You don't just have to self-host, they offer a hosted version that's far more reasonably priced than Figma[1].

Their free tier supports up to 8 members, limited to 10GB of storage.

The next tier supports unlimited members, and is price-capped at $175 a month, but is limited to 25GB of storage.

The final tier is price-capped at $950 a month, with unlimited storage.

[1] https://penpot.app/pricing

Also, when it comes to UI elements this is my go to vector editor. Keeps things simple, has good ways of handling units and layout. A pleasure designing custom icons, or quick graphical elements. Plus a great export system to keep things organized.

There are many things you can do besides full app flows, it doesn't dictate how you use it. Really reminds me of early Sketch and how productive I was with it. Its wild that this is open source.

It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.

For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release:

https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases

Unstable, very crash prone with just a few users designing 10 plus pages. And a huge memory hog too.

I run it on Dedicated server with 64GB Ram , it starts to lag as soon as a 5-6 pages and memory 20GB, lagging out the whole team and then crashes.

First discussed here 3 years ago:

Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262

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I think Figma stole the grid layout idea from penpot, but it’s common in software to do that

I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me

Lunacy is amazing for me. Very fast and intuitive.

Tried Penpot, it was laggy and non usable.

Have been self-hosting this on Docker/Portainer for several weeks for a few people. Works fine so far.

Penpot has been invaluable! A very nice system and team. 'On prem' Figma has a lot of unique possibilities.

Do you support MCP? I really want to be able to do conversation-based UI design!

I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles.

I love this team. It's so endearing.

With the integration of AI, people are using Figma for more than just design.

A recent use-case that a friend was gushing about:

- Input notes, data into Figma and ask its AI to summarize it into presentation worthy slides with built-in games to keep meeting members engaged, and host them to a website.