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Penpot

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Open-source design and prototyping platform offering a free, web-based alternative to Figma and Sketch with self-hosting and no team-size limits. Penpot uses SVG and CSS as native formats for inherent web compatibility, with real-time multiplayer collaboration, vector editing, interactive prototyping, components with variants, design tokens, flex layouts, and Figma file import.

100% open-source web-based design and prototyping platform built on SVG, CSS Grid, and Flexbox under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0). Self-hosting is completely free ($0 self-host with unlimited users and projects via Docker/Kubernetes). Penpot Cloud offers a Free Forever plan ($0/mo), a Professional tier (~$7/editor/mo with billing caps), and Enterprise plans (~€950/mo) with dedicated SLAs and SAML SSO.
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Framer

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Visual website builder combining intuitive design tools with one-click publishing. Create responsive, animated sites without writing code, with React-based output under the hood. Includes built-in CMS, forms, and analytics. Popular among designers and startups who want pixel-perfect websites with interactions and animations that rival custom-coded sites.

AI-powered visual web design, prototyping, and CMS publishing platform built on React. Free plan ($0/mo) includes a framer.app subdomain, 1,000 monthly visitors, and core design features. Mini tier is $5/mo billed annually ($10/mo monthly) for 1-page sites and custom domains. Basic plan is $15/mo billed annually ($20/mo monthly) supporting up to 10k visitors, CMS collections, and password protection. Pro tier is $30/mo billed annually ($40/mo monthly) for 200k monthly visitors, custom code & analytics, staging, and multi-language localization. Enterprise offers custom SAML SSO, 99.9% uptime SLA, and dedicated infrastructure.Review →

Open-source Figma alternatives

Penpot — see all open-source developer tools.

Free Figma alternatives

Framer offer a free plan or free tier.

More UI & Design to Code tools

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GradioGradio is a 42K+ star Apache-2.0 Python library for building interactive web interfaces around machine-learning functions and apps. It supports 40+ components for text, images, audio, video, 3D, chat, plots, JSON, and dataframes. Apps can be hosted free on Hugging Face Spaces, shared through public links, or extended with server-side rendering, streaming, API clients, and MCP server support.Magic PatternsMagic Patterns turns product ideas, prompts, screenshots, and existing UI into editable, code-ready interfaces. Its design-system-aware editor supports collaborative iteration, two-way GitHub sync, and an MCP workflow for moving designs between the canvas and coding agents—positioning it between prompt-to-app builders and design-handoff tools rather than as a single-screen generator.v0Vercel's AI-powered UI generation tool that creates production-ready React and Next.js components from text or image prompts. Outputs clean code using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, deployable to Vercel or copyable into existing projects. Supports iterative refinement through conversation, live browser preview, and generates accessible, responsive code. Ideal for rapidly prototyping landing pages, dashboards, forms, and UI components without manual setup.Panda CSSPanda CSS is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS framework that generates atomic CSS at build time from type-safe style definitions. It provides the developer experience of CSS-in-JS with runtime performance of static CSS extraction. Supports design tokens, responsive styles, conditional variants, and recipes for component style APIs. 335K+ weekly npm downloads for @pandacss/dev with RSC compatibility.PuckPuck is an open-source visual page builder for React that gives teams a drag-and-drop editor backed by their own components. The MIT-licensed core remains self-hostable and persists plain JSON, while Puck Cloud and Puck AI now add optional hosted and agentic editing layers. With 12.8K+ stars, it is the dev-first visual editor to watch.Bolt.newAI-powered browser-based full-stack app builder from StackBlitz that turns natural language prompts into working web applications with zero local setup. Runs on WebContainers — a full Node.js runtime in the browser — giving AI control over filesystem, packages, terminal, and dev server. Supports React, Next.js, Vue, Astro, Svelte with live preview and one-click deploy to Netlify or Vercel. V2 adds built-in databases, auth, storage, and hosting via Bolt Cloud. 5M+ users.Figma Context MCPFigma Context MCP is an MCP server for giving coding agents structured access to Figma design context during implementation. Instead of copying screenshots or hand-written design specs into prompts, teams can expose layout, component, and context information to agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP-compatible coding workflows. It is a strong design-to-code bridge for teams trying to reduce hallucinated UI details and tighten handoff between designers and AI-assisted developers.UizardAI-assisted product-design platform that turns prompts, screenshots and hand-drawn sketches into editable UI flows for non-designers and early product ideation, complementing rather than duplicating developer-first code generators.Figma MCP ServerFigma MCP Server is Figma’s official remote Model Context Protocol surface for design-to-code agents. It gives supported clients structured design context, variables, components, selected-frame code context, Code Connect mappings, and beta write-to-canvas tools for creating or updating native Figma frames from an MCP client while keeping the workflow tied to Figma files.

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FAQ

Which Figma alternative is listed first?

Penpot is first in the editor-selected list of 2 Figma alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source Figma alternatives?

Yes — Penpot are open source.

Are there free Figma alternatives?

Yes — Framer offer a free plan or free tier.