Penpot
Open-source design and prototyping platform for teams
What it does well
- Completely free and open-source with no licensing costs
- Real-time multi-user collaboration and version control
- Full-featured vector design and interactive prototyping
- Web-based with no installation needed, works across all platforms
Where it falls short
- Smaller plugin ecosystem compared to Figma
- Performance may lag with very large or complex design files
- Fewer advanced animation and interaction features than competitors
Core Features
| Vector Design Tools | Yes |
| Prototyping | Yes |
| Design System/Components | Yes |
| Open Source | Yes |
| Browser-based Editor | Yes |
| Design Handoff | Yes |
| Developer Inspect Mode | Yes |
| SVG Export | Yes |
| Asset Libraries | Yes |
| Version History | Yes |
Collaboration
| Real-time Collaboration | Yes |
| Multi-user Editing | Yes |
Security
| Self-hosted Option | Yes |
Integrations
| REST API | Yes |
Free
Free
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited files
- Unlimited collaborators
- Basic design tools
- Prototyping
- Basic plugins
- Community support
Professional
$10/mo
$100/yr billed annually
- Everything in Free
- Priority support
- Advanced plugins
- Team management
- Shared libraries
- Custom branding
Team
$25/mo
$250/yr billed annually
- Everything in Professional
- Advanced team collaboration
- Asset management
- Design tokens
- Version history
- Admin controls
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