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Penpot

The open-source design platform for teams

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What is Penpot?

Browser-based, open-source design platform enabling scalable collaboration with UI design, design systems, AI workflows, and developer tools for designers, developers, and AI agents.

Independently observed

Penpot pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $7/mofreemiumFree tier14-day trial

Free tier. Professional: $0. Unlimited: From $7/user/month (capped at $175/month). Enterprise: $950/month.

Professional

Free
Free

Free and fully featured. No limits, no missing tools.

storage
10GB
team_members
Up to 8
autosave_retention
7 days
deleted_file_recovery
7 days
  • Unlimited design files
  • Unlimited teams
  • Plugins
  • Open Source
  • Unlimited viewers

Unlimited

$7/user/month, capped at $175/month

Support Penpot and unlock more. Extra space, extended history, and early features.

storage
25GB
autosave_retention
30 days
capped_monthly_bill
$175
deleted_file_recovery
30 days
  • Unlimited design files
  • Unlimited teams
  • Plugins
  • Open Source
  • Early access to features
  • 50% discount on Penpot events

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

For growing teams with complex needs. More storage, longer history, smarter team tools.

storage
Unlimited
autosave_retention
90 days
deleted_file_recovery
90 days
  • Unlimited design files
  • Unlimited teams
  • Plugins
  • Open Source
  • Centralized admin console
  • Early access to features
  • 50% discount on Penpot events
  • Customizable add-ons

What Penpot does

The capabilities that matter for ui/ux & prototyping tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Design
Vector UI design
✓
Component / design-system libraries
✓
Auto layout / responsive
✓
Prototyping
Clickable prototyping
✓
Advanced interactions (variables / conditions)
✓
Collaboration
Real-time multiplayer collaboration
✓
Handoff
Dev handoff / spec export
✓
Platform
Platform breadth (Web / macOS / Windows / Linux / self-hosted)
Web-based, cloud-hosted, or self-hosted. Open-source.
Licensing
Self-hostable / open-source
✓
AI
AI design assist
✓
Pricing
Pricing model
Freemium
Ecosystem
Plugin / community ecosystem
Community plugins, design libraries, templates, and Penpot Hub
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (1)

Independently observed
  • MCP Server

Penpot alternatives

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Penpot, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 75 / 100
low · 33%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities9632.003072.8✓
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0✓
Github Activity6318.001135.8✓
Release Cadence9510.00950.0✓
Price Level8010.00800.0✓
Github Stars905.00449.2✓
Integrations918.00155.8✓
Reliability012.000.0-
Security Posture012.000.0-
Package Downloads026.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars57,922highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"ai_design":true,"auto_layout":true,"dev_handoff":true,"pricing_model":"freemium","self_hostable":true,"vector_design":true,"platform_breadth":"Web-based, cloud-hosted, or self-hosted. Open-source.","plugin_ecosystem":"Community plugins, design libraries, templates, and Penpot Hub","component_libraries":true,"advanced_interactions":true,"clickable_prototyping":true,"realtime_collaboration":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count1mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryClojurehighsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMPL-2.0highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-01 · 48%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp7mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days9mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%