Figma Make Ai Credit Limits Not Feasible

My comment on a previous post yesterdat now seems to have been removed and the topic is now closed.

We are suffering a similar situation where we are seriously evaluating the feasibility of using Figma make.  I am a recent user with very little design experience but found make a game changer when making UX prototypes to then collab with our designer.  This increased our productivity at least tenfold.

With the laughable limits now being enforced combined with often fighting the AI we can burn through 3000+ credits in less than an hour trying to get it to fix issues it made and hallucinating that the issue is now fixed.

Currently looking at Claude Artifacts and Google Stitch.

That is all!!!

The current AI credit model isn’t viable for us from a business perspective.

We’ve been actively using Figma AI during the no-cap phase across exploration, iteration, and rapid prototyping. It worked well because it removed friction — teams could experiment freely and integrate AI into daily workflows.

With the new credit structure, usage becomes unpredictable and hard to budget. That uncertainty alone makes it difficult to adopt at scale. We can’t realistically plan or justify spend when costs fluctuate based on experimentation.

For AI to stick in a product/design workflow, it needs to feel like infrastructure — not a metered tool you hesitate to use.

A fixed, predictable pricing model (e.g. “all-you-can-use” with a reasonable daily cap) would make far more sense. That’s how other tools are enabling real adoption — by encouraging usage, not constraining it.

Right now, the model discourages exactly the kind of frequent, exploratory use that makes AI valuable.

The new AI credit limits were introduced yesterday, and by today I have already run out of Figma Make credits. After about four hours of use (spread over two days), it mostly spent time fixing its own bugs, so my impression is that it is not yet usable in its current state.

I understand the need to balance costs and monetization, but the current limits significantly impact usability. I hope this can be adjusted so that Figma Make remains a practical and effective tool.

It’s a shame because despite the constant bugs, we’ve found it massively sped up our iterations. However, the pricing model isn’t sustainable and this is forcing us to consider other market options. We wouldn’t have done this if we could continue working the way we were. Figma needs to thoroughly investigate alternatives and ensure they’re ahead of the curve.

I’ve been using Figma Make since the day it launched. It’s a great tool, and I was one of the first subscribers. I hadn’t logged in for about a week, and when I checked today, it said all of my credits were gone and that they wouldn’t reset until April 9. Honestly, when I first logged in, I thought my tokens had been stolen. I barely used it this month — I only ran a few tests with Opus 4.6. This seriously doesn’t make sense. Is this some kind of joke? The way these tokens are being managed is absurd.

especially given that the link between Make and the applied design system doesn’t appear to work that great (for us at least).  Alternative products to become very viable.

For example, my reset date has now changed from the 1st to the 15th.  This means I now have 414 credits to last me a full month because the usage wasnt reset on the day they start tracking which I naturally assumed they would to prevent more backlash.

One more thing about the value of 1 credit: I’ve been using Figma Make almost daily for months, often for hours, and only used around 20,000 credits in total. How is it possible that I suddenly burned through 3,000 credits in just two days?

How is it that you enable AI credits, and in the middle of my workfklow i cant use it any more because you offered it for free and then suddenly activate a limit!!! 

You could have had the decency to reset everyone’s limit! 

Blocking and limiting people is just greedy and stupid!!! 
 

I’ve run into the same issue - after around two hours of work, I’ve already exhausted the full seat credits.

I’d be happy to pay for additional credits if I had confidence they would last for a reasonable period. As it stands, it’s difficult to justify the cost when a small project can’t be completed with the included credits.

For now, I’ll likely revert to using Figma for mock-ups only. There’s clearly a lot of potential in the platform, but the current credit model makes it challenging to use it as part of a consistent workflow.

Could not agree more. Fix this or lose your customers.  My month’s credits were burned completely in 2 hours after using for 4-5 hours a day for the past month ahead of the change.  Is the goal for everyone to move over to Bolt, Lovable or Vercel? If so, i am confident that this goal will be achieved over the coming weeks and months. 

