Comparison

Pentrical vs Zeroheight

Zeroheight invented this category and is still the safest choice for a large organisation. Pentrical is cheaper per editor, includes adoption analytics on every paid plan, and does not cap the number of people who can edit. Below is where each of us actually wins - with the sums, so you can check them.

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The short answer

Two products that solve the same problem for different companies. If you only read one section, read this one.

Choose Pentrical if…

You are a team or an agency, not a corporation.

  • You want more than five people to be able to edit - Zeroheight's Starter plan stops at five, ours does not
  • You want adoption analytics without an enterprise contract: which components are documented, and which are actually read
  • You want your AI tools to read your design system - our MCP server is on every paid plan, Zeroheight's is Enterprise only
  • You run several brands or clients and want more than two documentation sites without a sales call
  • You want documentation that follows Figma automatically, including measurements, colours and tokens
  • You want your data in the European Union - we host in Germany, on our own infrastructure
  • You want to see the price before you talk to anyone - every plan has one
  • You want to try it on your own Figma files for fourteen days without handing over a credit card

Choose Zeroheight if…

We mean this. In these cases we are not the better product.

  • You need SAML single sign-on or IP allowlisting - we do not offer these, Zeroheight does on Enterprise
  • You need approval workflows and release management, where documentation is signed off before it goes out
  • You work in Sketch or Adobe XD; we only connect to Figma
  • You need several themes for one design system, or more than a handful of token sets
  • You already have a running contract and a customer success manager you actually use
  • Your procurement department requires years of enterprise references. We launched in 2026; that is a real risk to weigh.

We sell a documentation tool, so read the section above with the scepticism it deserves. Everything in it is checkable: the limits come from Zeroheight's own pricing page, linked under the table.

Feature by feature

Fourteen rows, honestly marked. Five of them go to Zeroheight - those are the ones worth reading first if you are close to a decision.

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Comparison of Pentrical and Zeroheight per feature
Pentrical Zeroheight
Entry price per month, excluding VAT included €39 per plan, 3 editors included better limited or paid extra $49 per editor
Editors without an upgrade included No cap - €10 each after the third better limited or paid extra Maximum 5 on Starter
Documentation sites hubs / styleguides included 2 on Starter, unlimited on Team better limited or paid extra 2 on Starter, 5+ on Enterprise
Adoption analytics documented vs. actually read included Included from €99 better limited or paid extra Enterprise only
Page version history see who changed what, and put it back included 7 days free, 90 days on Starter, 180 on Team better limited or paid extra 7 days free, 30 days on Starter, a year on Enterprise
MCP server for AI tools included Every paid plan better limited or paid extra Enterprise only
Hosting in the European Union included Always - Germany better limited or paid extra Depends on the plan
Price visible without a sales call included Every plan better limited or paid extra Starter yes, the rest on request
Figma sync included Measurements, colours and tokens included Yes
Free plan included 1 editor, 1 hub, 5 Figma files included 1 editor, 1 styleguide
Sketch and Adobe XD not available Not supported included Supported better
Single sign-on (SAML) not available Not available included Enterprise better
Approval and release workflow not available Not available included Enterprise better
Multiple themes per system not available One theme per hub included Unlimited on Enterprise better
Track record limited or paid extra Launched 2026 included Since 2018, thousands of teams better

Verified on 7 August 2026 against zeroheight.com/pricing. Prices exclude VAT. Zeroheight bills in US dollars, Pentrical in euros; at the August 2026 rate the difference is small, but it is a difference. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it - the date above is there so you can hold us to it.

What it actually costs

The same team, priced on both. Monthly, excluding VAT, at list price.

A designer documenting alone

Pentrical €0 Free plan - 1 hub, 5 Figma files
Zeroheight $0 Free plan - 1 styleguide, 1 token set

No difference worth arguing about. Pick whichever you find easier to use - both are free to try.

