Dev mode pricing

just a call from devs this morning that couldn’t see much on the file and then realized sometime in the last few months… Figma removed the free DEV MODE got even more expensive again. We are 2 designers (soon to be 3) in a large organization with MANY DEVS, we can’t be giving them all seats or whatever this extra $$ is, this is so annoying and hard to work with.
This will add so much extra work on us and switching over to another software AGAIN after switching to Figma a few years ago will be such a pain, come on Figma. Do better.

This is the issue I am having. Our team is small, 3 designers / 4 developers. We were fine with paying for the dev mode seat in professional but I was surprised that the only option was a full design seat. I would even be okay paying the same amount as a design seat in the professional plan as long as I can restrict them from editing designs and give dev mode only access to the developers which is the only thing they want or need.

The only thing the most of us need is the box model inspector and the CSS list column for “only view” developers. JUST THAT. If Figma think the rest of the Dev Mode is so worth it, just sell the full Dev Mode as a paid seat and let the rest of us use the box model and CSS list column as the standard inspector.

It’s just sad to see companies like this just hungry for money! Just giving opportunities for others to start improving and maybe surpass 😠

This pricing has been pretty frustrating for our org. What seems to have happened is they took away a bunch of pre-existing features, put them in a new panel (where they don’t work quite as well) and added a couple new ones - then put a big new price tag on it. So you now have to pay significantly more just to get the functionality you had before.

We’re already paying Figma lots of money. This feels like a pretty cynical/desperate cash grab, and certainly makes me want to take a look at alternatives.

Our MT pretty much said an instant no when we told them the pricing of dev mode.

Our devs also said “meh” when we asked if they needed DEV mode

When Figma moved the ability to copy code from inspect to Dev mode, they communicated that these features would remain free once Dev mode was released. This functionality has been decimated…

It’s frustrating that Figma would sell their users out like this, and push this release like it’s benefitting us. Zepplin is starting to look like a better fit than Dev mode. The pricing is just so illogical and abusive. It feels like Figma lost the Adobe acquisition so they just adopted Adobe’s parasitic pricing models instead.

It’s so frustrating to see how Figma has dropped the ball on this. It just punishes use of the plan at larger scales and makes it harder for big organizations to adopt Figma. I don’t know if they’re increasing their revenue by a couple of percentages from this change, but it’s a rot that will undermine their adoption. Did they get some tips on product pricing from Adobe lol?

Last year, we were all lamenting the Adobe deal because we feared that Figma would start these price-gouging practices that Adobe has become infamous for

The deal fell through, guys. You don’t have to continue acting like Adobe, so how about a better deal on this nonsense?