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Penpot
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.
Where it stands
4.0 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 3 of 3 signals
- Website health4.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Facts stated4.2 / 5 · weight 30%
How many of the five facts the tool's own pages state
- Community3.9 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Penpot yet. Facts checked 2026-11-01. How tests work
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Should you use Penpot?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-01.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “Professional plan is $0 and described as free and fully featured with no file limits, unlimited teams, and open source.”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: watermark, where your files go. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Graphic design tool
Measured signals
4.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Penpot'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 698 ms.
- Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.9 / 5 · 15 commenters93% of the 15 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Penpot; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“I just tried doing some quick sketches in Penpot for a project I was working on, and found the interface way better for my use case. Granted that I didn't spend a lot of time in Figma or Penpot, but for the amount of…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I don't see how Clojurescript is a good thing here, it's probably the most inefficient and with the most overhead of all the compile to JS languages (with out talking too much about react with penpot uses), even highly…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Yeah Penpot's performance was shockingly bad when I tried it not that long ago.”
Read in the thread
Threads: Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform (2022, 128 comments) · Penpot 2.0 Released (2024, 27 comments) · Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform (2021, 26 comments) · PenPot 1.8.0 Alpha (2021, 9 comments)
- Free tier
- Professional plan is $0 and described as free and fully featured with no file limits, unlimited teams, and open source.
- Paid plan
- Unlimited: USD 7 per editor per month, capped at USD 175 per month, 14-day free trial. Enterprise: USD 25 per member per month, 14-day free trial. Private Server: USD 50k per year. Discounts for non-profit, education and open-source on application.
- Signup
- The free plan has a Sign up for free button; the page does not explicitly say whether an account is required.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated. The privacy policy covers personal data from the website, says data is kept as long as the commercial relationship lasts, and does not say where design files are stored.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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