# Org charts and org design: what AI models recommend, October 2026

HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "org chart software" and as "organizational design tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/org-charts-and-org-design/

**Standing:** ChartHop leads with 30% of first choices; verdict contested. 53 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChartHop | 30% | 6% | 48 |
| 2 | Organimi | 9% | 5% | 43 |
| 3 | Pingboard | 8% | 8% | 36 |
| 4 | Creately | 8% | 33% | 24 |
| 5 | OrgChart | 6% | 15% | 26 |
| 6 | OneDirectory | 6% | 9% | 11 |
| 7 | Functionly | 4% | 7% | 15 |
| 8 | Lucidchart | 2% | 39% | 57 |
| 9 | Canva | 2% | 40% | 15 |
| 10 | SmartDraw | 2% | 46% | 24 |
| 11 | Miro | 2% | 43% | 30 |
| 12 | Microsoft Visio | 2% | 58% | 36 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: OneDirectory; alternatives Lucidchart, OrgChart, Organimi
- GPT-5.4 mini: ChartHop; alternatives OrgChart, Pingboard
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: ChartHop; alternatives HiBob, Organimi, Rippling, Sift
- Perplexity Sonar: OrgChart; alternatives Lucidchart, OrgChartHub, Organimi
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Pingboard; alternatives Lucidchart, Organimi
- Mistral Small: OrgChartHub, Pingboard; alternatives Arbor, Ingentis org.manager, Organimi
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: ChartHop; alternatives Lucidchart, OrgChart, Pingboard, The Org
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Luminal; alternatives BambooHR, BetterU, Lucidchart, Rippling
- Kimi K2: Pingboard; alternatives ChartHop, Lucidchart, Organimi
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: ChartHop; alternatives BambooHR, Organimi, Pingboard
- MiniMax M2.5: ChartHop; alternatives OneDirectory, OrgChart, Pingboard, Sift
- GPT-6 Luna: Organimi; alternatives ChartHop, OrgChart
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Pingboard; alternatives ChartHop, OneDirectory, OrgChartHub, Organimi

## Sources the answers cite

73 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- forbes.com: 34 answers, 34 citations
- firsthr.app: 33 answers, 33 citations
- onedirectory.com: 28 answers, 28 citations
- gitnux.org: 27 answers, 48 citations
- creately.com: 26 answers, 28 citations
- theorg.com: 24 answers, 26 citations
- worldmetrics.org: 22 answers, 39 citations
- learn.g2.com: 20 answers, 20 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-org-chart-software (34 answers)
- https://firsthr.app/compare/general/org-chart-software (31 answers)
- https://onedirectory.com/blog/best-org-chart-software (27 answers)
- https://theorg.com/iterate/the-best-organizational-chart-software (21 answers)
- https://creately.com/reviews/best-org-chart-software (18 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-org-chart-software (18 answers)
- https://muchskills.com/best-org-chart-review (18 answers)
- https://teamohana.com/blog/org-chart-software (17 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-org-chart-tools (15 answers)
- https://venngage.com/blog/best-org-chart-software (15 answers)

## Warned against

- Microsoft Visio: 21 of 36 labels negative. "Static diagramming tools such as ... Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word ... produce a snapshot that must be edited by hand" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Lucidchart: 22 of 57 labels negative. "Static diagramming tools such as Lucidchart, Miro, Creately, SmartDraw, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word when they are used as the primary org-chart system" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Miro: 13 of 30 labels negative. "Static diagramming tools such as Lucidchart, Miro, Creately, SmartDraw, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word when they are used as the primary org-chart system" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- SmartDraw: 11 of 24 labels negative. "Static diagramming tools such as Lucidchart, Miro, Creately, SmartDraw, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: ChartHop at 30%.

- Organimi: 17% to 4%, −13. Inside the floor by 0 points · rank 2 → 7 of 90.
- Creately: 2% to 9%, +7. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 10 → 3 of 90.
- draw.io: 8% to 13%, +5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 5 → 2 of 90.
- OrgChart: 12% to 7%, −5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 → 5 of 90.
- OneDirectory: 12% to 7%, −5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 3 → 6 of 90.
- Functionly: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 17 → 8 of 90.
- Lucidchart: 6% to 2%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 9 of 90.
- ChartHop: 27% to 30%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 1 of 90, unchanged.
- Pingboard: 4% to 7%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 → 4 of 90.
- SmartDraw: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 20 → 15 of 90.
- Microsoft Visio: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 76 → 17 of 90.
- Orgvue: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 12 → 18 of 90.

## Record

- Method: https://hr-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://hr-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, hr-ai-index.com.