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Figma AI (Make / First Draft) vs v0 by Vercel
A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.
Design-first then code, or generate the UI directly: Figma's AI advances work inside the design system, v0 emits production React and skips the design file entirely. Pick Figma AI when iteration and testing come before commitment, First Draft screens on your own components, Make prototypes clickable for user feedback, everything staying editable design truth. Pick v0 when the deliverable is real front-end code, components on Tailwind and shadcn/ui an engineering team would accept, refined prompt by prompt and flowed into the repo through branches and pull requests. Both tools point at each other for the other half, since Figma's own guidance sends engineering-ready output to v0 and v0's sends design-space iteration back to Make, which makes this one of the few pairs where the vendors agree on the split.
Side by side
- Summary
Figma's AI turns the design tool into a generator: First Draft produces editable screens from a prompt on your own design system, Make converts designs and descriptions into interactive prototypes and working front-end code, and smaller assists handle content replacement, image cleanup and smart search across files.
- Best for
- Editable first-draft screens generated on your design system
- Prompts to interactive prototypes without leaving Figma
- Design-to-code handoff as an engineering starting point
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Designs and prompts stay within Figma's platform terms, with admin controls on AI features for enterprise plans. Make output is a prototype starting point, not production code, so review before anything ships.
- Summary
v0 is Vercel's prompt-to-app generator.
- Best for
- Production-quality React and Tailwind components from a prompt
- Landing pages and dashboards shipped the same day
- Figma designs turned into working front-end code
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Generated code is yours to use, and GitHub export is currently one-way, which matters if you plan to bounce between tools. Prompts and generations sit under Vercel's platform terms.
By area
Where each one pulls ahead, area by area.
| Area | Pick Figma AI (Make / First Draft) when | Pick v0 by Vercel when |
|---|---|---|
| Founders & entrepreneurs | Figma Make produces prototypes for learning | the artefact should be the product's real code |
| Product management | Make suits designers and PMs working visually | engineering wants production React components out the other end |
| Design, UI & prototyping | Make's access to real design metadata keeps prototypes faithful to your designs | the deliverable is production React components |
Common questions
Which artefact do you want to own?
The deciding question. Figma yields files, tokens and components a design team compounds over years, with generated code as reference material for engineering. v0 yields the components themselves, previewed live and deployable to Vercel in a click, at their best inside React and Tailwind stacks and blunter outside them. Design organisations own files; product teams shipping React own code.
How do fidelity and freedom trade here?
Make reads your actual design metadata, so prototypes come out looking like your product rather than a generic reinterpretation, the category's best answer when design-system fidelity is the requirement. v0 generates from intent, idiomatic and polished but on its own stack conventions, which is freedom when no design system exists and friction when a strict one does.
What review does each output still need?
The same discipline at different gates. Make's prototypes read as nearly-done software to stakeholders, so label them, and its generated code is a starting point for engineering rather than a shippable front end. v0's components deserve code review and accessibility checks before customers meet them, however production-shaped they look; generated does not mean audited on either path.
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Tool facts last checked July 2026