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Penpot

What Penpotcosts, what you get without paying, and the limits, verified against the vendor’s own pages, plus the one-day projects it shows up in.

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Has a free tier · paid from $7 per user (cap $175/month) per month · Verified July 2026 · No one-day test yet: these are verified facts, not a review.

What Penpot actually is

  • Open source, and the flag bearer among Canva alternatives. You can host it yourself for full control over your data
  • Aimed at design plus developer handoff: it generates 1:1 CSS, HTML, SVG and JSON out of the design, with design tokens and CSS grid and flex
  • Developer handoff is free, with no paid Dev seat

Limits and catches

  • It is really a Figma-style UI design tool, not a Canva-style social graphics and template tool, so the learning curve is steeper for non-designers
  • The cloud version sits behind account signup and cannot be used without logging in
  • Private Server (dedicated) costs $50k per year as an enterprise option

What does Penpot cost?

A real free tier (Professional, $0): no file limit inside your storage, up to 8 team members plus unlimited viewers, 10 GB of storage and 7 days of version history. It is open source, so self-hosting is free as well. The cloud version does require an account.

TierPricePeriod
Professional (Free)$0per month
Unlimited$7 per user (cap $175/month)per month
Enterprisefrom $950per month

Prices verified July 2026, we re-check every 60 days.

Where Penpot shows up in our work

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