Bogen and the others.

Many design tools let an agent draw now. Here is how they differ, from each product's own pages, read on 2 November 2026. Prices are in US dollars. If something here is out of date, write to [email protected] and we will fix it.

Product	What a design is made of	Agents	Cost	Licence	Where it runs
Bogen	Real HTML and CSS	Any MCP client; Claude Code and Codex set up in one command. 128 tools, no quota, no editor needs to be open.	Free. Your agent runs on the plan you already have.	MIT	Runs on your computer. Linux, tested on Arch with Omarchy; a phone app from your own machine.
Paper	Real HTML and CSS	MCP through Paper Desktop, which must be open with a file.	Free with 100 MCP calls a week; Pro $16 to $20 per editor a month.	Closed; its shaders are Apache-2.0	macOS, Windows, Linux, web. No self-hosting offered.
Figma	Its own vector model; Make and Sites produce code	MCP server; writing to the canvas is in beta and will become usage-based.	Seats from $16 a month; tool calls limited per plan.	Closed	Web, macOS, Windows. No self-hosting.
Penpot	SVG and CSS, open standards	Official MCP server, local or remote, through the plugin API.	Free; Unlimited $7 per editor a month, capped at $175.	MPL-2.0	Browser; cloud or self-hosted.
Doop	Real HTML in sandboxed frames	MCP over OAuth; agents get their own cursor.	Free while in beta.	AGPL-3.0	macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, web; self-hosted with Docker.
OpenPencil	A Figma-style node model; imports and exports HTML	Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Pi with your own subscription.	Free.	MIT	macOS, Windows, Linux, web.
Open Design	HTML artifacts from a brief; no layer canvas	MCP for 19 or more agents.	Cloud credits from $8 a month; your own keys on every plan.	Apache-2.0	macOS, Windows; Linux from source.

Where the others are ahead

Teams. Figma, Penpot and Paper have accounts, roles and sharing links. Bogen syncs your own devices; a team server is not built yet.
Apps. Paper, Figma, Doop and OpenPencil ship desktop apps for Mac and Windows. Bogen runs in your browser on Linux; the Mac install has not run on a real Mac.
Maturity. Figma and Penpot have years of use and large communities. Bogen 0.1.0 is not released yet.

Where Bogen is different

No quota on your agent. All 128 tools work without an editor open, on the plan you already pay for.
Brands with checks. Colours, type, logos and rules live in one brand; the agent reads it before it draws, and a brand check names each layer that breaks a rule.
Start from a live site. Capture turns a page into layers you can edit. On the home page of tomacco.dev, 0.07% of the pixels differ.
Your devices, no cloud. Two machines on Tailscale hold the same files and merge every edit, without a server in between.
MIT. Use it, change it, build on it, also inside a company.
Made for Omarchy. A bar widget, the theme, a key of its own, and Tomacco next to it.

Sources

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