This is a nightmare for my project. We are going to have to find another solution to use because of this.

The implementation of these limits has put a screeching halt on my project. This is untenable.  I will need to find another product to use.

I recently received a notification that the AI credit limit has been exhausted. This is impacting usability, as the system frequently generates unnecessary files, leading to faster depletion of credits.

Given the current setup, it is also difficult to accurately monitor or control AI credit consumption. It would be highly beneficial if Figma could offer a plan with unlimited AI credits, or at least provide better usage control and transparency.

Otherwise, we may need to evaluate alternative solutions, as the current limitations are not sustainable for our ongoing requirements.

I’ve just received the same message... I’ve gone over the limit... Two days ago, I spent four hours sorting out a bug with the transitions... I must have asked him to redo it 30 times because he kept getting the colours wrong! It’s impossible to create a design with their new limit! 

 I’ve gone over the limit... Two days ago, I spent four hours sorting out a bug with the transitions... I must have asked him to redo it 30 times because he kept getting the colours wrong! It’s impossible to create a design with their new limit! 

I can understand implementing AI credit system, but what I can't understand is why it would be implemented mid billing cycle and also that it carried over the users existing Credit Usage pre the enforcement of AI credit limits.  As a result, many users woke up to being locked out of their Make files.  Why not implement it in sync with the monthly billing/credit reset cycle?   I knew this was coming but assumed users AI credit balances would be zero’d out upon initiating it.

Like others, I share concerns about the credit pricing model.  1000 extra credits for $25/mo seems like it will not go far, especially considering how many credits you eat up wresting with the AI agent to do what you ask.   It’s an amazing tool, but it seems if you are going to use MAKE in any significant capacity, that the AI usage will end up far surpassing the total license fee for everything else in figma limiting adoption, or leaving users to look for other alternatives.

Hi my friend,
Its too frustrating because I’m facing the same thing.

The issue is not the existence of an AI credit system. The issue is how Figma is enforcing it. In its current form, it feels unfair, badly balanced, and disconnected from how people actually use Figma Make in real work.

I’ve spoken to designers and project managers who feel exactly the same. The biggest problem is simple: the credits run out far too fast for the paid plan to feel reasonable.

I’m paying for a Full seat with 3,000 credits, but in real use those credits disappear shockingly fast. In another account, including my company account, I personally saw 150+ credits consumed for generating a single .md file that only contained a project or platform status and roadmap update. That is not sustainable usage. That makes the tool unreliable for real workflows.

So naturally the question becomes: what exactly are we paying for? Do i have to top up or get another seat for $16 with 3000 credits instead $25 for 1000 credits

If Figma wants to keep the AI credit system, then it has to make it fair. Right now, it does not feel fair at all. Either:

• reduce the credit cost per task dramatically, or

• increase the monthly credit limit for paid users to something that actually reflects real usage.

Because right now, 3,000 credits for a paid Full seat does not feel like a serious working limit. It feels like a demo.

The pricing logic makes even less sense when you look at the numbers. A Full seat is $16/month with 3,000 credits, but 1,000 top-up credits cost $24. How does that make any sense? Why are extra credits priced in a way that feels worse than just buying the seat itself? That kind of model does not encourage adoption where it punishes the people who are actually using the product.

And that is the most frustrating part of all: Figma Make is actually good.

It made work faster. It made certain tasks dramatically easier. It felt like one of the most useful things Figma introduced in a long time. But now, because of this credit enforcement, it feels like Figma took something powerful and pushed it back to the stone age. The users who embraced it the most are now the ones being restricted the hardest.

Nobody is asking for free AI. People are asking for something much more reasonable:
fair pricing, fair limits, and fair value for paid users.

Another issue is that the Full seat is not equally useful for everyone. As a designer and developer, I mainly use Figma Design and Figma Make. The rest is honestly 100% useless to me. So why am I paying for a broader seat structure and then still being blocked on the one AI feature that actually matters to my workflow?

