Figma Make uses credits
A detailed post explains Figma Make’s AI features run on a credit system that’s tied to seat type and plan, with individual AI actions consuming credits behind the scenes. The write-up frames those AI calls as a budgeted workflow cost rather than an unlimited free feature. (medium.com)
Figma Make is not an unlimited artificial intelligence feature: every prompt, edit, and generation draws from a monthly credit balance tied to your Figma seat. (help.figma.com) Figma says AI credits apply across its artificial intelligence tools, including Figma Make, image editing, and other AI-powered workflows. Credits are assigned per user, reset monthly, do not roll over, and cannot be shared or transferred. (help.figma.com) The monthly allowance depends on plan and seat type. Full seats get 500 credits on Starter, 3,000 on Professional, 3,500 on Organization, and 4,250 on Enterprise, while Dev, Collab, and View seats get 500 credits; Starter users and View seats also face a 150-credit daily cap. (help.figma.com) Figma Make itself is included on Full seats on paid plans, but users with Dev, Collab, or View seats can still try it in drafts. Only Full seats can create team Make files, share them, or publish them, and Starter users can explore Make with separate limits. (help.figma.com) Figma began giving users more visibility into this system on December 9, 2025, when it said individuals could see their own balance and reset date and admins could track team usage from the billing dashboard. The company said most AI features would also show how many credits a specific action consumed. (figma.com) The hard limit on Full-seat usage took effect on March 18, 2026. Figma says usage earlier in the same billing period still counted toward the monthly cap, so some users who had already gone over could lose access to paid AI features until their reset date or until their plan had extra credits available. (help.figma.com) For paid teams that need more capacity, Figma now sells extra AI credits at the plan level. Professional plans can buy an ongoing credits subscription, while Organization and Enterprise plans can use both subscriptions and pay-as-you-go billing; Figma says pay-as-you-go will reach Professional plans in May 2026. (help.figma.com) Figma’s legal terms spell out the order of consumption: a user burns through their own seat credits first, then any pooled subscription credits, and then pay-as-you-go charges if those are enabled. That turns a Make session into something closer to metered cloud usage than a flat bundled perk. (figma.com) Figma’s pricing pages now list AI credits as an add-on and describe them as a team purchase that can be shared, with pay-as-you-go available for flexibility. In practice, that means a company choosing Full, Dev, or Collab seats is also choosing how much artificial intelligence usage each worker can trigger before finance gets involved. (figma.com; help.figma.com) The result is simple: Figma Make may feel like chat, but Figma bills it like compute. The more often a team turns prompts into prototypes, the more those credits become part of the software budget. (help.figma.com; figma.com)
