How Excalidraw is used
Excalidraw is a dependency in 9 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 27 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use React (100.0%), react-markdown (63.0%), Lucide React (70.4%).
AgentGid articles about Excalidraw
Excalidraw popularity over time
Gid Score 62: downloads 58, use in agent projects 32, GitHub stars 93, downloads trend 72 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Excalidraw
| React | 100.0% of Excalidraw projects · 3.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| react-markdown | 63.0% of Excalidraw projects · 16.1× more than average |
| Lucide React | 70.4% of Excalidraw projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 63.0% of Excalidraw projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Radix UI | 59.3% of Excalidraw projects · 4.5× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 59.3% of Excalidraw projects · 7.5× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 85.2% of Excalidraw projects · 2.6× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 63.0% of Excalidraw projects · 3.4× more than average |
From all 27 projects in our scan that use Excalidraw, including the dependency samples.
How Excalidraw is funded
Open Collective: excalidraw
| Received, last 12 months | $1,963 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $2,211 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $34,862 |
| Raised since the start | $38,477 · $3,615 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $171 · $263 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -75% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 36 |
Top company backers all time, 19 companies in total
| Datadog | $7,350 since Jun 2020 |
|---|---|
| Craft Docs | $5,000 since Jun 2025 |
| Slite | $4,020 since Dec 2020 |
| Agendalink.com | $3,100 since Sep 2023 |
| Scott Logic Ltd. | $3,000 since Sep 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jan 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Excalidraw
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @excalidraw/excalidraw |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (15), TypeScript / JavaScript (12) |
| Example projects | db-aeon/joshu-oss, guyue12346/guyue-master, CopilotKit/excalidraw-studio, tanchaowen84/flowchartai, Agent54/xe-darc |
Alternatives to Excalidraw
In our scan, none of the most used tools in UI components and icons does the same job as Excalidraw: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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