Dev mode pricing

We have just a few designs to many developers (that definitely should not have nor do they need edit access).

How can you not have a cheaper, view only, dev seat?

Not financially sustainable and already causing issues with engineers somehow breaking things.

I’ve heard pixso, Penpot are alternatives… any other options we should be looking into?

Yeah, we are not adopting it at this stage. Dev Mode is amazing, but we can’t take that kind of cost increase, it’s just crazy. We are only a couple of designers for a team of like 15 devs, so the cost would be way too much for us. Not sure what case scenario they thought this would apply to, their market research has definitely failed here 👎

Completely agree with the sentiment from all the above.

We are primarily a development house, with only 2 fulltime designers and ~30 devs. We were expecting something closer to a FigJam model, completely ready to purchase a smaller dev mode subscription for every team member without question. Now we’re not even considering it.

Funny how Figma follows Adobe’s shaming pricing even though the deal is off…

If you want Figma to remove edit rights from Dev-Mode seats please feel free to vote here:

Isn’t it interesting that Figma expects a company to increase the cost of Figma by several 100% with this change? We’re talking about 5x-10x higher price per month. It’s insane.

We’re currently looking to switch to something more reasonable.

Yeah, unbelievable that this even got implemented… Our internal team is 1 designer, and 8 developers, which is a huge increase in cost for us. We are willing to pay for our team seats. But we also do UI/UX design projects that we do not develop in-house. Why in the world would we pay for our clients dev seat, if in fact, they have their own paid plan?

We have to keep the design file and still collab with their devs, so we are penalized and charged for the seats that they already pay for. Really dumb.

I prolly won’t be using Figma anymore, i can’t even extract Gradient from a rectangle, pitiful

That doesn’t make any sense. Have to bail from Figma and move all our designers to another tool now.

This pricing move and functionality removal is insane. Inspect was good. Dev mode is better, sure. But not at extra cost and greater risk. We work hard to get Figma approved in our orgs, to encourage devs to visit our designs in Figma and learn to use yet another tool. Now someone has to pay for the devs to access those designs? And, even worse, in the Professional plan we need them to have a design seat, heaping risk and complexity on top of financial cost. Just wow.

Part of the reason Figma was great was that small designers could afford to use it and it made hand-offs to their clients effective. Plus, they were learning an industry standard tool. Now, that’s a much more confused picture.

It’s madness, Figma. You have to fix this. You are bleeding credibility, you are losing business.