Open Design vs everything else.
Short, honest summaries of how Open Design relates to the other AI design tools you might be evaluating.
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Open Design vs Claude Design
Hosted product tied to a single vendor. Open Design is local-first, BYOK, and Apache-2.0 — your skills and DESIGN.md live in your repo.
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Open Design vs Figma Make
Figma Make focuses on prompt-to-mockup inside Figma. Open Design ships portable artifacts directly into your project.
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Open Design vs v0 by Vercel
v0 generates React components on a hosted runtime. Open Design generates decks, dashboards, landing pages, and brand systems locally.
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Open Design vs Lovable / Bolt
Lovable and Bolt focus on hosted prompt-to-app. Open Design is the design-skill layer for an agent you already use.
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Open Design vs Open CoDesign
Open CoDesign is a sibling open-source project. Open Design can wrap codesign-style workflows through its skill protocol.
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Honest limits — what Open Design isn't
Open Design is not trying to be every hosted AI design tool. These questions describe the trade-offs instead of glossing them.
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01 Does Open Design offer a hosted web sandbox?
No. Open Design is local-first by design.
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02 Can I use Open Design without installing anything?
Not today. The minimum is a local daemon plus a coding agent.
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03 Is Open Design a v0 / Lovable / Bolt replacement?
It depends. Open Design focuses on prompt-to-design-artifact via a skill protocol you can fork.
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04 Does Open Design send my data to Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google?
Only your prompt and skill context goes to the provider whose key you brought.
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05 Can I self-host Open Design on my own infrastructure?
Yes. Apache-2.0 license, Node 24 daemon, no required SaaS.