We want to use it to link design variables to the design tokens in our application.
Our company runs on a Professional plan. There are only 10 users that need access, so we don’t have any need to go to an Organization or Enterprise.
I saw the same question here, but it wasn’t answered and just pointed to the Plugin API which has an entirely different use case.
This really needs to change. The Variables API should be available to plans other than just the enterprise plan. It’s way to expensive to get just the variables. Yes, there’s lots of other stuff in the enterprise API’s, but clearly most people need the Variables API and none of the other stuff. Figma is really failing their customers here.
I really hope Figma reconsiders this choice.
In my current project, I also wanted to set up a pipeline to sync Figma Variables to our codebase automatically.
But yeah my company only has the organisation license, not enterprise (since we’re way to small for that).
The plugin API isn’t really a good alternative for it; ideally you don’t want to do manual copy/paste actions to sync variables.
Perhaps the most inexplicable part of all of this is that the Figma API doesn’t allow you to fetch variables, such a simple action, outside the Enterprise plan, but the Figma MCP for AI does. Would the Figma team like to explain their reasoning?
This may provide a temporary solution to some people, but for me, I need the ability to edit the variables programmatically as well, so it’s abit dissapointing that I need my relatively small company to be a whole enterprise because...I want to use variables?
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