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45/month for an enterprise seems like nothing. How many editors could a company have? If every editor costs ~50k (I'm making this up, I suspect it's more), 540 annual is a blip.

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It's great to collaborate, but unless you're actively with a client/team demoing something, it's more of a distraction. For the money you'd spend on one month of Figma, you can get something like Affinity Designer and pocket the $495. And you'd get a native file to do with as you choose... in perpetuity.

The point is that a company is not going to care about pocketing 495 dollars, or even twice that, when they're spending 50k on a designer. They wouldn't even think twice.

If you're not with a team you don't need the enterprise license and can use everything for free.

Compare $45/month to $33/Month (Photoshop). Edited the price & feature info.

Photoshop has 20+ years of development behind it, tons of feature across different domains (UI, photography, animation to print production), cutting edge Visual Computing features.., plus 1TB cloud storage. https://www.adobe.com/plans-fragments/modals/business/modals...

The key word is $45/month for the functionality it provides.

[Disclaimer - NOT A fan of Adobe and trying to get away from the shackles of it.]

So you're comparing enterprise license of Figma with individual license for Photoshop? That's a tad unfair seeing as individual Figma license is free.

Thanks. Updated the enterprise price info for Photoshop ($33 vs for personal $25)

Figma and Photoshop are totally different in functionality. Comparing their prices is like comparing a ham sandwich to a 9 volt battery.

Cost of setting up and running (at profit) a Ham sandwich kitchen vs a 9v battery factory we are talking about.

It makes no sense to compare the prices without also comparing how their wildly different feature set applies to your needs.

Adobe's Figma equivalent is called "XD", as in Adobe XD. Photoshop isn't designed for interactive prototyping. Of course it's still used to develop high fidelity website mockups.

12 dollars a month is literally nothing to a company that is spending 10s or 100s of thousands on an editor. No one should think twice about that pricing.

I pay for stuff like this all the time at my relatively small (8 people) company. It is a blip on our burn chart, it all gets rolled up into a "doesn't matter" column because the cost of each license per engineer is less than a percent of their salary.

Pricing should be decided by not whether one can pay but if it's worth it.

I'm paying Jetbrains full product package for just < $15/mo. Surely Figma isn't providing 3 times more productivity than all of their tools combined.

There's a difference between I can pay and I don't want to pay.

You're talking about a single user license. At a company it's a no brainer, the difference between 15 and 50 dollars is 0, it is de-facto "worth it".

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