Design & Creative
Penpot
From $7Free planG2 4.5 · 10 reviews
Teams that want a free, open-source Figma alternative they can self-host, and developer-heavy product teams who want layouts and design tokens that map directly to CSS.
Quick overview
- Pricing
- Free; paid from $7/editor/month
- Plans
- Professional: $0, fully featured with no editor or file limits. Unlimited: $7/editor/month, capped at $175/month for any team size (extra storage, longer version history, early features). Enterprise: $25/member/month (centralized admin, team permissions, governance). Private Server: $50,000/year for dedicated hosting. Self-hosting the open-source edition is free. Discounts for non-profits, education and open-source projects.
- G2 rating
- 4.5 / 5.0
- Comparisons
- Featured in 1 comparison
Key features
- Open-source, browser-based UI design and prototyping (free to self-host)
- CSS Grid and Flex layouts that map directly to front-end code
- Components, shared libraries and native design tokens
- Code inspect built on open standards (CSS, HTML, SVG, JSON)
- Plugins and a Penpot MCP server for AI agent and LLM workflows
Pros
- Fully featured free plan with no editor or file limits
- Open source and self-hostable, so no vendor lock-in
- Layouts use real CSS Grid and Flexbox, which makes handoff cleaner
- Runs in any browser on Windows, Mac and Linux
Cons
- Smaller plugin, template and community ecosystem than Figma
- Can feel slower than native apps on very large files
- Prototyping and advanced interactions are less deep than Figma, UXPin or Axure
- Few G2 reviews so far, so there is less peer feedback to go on
Emily Rodriguez