AI features across the Figma platform help teams riff, refine, and ship faster than ever. Figma’s AI features use a credit system. To ensure everyone can try and use these features, AI credits are included with every seat on every plan.
In this article, you’ll learn:
- What AI credits are: Understand what credits represent and how they’re used across Figma AI features.
- How seat credit limits vary by plan: Learn how many credits each seat type includes.
- How credit consumption works: See how many credits each AI feature uses and what factors affect usage.
- How to track individual credit usage: View your remaining credits as an individual.
- How to manage AI credits as an admin: Learn how to monitor usage across your plan and prepare for upcoming purchasing options.
On December 9, 2025, we announced some updates. Here's a summary of what's happening:
- Starting this week, you’ll be able to track your AI credit usage in Figma.
- Next year, we’re introducing new ways to buy AI credits:
- Starting March 11, 2026, you'll be able to add more credits through an ongoing subscription.
- By Q2 2026, you’ll have an option to pay-as-you-go for more credits.
- Starting on March 18, 2026, we will enforce all seat credit limits.
Select your role below to see an overview of AI credit features at a glance and what’s to come.
- Every seat in Figma includes AI credits. The number of AI credits depends on your plan and seat type.
- To date, we have not enforced credit limits on Full seat users but will begin to do so on March 18, 2026.
- You can view how many credits you have left at any time.
- Credit limits reset monthly and don’t roll over.
- Admins can view credit usage for their team or organization in the AI credits dashboard.
- Every seat in Figma includes AI credits. To date, we have not enforced AI credit limits for Full seat users, but will begin to do so on March 18, 2026.
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On March 11, 2026, we’re introducing an optional AI credits subscription for admins to purchase a shared pool of credits that approved users can draw from once they’ve used the credits included with their seat:
- The subscription will be available in multiple tiers and managed from the admin dashboard.
- Credits reset monthly and do not rollover.
- Admins will also have the option to enable pay-as-you-go billing up to a specified limit. This feature will roll out to all paid plans in Q2 2026 and can be used alongside or instead of the subscription.
What are AI credits?
AI credits are used to run AI actions in Figma.
Every seat in Figma includes AI credits. The number of AI credits and what features you can use them with depends on your plan and seat type. They’re assigned to an individual user, reset monthly, and can’t be shared or transferred.
Starting on March 11, 2026, admins will be able to purchase a shared pool of additional credits through the AI credits subscription. These credits reset monthly and can be used by approved users if they exceed the AI credits included in their seat.
On paid plans, admins can track team-wide credit usage in the admin dashboard.
Seat credits
Every seat in Figma comes with AI credits, depending on your plan and seat type.
AI credits are assigned to individual users. They reset monthly, don’t roll over, and can’t be shared or transferred. Credits don’t represent monetary value.
Full seats come with the largest monthly credit allowance. Users on all other seats (Collab, Dev, View) and the Starter plan have access to a lower number of credits that are subject to change.
| Starter plan | Professional plan | Organization plan | Enterprise plan | |
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| Full seats | 500 credits per month for all Starter plan users | 3,000 credits per month | 3,500 credits per month | 4,250 credits per month |
| Dev, Collab, and View seats | 500 credits per month | 500 credits per month | 500 credits per month |
Credit limits are currently enforced for users on Starter and Education plans, as well as View, Collab, and Dev seats on paid plans. Although Full seat users may hit their credit limit, we won’t be enforcing those limits until March 18, 2026.
Note: Starter plan users or users with a View seat also have a daily limit of 150 credits. If you reach your daily limit, you can continue using AI features the following day.
Credit consumption
Each time you run an AI action, it consumes a number of credits based on factors such as the type of AI action, complexity of your request, and the model used.
AI credit consumption by feature
For AI image features like background removal, resolution enhancement, or image generation, credit usage is fixed based on the model used. If multiple models are available, you can choose which one to use. Some models consume more credits but produce higher-quality images, while others are optimized to use fewer credits. Choose the model that best balances cost and quality for your needs.
For agentic AI features like Figma Make, credit usage varies based on the underlying cost of the actions the AI takes to complete your request. Many factors can influence this cost, including the pricing of the underlying language model, the complexity of the task, and the amount of data or files the agent needs to process. If multiple models are available, you can choose which one to use. Some models may consume more credits than others.
