Figma MCP
Ranked 6 of 21 MCP servers by recommenders
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.
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.
31 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 16
- approval share
- 48%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
UI mostly done in one pass
“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.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks” “The outputs were really good. I achieved a 90% success rate, and I fixed the rest myself.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?” “The front-end is usually one-shot using frontier models.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't” - Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains”
- Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents”
Turns designs into front-end code
“The Figma MCP that you can use to handover to your agent and simply say "implement this" is already pretty impressive.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents” “Figma MCP translates Figma to a language an agent understands.”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI” “Linked up to Figma MCP to implement front-end stuff”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “CursorBench 3.1” - Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Good results with coding agents
“it actually did what I needed, so that's one thing I'm grateful for”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” “I've had good results recently using the Figma one just”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use” “where I just wrote Codex and Figma mcp works now”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” Needs only small manual tweaks
“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.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks” “The outputs were really good. I achieved a 90% success rate, and I fixed the rest myself.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Restricted to whitelisted clients
“How does restricting the MCP ""user agent"" to only claude and codex and whatever enable Figma to extract value?”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “Even if you’re whitelisted you get only 6 accesses a day on a standard account”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “their oauth registration seems to use some kind of whitelist”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “OpenCode 2.0” - Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi”
Heavy token use and context bloat
“the Figma MCP takes ~300k per medium sized section of the page and it would be cool”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Claude Opus 4.6” “it sets tokens on fire and gives Claude the details as React+Tailwind”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “you can see Figma taking up large base prompt and tool listings”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “Claude Code wire trace reveals 13,000 words base prompt” Missing data and limited write access
“their MCP can do things you cannot do via API so you are forced to use theirs and cannot implement your own”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “it is restricted to create and read (as in CRUD), but not update nor delete”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift” “Figma offered the capabilities but not the data or context.”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift” Limited free access, future charges
“the MCP is only free for a limited time and in the future they're going to start charging based on usage”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “Even if you’re whitelisted you get only 6 accesses a day on a standard account”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi”
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| Figma MCPThis page | 15 | 16 | 48% | 9 | — | — |
What people said
29 of the 33 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“their oauth registration seems to use some kind of whitelist”
“the MCP is only free for a limited time and in the future they're going to start charging based on usage”
“where I just wrote Codex and Figma mcp works now”
“This is naive. With extreme prevalence of vibe coding it's a matter of time before someone turns their local app into an mcp proxy.”
“Even if you’re whitelisted you get only 6 accesses a day on a standard account”
“it sets tokens on fire and gives Claude the details as React+Tailwind”
“they seem very concerned with the labs competing with them”
“How does restricting the MCP ""user agent"" to only claude and codex and whatever enable Figma to extract value?”
“Kind of strange to limit edit access only to the Remote MCP”
“their MCP can do things you cannot do via API so you are forced to use theirs and cannot implement your own”
“it actually did what I needed, so that's one thing I'm grateful for”
“Linked up to Figma MCP to implement front-end stuff”
“Figma is visual based, along with a complicated engine-specific serialization.”
“The front-end is usually one-shot using frontier models.”
“you can see Figma taking up large base prompt and tool listings”
“Why can't they just let us limit access for the official MCP easily?”
“found it very underwhelming”
“it is restricted to create and read (as in CRUD), but not update nor delete”
“Figma offered the capabilities but not the data or context.”
“we use Figma MCP to convert that to web pages”
“Figma MCP translates Figma to a language an agent understands.”
“The outputs were really good. I achieved a 90% success rate, and I fixed the rest myself.”
“I've had good results recently using the Figma one just”
“the Figma MCP takes ~300k per medium sized section of the page and it would be cool”
“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.”
“The Figma MCP that you can use to handover to your agent and simply say "implement this" is already pretty impressive.”
“figma mcp requires a pro license”
“it can implement the design near perfectly on first try”
“CC started up with Opus 4.5 and... Not off to a good start.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.