Descript is the text-based editor in this batch for a podcast and for clips. Checked on 2026-10-17, descript.com/pricing returned HTTP 200 to a plain fetch. Free is $0. The paid display is per person per month, and the note calls the Hobbyist line annual-ish. Hobbyist is $16 with $24 struck, and it says 1 person included. Creator is $24 with $35 struck, and it scales to a team of 3 billed separately. Business is $50 with $65 struck, and it scales to a team of 5 billed separately. A meta line says paid plans from $16 a month. API and MCP are marketed. A docs URL and an MCP server URL were not in the extract. Editor controls beyond the job phrase were not observed.

This directory files the tool under YouTube, TikTok, and Shorts because that is the platform set on long-to-short. A vendor list of export presets was not observed.

Who it's for

Descript fits a podcaster or an editor who wants to work from the text, cut clips from a longer recording, and read a per-person price before checkout. Hobbyist is the first paid row, at $16 per person per month on that display, with one person included. Creator is the row that scales to a team of three, each billed separately, at $24 per person. Business is the row that scales to a team of five, each billed separately, at $50 per person. Free is $0. What Free includes was not itemized, so a publishing plan should not be assumed from the zero.

It is a weak fit when the product should propose clips, score them, and post them, and the transcript is not the timeline. That login is OpusClip, on long-to-short. It is a weak fit when the bench is a browser credit plan with subtitle hours on the card. That login is VEED, on captions and covers. It is a weak fit when you already know the segment and want the desktop cut this directory uses as the default. That bench is CapCut. It is a weak fit when the paid bottleneck is a named voice and no text edit. That path is ElevenLabs on voice and publish. It is a weak fit when the output has to be a presenter who was not in the recording. That login is HeyGen, on AI avatar.

Use Descript when the unit of work is a text-based edit of a podcast or a clip, and when the per-person figures below are the ones you will match to a headcount. The struck prices are on the cards. They are not the current charge.

What it does

The copied job is text-based edit, podcast, and clips. The extract does not itemize the editor. Transcription hour caps, filler-word controls, export containers, a screen recorder, and a caption-style list were not observed. This page will not supply those rows from product memory. Text-based, in the job phrase, means the text is the thing you edit. It does not, by itself, name a model, a voice clone, or a dubbing language list.

Free is $0. A credit grant, a media-hour cap, a watermark rule, a resolution, and a person count on Free were not observed. The zero is a price. It is not a feature list. This page will not write limits into the free row to make it look like the paid cards.

Hobbyist includes 1 person. A price for a second person on Hobbyist was not observed. Creator scales to a team of 3 billed separately. Business scales to a team of 5 billed separately. Billed separately means the extract does not show a blended team price. Three Creator people are not a $24 bundle. Five Business people are not a $50 bundle. The per-person figures are $24 and $50. Whether a fourth Creator seat or a sixth Business seat can be added, and at what price, was not observed. The words in the extract stop at those team sizes.

The display is described as annual-ish on the Hobbyist line. A separate monthly column, with different current prices, was not copied. The meta says paid plans from $16 a month, which matches the Hobbyist current figure and does not match the struck $24. This page does not relabel the struck prices as the monthly-billed SKUs. The extract says struck. It does not say "monthly list." Exact annual invoice totals were not observed. Twelve times $16 is $192. Twelve times $24 is $288. Twelve times $50 is $600. Those products are arithmetic on the per-month display. They are not Descript yearly stickers.

API and MCP are marketed. The extract does not say which plan includes them. Assigning both to Business only, or to every plan including Free, would add a gate the note did not print. No docs URL was copied, so a route list, an auth scheme, and a rate limit are not observed.

A commercial-license sentence was not observed. A paid-media buy, or a podcast that uses someone else's recording, needs the rights from the source and the license from the product. A text-based editor is not that license.