A product team with 3 editors

Pentrical €39 Starter, 3 editors included
Zeroheight $147 3 × $49 per editor

This is the gap that matters most: Zeroheight prices per editor from the first one, we include three.

A team of 8 editors that wants adoption analytics

Pentrical €99 Team - 10 editors, unlimited hubs, analytics included
Zeroheight on request 8 editors exceeds Starter; analytics is Enterprise only

Not a fair number, because Zeroheight does not publish one. That is exactly the point: at this size you end up in a sales conversation there, and at a fixed €99 here.

An enterprise needing SSO and approval flows

Pentrical not possible We do not offer SAML or release workflows
Zeroheight on request Enterprise, custom pricing

Here we are not the cheaper option but the wrong one. If SSO is a hard requirement, this comparison ends here and Zeroheight is your answer.

Zeroheight's amounts are converted from US dollars at list price, without the annual discount either vendor offers. Both of us are cheaper when billed yearly.

Why we price per plan and not per editor

Per-editor pricing has an awkward side effect: it makes documenting expensive precisely when more people start helping. The developer who wants to correct one paragraph, the content designer who writes the copy guidelines, the accessibility specialist who reviews a component - every one of them is a monthly cost, so in practice they never get an account, and their knowledge never reaches the documentation. We include three editors and charge €10 for each one after that, because a design system that only one person is allowed to touch is a design system that quietly goes stale.

Adoption analytics is the difference we would defend hardest

Most documentation tools can tell you how many page views you had. That is not the question anyone actually has. The question is: how many components exist in Figma, how many of those are documented, and how many of those does anybody ever read? Because we hold both the Figma files and the documentation, we can answer it - 47 components in Figma, 31 documented, 12 of those never opened. That is a to-do list, not a statistic. At Zeroheight, adoption tracking sits on the Enterprise plan; here it is on the €99 plan.

Where Zeroheight is genuinely ahead, and why we say so

Zeroheight has been doing this since 2018 and it shows in the places that matter to a large organisation: single sign-on, permissions per styleguide, approval flows, release management, several themes, more design tools than just Figma. We do not have those, and we are not going to pretend that a smaller feature list is a philosophy. If your security officer requires SAML, if your procurement department wants three enterprise references, or if you have a running contract with a customer success manager you actually use, then switching to us costs more than it saves. We would rather tell you that here than three weeks into a trial.

What switching realistically costs

The hardest part of moving is never the export. It is the contract: notice periods and remaining contract value are what actually keeps teams where they are, far more than the effort of moving content. If you are mid-contract, the honest advice is to wait until the renewal date and try us in parallel with the free plan in the meantime. Our documentation is not going anywhere, and neither is your notice period.

Questions people actually ask

Can I import my existing Zeroheight documentation?

Not automatically today. Zeroheight's API terms explicitly prohibit export integrations built by competitors, so we do not offer a one-click import - building it would mean asking you to break their terms on our behalf. In practice, teams move the pages that still matter and leave the rest, which usually turns out to be most of it.

Is Pentrical cheaper than Zeroheight?

For teams up to roughly ten editors, yes, and by a wide margin: €39 including three editors against $49 per editor. Above that the picture depends on what you need, and if you need SSO or approval workflows the comparison stops being about price at all - we simply do not offer them.

What happens to my documentation if I cancel?

Your site stays reachable until the end of the paid period, and you have 30 days after cancelling to export everything. We do not hold documentation hostage; a tool that only works while you are paying is a tool nobody should trust with their design system.

Do you offer single sign-on?

No. If SAML is a requirement, Zeroheight Enterprise is the better choice and we would rather say so on this page than discover it together halfway through a trial.

Where is my data hosted?

In the European Union, on servers in Germany. That matters for a Dutch or European organisation that has to answer a data processing question without a paragraph about international transfers.

Try it against your own design system

Fourteen days, no credit card, and your actual Figma files instead of a demo. If it turns out Zeroheight suits you better, you will have found that out in a fortnight rather than after a year of contract.

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