Penpot Pricing
- Design pricing
- $7/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Penpot pricing starts at $7 a month, which is $84 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 14 days. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 19 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
Penpot ranking and coverage
- In Design
- #1 of 11
- Overall
- #4 of 122
- Terms score
- 8.8 /10
- Referenced here
- 0 pages
Cost position 7.5 · Portability 10 · Subscription flexibility 9 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Penpot pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free and fully featured; Unlimited $7 per user/month, capped at $175/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $7 a month, or $84 a year |
| How that is reached | Unlimited at $7 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 14 days |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 3 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every Penpot plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 14 days.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Fully featured. Unlimited teams, files and plugins. Self-host at no cost |
| Unlimited | $7 | per month | per user - Bill capped at $175/month regardless of team size. Extra storage and history |
| Enterprise | $25 | per month | per user - Bill capped at $950/month regardless of team size, so the cap arrives at 38 users. Unlimited storage, 90-day history. Listed as new on 19 August 2026, with a pre-order discount of 25% advertised |
What Penpot actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimitedper user | per month | $7 | $84 |
| Enterpriseper user | per month | $25 | $300 |
Penpot pricing over time
Read from 10 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning March 2024 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Unlimited has been published at $7 per user in every capture we read, from 8 July 2025 to 7 September 2026.
Enterprise
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25 | per user | 7 September 2026 | Single capture | Archive |
Unlimited
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7 | per user | 8 July 2025 | 7 September 2026 | Archive |
4 archived captures with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 24 March 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 1 July 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 1 October 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 11 February 2025 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Penpot pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Penpot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figma | $3 a month | Yes | −$4 a month (−57%) |
| Penpot | $7 a month | Yes | This product |
| Sketch | $12 a month | No | +$5 a month (+71%) |
Which Penpot plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want a capable design tool at no cost | Free | The free tier is the complete product, with unlimited files, teams and plugins. |
| Design files must stay on your own infrastructure | Self-hosted | Open source and free to run yourself. This is the reason Penpot exists. |
| You want longer version history and more storage | Unlimited | $7 per user, and the bill never exceeds $175 a month however many people you add. |
| You have more than 25 designers | Unlimited | The $175 cap means every designer past the twenty-fifth is effectively free, which no competitor matches. |
| You need the largest plugin ecosystem and maximum polish | Consider Figma instead | Penpot is close but not equal on everyday smoothness or community resources. |
Verdict by who you are
Organisation with data residency requirementsYes
Self-hosting means design files never leave your infrastructure. Nothing else here offers that.
Large design team or universityYes
The $175 monthly cap makes cost per designer collapse at scale.
Developer-designer team working in CSSYes
Flex and grid match the CSS box model, so layout decisions survive handoff intact.
Small team wanting maximum polishCompare first
Figma is smoother day to day. Weigh that against price and ownership honestly.
Designer who depends on specific Figma pluginsNo
The plugin ecosystem is much smaller, and a workflow built on plugins will break.
Should you buy Penpot?
Buy Penpot if…
- Organisations that need design files on their own servers
- Teams wanting unlimited designers without per-seat cost
- Developer-designer workflows built on CSS and SVG
Do not buy Penpot if…
- Teams needing the largest plugin ecosystem
- Designers unwilling to leave Figma's polish
- Organisations wanting a vendor to call at 3am
What leaving Penpot would cost
low lock-in
Penpot scores on self-hostable, public API, open source, documented export. Portability 10/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The bill is capped, which changes the comparison
Penpot’s paid plans have a ceiling, which almost nothing else in this category does:
- Unlimited is $7 per user per month, and never more than $175 per month no matter how many people you add
- Enterprise is $25 per user per month, capped at $950, so its ceiling arrives at 38 users. Read on 19 August 2026, when it was newly listed with a 25% pre-order discount advertised
That cap kicks in at 25 users on Unlimited. Beyond that, every additional designer is free.
Run the comparison at scale and the effect is dramatic. Fifty designers on Penpot Unlimited is $175 a month. Fifty Figma seats is a different order of magnitude. For a large design organisation, or a university, or an agency with fluctuating contractor counts, this is the argument.
Free is actually free, and actually complete
Penpot describes its free tier as “Free and fully featured. No limits, no missing tools,” and as far as we can tell that holds: unlimited teams, unlimited design files, plugins and the full toolset. What the paid plans add is operational rather than creative, namely more storage, longer version history, deleted-file recovery and early access to features.
You can also self-host at no cost. The code is open source, and running it yourself means design files sit on infrastructure you control.
That combination is the reason Penpot exists. If your objection to Figma is that your designs live on someone else’s servers under someone else’s terms, this is the answer, and it is not a compromised one.
Built on CSS, which developers notice
Penpot uses SVG as its native format and implements flex and grid layout matching the CSS box model. In practice that means a designer’s layout decisions describe something a browser can actually do, rather than an approximation a developer has to reinterpret.
Design tokens import and export properly, so a design system can live in the same pipeline as the code that consumes it. For teams where designers and developers work closely, this is a real workflow advantage rather than a marketing line.
Where Figma still wins
Everyday polish and ecosystem. Figma is smoother, faster on very large files, and has thousands of plugins, community templates and tutorials. Designers already know it, and hiring someone who does not need training is worth money.
Penpot is the right choice when self-hosting, cost at scale, or open source matter more than those things. If none of them do, Figma remains the easier decision and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.
Penpot questions, answered
- Is Penpot worth it?
- Penpot is the only credible open-source answer to Figma, and for organisations with data residency or sovereignty requirements it is often the only answer at all, since you can run it on your own servers with no vendor involved.
- How much does Penpot cost?
- Free and fully featured; Unlimited $7 per user/month, capped at $175/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Unlimited, published at $7 a month, which works out at $7 a month or $84 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Penpot have a free plan or free trial?
- Penpot has a free plan. A free trial is available: 14 days.
- What is the best Penpot alternative?
- It depends on the job. Figma: More polished, far larger ecosystem, and not self-hostable. Sketch: Native Mac app with a one-time licence option. Excalidraw: Free and open source, but for diagrams rather than interface design.
- Can I self-host Penpot?
- Yes. Penpot can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Penpot. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Penpot's own pricing page on 19 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
3 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Penpot appears on this site
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Corrected the Enterprise plan, which is $25 per user a month capped at $950, not a flat $950. The cap arrives at 38 users
- Free and Unlimited terms re-read and unchanged, including the $175 cap on Unlimited
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August 2026
- Pricing verified, including the monthly bill caps on Unlimited and Enterprise
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Penpot pricing - checked 19 August 2026
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