That is where this starts becoming more than just a pricing complaint. It becomes a workflow problem, a planning problem, and a trust problem.

Teams are already building timelines and deadlines around tools like Figma Make. When the feature suddenly becomes impractical because credits vanish too quickly, it directly affects delivery. At that point, there is no time to sit around debating loyalty to a platform. Deadlines still exist. Work still has to move.

And that is why this is so disappointing.

A lot of us genuinely love Figma. This is not coming from people who want to attack the product. It is coming from people who actually use it heavily and want to keep using it. But if this unfair credit system continues, then of course teams will start looking elsewhere. Whether that alternative comes from a big competitor, from China, from open-source, or from closed-source tools does not matter. People will move to whatever is more fair, more practical, and more reliable.

That is the reality.

If this continues, I genuinely believe Figma’s user base will gradually decrease — not because people suddenly stopped liking Figma, but because the current AI credit model makes serious usage hard to justify.

I really hope the Figma team takes this seriously and responds with an actual solution:

• fix the credit consumption,

• make top-up pricing logical,

• increase paid limits to something realistic,

• or offer a better plan for users who mainly need Design + Make.

At the very least, users deserve a clear response so we can decide whether Figma is still something we can continue relying on or not.

Because right now, for many of us, this does not feel like a fair paid system. It feels like a very useful product being made unnecessarily unusable.

The problem is not the AI credit system itself. The problem is how Figma is enforcing it. Right now, it feels unfair and does not match real usage at all.

I’m paying for a Full seat with 3,000 credits, but those credits disappear way too fast. In my case, I even saw 150+ credits used for generating a single .md file with just a project status and roadmap update. That makes Figma Make hard to rely on for actual work.

The pricing also makes no sense. A Full seat costs $16 per month with 3,000 credits, but 1,000 extra credits cost $24. That feels completely unfair. It almost looks like active users are being punished for using the product more.

What makes this worse is that Figma Make is actually very good. It really helps speed up work. But with this credit system, it feels like something useful has been pushed back to the stone age.

Nobody is asking for free AI. We are asking for fair pricing, fair limits, and something that actually makes sense for paid users.

As a designer and developer, I mainly use Figma Design and Figma Make. The rest of the Full seat is honestly not useful to me. So paying more and then still running into heavy AI limits is frustrating.

If this continues, many teams will start looking at other tools, whether they are open-source, closed-source, from big competitors, or even from China. That is not because people want to leave Figma. It is because they need tools that are fair, practical, and reliable for real deadlines.

I really hope the Figma team takes this seriously and gives users a fair solution. Right now, this system makes Figma Make much less useful than it should be.

Seems like the Figma Make is just a showcase that as for fun we can use it but not fit for individuals and the startups who cant affort, this is completely unreliable feature. 

REALLY HOPE, They’re still testing the waters, but that’s exactly what makes the pricing strategy problematic. When models and workflows are still experimental, introducing strict credit limits creates friction instead of adoption. Offering something for free and then pulling it back risks undermining trust, since the experience becomes inconsistent and dependent on each individual’s usage patterns.

That said, I also see designers using AI inefficiently. Managing credit consumption has a learning curve, and the biggest pain point is the unpredictability—there’s no clear way to estimate how many credits a prompt will consume before sending it. I’ve had single prompts cost 700+ credits, which effectively limits usage to just a mere 5 prompts per month.

Overall, the cost feels disproportionate to how design teams actually use AI. Pattern generation is useful, but it’s inherently exploratory and often wasteful by nature. If pricing remains this way, it makes more sense to adapt workflows around these constraints rather than rely heavily on the tool.

P.S. I think 35k is more reasonable amount, up the price or what ever.

Critical bug, no way to fix, 100+ hours of work gone to trash. 
 

I've exhausted all file-level approaches. The error is a sandbox environment issue: @vitejs/plugin-react@6.0.1 in the pnpm store requires vite/internal (a Vite 7 export), but only vite@6.3.5 is installed. The sandbox's vite_runner.ts auto-injects this plugin regardless of project configuration.