Pricing tiers

Verified on 2026-10-17 at descript.com/pricing. The fetch was HTTP 200. The paid rows are per person per month. Hobbyist's display is the one the note calls annual-ish. Struck amounts are shown so they are not mistaken for the charge.

Plan	Current price	Struck price	Who the card counted
Free	$0	not observed	Limits and person count not observed.
Hobbyist	$16 per person/mo	$24	1 person included. Display described as annual-ish.
Creator	$24 per person/mo	$35	Scales to a team of 3, billed separately.
Business	$50 per person/mo	$65	Team of 5, billed separately.

The meta line, paid plans from $16 a month, matches Hobbyist's current price. It does not match Hobbyist's struck price. The paid floor in the meta and the first paid card agree. A plan below Hobbyist other than Free was not observed. A plan above Business was not observed.

Dollar gaps between struck and current prices are $8 on Hobbyist, $11 on Creator, and $15 on Business. Those gaps are subtraction. The extract did not print a save percent, so this page does not stamp a percent-off label on $16, $24, or $50. A reader who treats every struck price as a monthly plan, and every current price as a yearly equivalent, is adding a label the cards did not use. Quote the current figure as the figure, the struck figure as struck, and the period as the per-person monthly display the note called annual-ish.

Headcount arithmetic is not a bundle sticker. One Hobbyist person is the included case, at $16 on this display. Three Creator people, billed separately at $24, are three times $24, which is $72 a month on the display. Five Business people, billed separately at $50, are five times $50, which is $250 a month on the display. The extract did not print $72 or $250. It printed the per-person prices and the team sizes. A shared pool, a discounted extra seat, and an admin seat at a different rate were not observed.

Credit grants, media minutes, and transcription hours were not observed on every row, including Free. A burn rate for a clip was not observed. Rollover and top-up packs were not observed.

Pros

Free has a dollar amount, $0, so the bottom of the ladder is not a blank.
Hobbyist, Creator, and Business each print a current per-person price and a struck price, so the sale is visible.
The meta floor, paid plans from $16 a month, matches the Hobbyist current price rather than contradicting it.
Creator and Business state a team size and say the people are billed separately, which blocks a false bundle reading of $24 or $50.
API and MCP are marketed, which is enough to start an agent review, while this page still refuses to store a URL it did not copy.

Cons

The display is annual-ish, and exact yearly invoice totals were not observed. Twelve times the per-person figure is arithmetic, not a sticker.
Struck prices are not labeled as a monthly column. Calling $24, $35, and $65 the monthly list would add a word the extract did not print.
Free limits were not itemized. A publishing workflow cannot be planned from $0 alone.
No credit, minute, or transcription grant was copied. Cost per clip cannot be computed.
Team caps are "scale to" sizes. A price past 3 people on Creator, or past 5 on Business, was not observed. Hobbyist's second person was not observed.
API and MCP are marketed with no docs URL, no server URL, and no plan gate. An agent cannot authenticate against a host this check did not find.
Editor controls inside the text-based job were not observed. A feature comparison that needs those controls has to wait for a later extract.

Usage flow

Read the per-person display before you multiply by headcount. Free is $0, and its limits were not observed. Hobbyist is $16 per person per month, with $24 struck, and 1 person included. Creator is $24, with $35 struck, for a team of up to 3 billed separately. Business is $50, with $65 struck, for a team of up to 5 billed separately. The meta says paid plans from $16 a month. Exact yearly totals were not observed.
Do not turn three Creator seats into a $24 team plan. Billed separately means each person carries the per-person price. Three times $24 is $72 on the display, and five times $50 is $250. Those products were not printed as bundle stickers. A seat past the stated team size was not observed.
Cut clips from a recording you have the right to edit, on long-to-short. If the product should propose the clips and post them, compare OpusClip. If the file still needs a caption burn and a cover, finish on captions and covers in CapCut or VEED. If the voice has to be a named speaker, use ElevenLabs.

