You need to offer a standalone dev mode option for pro, org, and enterprise accounts! This is insane. I have a team of 3 designers and everyone else, roughly 20+ are developers who only need to view and inspect! My managers aren’t going to go for spending another $9-10k /year for 20 people when they are only using ~25% (or less) of that $35/each! Please come up with a better pricing structure. I spent nearly 18 months selling Figma/FigJam to my managers and finally got sign off less than a year ago and I don’t want to go through this again. Please have this figured out by the next conference in June so you can stop the bleeding before it turns into a full-fledged flat-line.
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Hey @Scott_Stoddard, this is already on the team’s radar for improvement, which is why I updated the topic into a feature request!
Stay tuned - our Dev mode team plans to make this happen, but we don’t have an exact timeline to provide yet.
This is an absolute must. I agree with @Scott_Stoddard. This is one of the main reasons we switched to Figma and now our Devs have zero access to the files.
It still reads on your site:
Use the right sidebar with view-only access
Viewer and viewer-restricted users can collaborate on designs, view design properties, copy basic code, and export assets.
Viewer access is great for people who don’t need to edit designs or for developers who need to access designs, but don’t need the full suite of Dev Mode features.
But this now does not work. The devs only get a message telling them to sign up for Dev Mode.
The dev should have access to the dev mode AND access to the view mode, without the editing permission. Like they can double click layers or something to see how thigns are organized, without us having to live with the fear that they might accidentally move something or remove something.
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Is there any update here? The cost difference for my team of 31 is huge, from 500 to over 16k (if we upgraded straight across to get dev mode). Our design team is only 8 people, and we’d like to just give everyone else dev mode. We are on the pro plan, and I really cannot justify that cost difference for dev mode; the loss of this feature could potentially be a product killer (we don’t want it to be).
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@Dannibal
OMG
exactly my thoughts.
Hei Figma, how might I see the list of users that I gave access to as developers, when they requested for “Dev mode”? They are all currently listed as having a Full Design seat. Is this what this is? A full design seat, as in they can edit all of the design files? Please separate these 2 roles as they are not identical.
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Hello there, any update on this very important subject?
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Any news here? 
Can’t believe this wasn’t solved before the new release.
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Seria genial que el modo dev no pueda pasar a editor. Quiero que el desarrollador pueda ver el modo dev pero que no tenga acceso a modo editor.
There were so many software updates after this topic past 9 month and Figma still don’t made any changes in this important problem. 
Hi. It’s about half year passed after your post and nothing happens. There were several updates of Figma and no improvement in this question yet! How long we must wait for making separate roles for designers and developers?
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Add please! Can’t believe this wasn’t solved before (
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Any timeline for this?
This is extremely frustating, we are a small team of designers but a lot of devs, and from 4 seats we had to pay for 12 seats for devs, we just switched to other tools instead of doing this in Figma. sigh beginning of an end 