Why's the "Variables API" only available on enterprise plans?

Why the Variables API is only available on enterprise plans?

cause money 🙂

It’s strange because all of the other REST API endpoints are available cross-plans.

Thanks @Gleb 🙃

not all, on enterprise plan they also have rest apis for managing access (not sure if it’s public or not yet but this was announced)

I also agree it should be at least an organisation endpoint. It makes the full variables feature pointless when it comes to communicate with developers as it’s not even visible in Dev mode…

Is there any intention to change this once this gets out of Beta?

I’m also curious to know. Restricting this API to Enterprise customers only (not even Organization!) diminishes significantly the value of this feature for small/mid-size teams.

Not to mention that it completely alienates solo Design Ops consultants like me from building CI/CD pipelines for my small/mid-size clients.

I honestly don’t know what Figma are playing at with locking key variables features behind enterprise plans 🤨 It’s the same with the 4 modes restriction… Variables is available to everyone, yet if you want to actually make use it of in the relationship between designer → developer → product, you have to pay Figma for enterprise?! We’re 4 designers in a company of 25, we are not an enterprise company…

To make variables useful to the mid-tier companies, modes needs to be bumped up to at least 8 in org and allow variables REST API in org too. Otherwise, it’s useless to most medium-sized companies. Greedy on Figma’s part…

I’m 1000% with @jackbrind on this one

Same here! Small product agency but we love using design tokens as a bridge between design and dev.
I’m kind of hoping this comes to all plans once variables are out of beta…