Figma is best for freelance designers, small agencies and consultants producing client mockups. Its clearest advantage: Clients can comment without installing anything.
- Avoid if
- anyone who only needs a social graphic or a quick flyer
- Cheapest useful plan
- €20.00/mo · Professional
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- moderate: 1-2 hr
- Main limitation
- Overkill for simple marketing graphics
- Clients can comment without installing anything
- Free Starter plan covers solo client work
- Industry standard, so handoff is understood by whoever comes next
- anyone who only needs a social graphic or a quick flyer
- print-heavy work
What it actually does
Browser-based design with real-time collaboration, components and libraries, Motion, with animation styles, audio and Lottie export, Figma agent and MCP access for coding tools, developer handoff.
Before you pay
Free or Professional
The free Starter plan covers solo client work with unlimited drafts, and clients can comment without installing anything. Professional is for anyone sharing team projects. The seat type matters more than the plan: a designer needs a Full seat, a developer a Dev seat, and someone who only comments a Collab seat.
What a year costs
Professional is 20 € per Full seat a month billed monthly, 240 € a year, or 16 € billed yearly, 192 € a year. On monthly billing, a Dev seat is 15 € a month (180 € a year) and a Collab seat 5 € (60 € a year). Our first reading, on 6 August, took the yearly figure; the record holds the monthly price since 12 September, a correction rather than a price rise.
What we would check before paying
Who needs which seat before adding people: the seat model is where costs grow. For simple marketing graphics Figma is more than you need, and real proficiency takes weeks.
What changed recently
Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out in Figma Make's model picker, on all plans. Source ↗
The Figma agent leaves beta: it can search Figma files from a chat and take user-set guidelines about design libraries. Source ↗
Several GitHub organisations can now be connected to one Figma plan. Source ↗
Read on each vendor's official changelog, not tested by us.
The limits to know
- Overkill for simple marketing graphics
- Seat model gets complicated once you add collaborators
- Real proficiency takes weeks, not hours
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- €20.00/mo · Professional
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- 20 €/month per Full seat billed monthly; 16 €/month billed annually. Dev seat 15 €, Collab seat 5 € (monthly)
The pricing page, as read
What it costs at 1, 3, 5 and 10 users
Figma bills per seat, so the invoice follows head count. Calculated at the rate on record, before tax, with no annual commitment.
| Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | €20.00 | €240.00 |
| 3 | €60.00 | €720.00 |
| 5 | €100.00 | €1200.00 |
| 10 | €200.00 | €2400.00 |
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, macOS, Windows
- Integrations
- Slack, Jira, Notion, GitHub
- Setup
- moderate: 1-2 hr
Figma in our comparisons
Alternatives to Figma
Compare side by side:Figma / CanvaFigma / MiroFigma / Beautiful.ai
Frequently asked questions
What is Figma?
Figma is a tool used mainly for client mockups and wireframes, design handoff, collaborative feedback. Main features: browser-based design with real-time collaboration, components and libraries, Motion, with animation styles, audio and Lottie export. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is €20.00/mo · Professional.
How much does Figma cost?
The paid entry point is €20.00/mo · Professional. Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: 20 €/month per Full seat billed monthly; 16 €/month billed annually. Dev seat 15 €, Collab seat 5 € (monthly). Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Figma have a free plan?
Yes. Figma publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: overkill for simple marketing graphics.
What devices and tools does Figma work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Figma runs on: Web, macOS, Windows. Documented integrations: Slack, Jira, Notion, GitHub. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Corrected to the month-to-month figure already recorded in this record's own billing condition
Published by us from the vendor's annual view: our error, read on 2026-08-06
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 98 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.