Dev mode pricing

I’m with you and having the same discussion in my company.
Hoe things will change ✊

Figma is risking to lose customers with this licensing model. People will have to switch tools completely because the costs cannot be justified, as stated in various posts. Not just in this forum, but also on Reddit and other platforms. Many people raised concerns already and Figma needs to react.

My thoughts:

• Why scale the pricing between Figma Plans at all when there are no feature differences?
• Why charge the same for Developer seats as for Designer seats (at least in our Professional Plan), when Developers do not need full edit access at all and just need to inspect designs? The price needs to be significantly reduced.
• Given that developers could use Figma for free to be able to inspect and see all the needed information (until now), it is understandable that Figma wants to charge something because of the increased range of features. But the jump from free to THIS is insanely high and way too much.
• Features: Lets be honest, most of the dev users will just want to inspect elements and see some values and do not use extended features like syncing. It is unfortunate that the old Inspect tab, which is now Properties, has been reduced to a point that it is basically useless since it just barely shows the essential information.

tl;dr:
The cost increase is insane. Please adjust it Figma.

Hi all! We are also having a discussion within the company on the same topic. We are on the Enterprise plan, and the main loss for developers will be tokens, the viewing of which will be hidden behind the paywall. This is a really big loss for our product teams as we have a huge design system and we want our teams to have a consistent experience across design files and specs.

Agree. Just figured out the Dev Mode seat. If this will be billed that would a big big step back to use Figma and reason to look somewhere else (org of 100 ppl). Reason to search a good designer tool that includes AI to the fullest as well for a way better pricing.

I also agree. Maybe there should be some basic free mode where we can see at least the basic HTML elements - margin,padding,colors and borders.

I completely agree with you. What is more, I’ll explain my case. I’m a designer working with a developer in a single project, both of us with a free plan. I decided to pay a seat for the developer so he will keep the Dev Mode. When I do so, Figma ask me to select who of us will have de Dev Mode, and when I click on him, Figma converts me directly as a “view-only” member, so it forces me to pay for two seats if I want to edit. WHAT THE HELL?

I’m priced out. Hoping Zeplin plugin works as well

@agomes Let me tell you it won’t work. Most of developers just need to inspect the design in a fancy way, and is a pitty you want to force them to pay for a seat by downgrading them to an awful and uncomfortable inspect tab, which is your actual strategy. What is more, you don’t think about the casuistry of the designer not wanting the developer to edit the design, because your seat gives editing and dev mode privileges.

And I understand you need income as a company, but let me tell you what I think is the worst consequence of all this: if a designer with a free plan and a developer with a free plan are working together and developer wants to keep Dev Mode, both of them have to pay for a seat, because once the developer pays for a seat, the designer is directly downgraded to “view only”. Sorry, but althought I understand a free plan is a free plan, this strategy is completely wrong and creates a bad reputation. You should offer scalable plans.

Based on my understanding, you actually need to pay for a minimum of 10 full designer seats and 20 dev-mode seats to actually get onto the organization plan. If you have less than. that, you are forced to deal with providing full access to developers.

plz bring inspect out of dev mode