DIVE vs Figma Make

Figma Make generates UIs inside Figma on metered credits; DIVE edits your live deployed page for free and hands the diff to any agent.

Figma Make has grown well past basic colours and typography, it now generates whole working UIs and can even reference local or GitHub repos. The catch is where it lives: inside Figma, on a paid seat, metered by Make credits that Figma bills separately from whatever LLM you already pay for. DIVE runs in your browser on the real deployed page, is MIT-licensed and free, and brings your own agent over MCP.

Pick DIVE when

You want to edit the actual deployed page, not regenerate it in a canvas.
You don't want a second metered bill (Make credits) on top of your LLM provider.
You want open source, no vendor lock-in, and a bring-your-own agent (Claude Code, Cursor, …).

Pick Figma Make when

Your team already lives in Figma and wants generation native to the canvas.
You're spinning up a fresh prototype from a prompt rather than refining a shipped page.

Feature	DIVE	Figma Make
Visual editing on a scriptable webpage	Yes, typography, colour, layout, spacing, motion and effects on localhost, staging or production pages the extension can script. Browser-protected pages are excluded.	Generates UIs in Figma's canvas/files (and from local / GitHub repos), not your live deployed page
MCP (Model Context Protocol) handoff to AI agents	Yes, Cloud, Local, and Self-hosted modes; eight common session tools, plus Local feedback rounds	No open MCP handoff, output stays in Figma or its export
Persistent change history (Changes tab)	Yes, searchable, filterable, exportable	Figma version history (inside the file)
Open source	Yes (MIT)	Proprietary, vendor-locked to Figma
Price	Free MIT-licensed extension	Paid Figma seat + metered Make credits, billed by Figma separately from your LLM provider
Markdown / JSON export of the diff	Yes	Code export within Figma's ecosystem
Best fit for	Designers, developers, QA, PMs, content, indie hackers, agencies, vibe coders	Teams who live in Figma and accept credit-metered generation
Works from your local / GitHub repo	Edits the live rendered page; the diff plus file:line hints go to your agent to apply in the repo with the model you already pay for	Yes, but generation is metered by Make credits and the workflow stays anchored in Figma

The honest take

Figma Make is genuinely powerful inside Figma's ecosystem, and the local / GitHub-repo support is real. But it's a paid, credit-metered, Figma-locked generator. DIVE is the opposite trade: free, open, bring-your-own-LLM, and pointed at the live page you've already shipped.