// 10 comparisons in Design
Adobe's help pages say XD is in maintenance mode and Adobe's community team says XD is no longer sold as a single application, so there is no current price to quote. Sketch is openly for sale: Standard at $12 per editor a month billed yearly, Professional at $24, Enterprise at $44, plus a $120 per seat Mac-only licence that includes a year of updates. Buy Sketch if you are on a Mac; keep XD only for legacy files.
Adobe's help pages state that XD is currently in maintenance mode, and Adobe's community answers say XD is no longer sold as a single application and continues to be supported for existing users. Figma, meanwhile, ships new products monthly and prices a Professional full seat at $16 a month billed annually with a free Starter tier. For anyone starting today the comparison is short: Figma, unless legacy XD files decide it for you.
Framer sells a hosted visual site builder: Free at $0 with a framer domain and 500 AI credits, Basic at $10 per month for personal sites with 1,000 AI credits, Pro at $30 for growing professional sites with 3,000 credits, extra editors at $20 per month and viewers free; Enterprise is custom. Vercel sells a deployment platform for code: Hobby at $0 for personal projects, Pro at $20 per month with a $20 usage credit, flat-rate CDN and spend management, and usage-based pricing for extras such as firewall requests from $0.50 per million and deep bot analysis at $1 per thousand checks. Framer is for teams that want to design and publish a site without a developer; Vercel is for teams that already have a codebase and want it deployed globally with functions, firewalls and environments.
Canva is priced per person per year: Free at $0 with 1.6M+ templates and 5GB storage, Pro at US$144 a year with 3.6M templates, 141M+ premium assets, 5 Brand Kits and 100GB, Business at US$250 a year per person with 100 Brand Kits, approvals, 500GB and Leonardo.Ai and Flourish access; Enterprise is custom with SSO and SCIM. Figma prices by seat type: Professional lists a full seat at $16 per month, a dev seat at $12 and a collab seat at $3, with Organization at $55/$25/$5 billed annually and Enterprise at $90/$35/$5. Canva is built for teams that assemble designs from templates and brand kits; Figma is built for product teams designing in files with components, libraries and Dev Mode handoff, and its seat model lets non-designers pay less than full editors.
Figma is where interfaces are designed: a free Starter plan with unlimited drafts, Professional at $16 per full seat per month alongside $12 dev and $3 collab seats, Organization at $55 and Enterprise at $90, both billed annually. Framer is where sites are published: Free with 500 AI credits, Basic at $10 per month, Pro at $30 per month on yearly billing, extra editors at $20 each and Enterprise by quote. Design the product in Figma, ship the marketing site in Framer, and only pick one if your work stops at one of those points.
Figma is a design tool with a canvas: a free Starter plan with unlimited drafts, Professional at $16 per full seat per month, Organization at $55 and Enterprise at $90, both billed annually, with cheaper dev and collab seats alongside. Miro is a whiteboard with apps: a free plan, Starter at $8 per member per month billed yearly, Business at $20 and Enterprise negotiated from 30 members. Choose Figma when the deliverable is an interface; choose Miro when the deliverable is a room full of thinking.
Canva sells speed: a free tier with 1.6M templates, Pro at US$144 a year for one person and Business at US$250 a year per person, with 141M premium assets and AI tools on the paid plans. Penpot sells ownership: an open-source design tool whose cloud Professional plan is $0 per user per month, with Unlimited at $7 per editor per month capped at $175 a month, Enterprise at $25 per member and a self-hosted option you run yourself. Choose Canva for marketing and social output at volume, choose Penpot for interface design work you want to host, export and govern yourself.
Penpot is open source and browser-based: cloud Professional at $0 per user, Unlimited at $7 per editor a month capped at $175, Enterprise at $25 per member, Private Server at $50,000 a year, and a free self-host install. Sketch is a native Mac app sold by subscription: Standard at $12 per editor a month billed yearly, Professional at $24, Enterprise at $44, or a $120 per seat perpetual licence including one year of updates. Pick Penpot when the team is mixed-platform or wants to host the tool; pick Sketch when the work happens on Macs and a one-time licence matters.
Figma prices three seat types: Starter free with unlimited drafts and 150 AI credits a day, Professional at $16 per full seat a month with dev seats at $12 and collab seats at $3, Organization at $55 full seat billed annually, Enterprise at $90. Penpot's cloud starts at $0 per user for a fully featured plan, charges $7 per editor a month with a $175 monthly cap, $25 per member for Enterprise, and $50,000 a year for a private server; self-hosting is free. Pick Figma when the team already works there and needs seat types; pick Penpot when the files should be open, portable or self-hosted.
Figma runs in the browser with a free Starter plan, then Professional at $16 per full seat per month billed annually (dev seats $12, collab seats $3), Organization at $55 and Enterprise at $90 — the top two tiers bill annually only. Sketch sells subscriptions per editor: Standard $12, Professional $24 and Enterprise $44 a month billed yearly, Private Cloud on quote — plus a $120 per-seat perpetual licence that keeps the Mac app with one year of updates. Pick Figma for cross-platform, browser-based teams; pick Sketch for Mac-native work with a buy-it-once option.