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Figma |
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10/10 |
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#1) Best overall for collaborative UI design, prototyping, and component systems.
- GPT-6 Luna (#1) Best overall: collaborative design, interactive prototyping, and a mature component ecosystem.
- Gemini 4 Argon (#1) Unmatched real-time collaboration, robust design systems, and industry-standard prototyping all in the browser.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#1) Industry standard; browser-based, real-time collaboration, design systems.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#1) Industry standard, real-time collaboration, all-in-one design and prototyping
- GLM-5.3 (#1) Industry standard for collaborative UI design and prototyping
- Kimi K3 (#1) Industry standard, real-time collaboration, huge plugin ecosystem, excellent prototyping.
- MiniMax M3 (#1) Industry standard for collaborative UI design and prototyping.
- Mistral Large 4 (#1) Real-time collaboration, auto-layout, and component system make it the industry standard.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#1) Best all-in-one collaborative design/prototyping
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| 2 |
Sketch |
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10/10 |
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#2) Mature macOS-native vector UI design tool with strong plugin ecosystem.
- GPT-6 Luna (#2) Excellent polished interface design workflow, especially for Mac-based teams.
- Gemini 4 Argon (#2) Fast, native macOS design experience with deep plugin support for dedicated Apple workflows.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#2) Long-standing Mac-native UI design tool with rich plugin ecosystem.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#2) Mac-native, vast plugin ecosystem, excellent vector editing
- GLM-5.3 (#2) Mac-native pioneer with strong vector editing and symbols
- Kimi K3 (#2) Mature vector editor, streamlined UI workflow, strong symbol system for macOS.
- MiniMax M3 (#2) Strong macOS-native design tool with a robust plugin ecosystem.
- Mistral Large 4 (#2) Mac-native polish and powerful symbol system, though limited without plugins.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#2) Mac-native, strong plugin ecosystem
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| 3 |
Adobe XD |
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10/10 |
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#3) Solid prototyping and Creative Cloud integration, though development has slowed.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#3) Solid prototyping integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#3) Smooth Creative Cloud integration, voice prototyping, auto-animate
- GLM-5.3 (#3) Fast prototyping, deep Creative Cloud integration
- Kimi K3 (#3) Tight Creative Cloud integration, voice prototyping, auto-animate transitions.
- MiniMax M3 (#3) Well-integrated UI design and prototyping within Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Mistral Large 4 (#3) Strong Adobe ecosystem integration and voice prototyping, but development stalled.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#3) Integrated with Creative Cloud suite
- GPT-6 Luna (#7) Approachable interface design and prototyping, though its ecosystem has slowed.
- Gemini 4 Argon (#7) Clean vector design and voice prototyping capabilities, though now in maintenance mode with limited updates.
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| 4 |
Framer |
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10/10 |
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- Gemini 4 Argon (#3) Bridges interactive prototyping and production by publishing high-fidelity designs directly to live websites.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#4) Excellent for high-fidelity interactive prototypes and code-like interactions.
- GPT-6 Luna (#4) Combines high-fidelity prototyping with publishing functional, responsive websites.
- GLM-5.3 (#4) Production-realistic prototypes with real code output
- Kimi K3 (#4) High-fidelity interactive prototypes, code-backed components, production-ready output.
- MiniMax M3 (#4) Powerful for high-fidelity, interactive prototypes with real code.
- Mistral Large 4 (#4) Best-in-class for high-fidelity interactive prototypes and production-ready sites.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#4) Code-based prototyping with real components
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#5) Best for high-fidelity interactive prototypes and direct site publishing.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#5) React-based, near-code fidelity, advanced animations and interactions
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| 5 |
Axure RP |
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10/10 |
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- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#4) Most powerful conditional logic and data-driven enterprise prototypes.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#4) Unmatched for complex conditional logic and functional prototyping
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#5) Deep logic, conditional flows, and complex enterprise prototyping capabilities.
- GPT-6 Luna (#5) Best for complex interactions, conditional logic, and detailed UX specifications.
- GLM-5.3 (#5) Best for complex, logic-rich interactive prototypes
- Kimi K3 (#5) Deep conditional logic, dynamic content, enterprise-grade complex prototyping.
- Mistral Large 4 (#5) Unmatched for complex conditional logic and enterprise wireframing needs.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#5) Complex logic and conditional interactions
- Gemini 4 Argon (#6) Unrivaled for complex, data-driven prototypes requiring conditional logic, dynamic content, and detailed documentation.
- MiniMax M3 (#6) Best-in-class for complex, logic-driven, conditional prototyping.
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| 6 |
ProtoPie |
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9/10 |
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- Gemini 4 Argon (#5) Creates ultra-realistic, sensor-driven, and multi-device interactive prototypes without writing a line of code.
- GPT-6 Luna (#6) Creates sophisticated, sensor-driven prototypes without writing code.
- Mistral Large 4 (#6) Superior for advanced sensor-based mobile prototypes and IoT interactions.
- GLM-5.3 (#7) Advanced interactions without code, smart sensors
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#7) High-fidelity native sensor prototyping
- Kimi K3 (#8) Advanced sensor and multi-device interactions, realistic hardware prototyping.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#9) Best micro-interaction and sensor-based prototyping for mobile
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InVision |
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8/10 |
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- MiniMax M3 (#5) Solid prototyping platform with strong stakeholder review features.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#6) Well-known prototyping and design review platform, though now less central.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#6) Pioneered click-through prototyping, comments, and design handoff.
- GLM-5.3 (#6) Long-popular prototyping and handoff workflow
- Kimi K3 (#6) Solid prototyping and feedback workflows, design system management, stakeholder handoff.
- Mistral Large 4 (#7) Once dominant for collaboration; now overshadowed by Figma's all-in-one approach.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#10) Strong whiteboarding and feedback workflows via Freehand
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| 8 |
Penpot |
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5/10 |
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- GPT-6 Luna (#3) Strong open-source option with collaborative design and interactive prototyping.
- Gemini 4 Argon (#4) Leading open-source, web-based alternative built natively on web standards like SVG and CSS Grid.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#7) Open-source design tool with real-time collaboration and developer handoff.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#7) Open-source, browser-native, full SVG support, growing fast
- Mistral Large 4 (#9) Open-source, web-based, and genuinely free—best collaborative alternative.
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| 9 |
InVision Studio |
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3/10 |
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- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#6) Advanced animation and prototyping
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| 10 |
Marvel |
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6/10 |
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- Kimi K3 (#7) Fast simple prototyping, user testing built in, low learning curve.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#9) Fast, simple clickable prototypes ideal for quick validation.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#9) Simple prototyping with user testing
- MiniMax M3 (#10) Simple, accessible design and prototyping for beginners and small teams.
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| 11 |
Balsamiq |
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4/10 |
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 (#8) Fast low-fidelity wireframing that keeps early ideas rough and focused.
- GPT-6 Luna (#8) Fast, focused low-fidelity wireframing for early product exploration.
- Mistral Large 4 (#8) Perfect for low-fidelity wireframes and fast stakeholder communication.
- GLM-5.3 (#9) Best quick low-fidelity wireframing tool
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| 12 |
UXPin |
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4/10 |
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- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#8) Code-based components yield functional, developer-accurate prototypes.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (#8) Design with production components, merge tech bridges code gap
- GPT-6 Luna (#9) Useful for interactive prototypes built from realistic, code-backed components.
- Gemini 4 Argon (#9) Allows teams to design and prototype directly with live production code components like React.
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| 13 |
Origami Studio |
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3/10 |
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- MiniMax M3 (#7) Free tool from Meta ideal for detailed mobile interaction design.
- Qwen 3.8 Flash (#10) Meta's free node-based tool for genuinely native-feeling interactions.
- Kimi K3 (#10) Powerful patch-based logic, free, used by Meta for high-end interactions.
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Principle |
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2/10 |
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- GLM-5.3 (#8) Polished, timeline-based mobile animation prototyping
- Nemotron 3 Ultra (#10) Best for micro-interactions/animations
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| 15 |
Webflow |
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2/10 |
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- Gemini 4 Argon (#8) Empowers designers to build and launch production-grade, responsive web interfaces visually using real HTML/CSS.
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