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Penpot vs WorkOS

Open-source design + prototyping platform — Figma alternative, self-hostable
vs. The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

Penpot (OSS) ↗WorkOS website ↗

Pricing tiers

Penpot

Free (Cloud)
$0. Unlimited files, unlimited projects, unlimited users. Full feature set.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
Free forever. MPL 2.0 license. Docker Compose deploy. Full feature parity with cloud.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Self-hosted support contract, SLA, training.
Custom
Penpot (OSS) ↗

WorkOS

AuthKit Free
First 1M MAUs free. Unlimited organizations, user management, social OAuth, passwordless.
Free
AuthKit Scale
Per 1M additional MAUs.
$2500/mo
Enterprise / Annual Credits
Custom with 99.99% SLA, guided migration, dedicated support.
Custom
WorkOS website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Penpot vs authkit-free on WorkOS.

MetricPenpotWorkOS
mau included—1000000 users/month
organizations—unlimited orgs
staging environments—free envs

Features

Penpot · 16 features

  • Accessibility Checks — Contrast + color blindness.
  • Animations — Transitions + effects.
  • Auto Layout — Responsive components.
  • Comments — In-file discussion.
  • Components + Variants — Reusable elements.
  • Design Canvas — Vector drawing + layout.
  • Design Tokens (W3C) — Named design variables.
  • Figma File Import — Migrate from Figma.
  • Flex + Grid Layout — Layout constraints.
  • Inspector + Code Export — CSS/HTML/React/Flutter code.
  • Native SVG — Not a proprietary blob.
  • Plugins API — Extend Penpot.
  • Prototyping — Interactive flows.
  • Self-Host (MPL-2.0) — Docker deploy.
  • Shared Libraries — Team asset libraries.
  • Version History — File revisions.

WorkOS · 13 features

  • Audit Logs — Standardized audit log pipeline with streaming to SIEMs (Splunk, Datadog, Sumo L…
  • AuthKit — Complete drop-in user management UI + hosted auth flows. Built on top of WorkOS.
  • Directory Sync — SCIM-based user provisioning/deprovisioning from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspac…
  • FGA (WorkOS) — Fine-grained authorization based on Google Zanzibar / OpenFGA.
  • Magic Auth — Passwordless email codes + links. Good alternative to password auth for B2B.
  • Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP + SMS MFA enrollment and verification APIs.
  • Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B primitive. Attach SSO/Directory/Audit to specific customer orgs…
  • Passkeys — WebAuthn passkeys as a first-class factor.
  • Radar — Fraud protection: device fingerprinting + risk scoring at signup and login.
  • Single Sign-On — Plug-and-play SAML 2.0 + OIDC SSO with 30+ identity providers pre-mapped.
  • User Management — REST API + webhooks for user CRUD, email verification, sessions, MFA, metadata.
  • Vault — Secret storage for tokens + per-tenant credentials.
  • Widgets — Embeddable admin portals (SSO setup, directory mapping) that your customers self…

Developer interfaces

KindPenpotWorkOS
SDKPenpot Plugins APIworkos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-ruby
REST—WorkOS REST API
OTHERDesktop App, Export + Inspect, Penpot Web, Self-Host (Docker)Webhooks
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