Kromi vs Brandpad
90% of the value.
A fraction of the cost and time.
Brandpad is the gold standard for enterprise brand guidelines, trusted by IKEA, MoMA, and Fortune 500 teams. But for the other 99% of us, it's overkill. Kromi gives freelancers and agencies professional brand guideline sites in minutes, not days.
4-6 hrs
Saved per brand project
70%
Lower starting cost
Minutes
To a shareable brand site
Feature
Kromi
Brandpad
Setup time
Minutes (template or AI import)
Days to weeks
AI editing (MCP)
22 tools via MCP
Not available
Design quality
High
Very high
Team collaboration
Coming soon
Full suite
White-label
Agency tier
All tiers
Custom domain
Coming soon
Yes
Design token export
JSON + CSS variables
Not available
Self-hosted export
HTML + CSS + Alpine.js
Not available
Free tier
1 project, full features
No free tier
Starting price
$24/mo
$79/mo
Unlimited projects
$79/mo (Agency)
$149/mo
Who this is for
Freelance designers
You deliver 5-20 brand projects a year. Each client expects a polished brand book. Kromi turns that from a 2-day task into a 30-minute conversation.
Small agencies
Your team runs 20-50 brand projects a year. Brandpad's $149/mo unlimited plan eats margin. Kromi's Agency tier gives you the same at $79/mo with AI superpowers.
Startups
Your brand evolves every quarter. You need guidelines that keep up, not a static PDF you paid $5k for that's outdated by the time it ships.
Why Kromi
- Speed matters more than pixel perfect customization, so you can ship in seconds instead of days
- Your own LLM handles brand updates via MCP instead of requiring manual drag and drop editing
- Your dev team gets real, exportable design tokens they can plug straight into code
- You get professional brand sites starting at $24/mo with a generous free tier included
Free tier available, no credit card required
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