Figma Pricing
- Design pricing
- $3/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Figma pricing starts at $3 a month, which is $36 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 30 days on Professional.
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Figma pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free; paid seats from $3/month (Collab), $16/month for a Full seat |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $3 a month, or $36 a year |
| How that is reached | Professional - Collab seat at $3 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 30 days on Professional |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every Figma plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 30 days on Professional.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $0 | per month | 3 design files, unlimited viewers and personal drafts, and 150 AI credits a day to a monthly limit of 500 |
| Professional - Full seat | $16 | per month | per seat, billed annually - Includes 3,000 AI credits a month |
| Professional - Dev seat | $12 | per month | per seat, billed annually |
| Professional - Collab seat | $3 | per month | per seat, billed annually |
| Organization - Full seat | $55 | per month | per seat, billed annually - Dev seat $25, Collab seat $5 |
| Enterprise - Full seat | $90 | per month | per seat, billed annually - Dev seat $35 |
What Figma actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional - Full seatper seat, billed annually | per month | $16 | $192 |
| Professional - Dev seatper seat, billed annually | per month | $12 | $144 |
| Professional - Collab seatper seat, billed annually | per month | $3 | $36 |
| Organization - Full seatper seat, billed annually | per month | $55 | $660 |
| Enterprise - Full seatper seat, billed annually | per month | $90 | $1,080 |
Cancelling Figma, and getting money back
Read from the published Figma terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | None published |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current subscription term, not immediately. |
| Changing mid-term | Seats cannot be reduced during a term: quantities purchased cannot be decreased until renewal. |
Figma terms of service ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Figma pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Figma |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figma | $3 a month | Yes | This product |
| Canva | $15 a month | Yes | +$12 a month (+400%) |
Which Figma plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You are learning, or working on personal projects | Starter | Free with three design files, and unlimited viewers who never pay. |
| You design interfaces professionally | Professional: Full seat | $16 a month is the working designer's seat. Every cheaper seat type cannot edit designs at all. |
| You are a developer reading specs and exporting assets | Professional: Dev seat | $12 instead of $16, because you inspect and hand off rather than design. |
| You only comment, review and approve | Professional: Collab seat | $3 a month. Most stakeholders need nothing more, and buying Full seats for them is the most common way teams overspend on Figma. |
| You need SSO and centrally governed design systems | Organization | $55 per Full seat is a large step, justified by shared libraries and governance rather than by any drawing capability. |
| You mainly make social graphics and marketing assets | Do not buy Figma | Canva is faster for template-led work and costs a fraction as much. |
Why multiplayer changed the category
Before Figma, design review meant exporting images and emailing them. Figma made the file a URL that stakeholders could open, comment on and watch change. That single decision removed a whole class of process overhead and is the reason adoption spread through product organisations rather than only design teams.
Components, variables and the design-system argument
The serious case for Figma is not drawing screens; it is that a design system built from components and variables stays consistent as it grows. Change a token, and every instance updates. Teams that treat Figma as a drawing tool get much less out of it than teams that treat it as a system.
Dev Mode, and what it does not solve
Dev Mode exposes spacing, tokens and generated code snippets to engineers. It removes argument about values. It does not remove the need for a shared component library in code - the generated snippets are a reference, not a production artefact.
Seat maths before renewal
Viewers and commenters cost nothing. Editors cost real money, and Figma has repeatedly refined what counts as an editing action. Before renewal, list who opened a file to edit in the last quarter. Most organisations find they are paying for several seats that only ever viewed.
Figma questions, answered
- Does Figma have a free plan or free trial?
- Figma has a free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days on Professional.
- Can I self-host Figma?
- No. Figma is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
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What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Figma. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from 2 primary sources , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Where Figma appears on this site
- Another profile Adobe Creative Cloud names it as a competitor
- Another profile Affinity picks it for interface and product design
- Another profile Blender picks it for interface and product design
- Another profile Canva names it as a competitor
- Another profile Miro names it as a competitor
- Another profile Penpot names it as a competitor
- Another profile Sketch names it as a competitor
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Seat prices re-read for the design tools guide and unchanged across all three plans
- Recorded the AI credit allowances - 150 a day on Starter, 3,000 a month on Professional
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August 2026
- Seat-type pricing verified across Full, Dev and Collab seats
- Added plan picker, verdicts and switching-cost breakdown
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Figma pricing page - checked 19 August 2026
- Figma developer documentation - checked 19 August 2026
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