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Figma
Collaborative interface design and prototyping tool used by product and design teams.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
The default for teams designing apps, websites, and product interfaces collaboratively, with excellent multiplayer and design-system support. It's overkill for simple marketing graphics. Canva fits that better. Verify current per-editor pricing, as viewer/editor seats differ.
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Should you use Figma?
Use it if product and UI/UX design teams. Avoid it if teams that only need quick marketing graphics, where a cheaper Collab seat still cannot create files.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹298/mo$3/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Figma is a marketing & content / design & creative for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹298/mo for a GST-registered business ($3/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for product and UI/UX design teams, and a poor fit if teams that only need quick marketing graphics, where a cheaper Collab seat still cannot create files.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Multiplayer editing works well enough that review happens in the file instead of in screenshots
- Design systems, variables and prototyping live in one file rather than three separate tools
The catch
- The March 2025 seat change bundles FigJam, Slides and Sites into every paid seat whether the team uses them
- Dev Mode moved behind Full and Dev seats, which raised invoices for teams that previously had it included
- Monthly billing runs a third above annual, 20 dollars against 15 for a Full seat
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹298
Figma advertises $3/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹298 a month (₹3,572/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹351 a month.
- Sticker price
- $3/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹298
- Registered per year
- ₹3,572
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹351
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Starter is free. Professional from $3/user/mo per full seat, with cheaper Dev and Collab seat types; Organization and Enterprise tiers cost more, billed annually. USD; seat-type based.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Figma fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
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What is Figma?
Figma is a browser-based UI/UX design and prototyping platform with real-time collaboration, components, design systems, and FigJam whiteboarding. It is the standard for product, design, and engineering teams building digital interfaces.
Best for
- Product and UI/UX design teams
- Teams needing real-time design collaboration
- Designers building design systems
Who should avoid it
- Teams that only need quick marketing graphics, where a cheaper Collab seat still cannot create files
- Companies whose developers read specs only occasionally, since each one still needs a paid Dev seat
What Figma does
What we verified about Figma
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Features we confirmed80
- Webhooks
- Webhooks automate workflows between Figma and external products
- Vs code extension
- Dev Mode runs directly inside VS Code via an extension
- Version history
- Files auto-save versions every 30 minutes, named and linkable
- Sso saml
- SAML single sign-on integrates with existing identity management
- Scim provisioning
- SCIM manages provisioning and role assignment automatically
- Rest API
- REST APIs bring Figma into external tools and products
- Presentation builder
- Figma Slides lets teams co-create presentations
- Plugin ecosystem
- Community plugins and widgets extend the workflow
- Mcp connectors
- MCP connectors pull PRDs and tickets into Make and the agent
- Guest access controls
- Admins limit external collaborators joining the organisation
- Eu data residency
- Localized file hosting keeps key file parts in the EU
- Domain capture
- Verified email domains automatically join the Figma account
- Diagramming
- FigJam includes advanced shapes for AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes
- Custom domain
- Figma Sites publishes with a personalised subdomain or custom domain
- AI image editing
- AI removes backgrounds, expands images and isolates objects
- Activity logs API
- Activity logs API tracks what happens in Figma programmatically
- Agent skills
- Agent skills package repeatable workflows into reusable instructions
- AI image generation
- Figma Weave generates high-quality images inside Figma
- AI layer renaming
- Design productivity AI renames layers and adds interactions
- AI sticky note summarisation
- FigJam Summarize AI extracts key takeaways from stickies
- AI usage analytics API
- API retrieves daily AI credit consumption per user
- AI visual search
- Visual search finds components or assets with AI
- Animation timeline
- Figma Motion animates on a full timeline with keyframes
- Asset export
- Assets export from design files as PNG, JPG, PDF or CSV
- Audio conversations
- Audio lets collaborators talk directly inside a Figma file
- Auto layout
- Auto layout creates responsive designs with automatically adjusting frames
- Backend auth via supabase
- Figma Make connects to Supabase for authentication and data storage
- Branching and merging
- Designers work in a branch and merge changes back to the main file
- Brand asset templates
- Figma Buzz produces on-brand assets at scale from templates
- Code connect
- Code Connect exposes design system component code inside Dev Mode
- Code layers
- Figma Sites allows custom interactivity through code layers
- Component playground
- Component playground explores component properties interactively
- Cursor chat
- Cursor chat shares quick thoughts while jamming live
- Custom brushes
- Figma Draw supports a custom set of vector brushes
- Design annotations
- Annotations and measurements can be added directly onto designs
- Design styles
- Styles define colors, text styles and effects reusable across objects
- Design to code from existing files
- Figma Make attaches existing designs or components to prompts
- Design variables
- Variables define color and number values for theming and dynamic prototyping
- Dev mode handoff
- Dev Mode translates designs into code with advanced inspection
- Expiring public links
- External file links can be forced to carry an expiry
- Figma mcp server
- MCP server lets AI agents access Figma context to generate code
- File comments
- Comments can be added directly on a prototype or file
- Idle session timeout
- Admins set a custom idle timeout to log users out
- Interactive prototyping
- Interactive prototypes simulate how a user may interact with the design
- Library analytics
- In-app library analytics measure design system adoption and efficiency
- Live polls in slides
- Figma Slides includes live polls, alignment scales and voting
- Locked template editing
- Figma Buzz focused editing locks all but designated images and copy
- Make on mobile
- Figma Make can be accessed and built with on mobile devices
- Motion code handoff
- Dev Mode inspects animations and copies CSS, JSON or React
- Motion export mp4 gif svg
- Motion exports animations as MP4, GIF, WebM or SVG
- Multi brand design systems
- Extended collections scale design systems across brands and products
- Observation mode
- Observation mode follows another user's screen for critiques
- Offline presentations
- Slides decks can be pre-loaded to present offline
- On canvas AI agent
- Figma agent chats on canvas to generate and remix designs
- Password protected sharing
- Passwords can be set on files and open sessions
- Plugin governance
- Admins manage which plugins the organisation can access
- Powerpoint import export
- Figma Slides imports from and exports to PowerPoint
- Private plugins
- Organisations can build private plugins and widgets internally
- Prompt to code generation
- Figma Make generates a functional prototype or web app from a prompt
- Prototype conditional logic
- If/else statements in prototyping interactions create customised flows
- Prototype expressions
- Operators generate dynamic number or string values in interactions
- Prototype sharing without source file
- Prototypes can be shared with clients without exposing the design file
- Publish web app from make
- Make prototypes publish as a website with a dedicated URL
- Real time multiplayer editing
- Multiple editors live edit the same file together
- Responsive prototype viewer
- Prototype viewer adapts to any screen size for testing
- Reusable components
- Any collection of objects can be turned into a reusable component
- Site cms
- Figma Sites includes a CMS UI for managing site content
- Sketch import
- File import supports .sketch plus PNG and JPG files
- Smart animate
- Advanced animations include Smart Animate, springs, slides and dissolves
- Team libraries
- Team libraries create design systems with shared assets
- Text on a path
- Figma Draw bends and curves text along vector paths
- UI design editor
- Figma Design provides canvas, layers, grids, vectors, shapes and constraints
- Variable modes
- Variable modes let a file switch between multiple design themes
- Variables API
- REST API for variables updates design systems at scale
- Vector illustration
- Figma Draw adds shape builder, lasso and multi-edit vector modes
- Version comparison
- Dev Mode compares frame versions to show exactly what changed
- Video in prototypes
- Videos can be added to prototypes for more realistic experiences
- Website builder
- Figma Sites publishes fully responsive websites from design
- Whiteboarding
- FigJam provides a digital whiteboard with shapes and connectors
- Whiteboard voting
- FigJam lets participants vote on ideas during sessions
What people use it for2
- Build a website
- Figma Sites publishes responsive websites without hand coding
- Design product interfaces
- Positioned for product and design teams building digital interfaces
Works with7
- Youtube
- Figma Slides supports embedding YouTube videos
- Visual studio code
- Dev Mode ships a VS Code extension
- Supabase
- Figma Make connects to Supabase for auth and data
- Slack
- Third-party integrations explicitly name Slack
- Notion
- Third-party integrations explicitly name Notion
- Jira
- Third-party integrations explicitly name Jira
- Google workspace
- Third-party integrations explicitly name Google Workspace
Terms, compliance and how you buy30
- Education discount
- FAQ confirms a discount programme for schools and classrooms
- Credit based pricing
- AI features consume a shared monthly credit allotment per seat
- Affiliate program
- Footer resources list an affiliate program
- Admin approval for new seats
- Admins must approve new seats that incur cost on higher plans
- AI credit top ups
- Additional AI credits can be purchased or subscribed pay-as-you-go
- Annual billing only on upper tiers
- Organization and Enterprise are shown as billed annually only
- Annual cheaper than monthly
- Our catalog records monthly billing running about a third above annual
- Browser based
- Runs in the browser with unlimited cloud file storage
- Bundled product suite
- A Full seat bundles Design, Make, Draw, Sites, FigJam, Slides and Buzz
- Collab seat cannot create design files
- Collab seats get view and comment access only in Figma Design
- Dev mode requires paid seat
- Full access to Dev Mode requires a Full or Dev seat
- Free agent during beta
- AI agent consumes no credits while it stays in beta
- Free starter plan
- Starter plan gives free limited access with unlimited drafts
- Free viewers
- Paid plans let unlimited people view and comment without buying seats
- Governance addon enterprise only
- Governance+ security add-on is only available on Enterprise
- Government plan available
- FAQ confirms availability for government and public sector teams
- Included AI credits may change
- Pricing page warns included AI credits are subject to change
- Industry standard tool
- Our catalog calls it the default for teams designing product interfaces
- Mcp rate limits by plan
- MCP tool calls range from 20 a month to 600 a day by plan
- Mid year seats billed separately
- Professional seats added mid-year bill as a separate monthly subscription
- Multiple beta products
- Motion, Sites and Buzz are all still marked beta
- No a la carte products
- FAQ states products cannot be purchased individually
- Overkill for simple graphics
- Our verdict notes Canva fits simple marketing graphics better
- Quarterly invoicing for added seats
- Organization and Enterprise invoice quarterly for seats added mid-term
- Sales contact to cancel enterprise
- Organization and Enterprise plans require sales contact to downgrade
- Seat type pricing
- Full, Dev and Collab seats carry different prices and access
- Self serve cancellation on pro
- Professional plan can be downgraded or cancelled from the admin dashboard
- Usd billed
- Pricing page explicitly states prices are in USD
- Variable mode caps by tier
- Variable modes are capped at 10, 20 or unlimited by plan
- Version history limited on free
- Starter plan retains version history for only 30 days
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Starter is free. Professional from $3/user/mo per full seat, with cheaper Dev and Collab seat types; Organization and Enterprise tiers cost more, billed annually. USD; seat-type based.
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Where Figma fits in a workflow
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Does Figma give a GST invoice in India?
Figma does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Figma good for Indian small businesses?
Figma can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Figma have a free plan?
Figma lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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