Excalidraw Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Excalidraw hosting and open a hand-drawn style whiteboard on your own domain. xCloud runs the official Excalidraw 0.18.1 image, pinned by digest, and publishes it over HTTPS. There is no database, no account and no install form to fill in. Your solo drawings stay in your browser, and you export them as .excalidraw files when you want a copy.

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What is Excalidraw?

Excalidraw is an open-source virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn style. People use it for diagrams, wireframes, flowcharts and quick sketches. The editor gives you an infinite canvas, shapes, arrows that bind to shapes, text, images, dark mode and many languages. You can export a drawing as PNG, SVG or an open .excalidraw file. The code is released under the MIT licence.

On xCloud it is Excalidraw 0.18.1 from the official image, pinned by digest, on your own HTTPS domain. It is one small web service with no database and no storage volume. Solo drawings are saved in your browser, not on the server. The Share and Live collaboration buttons work, and they send end-to-end encrypted data through Excalidraw's own public services rather than through your server.

About this app

Version xCloud installs: 0.18.1
Licence: MIT
Official website: excalidraw.com
Source code: github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
Documentation: docs.excalidraw.com

Excalidraw is a third-party project. xCloud is not affiliated with or endorsed by its maintainers. Names and logos belong to their owners.

From Sign-Up to a Blank Excalidraw Canvas In 3 Steps

Running Excalidraw yourself means pinning an image that has no version tags, then adding a proxy, a domain and a certificate. Here that work is done before you draw your first box.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Excalidraw from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain and a server. Excalidraw itself asks for nothing: no fields, no passwords, no keys.
Step 02
We Deploy The Whiteboard
One click. We start the official Excalidraw image, pinned by digest, as a single web service and publish it over HTTPS on your domain. It has no database and no storage volume, because the server keeps no drawings.
Step 03
Draw, Then Save A File
Open the URL shown in your credentials panel, pick a tool and start drawing. No account is needed. For anything you want to keep, use File, then Save to, and download a .excalidraw file.

A Whiteboard That Feels Hand-Drawn, On Your Own Domain

This is the same open-source editor that runs at excalidraw.com, served from your server instead.

Hand-Drawn Style Canvas
Sketch on an infinite canvas with rectangles, diamonds, circles, arrows, lines, free-draw and text, all in a hand-drawn look.
Arrows That Stay Attached
Bind arrows to shapes and label them, so a flowchart keeps its connections when you move boxes around.
Open File Format
Save a drawing as a .excalidraw JSON file and open it again in any Excalidraw, on any device.
Export To PNG And SVG
Export a drawing as a PNG or SVG image, or copy it to the clipboard, ready for a doc or a slide.
Saved In Your Browser
The editor autosaves solo drawings to your browser's storage and keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Shape Libraries And Images
Add images to the canvas and reuse shape libraries. The library browser loads from Excalidraw's own site.

Everything You Need To Run Your Whiteboard 24/7

Hosting for Excalidraw, so the server, the domain and the certificate are handled for you.

Excalidraw 0.18.1 from the official image
Image pinned by digest
Free SSL certificate
No database or volume to look after
No accounts or passwords to manage
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Excalidraw

Sketch a system before you build it
Draw services, queues and data flows, then export the picture for your design doc.
Wireframe a screen or a user journey
Rough out pages and states in a hand-drawn look that nobody mistakes for a finished design.
Give your team one whiteboard address
Share a single URL on your own domain. Everyone opens it and draws with no account to create.
Keep solo sketches on your own device
Draw alone and nothing leaves your browser. The server only delivers the editor.
Keep diagrams as files you own
Save each drawing as a .excalidraw file and store it next to your code or your docs.

Excalidraw Screenshots

Excalidraw's welcome canvas after a OneClick install, with the drawing toolbar and a note that drawings are saved in your browser's storage

Excalidraw vs Alternatives

Excalidraw+: Excalidraw+ is the paid workspace product from the Excalidraw team, with cloud-saved scenes and team features. This page hosts the free MIT-licensed editor only, with no Excalidraw+ seat.
Miro: Miro is a hosted whiteboard service. Excalidraw is open source under the MIT licence, opens with no account and runs here on a domain you choose.
draw.io: draw.io has its own OneClick page. It is a diagramming editor for flowcharts, network maps and UML, while Excalidraw gives you a looser, hand-drawn style canvas.
Drawnix: Drawnix has its own OneClick page. It adds mind mapping and Markdown and Mermaid import to a whiteboard, and like Excalidraw it keeps nothing on the server.
drawDB: drawDB has its own OneClick page. Choose it to design a database schema and generate its SQL. Choose Excalidraw for free-form sketches.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes with Excalidraw ready to deploy. The whiteboard is light, so start small and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

For when Excalidraw shares the server with heavier design or docs apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch and monitor. Billed monthly with no lock-in: delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Excalidraw is licensed under MIT.

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Ready To Sketch On Your Own Whiteboard?

Excalidraw on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch and monitor. The editor is yours to open on your domain, and your drawings stay with you.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Where are my Excalidraw drawings stored?

In your browser. The editor autosaves solo drawings to your browser's storage on the device you draw on. Nothing is saved on the server. A drawing survives a page reload, but another browser or device will not show it.

How do I back up Excalidraw?

Export your drawings. Use File, then Save to, and download a .excalidraw file you can open again anywhere. There is no server volume to back up, so a server backup does not contain your drawings. Clearing browser data deletes any drawing you have not exported.

Is live collaboration fully self-hosted?

No. Your server hosts the editor. The Share link and Live collaboration buttons work out of the box, and they route through Excalidraw's own public services. The data is end-to-end encrypted in your browser, so those services cannot read your drawings.

What if my policy forbids third-party services?

Then leave the Share, Live collaboration and AI buttons alone, and skip the shape-library browser. Those features call Excalidraw's own services. Solo drawing touches only your browser and your server.

How much RAM does Excalidraw need?

The template asks for 256 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 1 GB of disk. The drawing work happens in your browser, and the server only delivers the editor. The 6 GB plan is the starting point here, far above that minimum.

Do I need an account to use Excalidraw?

No. Open your URL and start drawing. The template creates no users and no passwords, and your credentials panel shows only the address. The Excalidraw+ and Sign up buttons in the editor lead to Excalidraw's separate paid product.

Is my Excalidraw site public?

Yes by default. Anyone who can reach your domain can open the editor, though they cannot see drawings kept in your browser. To limit who can open it, turn on Basic Authentication for the site.

Enable Basic Authentication

Is Excalidraw free?

Yes. The Excalidraw editor is open source under the MIT licence, so the software has no licence fee. You pay for the Cloud VPS it runs on. Excalidraw+ is a separate paid product and is not part of this install.

Can I run Excalidraw in Docker?

Yes, and that is what this template does. It runs the official excalidraw/excalidraw image as one container behind xCloud's Nginx, with HTTPS on your domain. Upstream publishes no version tags, so the image is pinned by digest to the build that ships 0.18.1.

How do I upgrade Excalidraw?

Your install stays on its pinned 0.18.1 image until you move it to a newer one yourself. Existing sites are never upgraded automatically. The server holds no drawings, so there is no database to migrate when you do.

Update a OneClick app

Does Excalidraw work offline?

Once the page has loaded, the editor keeps working in your browser without a connection, and it keeps autosaving locally. Share links and live collaboration need a connection.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.