Penpot Hosting Live In 5 Minutes
Design and prototype in the browser, on a server your team owns. Penpot is open source, works in open web standards rather than a proprietary file format, and has no per-editor seat price waiting for you as the team grows.
- No terminal
- No technical skills needed
- No lock-in, cancel anytime
From Sign-Up to Your First Board In Just 3 Easy Steps
Penpot self-hosted is several services and a database. This is the same result without composing any of it yourself.
Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Penpot from the OneClick catalog. Takes 30 seconds — no server to prepare.
Step 02
We Deploy The Whole Stack
One click. We provision the server and bring up Penpot with its database and supporting services on your domain, with SSL issued for you.
Step 03
Invite Your Team
Create a project, invite as many editors as you like, and start designing in the browser. There is no per-seat charge to plan around.
Not Just A Viewer — A Real Design Tool Your Team Can Own
Penpot is a full design and prototyping environment built for designers and developers to work in the same file.
Design & Prototype
Boards, components, flex and grid layout, and interactive prototypes with transitions, all in the browser.
Real-Time Collaboration
Multiple people in the same file at once, with comments threaded on the canvas where the discussion belongs.
Design Systems
Shared libraries, components and design tokens, so a change to the system reaches every file that uses it.
Built On Open Standards
Penpot works in SVG and CSS rather than a proprietary format, which is why the handoff to code is inspection rather than translation.
No Per-Editor Seat Price
Self-hosted Penpot has no editor tier. Adding a designer, a developer or a stakeholder costs nothing but the server it runs on.
Your Files Stay Yours
Projects live in a database on your server, so nothing depends on a vendor's retention policy or export tooling.
Everything You Need To Run Your Design Platform 24/7
Managed hosting for the tool your product work actually happens in.
- Penpot deployed instantly
- Free SSL certificate
- Automatic backups
- Security updates included
- 30+ server locations
- Unlimited editors and projects
- Unused balance refunded
Ready To Own Your Design Files?
Whether you are moving a team off per-seat pricing or you simply need design work to live on infrastructure you control, Penpot on xCloud puts it there. Deploy faster. Own your files. Stay in control.
Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.
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Blaine MooreFrequently Asked Questions
Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.
What is Penpot?
Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams. It runs in the browser, supports real-time collaboration, components and design tokens, and works in open web standards rather than a proprietary file format. It is licensed MPL-2.0. This template deploys 2.17.0.
Can you self-host Penpot?
Yes, and it is a first-class way to run it — self-hosting is documented and supported by the project rather than an afterthought. It normally means running several services and a database together. On xCloud that is a OneClick deploy on your own domain with SSL, in about five minutes.
Is it a replacement for Figma?
For a lot of product work, yes; as a like-for-like swap, be realistic. Penpot covers design, components, prototyping and handoff well, and its open-standards approach makes developer handoff genuinely nicer. Figma has a larger plugin ecosystem and more polish in places, and a team with deep Figma-specific workflows will feel the difference.
How does the cost compare?
Figma bills per editor per month, so cost scales with the number of people who need to make changes. Self-hosted Penpot has no editor tier at all: this plan is a flat monthly server no matter how many designers, developers and stakeholders you add. For a small team the saving is modest; for a large one it is not.
Why does this plan start at 16 GB?
Because the template's own manifest asks for 4 GB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 50 GB of disk. An application declaring a 4 GB floor has very little headroom on a 6 GB server once the operating system and the database are running, so the 16 GB tier is the honest starting point.
Can I import my existing files?
Penpot can import SVG files, and it has an importer for Figma files that handles a good deal of common work. Treat a migration as something to pilot on one project rather than assume will be pixel-perfect across a whole design system.
Who can see my designs?
Only the people you invite. Projects live in a database on your own server, so there is no vendor holding your files and no third-party access to revoke.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.
Ready to Own Your Design Files?
Connect your first server in minutes. No credit card required, and no plan you have to grow into.