Dev mode pricing

I will leave this here so it is not lost in time. It was posted by another user in another thread. This was Figma’s promise of “you will be able to inspect the design after DevMode ends beta”. What a joke.

This is unacceptable something needs to be done urgently

Terrible decision Figma team! I hope that seeking the money doesn’t kill the excellent product you guys have been developing. This will be deeply harm the whole Figma community, specially the smaller teams that doesn’t have that budget to pay for all Dev seats + the issues with giving them Editor permission.
Looking for alternatives now.

Another day, another developer requesting a dev mode in my team in Figma, and my hands being tied because it is not in our budget to spend that much money on a single seat for a front-ender.

How can I solve this? How do we move forward?

Really frustrating Figma team

Devs are moaning, Procurement is denying.
At our Agency Devs are outnumbering Designers 10 to 1. How could we possibly argue against this?

Well, if I look back I really put a lot of afford into bringing Figma to our company.
But with the new DevMode being fully tied to a complete editor seat with all those costs just to see some dimensions is the worst rip off ever made.
If you cant figure things out you could loose a lot of paying members. Is that your goal? I dont think so.

I hope you’re able to fix this quickly because I already don’t appreciate being put in the middle of billing requests; I’m a designer needing to use a design tool. I don’t control any budget and it took me a lot of non-design work to get it adopted in my org.

If we switch I definitely won’t look back.

It’s weird from wherever you look at it, even not considering pricing the plan does not adjust to small freelance agencies either. I have a small product design agency - no dev team - but work with many short / mid term clients and their dev teams.

However, even if we tried to assume the cost of dev mode for someone outside our team, we would have to grant them access to our team where the files are created, since that is the way the solution is being proposed. Seems a lot of scenarios where skipped when creating this solution.

+1 to the general consensus here. I will be looking into alternative solutions