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Updates to our pricing, seats, and billing experience

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December 10, 2024
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We are updating our pricing, seats, and billing experience. Here’s what you need to know before changes take effect on March 11, 2025.

Product design looks very different today than it did when we first launched Figma in 2016. Multiplayer design was still a novel concept, and features that are now core to our product - auto layout, interactive components, variables, and multi-edit - were just ideas we hoped to one day build. While our features and products have expanded since then, our billing experience hasn’t kept pace.

Today, we want to share upcoming changes to our pricing, seats, and billing experience. These changes will take effect starting on March 11, 2025, and will include:

Increased pricing for Figma Design
Re-architecture of our billing model - we are moving away from user-driven upgrades to giving admins upfront approval over seat upgrades by default
More functionality with every seat - all paid seats will include access to FigJam and Figma Slides, making it easier for everyone to collaborate

Read more here.

Account, plan and billing

Ana20

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

Sasch

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.

Designing systems that empower gripping experiences at scale.

JoeM

New Participant

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!

ahainen

Active Member

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.

Hoby-Van-Hoose

New Participant

Clearly this is a result of several things:

Figma wants more money yet isn’t attracting new customers
No one is jumping to pay for Jam or Slides
Everyone knows the Dev seat costs are ludicrous
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.

mileysu309

The boss asked me why developers need slides and figmajam🙂

ThuyAnh

New Participant

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

Wendy-Smits

New Participant

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?

Reber_Dennis_096

New Member

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.