Figma vs StepFun

Figma — Application · Public · $14.4B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  StepFun — Foundation Models · Private · $10B valuation · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Figma Make and 阶跃AI (StepFun AI) do comparable work on code generation and image generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant and create images and video; similar scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 6 capabilities — Shares code generation, image generation and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldFigmaStepFun
Size$14.4B mkt cap$10B valuation different basis
Employees1,886—
Founded20122023 11 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerApplicationAI agent, API service, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Code generationImage generationText generation

Not verified for StepFun · 3

Image editingPresentation generationVideo generation

Recorded for Figma. StepFun’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Figma · 9

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingModel inferenceKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText to speechVoice agentSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for StepFun. Figma’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Figma

Application

FigmaApplication

Collaborative interface-design tool where teams draw, prototype and hand off in the browser.

Figma BuzzApplication

On-brand marketing-asset production tool where AI generation (OpenAI gpt-image-1, Gemini) and AI editing (background removal, upscaling, text rewrite/translate) are core mechanisms for producing social assets, ads and one-pagers from brand templates.

Figma MakeApplication

Turns a written prompt or an existing frame into a working prototype with its code.

Figma WeaveApplication

Node-based AI creative platform (formerly Weavy) integrating multiple image/video models (Google, OpenAI, Runway, Stable Diffusion, Recraft and others) for scalable creative workflows.

StepFun

Application

阶跃AI (StepFun AI)Application

StepFun's consumer AI assistant, available on the web and as Windows and macOS desktop clients, offering web search, knowledge-base Q&A, image creation, tool use and speech recognition.

No counterpart

StepFun sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Figma yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Step PlanAPI service

A subscription service from the StepFun Open Platform that supplies a monthly Credit pool for calling StepFun's flagship models from third-party coding tools and agent clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Cline and Zed.

AI agent

StepClawAI agent

A one-click cloud-deployed AI agent offered inside the 阶跃AI assistant that interprets instructions and carries out tasks autonomously.

Developer tool

阶跃星辰 AI Studio (StepFun AI Studio)Developer tool

A browser-based workspace for building, testing and deploying AI applications on StepFun's models, with a playground, a showcase library of example apps and a personal asset library.

Model API

StepFun Open PlatformModel API

API access to StepFun's text, vision, speech and image models, with credit packages and enterprise plans.

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