Backlight
Collaborative design system platform for front-end development teams
- Vendor
- DIV-RIOTS SAS
- Also known as
- backlight
Available worldwide
What is Backlight?
A code-centric platform for designing, collaborating on, and publishing design systems with integrated visual review and Figma plugin support.
Backlight pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free starter plan. Pro from $149/mo (billed annually) or $186/mo (monthly). Enterprise custom pricing.
Starter
Free- Unlimited users
- Up to 2 design systems
- Online IDE and Command-line
- Instant share
- GitHub & GitLab integrations
- Visual review of Pull Requests
- 100 Visual regression reports
- Publish on scope @backlight-dev
- Markdown, MDJS, MDX2, MDVue, MDsveX and Nunjucks support
- Real-time editing
- Auto-versioning
- Community support on Discord
Pro
- All Starter features
- Up to 5 design systems
- 1000 Visual regression reports
- Publish to any registry
- Publish to any scope
- Publish private packages
- Export documentation static site
- Email support
Enterprise
Contact sales- All Pro features
- Unlimited design systems
- Unlimited Visual regression reports
- Email support with SLA
- story.to.design (automatically generate and maintain Figma UI Kits)
What Backlight does
The capabilities that matter for design systems, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Managed cloud saas
- Design token variable translation engine figma to code
- ✓
- Interactive storybook react component embedding
- -
- Continuous integration ci github gitlab token sync
- -
- Visual regression testing and component history
- ✓
- Markdown and mdx custom documentation authoring
- ✓
- Brand asset management hub for logos and fonts
- -
- Version control and releaseing for brand guidelines
- -
- W3c design token format specification support
- ✓
- Multi tenant theme support for white labeling
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- Mit or apache permissive oss license
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- GitHub⇄•
- GitLab⇄•
- Figma→•
Backlight alternatives
Other design systems we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ZeroheightA centralized platform for managing and publishing design systems so teams and AI agents can reference consistent design standardslow · 37%
- SpecifyA collaborative platform for centralizing and automating the distribution of design tokens and assets across your design and development workflowslow · 44%
- Tokens StudioPlatform for automating design token management and keeping design systems synchronized across tools and codelow · 37%
- Chromaticlow · 6%
- TheoCentralize and transform design tokens into platform-specific code across web and native applicationslow · 29%
- Storybooklow · 8%
Compare Backlight
Side by side against other design systems, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Backlight, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.04 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Architecture model: managed_cloud_saas · W3c design token format specification support: Yes · Markdown and mdx custom documentation authoring: Yes · Visual regression testing and component history: Yes · Design token variable translation engine figma to code: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: FR · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |