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

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

For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release:

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

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

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.

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

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

I love this team. It's so endearing.