What is Descript?
Online AI-powered video and podcast editor combining text-based editing, multitrack audio, automatic transcription, and AI-assisted features for creators and content teams.
Descript 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 plan available. Paid plans from $16/month per seat (billed annually). Save up to 35% with annual billing.
Free
FreeText-based editing and AI tools
- features
- Text-based editing, AI tools, 25-language transcription
- media_minutes_per_month
- 60
- Text-based video editing
- AI tools
- Multi-language transcription (25 languages)
- Unlimited projects
Hobbyist
Elevate your projects, watermark-free
- export_quality
- 1080p
- ai_credits_per_month
- 400
- media_hours_per_month
- 10
- 1 person included
- 10 media hours/month
- 400 AI credits/month
- 1080p export watermark-free
- Underlord AI co-editor
- Studio Sound, Remove Filler Words, Create Clips
- AI Speech with custom voice clones
- Video regenerate
Creator
Unlock advanced AI-powered creativity
- export_quality
- 4K
- ai_credits_per_month
- 800
- media_hours_per_month
- 30
- Scale to team of 3 (billed separately)
- 30 media hours/month
- 800 AI credits/month
- 4K export watermark-free
- Underlord AI co-editor with 20+ AI tools
- Generate video with latest AI models
- Unlimited royalty-free stock media
- Media hours and AI credits top-ups
Business
Empower collaboration on your team
- ai_credits_per_month
- 1500
- media_hours_per_month
- 40
- translation_languages
- 30+
- Scale to team of 5 (billed separately)
- 40 media hours/month
- 1500 AI credits/month
- Team-wide Brand Studio access
- Translate and dub in 30+ languages with proofread
- Custom avatars from photo or text
- Priority support with SLA
- Media hours and AI credits top-ups
Enterprise
Contact salesFor teams with more video to make than editors to make it
- Custom AI credits and media hours
- Brand Studio with shared templates and guardrails
- AI and data controls (opt-out of training, custom retention)
- SOC 2 Type II compliance
- SSO, SCIM, audit logs
- Custom MSA and legal terms
- Flexible billing
- Dedicated CSM and priority support
What Descript does
The capabilities that matter for video editing software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Professional NLE (multi-track finishing)
- ✗
- Colour grading
- -
- Multicam editing
- ✓
- 4K/8K + HDR support
- ✓
- Codec breadth (ProRes / HEVC / AV1 / RAW)
- -
- GPU acceleration
- -
- AI features (captions / text-to-video / voice)
- ✓
- Screen recording built-in
- ✓
- Platform breadth (Win / macOS / Linux / iOS / Android / Web)
- -
- Cloud collaboration / team review
- ✓
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Free / open-source available
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Descript alternatives
Other video editing software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- RunwayA new frontier for video generationmedium · 61%
- VEEDAI Video Creation Platform – Idea to Video Workflowmedium · 61%
- KdenliveFree and Open Source Video Editorlow · 27%
- Adobe Premiere ProProfessional video editing softwarelow · 2%
- HeyGenCreate Studio-Quality AI Videos 10x Fasterlow · 35%
- Final Cut ProReel intelligence.low · 28%
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 Descript, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 32.00 | 2596.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 45 | 12.00 | 540.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 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 | {"hdr_4k8k":true,"multicam":true,"ai_features":true,"free_or_oss":true,"pricing_model":"freemium","professional_nle":false,"screen_recording":true,"cloud_collaboration":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |