Marq
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're a mid-size or large org where many non-designers produce on-brand collateral and you can absorb sales-quoted pricing.
Comparison
Marq vs Figma
Marq and Figma both land on Depends.
Figma
Depends
Confidence: High
Buy it if you are a product or design team building user interfaces together every week . it is the category standard and the free tier is genuinely usable.
| Compare | Marq | Figma |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Multi-location and franchise marketing teams | Product and UX teams shipping software who design together daily |
| Who it's not for | Solo designers . Figma or Adobe already covers you | Solo freelancers or small teams that only need occasional simple mockups . a paid seat plan here is overkill; Penpot, Balsamiq, or even a template will do |
| Privacy | No known public breaches; vendor claims regular internal audits, but phishing abuse of hosted pages is documented.⁸ | Figma advertises SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, and a trust center, but 2025 was rough: Figma's own Data Processing Addendum discloses a security breach caused by a command injection, a command-injection CVE exists in Figma Desktop for Windows, and two RCE vulnerabilities were found in the third-party Framelink Figma MCP server that many teams connect to Figma. |
| Public sentiment | G2 reviewers are positive, but Reddit designers bristle at top-down purchases and some reviewers find the tool limiting.¹ | Aggregate sentiment is strongly positive on the core product . 4.6 stars on G2 with real-time collaboration as the standout strength and users saying it speeds up layout work significantly.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | Pricing hidden; expect negotiated quotes and a sales-led demo process⁴ | Seat-type sprawl is the big trap: full editor seats, Dev Mode seats, and cheap collaborator seats (around $5/month) mean your real cost depends on who touches files . model this before committing16 |
Pick Marq when
- Multi-location and franchise marketing teams
- Brand-heavy orgs with non-designer content creators
- Sales teams needing locked-down collateral
When Marq is not a fit
- Solo designers . Figma or Adobe already covers you
- Small teams that just need Canva templates
- Buyers wanting transparent self-serve pricing
- Anyone without budget for a sales-led rollout
Pick Figma when
- Product and UX teams shipping software who design together daily
- Design systems teams maintaining shared component libraries
- Startups through enterprises that want designers and developers on one canvas
- Teams that want the de facto industry tool with the largest community and plugin ecosystem
When Figma is not a fit
- Solo freelancers or small teams that only need occasional simple mockups . a paid seat plan here is overkill; Penpot, Balsamiq, or even a template will do
- Non-design teams (marketing, ops) that just want a whiteboard . Miro or Google Slides is the right-sized tool
- Budget-sensitive orgs planning to put many engineers on it . Dev Mode seat pricing drew open revolt from users, so the bill scales badly with dev headcount
- Buyers who need offline or self-hosted control of design data . Figma is cloud-first, and offline-first alternatives exist for that reason
Sources
review
- Marq Reviews . Capterra (Lucidpress)capterra.comreview
- VP just bought Marq; now what . Redditreddit.comreview
- Marq Pricing . TrustRadiustrustradius.comreview
- Marq Software Reviews . Software Advicesoftwareadvice.comreview
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress) . GetAppgetapp.co.ukreview
official
- Hackers Abuse DDP Websites . GBHackersgbhackers.comsecurity
- Cisco Talos Threats Blogblog.talosintelligence.comsecurity
- Lucidpress rebrands as Marq . PR Newswireprnewswire.comnews
- Marvia vs. Marqgetmarvia.comnews
- Figma Review: The Good and Bad (Crazy Egg)crazyegg.comreview
official
- Figma seat prices by tier (CheckThat)checkthat.aiofficial