Below are the credit consumption rates as of December 10, 2025. Credit usage for each feature may change as models are optimized or new models become available.
| AI feature | Credits per use |
|---|---|
| AI search | Free |
| Rename layers | Free |
| Summarize stickies, Cluster stickies, Update visual (FigJam) | Free |
| Generate templates and diagrams (FigJam) | 2-24 per prompt |
| Remove background | 1-5 per image |
| Boost image resolution | 5-10 per image |
| Erase object | 5-10 per image |
| Isolate object | 5-10 per image |
| Expand image | 5-10 per image |
| Make image |
5 per image for GPT Image 1 Mini 8 per image for Gemini 2.5 8 per image for Google Imagen 4 10 per image for GPT Image 1 25 per image for Gemini 3 Pro |
| Edit image |
5 per image for GPT Image 1 Mini 8 per image for Gemini 2.5 10 per image for GPT Image 1 25 per image for Gemini 3 Pro |
| Figma Make | Varies based on complexity (see examples below) |
| First Draft | 20 credits per use |
| Make prototype | 20 credits per use |
| These are the credit consumption rates as of December 10, 2025. Costs for each feature may change as models are optimized or new models become available. | |
Note: Figma will continue to launch additional features that consume credits. Some features will not use AI credits until they are generally available, while others may consume credits from the start. Features will be added to this page once they have an associated cost.
Additionally, at this time, credit consumption for Weavy is calculated separately and does not factor into your AI credit balance in Figma.
Estimating cost for Figma Make
Using Figma Make, more complex requests require more processing power, which increases the cost of running the model. A longer or more detailed prompt may cause the agent to take additional actions, using more credits as a result. Simple prompts can use more credits if the underlying task is complex, such as applying a change across a large or intricate prototype.
Because the AI determines what actions it needs to perform in order to complete the task, we can’t predict exactly how many credits it will use. Once a task has completed, you can see how many credits that prompt consumed by hovering over the AI credits icon above the prompt box.
Use the examples below to get a general sense of potential costs, but keep in mind that your own usage history provides the most accurate estimate of your expected credit consumption.
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Example task: Change the font
- Action the AI may take: Updates fonts
- Approximate credit consumption: Approximately 30+ credits. Larger, more complex applications will consume more credits for a simple function.
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Example task: Make the attached design interactive
- Action the AI may take: Adds interactivity between screens and components, applies transitions and animations
- Approximate credit consumption: Approximately 75+ credits. Referencing more complex reference materials will consume more credits.
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Example task: Generate an app from scratch
- Action the AI may take: Creates a layout and visual theme, generates placeholder content and imagery, adds interactivity, sets up a backend with key value storage
- Approximate credit consumption: Approximately 100+ credits. Applications with more complex logic or interactivity require more tasks to be completed, which results in higher credit usage.
Disclaimer: Due to the non-deterministic nature of AI models, all credit consumption example figures should be considered approximate. Exact results may be more or less, and general approximations may evolve over time.
To make the most of your AI credits in Figma Make, write clear, direct prompts that help the model understand exactly what to build or change. Here are a few additional ways to reduce credit usage:
- Use point and edit for small adjustments instead of describing them in a long prompt
- Edit the code directly when making minor changes
- Use the guidelines.md file to add global styling instructions for Figma Make to follow
Track credit usage as an individual
Note: This feature is rolling out gradually starting December 9, 2025. If you don’t see it in your account yet, it should appear in the next few days.
An individual can view how many seat credits they have left at any time.
- Open the Main menu in any file.
- Select the AI balance option to see how many credits you’ve used, how many credits you have remaining, and when they’ll reset.
Manage AI credits as an admin
Track credit usage as an admin
Note: This feature is rolling out gradually starting December 9, 2025. If you don’t see it in your account yet, it should appear in the next few days.
On paid plans, admins can track AI credit usage across their plan in the admin dashboard.
To view AI usage:
- Open the file browser by logging in to your account at figma.com. If you’re in a specific Figma file, click the Figma menu > Back to files.
- Click Admin.
- In the AI credits section, click View usage.
From the AI credits page, admins can:
- View which users are using AI, how many credits they’ve consumed, and filter results by seat type
- Track AI usage across your plan and see how many users have reached their seat credit limits
- Understand how many additional credits your team would have needed if Full seat limits were in place today
You can use this information to estimate how many credits you may want to purchase once all seat limits are enforced on March 18, 2026.
Note: Although Full seat users may hit their credit limit, we won't be enforcing those limits until March 18, 2026.
Purchase additional credits
Soon, admins will have two new ways to pay for additional AI usage when their team members reach seat credit limits.
AI credits subscription Coming March 11, 2026
Starting March 11, 2026, admins can purchase shared credits through the AI credits subscription—which provides a shared pool of credits for eligible users once they’ve reached their seat credit limit.
Once available, you can select the tier you want based on your team’s expected usage. Subscriptions start in the thousands and can scale to millions of monthly credits.
- +5,000 credits for $120 USD
- +7,500 credits for $180 USD
- +10,000 credits for $240 USD
Available tiers will be shown during the in-product checkout flow. For additional tiers not available in product, contact our sales team.
Enable pay-as-you-go billing Coming Q2 2026
For teams who don’t yet have predictable usage patters or need to top off their subscription, admins can enable pay-as-you-go billing to buy credits as you need them. You can specify a spending limit and use this alongside an ongoing subscription or standalone. Pay-as-you-go billing will roll out to all plans in Q2 of 2026.
Once enabled, users can continue prompting after all other available credits have been used. Pay-as-you-go credits are billed at a flat per-credit rate and will appear on your next invoice.
Frequently asked questions
Credit basics
Access to different AI products or features depends on your plan and seat.
- Figma Make is our prompt-to-app product. Your seat and plan determine how you can use Figma Make.
- Figma AI image, text, and workflow tools can be found across Figma’s platform and are available to paid plans only. Your seat and plan determine which Figma AI tools you can use.
Credits reset automatically.
- Full, Collab, and Dev seats: Reset monthly
- View seats and Starter plan: Reset monthly, but also have a daily limit
If you hit your daily limit, you can resume use of your remaining credits the next day.
If you reach your monthly limit, your credits will refresh on your next monthly reset date.
You can see how many credits you have left and when your credits refresh from the AI balance option in the Figma menu.
No. AI credits expire monthly and do not roll over.
No. Credits are tied to a specific plan. Users with multiple plans will have separate credit allocations for each plan, and those credits don’t combine or stack.
Credits included with each seat are individual and cannot be shared among users.
Starting on March 11, 2026, admins will be able to purchase additional credits that go into a shared pool, which eligible users can draw from when they exceed their individual credits.
Full seat credit enforcement begins on March 18, 2026, after additional credit purchasing options are available.
If you're on a View, Collab, or Dev seat, you can request an upgrade to a Full seat, which comes with a higher allocation of included credits.
Starting March 11, 2026, admins will be able to buy additional AI credits that can be used by anyone on the team or organization (unless blocked by the admin).
Tracking and visibility
On paid plans, admins can track AI usage across their plan in the admin dashboard, including who is using AI features and how many credits they’ve consumed.
Because the AI determines what actions it needs to perform in order to complete the task, we can’t predict exactly how many credits it will use. Once a task has completed, you can see how many credits that prompt consumed by hovering over the AI credits icon above the prompt box.
Once a task has completed, you can see how many credits that prompt consumed by hovering over the AI credits icon above the prompt box.
Credit consumption
Credit consumption is calculated based on factors that can change over time, including but not limited to the underlying model, cost to Figma, work done to optimize the product for the best possible outputs, and new and evolving features and capabilities. Changes to those factors, such as a change to the underlying model to increase the quality of the output as AI technology evolves, can change credit consumption due to increased costs to perform the action requested.
Yes. When multiple models are available for an image editing or generation request, you can select the one you want to use. Some models consume more credits but produce higher-quality images, while others are optimized to use fewer credits. Choose the model that best balances cost and quality for your needs.
Figma Make has a default model setting configured and optimized for Claude Sonnet 4.5. Users can try out different models via the Experimental model mode in the Make file settings. Please note that experimental models may vary in quality and credit consumption for the same prompt, and experimental models may be added or removed at any time.
If you’re a member of one plan, you’ll consume credits from that plan when collaborating in a connected project. If you’re a guest in both plans, AI credits will come from the host plan. If the plan that you’re drawing credits from has purchased the AI credits add-on or enabled pay-as-you-go billing, you’ll be able to draw from those credits once you’ve used all the credits available with your seat.
Shared add-on credits
Additional AI credits will be available starting on March 11, 2026. For more information on pricing, see Purchase additional credits.
Yes. All users have access to additional purchased AI credits by default, but admins will be able to turn off access for individual users.
No. Shared credits reset at the end of each monthly usage period and do not roll over.
Pay-as-you-go billing
Yes. Subscription credits will be used first, and pay-as-you-go billing will apply up to your specified limit once the shared credit pool is fully depleted.
Yes. You can enable pay-as-you-go billing whether or not you’ve purchased the AI credits subscription.
Yes. When setting up pay-as-you-go billing, you’ll be prompted to designate a limit for spending.
Any additional usage will appear as a line item on your next invoice, billed at the pay-as-you-go rate which is currently $0.03 per credit.