Bring your Figma files. Keep your components live.
Brilliant imports whole Figma files as real, editable layers, with their components, variables and libraries, onto a canvas your agent designs on with you. Keep Figma if you like: the plugin goes both ways.
Or open it in your browserOn this pageHow do I bring a Figma file into Brilliant?
- How do I bring a Figma file into Brilliant?
- What comes across from Figma?
- Do my team libraries come with me?
- What can my agent do with the imported file?
- What are Figma's limits for agents and free files today?
- What stays in Figma?
- Can I go back to Figma?
- Should I use the desktop app or the browser?
- Questions
How do I bring a Figma file into Brilliant?
Run the Brilliant plugin in the file and press one button. Nothing is created until you press Import.
- Install the plugin.Get Brilliant from the Figma Community and click Open in Figma. You do this once.
- Press Import to Brilliant.Open your file in Figma, run the plugin and press Import to Brilliant. With the desktop app running, the import opens there. In a browser, the plugin offers Import in the browser.
- Choose what comes.Pick the project, the pages and what happens to each team library the file uses.
- Open the project.Each Figma page is now a canvas, and a migration report lists what came across. Import the same file again and it updates the same project in place.
No plugin open? Copy in Figma and paste in Brilliant.
What comes across from Figma?
The design itself, not a picture of it. Layout, geometry, paint, type, components and variables stay editable.
Do my team libraries come with me?
Yes. The import shows one page for each team library your file uses. Stay connected to a library Brilliant already has, make it a library in your account, or create local copies.
A library you bring over stays a library: the next file that uses it can stay connected to the same one, so its components stay live components and not copies.
How libraries importWhat can my agent do with the imported file?
Design on it with you. Connect Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another MCP client with one toggle, and it creates and edits real layers on the canvas you have open, using the tokens that came from your Figma variables. Everything it makes lands with full undo.
Canvas work for your own agents is unlimited on every plan, including Free. Images an agent generates on Brilliant AI draw on your Brilliant AI usage.
Connect an agentWhat are Figma's limits for agents and free files today?
These are Figma's own published numbers, read on November 11, 2026. They change, so each one links to Figma's page.
| Limit | What Figma's page says |
|---|---|
| MCP server, Starter plan | Up to 20 tool calls a month (source 1). |
| MCP server, View or Collab seat | Up to 20 a month, on every plan (source 1). |
| MCP server, Full or Dev seat | Professional: up to 200 a day and 10 a minute. Organization: 200 a day and 15 a minute. Enterprise: 600 a day and 20 a minute (source 1). |
| Agents writing to the canvas | In beta on the Professional, Education, Organization and Enterprise plans, and free during the beta. Figma says it will eventually become a usage-based paid feature (source 2). Writing outside your drafts needs a Full seat (source 3). |
| REST API file reads (GET file, file nodes, images), View or Collab seat | Up to 20 a month, and Figma says the actual limit may be lower (source 4). |
| Starter plan files | One folder with 3 Figma Design and Figma Sites files in total, 3 pages per file, unlimited drafts and 30 days of version history (sources 5 and 6). |
| AI credits | Starter: 150 a day, up to 500 a month. Full seats: 3,000 a month on Professional, 3,500 on Organization, 4,250 on Enterprise. Dev, Collab and View seats: 500 a month, with the 150 a day limit on View seats too (source 7). |
| Variable modes | Not listed for Starter, up to 10 per collection on Professional, up to 20 on Organization, unlimited on Enterprise (source 8). |
| Seat prices | Professional on annual billing: Full $16 a month, Dev $12, Collab $3. Organization: Full $55. Enterprise: Full $90, both billed annually (source 9). |
- Figma MCP server: rate limits and access, read November 11, 2026
- Figma MCP server: write to canvas, read November 11, 2026
- Figma MCP server FAQs, read November 11, 2026
- Figma REST API: rate limits, read November 11, 2026
- Figma Starter plan overview, read November 11, 2026
- Figma: create and manage pages, read November 11, 2026
- How Figma AI credits work, read November 11, 2026
- Compare Figma plans and features, read November 11, 2026
- Figma pricing, read November 11, 2026
In Brilliant, canvas work for your own agents over MCP is unlimited on every plan, including Free, and the Free plan includes every design feature. An import through the plugin reads the file inside Figma, so it spends none of Figma's REST API file reads.
What stays in Figma?
Most of a design comes across. Prototype connections and transitions stay in Figma and the frames come across; in Brilliant you prototype with motion, or ask your agent to build a real prototype in code. A text property's knob stays in Figma and the text arrives editable on each copy. FigJam, Figma Slides and Dev Mode are outside the import, because the plugin runs in the Figma design editor.
In the browser, a page past about 25,000 nodes or 64 MB needs the desktop app: the browser names it and imports the rest.
Can I go back to Figma?
Yes. Send a design back and the plugin builds it as native Figma layers, with its components and design tokens as Figma components, variables and styles. You can keep working in both: import the same file again and it updates the project you already have.
Brilliant vs FigmaShould I use the desktop app or the browser?
With the Figma desktop app and Brilliant's desktop app on the same computer, the plugin finds Brilliant by itself, and the project is a folder of plain-text files on your disk. With Figma in a browser, the plugin offers Import in the browser: a tab opens on brilliant.design, and the project is a cloud project.
Either way the import is the same: the project, the pages and the libraries.
Questions
Will my Figma layers stay editable?
Yes. Frames, auto layout, vectors, text, effects, components and variables arrive as real elements you can select and change, not as a picture of the design.
Do my Figma variables come across?
Yes, with the plugin. Variables and shared styles become design system tokens your layers stay bound to, and a light and dark collection drives the theme toggle. An agent's import from a file link brings resolved values only.
Can I keep using Figma?
Yes. The plugin goes both ways. Import the same file again and it updates the same project in place, and Send to Figma builds a Brilliant design as native Figma layers.
Is importing from Figma free?
Yes. Importing needs no paid plan, and Brilliant's Free plan includes every design feature. In the browser the new project is a cloud project and you choose Public or Private; private projects are part of the paid plans.
Does an import use up my Figma API limits?
Not through the plugin, which reads the file inside Figma. An agent importing from a file link calls Figma's REST API as you, so Figma's per-seat limits apply to that route.
Your Figma file, on a canvas your agent designs on with you.