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 FAQ
Common questions about Backlight, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Backlight?
A code-centric platform for designing, collaborating on, and publishing design systems with integrated visual review and Figma plugin support. It is indexed under Design Systems.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
Is Backlight free?
Backlight offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $149 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
What platforms does Backlight support?
Backlight supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
Can Backlight be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Backlight, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
What does Backlight integrate with?
We have confirmed 3 integrations for Backlight, including GitHub, GitLab and Figma. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
What security certifications does Backlight have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Backlight. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Backlight not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Backlight available?
Backlight is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in France.
Source: https://backlight.dev/pricing
Backlight alternatives
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- SpecifyAutomatically collect, store, and distribute design tokens and brand assets across your design systemmedium · 63%
- Chromatichigh · 75%
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- TheoTransform and format design tokens for any platformlow · 48%
Compare Backlight
Side by side against other design systems, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 | 0.04 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.05 | 0.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
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% |
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