- Jan 2025 Rung 1 · Bundled
- May 2025 Rung 2 · Soft meter Config 2025 — full-seat AI-credit allowance introduced, tracked but unenforced
- Mar 2026 Rung 3 · Hard allotment Full-seat AI-credit limits enforced — run out and you're blocked
- May 2026 → now Rung 4 · Metered overage Pay-as-you-go overage at $0.03/credit to an admin spend cap
Moved across the continuum this window — pattern: Incumbent bolt-on.
The short version A usage meter was bolted onto a seat you already pay for — the subscription is no longer the whole bill.
The verdict
Figma is the fastest full traverse in the panel. In January 2025 there was no meter at all — AI was a beta bundled into the seat. Around Config 2025 (May) Figma gave every seat a monthly AI-credit allowance, tracked but not enforced (a soft meter). It then tightened deliberately: a credits subscription on March 11, 2026, enforced Full-seat limits from March 18, 2026 (a hard stop), and pay-as-you-go overage at $0.03/credit in Q2 2026 — soft to hard to metered overage in roughly twelve months, all bolted onto an unchanged per-seat price.
Current pricing snapshot
As published on Figma's own pages · captured Jun 12, 2026. Unit: AI credits.
| Plan | Price / mo | Included | At zero | Top-up vs plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 500 | Hard stop | None |
| Professional (Full seat) | $16 | 3,000 | Opt-in overage | +350% per credit |
| Organization (Full seat) | $55 | 3,500 | Opt-in overage | +53% per credit |
| Enterprise (Full seat) | $90 | 4,250 | Opt-in overage | +13% per credit |
- Credit ↔ dollar
- Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $
- Credit burn rate
- Varies by model / action
- Model choice
- You pick the model
- Free tier
- 500 credits, per month
- Billing
- Monthly or annual
- Included credits
- Expire each cycle
- Purchased credits
- Expire each cycle
What changed
- May 1, 2026 · Policy change · Pay-as-you-go billing for AI credits - the meter keeps running above the allotment and auto-bills to the next invoice at $0.03/credit up to an admin-set monthly spend limit - became available; live for Organization/Enterprise in Q2 2026 and added for the Professional plan in May 2026, moving the opted-in posture to metered overage.
- Mar 18, 2026 · Policy change · Enforcement begins: Figma enforces Full-seat AI credit limits - run out and AI actions are blocked (in-product notification) until an admin buys more, with no automatic overage by default (a hard allotment).
- Dec 9, 2025 · Policy change · Figma announced the AI-credit system rollout: usage tracking shipped Dec 2025; credit subscriptions effective 2026-03-11; per-seat credit limits enforced from 2026-03-18; PAYG ($0.03/credit) by Q2 2026.
- May 1, 2025 · Meter adopted · Figma introduced its AI credit meter: Full seats get 3,000 credits/mo (Professional) up to 4,250 (Enterprise), while Dev/Collab/View seats are capped at 500/mo; admins can buy +5,000 shared credits from $120/mo, with pay-as-you-go arriving Q2 2026. Wayback confirms the before-state — Figma's Jan-2024 pricing page was seat-only ($12 Professional / $45 Organization) with no AI meter. (archive)
Where it's headed
Sourced from Figma's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.