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Mermaid

Mermaid is a JavaScript diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions into flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more.

Website health 3.5 / 5

Where it stands

3.3 / 5

Signals score

Not a hands-on test

Based on 1 of 3 signals

  • Website health3.5 / 5 · weight 50%

    Measured from the tool's public website

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Measured signals

3.5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08

Read automatically from Mermaid's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

  • Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 122 ms.
  • Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
  • Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
  • Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

Community feedback

Not enough discussion yet: 6 classified comments from 1 thread. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

  • Positive

    “Mermaid is great for simple stuff. If you want a more advanced approach where you can even have multiple levels. The best way to do c4 without paying a dime I think is But again, for simple stuff, mermaid. It's also…”

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  • Positive

    “I love mermaid because it’s so easily source-controlled. It also has pretty solid documentation. I did create an internal tool that scans my Firestore data model and outputs an ER Diagram in mermaid. Works really nicely…”

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Threads: Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool (2024, 65 comments)

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