This cannot be fixed through code/config changes. The fix requires either:

• Resetting the sandbox environment to get fresh, compatible dependency versions
• The sandbox infrastructure being updated to handle this version mismatch

Would you like to try creating a completely new project from scratch, which might trigger a fresh sandbox with compatible dependencies?

Exactly this Martijn, same issue here. As Design Lead I’m currently the only one using the credits. I’m the Figma Team Admin but can not redistribute the credits from my PM’s (that don’t use Figma Make, but do have a full seat) to my seat when it runs out. This is going to turn sour pretty quick.

It’s also exposing how vague credit calculation is (https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/33459875669015-How-AI-credits-work#consumption)
 

Simply renaming a label took 14 credits… why? Trouble shooting a messed up date picker took well over 100+ credits, after 5 fruitless attempts, I just asked to scrap and rebuilt from an industry standard react component. 

It’s mildly helpful to see how much credits your prompt used after it’s finished, but If this is my future I think I’ll start using Claude + Console MCP a lot more again. Also makes me wonder how I’m already running Claude Pro but then pay for credits using Claude in Figma Make. Surely there’s improvement possible there as well, connecting your external AI plan?

Yep, they just killed themselves. I am super angry to wake up seeing that. I got a yearly plan which is now becoming useless, as you can see on the screenshot they more than double charge credit to you and I. 

“Hey Figma CEO and CRO, INSTEAD OF INCREASING THE REVENUE by highjacking your customers to compensate your stock market drops when goolgle announced new design tool...you better look at how to give us smarter tools…..LLM cost is going down...not going up! “

They just give a free highway pass to Google Stitch (not yet at Figma level but it s a matter of time), V0,… Claude generates finally nice looking UI , which you can pass to Claude code or cursor. I do the same as Niels .

 I got this too! I was out of credits right away, it’s like they went back and took credits for what I did right before the switch!

Ok so i woke up today and can not work on my app due to credit limits.  Figma said they will start to enforce credits on the 18th .  But to my surprise they already enforced all the months credits,  so now i have to wait 8 days to do anything again.  

And yea 3k credits a month is a joke.   I guess Figma going public made them only think about investor and not users.  And yea i am both investor and user.   Today i will short everything a have on Figma cause i see no future in this kids toy.  
 

So Figma has lost 8% in value just today. i guess this is just starting.  

I have to agree with everyone. Because it’s iterative, and because you don’t know how many credits each prompt will use ahead of time, it’s impossible to work with. I have used Figma Make to create an incredible app, but now that the credits go so fast, I can’t iterate and fix problems it created in the first place. It should be higher cost of credits for the first creation of the app, then lower cost per iteration of that app going forward. I ran out of credits before I even started. had to buy more, and 30 prompts is not enough when you’re creating an app. I wish there was a cost (like $50/mo) to work on one app, have as many prompts as I want if it’s on one url. 

Also, there’s no clear credit price per AI Model. So, how do I save on credits if I don’t know how much each model will cost?

I have faith in Figma, come on guys, this is not the right amount of credits or credit cost. Not the right way to go about this.

Because it’s iterative, and because you don’t know how many credits each prompt will use ahead of time in Figma Make, it’s impossible to work with this plan. I have used Figma Make to create an incredible app, but now that the credits go so fast, I can’t iterate and fix problems it created in the first place. It should be higher cost of credits for the first creation of the app, then lower cost per iteration of that app going forward. I ran out of credits before I even started! I had to buy more, and 30 prompts (about 3k credits) is not enough when you’re creating an app. I wish there was a cost (like $50/mo) to work on one app, have as many prompts as I need, if it’s on one url. 

Also, there’s no clear credit price, per AI Model. So, how do I save on credits if I don’t know how much each model will cost?

I have faith in Figma, come on guys, this is not the right amount of credits or credit cost. Not the right way to go about this.