Dev Mode licensing needs a review

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
January 18, 2024
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Hi there,

we’re currently running Figma in an enterprise license with 10 UX designers and about 20 developers in total. At the moment our annual costs are around $9000 for the full design seats. With the new dev mode pricing we would basically double our annual costs for some basic features a good design tool should offer out of the box. Our devs don’t need fancy “Customize code output” or “Sync design files with their codebase”. They simply want to see all our variables in an easy manageable way, navigate and inspect frames and components ready for dev and maybe track some design changes. Paying almost 9k additionally just for these basic features is insane, especially since our UX designers that have access to the dev mode basically don’t need it. Also there are basic features missing like exporting dedicated handoff collections of components, frames or flows.
It would be cool to be able to get a free dev mode seat to every design seat and be able to apply this seat to anyone in the company. Otherwise please make the basic dev mode features free or reduce the price.

It was not easy to convince our managers to move to Figma and with these new costs I fear we might jump to another tool (again) - which would be a nightmare cause Figma offers the best features. Please don’t monetize every single basic feature…don’t do the Adobe move.

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tagmf_s

Most of the time I just want to see css in inspect panel instead of having to copy css for each component and pasting it in notepad every time. That’s just ridiculous:person_facepalming:t6:

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hamza_bouguerch

As a freelancer to convince my client to pay 3000$ for a subscription…
guess it is time to start considering another alternative. or to find a solution to add other documentation to help the developers at least for now

DDDJ

For us in a large company we would have double our costs with end of dev mode beta and calculate that this pricing strategy would lead three to five times price increase as one ux designer supports a lot of developer …

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Felipe_Lobo1

this is just against Figma manifesto! About Us | Figma

Adobe being Adobe…

Jonas_List

As a freelancer collaborating with numerous small clients, I find the current pricing model to be impractical. It’s challenging to explain to my clients why they should pay for a developer seat on my behalf. However, I would gladly pay for a professional license myself to access all the features.

After years of being accustomed to Adobe’s pricing model, I believe the creative community expects professionals to be able to pay for their tools outright. To address this, I suggest considering additional pricing tiers tailored for freelancers and small teams.

For instance, unlimited revisions may be a feature that comes with significant infrastructure costs but is not necessary for small teams. I would be willing to pay for a “Freelance plan” that includes limited revisions while still allowing me to access professional features in all my projects, including those I have been invited to.

Only by offering a more flexible pricing structure that caters to the needs of freelancers and small teams, Figma can credibly get back to fulfil their stated mission of “making design accessible to everyone”

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Amy_leNoir

FIGMA Can you please break out the pricing for dev mode!!! It’s so hard to understand the way you have it lumped in with design seats. I just need a clear way to tell leadership what the cost is and what is included in the pricing, and why we need it ASAP!! This is a major set back to my team. A little more warning would have been nice as well. Now the team is scrambling to figure out how to hand off to dev with out dev mode. If this isn’t fixed you will definately loose customers we will go to other tools for devs. The bonus of Figma in the first place was that we didn’t need to have extra tools for devs it was all in one tool. Seems like that maybe ending now. 😡 😡 😡

Scott_Stoddard

New Member

Dear Figma:

Your pricing structure is now bass ackwards. I literally spent 18 months selling Figma to my managers. They finally signed off. It was going well until this little ditty popped up. If I’m a developer, I don’t care about design, I care about the code. All I care about is the inspect tool and the ability to spit out some CSS. Pricing structure needs to be revisited. $15/seat for a Dev Mode only seat for pro, org, or enterprise is the max you should be charging. And that Dev Mode seat still would include view-only of design files. The price of a seat needs to reflect the number of features that are included. I’m already having a hard time selling this to my manager. I shouldn’t have to spend 25% of my job trying to sell a necessary tool to my managers who are concerned about the bottom line. I refuse to use any Adobe products for anything web-based (besides Illustrator and PS for my own personal projects) and Sketch is DOA in a few months.

Scott_Stoddard

New Member

This was just a terrible roll out. Transparency on the inspect items being stripped and reused behind a pay-wall many months ago would have lessened the blow and prepared SMB and enterprise-level teams much better.

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m1Y84n

major regressions in dev mode today - not sure if its just me here
added more price hikes and broke it.

Samantha_Lawrence

It’s not just the pricing, for smaller agencies and consultants with lots of clients and dev teams that come and go, the UX of having to seat and un-seat random accounts is an undue complication. This pricing model is only practical for long-term in-house design/dev teams; the additional features don’t justify the cost. Most of us just need a simple inspect mode like XD has that anyone can view once a file is shared.

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