plan once called Teams is now Business. Monthly billing is also available. Free includes up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses, Pro gets ten times that, and Business twenty times.

For infographics the advantage is breadth. Social posts, one-pagers, decks, brand kits and simple charts sit in one editor. The cost is depth: Canva's charts are a feature, not a specialty, and a long annual report with interactive data is not where it shines.

Best for: marketers who make many kinds of assets. Not ideal for: data-heavy reports. For a wider Canva exit, see the best Canva alternatives.

2. Venngage: Business infographics with brand controls

Venngage is the closest like-for-like swap, built for business infographics, reports and process diagrams. Its pricing page lists Free with 5 designs and public sharing only, Premium at $19 monthly or $10 a month billed yearly, and Business at $49 monthly or $24 a month yearly per user. Premium carries 160 daily AI credits and Business 1,600. Enterprise starts at $499 a month with a minimum of 10 members.

Before committing, read the Venngage alternatives guide to see why some Venngage teams leave.

The daily credit model matters. Unlike a monthly pool, daily credits reset, which suits steady users and wastes a heavy week. The Business tier is the one to price if you need brand controls and team collaboration, and it costs $24 a month per user on annual billing.

Best for: teams making branded reports weekly. Not ideal for: anyone who needs private free designs.

3. Visme: Reports, decks and data in one editor

Visme is the broadest content tool here, covering infographics, presentations, documents and data widgets. Its pricing page shows a free Basic plan with 10 AI credits a month, Starter at $29 monthly or $147 a year ($12.25 a month), and Business at $59 monthly or $297 a year ($24.75 a month). Starter carries 200 AI credits a month and Business 500. Team pricing is published for small groups: three users at $119 a month or $864 a year, and five users at $159 a month or $1,440 a year. Six or more users are custom, and Enterprise starts at 10 users with unlimited AI credits.

The Visme alternatives guide covers what Visme users move to when team pricing jumps.

Visme is strongest when a single document has to combine charts, text and branded layout. Costs climb quickly for a team, so price a five-person plan before comparing it to a single seat elsewhere.

Best for: teams producing reports and decks from one tool. Not ideal for: a solo user making one infographic a month.

4. Infogram: Interactive charts and dashboards

Infogram is a chart-first product from Prezi, Inc. Its pricing page shows Basic as free, Pro at $25 monthly or $19 a month billed yearly, Business at $79 or $67, and Team at $179 or $149 for a team of three to ten users. Enterprise is on request. The toggle advertises 24% off for annual billing.

The tiers differ in scale and polish. Basic gives one user up to 10 projects and 35+ chart types. Pro raises projects to 100, adds an AI image maker, privacy control and HD downloads. Business moves to 1,000 projects with a brand kit, SQL connectors and version history. Team adds real-time collaboration. Note that downloads of PDFs and images are a paid-plan feature, and the page says it does not offer refunds.

Best for: teams publishing interactive charts and dashboards. Not ideal for: layout-driven print reports.

5. Datawrapper: Publication-grade charts

Datawrapper is the specialist for charts, maps and tables. Its pricing page shows Free, Pro at $25 per user per month or $21 billed annually, and Business at $46 monthly or $39 annually per user. Enterprise is custom. Prices are in US dollars and exclude VAT. A 20% nonprofit discount is offered.

The free plan is unusually generous: you can create, publish and embed interactive charts, maps and tables, and PNG export is unlimited, as long as the "Created with Datawrapper" line stays. Pro removes that line and adds PDF and SVG export and 90-day edit history. Business adds waterfall and dual-axis charts, team permissions and a one-year history. The company states you hold full copyright over the charts you make.

Best for: analysts, journalists and anyone publishing clean, accurate charts. Not ideal for: posters, social graphics or branded layouts.

6. Flourish: Animated, story-driven data

Flourish is the pick when the chart is the story. Its pricing page lists a Free tier with unlimited projects, the full template range and public publishing with attribution. Presenter requires a Canva Business or Enterprise plan and adds Canva and PowerPoint embeds. Publisher and Enterprise are "get in touch", and the page publishes no prices. Flourish is a brand of Canva UK Operations Ltd.

Because pricing is a contract, plan on a sales call before you budget. The upside is the feature set: scrollytelling, custom themes, live data and an API sit in the higher tiers.

Best for: data stories and interactive explainers. Not ideal for: small teams that want a card-on-file price.

7. Adobe Express: Quick design inside Adobe

Adobe Express suits teams that already work in Creative Cloud. Its pricing page shows Free, Premium at $9.99 a month billed monthly with 250 generative credits, and Teams at $7.99 a month per license on an annual subscription billed monthly. Teams requires a minimum of two seats, and a first-year promotional price of $4.99 is shown. Firefly Pro is sold on the same page at $19.99 a month with 4,000 credits. Adobe also states you may generally use generative outputs commercially.

Express has no annual price for the individual plan on its page, so the cheapest way to buy is monthly. Its strength is brand kits and team controls on a familiar Adobe account. For a broader look at the Adobe generative stack, see Adobe Firefly alternatives.

Best for: Adobe-standardised teams. Not ideal for: data-driven reports.

8. Snappa: Cheap, quick graphics

Snappa is for people who want a graphic done in five minutes. Its pricing page shows Free with 3 downloads a month, Pro at $15 monthly or $10 a month billed yearly with unlimited downloads, and Team at $30 monthly or $20 yearly for five users. Images are royalty-free for commercial use with no attribution required.

It is a graphics tool, not a data tool, so the comparison with Piktochart is on speed and price rather than on reports. If you only make social images and blog headers, it is the cheapest sensible swap.

