How much does Descript cost?
Paid plans start at
$16/mo billed yearly
or $24/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from descript.com/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Free plan with 60 minutes (1 hr) of media per month and 100 one-time AI credits, 720p export; no credit card required
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started for free, Get started, Talk to sales, Book a demo
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, free plan without credit card "There's a free plan, no credit card required."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise plan requires contacting sales "Talk to sales"
- Support
- Priority support with SLA on Business "Priority support (with SLA)"
What Descript does
Descript transcribes uploaded or recorded media in 25 languages and lets users cut and rearrange video by editing the transcript. It also offers an AI co-editor (Underlord), remote recording, captions, translation and dubbing, with free, paid and enterprise plans.
- Good for
- Creators, podcasters and business teams (marketing, sales, support, learning) who want to edit video and audio through a transcript.
- Channels
- Web app, Mac app, Windows app
- Main product
- Descript, a text-based AI video and audio editor
- Also includes
- Automatic transcription in 25 languages, Speaker detection and labeling, Multitrack transcription, Transcription glossary, Underlord AI co-editor, Captions and subtitles
- Connects to
- Zoom recordings (import), AI assistants (MCP), Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Audition, Pro Tools & Logic, Samplitude & Reaper
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Speaker identification
Automatically identify and label multiple speakers in a recording.
- Multiple languages supported
Automatically transcribe your recordings into text in 25 languages
- Live meeting transcriptionNot stated
- AI summaries and action itemsNot stated
- Human proofreading optionNot stated
- API access
API + MCPEdit video through code, or from inside your AI assistant
- Zoom, Teams, Meet integrationsNot stated
- SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance
We are SOC 2 Type II compliant.
- Export and subtitle formats
Timeline export
- Custom vocabulary
Create a custom dictionary of words or phrases you regularly use to improve the accuracy of transcription.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | yes | "Personalize and improve the Descript Service and for research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models;"privacy |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC 2 Type II certified"home |
| GDPR | compliant | "GDPR compliant"home |
| CCPA | follows CCPA | "We're SOC 2 Type II compliant and follow its standards and guidelines, as well as GDPR, CCPA, and the Privacy by Design framework."security |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | SAML SSO and SCIM on Enterprise | "SAML SSO and SCIM"home |
| Trust center | https://descript.securitypal.com/ | "Take a look at our trust report, search for the requirements you need, and request further details."security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 60 minutes | – | "Get started on your creative journey with text-based editing and give our AI tools a spin." |
| Hobbyistper person / month | $24 | $16per month | 10 media hours | – | "you create monthlyannual saving up to 35% over monthly plan hobbyist $16 $24 per person / " "you create monthlyannual saving up to 35% over monthly plan hobbyist $16 $24 per person / " |
| Creatorper person / month | $35 | $24per month | 30 media hours | – | "with custom voice clones and video regenerate most popular creator $24 $35 per person / mo" "with custom voice clones and video regenerate most popular creator $24 $35 per person / mo" |
| Businessper person / month | $65 | $50per month | 40 media hours | – | "brary access to top ups for more media hours and ai credits business $50 $65 per person / " "brary access to top ups for more media hours and ai credits business $50 $65 per person / " |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "For teams with more video to make than editors to make it" |
Free plan: Free plan with 60 minutes (1 hr) of media per month and 100 one-time AI credits, 720p export; no credit card required
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Subscriptions are charged automatically to the card on file per billing cycle "subscriptions are processed automatically to the credit card you provide, according to your selected billing cycle"
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Descript, Inc.
- Online since
- Aug 19, 1999 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 11 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 13, 2026, from their changelog
- Funding
- $100M raised in total, primarily from OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital "Descript has raised a total of $100M, primarily from the OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital."
- Customers
- "More than 6 million creators & teams" their claim
- Backing
- "$100M raised, backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, a16z, Redpoint, Spark Capital" their words
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Questions
Is Descript free?
Yes. Free plan with 60 minutes (1 hr) of media per month and 100 one-time AI credits, 720p export; no credit card required Paid plans start at $24/month.
How much does Descript cost?
Paid plans start at $16 per month billed yearly, or $24 billed monthly.
Does Descript train AI on your data?
Yes, according to Descript: "Personalize and improve the Descript Service and for research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models"