Dev Mode licensing needs a review

Has anyone figured out what this means for consultants? For example, my team does UXUI design but our clients (or a third party) do the development. I have asked them to look into the “Inspect” and “Export” tabs to see if it’s enough but I’m worried they’ll come back asking for more. I can’t afford to pay for their licenses out of my own budget, and it seems equally odd to require our client/ dev teams to pay for licenses for software we chose to use. Am I missing something?

Jup makes no sense at all, afaik there’s no different feature set in Dev mode between those plans.

Please simply think about the points below, Figma team,

1. Some basic maths is wrong to charge on inspecting. No company can agree with at least a double cost of design tool just becuz of fxxking basic inspecting
2. Designers need to paid all the bills and buy some seats, if Developers are not in the same company. Just imagine the case of consultants and freelancer and you will know.
3. Figma ignore the billing experience but just beta for user experience. This a such a joke for the biggest design tool company

new policy looks like scam

Developer here, I just bought my own “seat” as I thought that would grant me access to Dev Mode on a file created by a freelance designer… nope.

I can’t push that cost to our designer. Figma, what are you doing?! Guess I’ll cancel my subscription and ask our designer to consider different tools.

It’s fine if DEV mode is an editor feature for those who want to connect to Github or their IDE, but please Figma bring back the “Code” inspect as a free option if only for the colors! Forcing orgs to pay full price for devs is OUTRAGEOUS!

My main issue with the new way to access Dev Mode is that I use a third party dev team. I ABSOLUTELY do not want them to have access to modify the pages that I have designed. This is a HUGE over site and I can’t believe that Figma did not think about businesses that use outside contractors. At the very least we should be able to restrict editing access to files for people with Dev Mode access.

When you share a file, there is an option to choose a DevMode link – I’m not sure though, if it actually restricts other paid users from modifying the file or only defaults to DevMode upon opening.

Maybe before the pricing change over, but there is no ‘Dev Mode’ option now when sharing a file that I can see anymore. I would love to have that feature, but I also agree with other users that if someone is Dev Mode only, why should I have to pay for a full seat? At this point I’ll take what I can get to restrict access again, but charging for a full seat just seams like a money grab that has caused this whole permissions issue in the first place. They are trying to justify the price by saying,“But look! you’re getting editing permissions too! That justifies full price!” when no one asked for that.

I absolutely agree, we did the same only to find out it doesn’t work that way. As a freelance designer (with a team of 1), I work with three devs in one external company. They also purchased a Pro plan thinking it would mean I could share my files with them and they could access dev mode, but no. I now need to potentially add all three of them as full editors and pay for each monthly – as and when they need access. It sucks big time. The only work-around suggested elsewhere is to ‘give them’ my design file and add it to their team. They have given me member access to their team, costing them another full seat. That requires me to be a member of their team and they would also need 3 member seats for their developers. So, I am still trying to work out whether this means they don’t need their own paid plan after all. I haven’t tested this yet, I am about to do so! Very very frustrating and lack of transparency from Figma is really annoying.