Best for: social and blog graphics. Not ideal for: reports and dashboards.

9. VistaCreate: Budget design for a small team

VistaCreate, formerly Crello, is the budget pick for a team that wants one price. Its plans page shows Starter at $0 and Pro at $13 a month, or $10 a month billed annually, for up to 10 seats. The annual toggle advertises 23% off. Starter includes 100K templates, 10 GB of storage and AI tools; Pro adds 200K+ templates, unlimited brand kits, social scheduling and version history.

A single price covering up to ten seats makes it hard to beat for a small team that needs shared templates. Chart tools are not its focus.

Best for: small teams on a tight budget. Not ideal for: data journalism.

10. Easelly: Classic infographic templates

Easelly offers traditional infographic templates at low annual prices. Its pro account page shows Student at $48 a year, Individual at $60 a year, and Business at $72 a year, all billed annually with no monthly option. Only Business lists commercial use. All paid plans include 320+ premium templates, over 1.1 million icons and photos, and export to PDF, JPEG and PNG. There is no trial but a 7-day money-back guarantee.

One thing to know: Easelly's homepage now leads with a design service for signs, print and vehicle wraps. The do-it-yourself tool continues as Easelly Pro.

Best for: teachers, students and small budgets. Not ideal for: brand-heavy business reports.

11. Napkin AI: Text to diagram

Napkin AI turns written text into visuals, which is a different job from Piktochart's template editing. Its pricing page lists Free with 500 AI credits per week, Napkin branding and PNG and PDF export; Plus at $12 monthly or $9 a month billed yearly with 10,000 credits a month; and Pro at $30 monthly or $22 yearly with 30,000 credits. Enterprise is on request. Yearly billing saves 25%.

The roughly one-credit-per-word metering means long documents spend credits quickly. It is a great way to turn a paragraph into a diagram, and a poor tool for building a full report page.

Best for: quick diagrams and slide visuals. Not ideal for: branded report pages. For presentation use, see the best Gamma alternatives.

12. Genially: Interactive and animated content

Genially builds interactive pages, presentations and learning content. Its plans page lists prices in euros: Pro at €10 a month or €72 a year, Master at €240 a year per seat, and Author at €480 a year per seat. Only Pro bills monthly; the others are annual. Free includes 500 AI credits per year and 2 GB of storage. Pro carries 2,000 AI credits a year, Master 5,000 per seat and Author 10,000 per seat.

Because the list is in euros and varies by region, check the checkout in your own country before you budget. Genially fits training, onboarding and interactive explainers more than traditional infographics.

Best for: training and interactive explainers. Not ideal for: print reports.

Data and Chart Depth Compared

If chart depth is the reason you are leaving, the real shortlist is three names: Datawrapper for clean publishing, Flourish for storytelling, and Infogram for dashboards with live data.

Brand Control and Team Features

A pattern shows up here. Tools priced per person (Canva, Venngage, Datawrapper, Napkin) get more expensive in a straight line as the team grows, while tools priced per team (Infogram, Snappa, VistaCreate) have a step in the price and then go flat. Price your team size, not just one seat.

Commercial Rights

Terms differ, so confirm them before client work. Datawrapper states you hold full copyright over the charts and maps you make, Snappa images are royalty-free for commercial and non-commercial use, Adobe says generative outputs may generally be used commercially, and Easelly lists commercial use on its Business plan only. Infogram says businesses and professionals need a paid plan. For the rest, confirm the terms with the vendor.

What a Month Costs at a Realistic Workload

Take a small marketing team of three producing four reports, 20 social graphics and a monthly chart-heavy newsletter. This is an estimate, not a measured bill.

On Piktochart, three Pro seats billed annually cost $30 a month, or $45 monthly, with 500 AI credits each. Canva Pro for three people is $432 a year at the published one-person price, about $36 a month, and it covers the graphics. Datawrapper Pro for one chart owner is $21 a month billed annually, and it covers the newsletter charts, while Snappa Pro at $10 a month billed yearly takes the social graphics. VistaCreate Pro at $10 a month billed annually covers all three seats. Visme's published three-user plan is $864 a year, about $72 a month, but it replaces both the report and chart tool.

The flip to notice: the cheapest tool is not always the cheapest stack. A $10 plan that forces you to buy a second chart tool and a third graphics tool costs more than one platform that finishes the job. And a platform that does charts at a basic level may push a data-heavy team to Datawrapper anyway.

Which Tool for Which Job

How to Pick Your Replacement

Start from the reason you are leaving, because each reason has a different shortlist.

If it is the free cap, test Datawrapper for charts or Snappa for graphics, and see whether the free plan alone gets you through a month. If it is the AI credit limit, compare the metering: Venngage's daily credits, Visme's monthly pool, Napkin's weekly allowance and Genially's yearly pool behave very differently, and a team with bursty work should favour pools that roll across longer periods. If it is chart depth, go straight to the specialists and accept that you may keep a layout tool for everything else. If it is brand control, price the Business tiers, because that is where templates lock and approvals appear.

Then run one real job through your top two. Take last quarter's report, rebuild it in each tool, and time it. Count the clicks to export in the format you need, check whether the brand kit holds, and note what the free plan would have stopped. That afternoon is cheaper than a year on the wrong annual plan.

For related decisions, the best AI graphic design tools compares full design platforms, the best AI presentation tools covers decks, and the best AI mockup generators covers product visuals.

What to Do Next

Pick the one reason you are leaving Piktochart, shortlist two tools from the table above, and rebuild one real report in each. Check the free plan limits, the export formats and the brand kit before you pay. If you are still deciding between infographic styles rather than vendors, the best AI infographic tools compares the wider field.