Updates to our pricing, seats, and billing experience

As if the latest update with the seats wasn’t frustrating enough…

Look…

…we need a simplified Design seat that excludes Dev Mode functionality and comes at a significantly lower cost

and

…we need a lightweight Editor/Inspector seat for Product Owners and Developers, focused on quick inspect features and basic text editing. Our Developers don’t need advanced tools, just streamlined inspect capabilities, while our Product Owners need text editing and secure file sharing.

Thats it. Regional pricing would be nice but if you would simply offer lighter versions of your existing seats all would be fine. With the planned adjustments its getting almost impossible for us to get more seats approved in our organization.

Long of the short:

Like it or not, you’ll pay more for stuff that you don’t necessarily want or use, whilst Figma continue to farm your data to god-knows-what with.

Haha. Well played!

Truly, there has been no advancements in Figma for over 6 months. I don’t care what happened at Config: AI and some Apple/Google templates, THAT’S IT??? Adobe is sitting sideline jealous of the thievery Figma is pulling here.

Clearly this is a result of several things:

1. Figma wants more money yet isn’t attracting new customers
2. No one is jumping to pay for Jam or Slides
3. Everyone knows the Dev seat costs are ludicrous
4. Figma continues to care less about customer feedback every day

Hence, the designer price goes up and is bundled with things we didn’t ask for, while the dev and “collab” seats drop slightly and also bundle. The dev seat cost still is not attractive and we still can’t collaborate effectively with writers and photographers in Figma Design.

The boss asked me why developers need slides and figmajam🙂

Can we have regional pricing? $20 is enough for 2 weeks of food here in my country. Come on.

I am really curious to see how I am going to be able to let the board know why we all of the sudden need $15 per person per seat extra. I cannot read anywhere why the prices for Design Seats are increasing so much. How am I going to be able to translate that?

No one uses slides - we have another tool for slides. A lot of people like to use FigJam to collaborate and only a select amount of people are able to get a Design seat because they are so costly.

Am I the only one who all of the sudden got this news right before the new year starts to kick in?

I fear the same for our Org. Designers and also myself as an Super-Admin face the question, why the price increase?
Figma would say, look now you have als FigJam and Slides in it!
And my Mgm would say, we have Mural and PowerPoint, so?
And then it gets thought.

It would be more reasonable to still over a Design seat without FigJam and Slides, you have the choice with Collab to use them anyways.

And i also want to add, we already started a renewal for 2025, and this just came in today, with no info before-hand!

You’re increasing pricing while also making the UX less efficient. I would love to have been part of the meeting where the two sides of your org faught it out to be the one to annoy existing users more.

You’ve changed the UX for vanity reasons. Almost every piece of feedback indicates it’s killing productivity - and not just during a period of adjustment. Now you’re sticking your boot in under the guise of a “billing experience change”.

Cut to the chase. You need more cash due to Adobe flunking out. Fine. Honestly. But stop bundling stuff to justify price increases. If people aren’t paying, they don’t value them. Put that wasted energy into the things people ARE valuing.

*** I WOULD HAPPILY PAY MORE for the UX to remain as efficient as it was.

Just stop moving the cheese for the sake of it.

Conceptually I think the new plan categories make sense, but agree that the pricing for the dev seat is egregious relative to the value actually being delivered by that feature. I think at max it’s worth paying half of what a full seat costs, if that. Honestly, something between $5-$8–closer to what the collab pricing is–feels like a good sweet spot for it.

Edit: it would also be great if the price increase for professional includes an increase in available variable modes

Maybe before update this unnecessary thinks you can fixing bugs what we get in last half years? Glitches in Autolayout, Not working import for variables across the files, not working AI inside the Professional Plan?

But you update… This… Really?

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It feels like Figma is overcomplicating its ecosystem with tools like FigJam and Slides. While they may have their use cases, they often seem more like distractions than genuine innovations. It’s hard to shake the feeling that these additions are designed to increase revenue rather than genuinely enhance the value for the core user base. Instead of introducing these tangential features, Figma should focus on perfecting the design experience that made it so indispensable in the first place.

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So we know when the price is going up, could someone tell us when we can expect Figma to work properly?

The New Figma billing is ridiculous. I don’t care about your useless Figma slides, FigJam. Garbage. Why Shall I pay for useless stufs?

I will like to leave Figma for better alternative.

“Collaborate” now includes your wallet. Bold move, Figma.

Yeah, It would be definitely better if Adobe bought you guys