[LAUNCHED] All plans should offer more than 4 variable modes

+1 here guys, I’m really frustrated with this limitation and today I decided to find other users with the same issue. Please remove this bottleneck, it doesn’t make sense!

Hard disagree on limiting Professional to 5 - the following isn’t aimed at you, just in response to the limit.

Only allowing 5 Variables exclude any real value for consultants, freelancers or small agencies. Figma has essentially positioned Variables as a core feature, especially since introducing Typography variable support too. Putting a limit on Variables that low like trying to put a limit Styles - ridiculous and counter intuitive. They’ve already price gouged everyone with Dev Mode seats, trying to do the same with Variables seems like a pretty stupid hill for them to die on.

UNLOCK THE MODES. This is weird.

Having only 4 modes makes this feature unusable for any serious level of localization. I’d consider a team level add-on, but moving from 2 seats at $15/month to 2 seats at $75/month is a massive markup for an increased variable count.

I am begging for more modes. 4 is not nearly enough but 40 is way too much and not worth the extra $ to pay to get 40 and dev mode?? I don’t need dev mode I just need like max 10 modes that’s all.

Commenting here so that this thread doesn’t lose any traction. A shame that Figma have announced variables as a core feature but not made it usable for smaller design teams. 4 breakpoints is not possible for the majority of websites.

Completely agree here, 4 modes is not enough since you can now do typography, so for example I have a website with fonts in variables for desktop and mobile. Now I want to add 2 other subbrands to create a multisite, I can’t since I am limited to 4 modes. Our company is simply not big enough for Enterprise, and the price difference is huge. And since you don’t have any native option to move variables it just simply doesn’t cut it unfortunately.

Chucking my hat in the ring to support more than 4 modes on an Org plan. I strongly disagree that modes has anything to do with the size of the organisation and the plan they need. Let me make a responsive layout where we have 8 breakpoints already pleeeease! I’m holding off diving into variables with our team’s design system and this is one of the main reasons. This is not the carrot to get our Org to jump to Enterprise. We are not an enterprise. 🤨

Honestly, we have the same problem. Designing your system according to the latest Figma developments and then realizing that you’re limited to just 4 collones! I’m the only designer of my product and we don’t need the business plan. My solution: develop my own plugin.

The Org plan should allow more modes than the professional plan, if you are going to use these types of tiers as reasons to upgrade. It’s weird the ‘org’ plan has the same mode restrictions as the Pro plan.

But I don’t think this type of feature should be tied to the size of an org. Those feature differences should be account management, security/permissions, locking stuff down, multi-user management differences, and customisation. Not core features like variables.