# Figma MCP 15 Hacker News commenters recommended Figma MCP and 16 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for turning Figma designs into UI code that agents can often implement near-perfectly. Common caveats: whitelisting, tight daily access limits, and possible future usage charges. ## Why people recommend it - UI mostly done in one pass (5 comments): "We use MCP for Figma so most of the time it can get a UI 95% done, just a few tweaks needed by the operator." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791165)) "The outputs were really good. I achieved a 90% success rate, and I fixed the rest myself." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068188)) "The front-end is usually one-shot using frontier models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491955)) - Turns designs into front-end code (4 comments): "The Figma MCP that you can use to handover to your agent and simply say "implement this" is already pretty impressive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672179)) "Figma MCP translates Figma to a language an agent understands." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214494)) "Linked up to Figma MCP to implement front-end stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757457)) - Good results with coding agents (3 comments): "it actually did what I needed, so that's one thing I'm grateful for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564526)) "I've had good results recently using the Figma one just" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917369)) "where I just wrote Codex and Figma mcp works now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923900)) - Needs only small manual tweaks (2 comments): "We use MCP for Figma so most of the time it can get a UI 95% done, just a few tweaks needed by the operator." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791165)) "The outputs were really good. I achieved a 90% success rate, and I fixed the rest myself." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068188)) ## What people warn about - Restricted to whitelisted clients (4 comments): "How does restricting the MCP ""user agent"" to only claude and codex and whatever enable Figma to extract value?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923437)) "Even if you’re whitelisted you get only 6 accesses a day on a standard account" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923856)) "their oauth registration seems to use some kind of whitelist" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099290)) - Heavy token use and context bloat (3 comments): "the Figma MCP takes ~300k per medium sized section of the page and it would be cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904457)) "it sets tokens on fire and gives Claude the details as React+Tailwind" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923571)) "you can see Figma taking up large base prompt and tool listings" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042300)) - Missing data and limited write access (3 comments): "their MCP can do things you cannot do via API so you are forced to use theirs and cannot implement your own" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922979)) "it is restricted to create and read (as in CRUD), but not update nor delete" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564953)) "Figma offered the capabilities but not the data or context." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564651)) - Limited free access, future charges (2 comments): "the MCP is only free for a limited time and in the future they're going to start charging based on usage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924913)) "Even if you’re whitelisted you get only 6 accesses a day on a standard account" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923856)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Playwright MCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/playwright-mcp.md): 40 recommend - [Context7](https://hackerapproved.com/p/context7.md): 40 recommend - [Chrome DevTools MCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chrome-devtools-mcp.md): 36 recommend - [Serena MCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/serena.md): 18 recommend - [Context Mode](https://hackerapproved.com/p/context-mode.md): 16 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.figma.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Figma MCP", https://hackerapproved.com/p/figma-mcp/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).