Dev mode pricing

Besides that, there’s a whole new level of issue for small companies. I’m running a small design agency who works with many clients, and for me now it appears that I need to pay for each and every developer who works on 10+ different projects I currently have.

I will request the money back from clients to compensate that, but I still will face terrible issue with financial management, where some clients can forget to pay, or refuse to pay, or I forget to remind, or one of their devs gives access to another dev and it will double the price… I mean, I’m a designer, a design small agency, why should I bother with paying for developers and facing additional frustrating issues?

I created a new topic about that, please support who has same issue: Why designer should pay for dev mode?

Exactly, what is the basic file inspector mentioned in the free tier anyways?

Ridiculous that every single developer option is hidden behind a paywall now. It was positioned during the beta that “Inspect” would still have its basic functionality post the beta, this is clearly untrue.

We are a large organisation as well, and this price tag is a slap in the face.

The reply in one of the threads around the fact that there is a “basic” inspect available for viewers is incorrect. The properties panel is of NO use and value to our developers.

And this is so frustrating. I have a design agency, with no developers, we are doing only design for many different clients. And now I’m forced to pay for developers of those clients, then ask clients to pay me back. It is very time consuming. Please make sure to write here down if you find some workaround.

Figma seems to think its a development tool now, not a design tool! they seem to think businesses will be willing to pay for simple inspect and export features they had for free. they are mistaken, part of me thinks this is sabotage initiated from Adobe and planned if and when their acquisition deal fell through…i mean, way to get people to flock back to actual design tools that know their PLACE. sort it out Figma, its not too late to undo the damage you are doing, lol, well maybe a little too late.

most orgs equal 1 designer to 10 devs, as if orgs are going to suddenly pay 10x the price for something they see a design tool, because it is a design tool. this is why i think sabotage, I know Figma are greedy but they’ve never so intent on self destruction before. until you have ai that can actually do the dev work, it will remain a design tool.

Strange that none of the Figmaboys are replying to this thread. Probably busy counting their dollar notes 🙈

Holy. Moly.

Way to descimate an otherwise great feature, especially now with the annotations being released.

Way to stab your users in the back.

All I can hope is that whoever made this decision at Figma will be aboard Figma if the ship starts sinking. But as these things go, a bunch of middle managers get hired to “optimise the product” (read 💸) and then they optimise it by screwing the customer. Everyone will lose in the end, except for a greedy few who can now point at the quarterly figures and show how they made money chart go up for company. Nevermind that something like this won’t be forgotten by a single user.

We won’t leave now Figma, even if we threat.

But once we start leaving, it’ll be too late for you to do anything.

Absolutely short-sighted move.

Designers spend their lives in Figma. Devs don’t. The pricing makes no sense, and you took the inspect panel away while I still pay the same price. And now, devs can litteraly destroy everything in the files and mess them up big time without realizing it.

Also, as a prescriptor since beta, I feel betrayed. Very bad move. Please fix this, quick.

My team is finally collaborating in Figma after a long process to get dev and designer working together in one space.

Figma is a design tool. It isn’t the primary tool for implementation it’s a bridge. It’s really ridiculous that the cost of a dev seat is only slightly less than a designer seat.

Very frustrated.

This is just straight up bad from Figma. Had the exact same issue with internal chats and eventually got the green line for an Org plan for 3 designers (already quite extortionate). But that took A LOT of convincing and dying on numerous hills to get cleared.

Now we have to pay for 60+ dev seats for our engineering team? Not a fucking chance!

Looking for alternative tools now, and suspect others will be doing the same. Cheers Figma! 💩