Workflow usage

On long-to-short, Descript is the text-based edit for a podcast or a long recording you will turn into clips. The extract names that job and does not name an automatic virality score, an auto-post network, or a processing-minute pool. OpusClip is the filed clipper that starts from the long file and can post on its paid card. CapCut remains the hand bench when the segment is already chosen and the reframe should happen on the default timeline. Descript's meter, on this page, is the per-person price and the team size. Because a minute grant was not observed, an hour of source cannot be turned into Hobbyist versus Creator from this entry alone. Count the work in the product after the first edit, then match the headcount to 1 person, a team of 3, or a team of 5.

On captions and covers, a caption spec, a safe zone, and a cover frame on Descript were not observed. When the text edit is done and the type still fails, move the file to CapCut or to VEED. VEED's yearly view printed subtitle hours and a credit pool. Those lines are VEED's. They do not describe Descript.

On voice and publish, Descript is a possible edit of a podcast file, not the voice generator. The voice on that workflow is ElevenLabs. A Descript voice catalog, a clone cap, and a commercial-license line were not observed. Buy the voice plan when the track has to be a named speaker. Keep Descript on the text edit if that is the tool you opened. AI avatar is the neighbor when the clip needs a presenter who was not in the recording. HeyGen is that presenter. A Descript avatar library was not observed.

API and MCP marketing does not add a dollar to the workflow sum. No API price was copied.

Underlying models

No video model and no speech model was named on the 2026-10-17 pricing extract. Text-based edit, podcast, and clips are job phrases. They are not a model card. This page does not list Descript as a host for a named generator. When a cutaway has to cite a model, generate that shot in a tool that prints the model, then bring the file back. When the speaker has to be a named voice, use ElevenLabs and keep Descript on the edit. Those hops spend a different meter. They do not draw on a Descript grant, because no Descript media grant was observed.

API and MCP, as marketed here, are access claims. They are not model names. Until a first-party page names an engine, the underlying model stays not observed.

API and MCP

has_api is true because API access is marketed. mcp.official is false. MCP is marketed, and no official MCP server URL was in the extract, so there is no mcp.url and no api_url. A marketing name is not an address a client can add. The 2026-10-17 pricing extract did not print a base URL, an auth scheme, a docs URL, or a rate limit. Which plan may create a key, and whether a call is included in the per-person price or billed again, were not observed. Guessing a path on descript.com would invent an endpoint. Copy a URL only from a developer page that prints one.

For a printed creator endpoint, use HeyGen or ElevenLabs. OpusClip markets a video API and a Video MCP on its own page, still without a host string stored from its pricing extract. VEED markets Fabric and Video APIs separately, still without a unit price. CapCut had no public creator API on its check. A Descript key does not authenticate those other products.

Similar tools

OpusClip is the long-to-short clipper that proposes captioned shorts and can post them. Descript is the text-based edit of a podcast or a clip, priced per person at $16, $24, and $50 on the current display. Use OpusClip when the product should find the clips. Use Descript when you will edit from the text.
CapCut is the desktop timeline and the default caption pass on captions and covers. It fits when the segment is already chosen. Descript fits when the transcript is the editing surface.
VEED is the browser editor with a yearly view at $125 and $234 per user, subtitle lines, and AI credits. Those credits are not Descript person-prices. The two editors meet after a file exists and split on the meter.
ElevenLabs supplies a voice this extract did not name, on voice and publish. HeyGen supplies a presenter, on AI avatar. Viggle is motion transfer, and Hedra is character lip-sync. Neither character ladder is a Descript plan.

FAQ

Is Hobbyist $16 or $24?

The current figure is $16 per person per month. $24 is struck. The display is described as annual-ish, and the meta says paid plans from $16 a month. This page does not relabel $24 as the monthly-billed price. An exact yearly invoice was not observed. Twelve times $16 is $192, and that product is arithmetic, not a Descript sticker. The same pattern holds on the other paid rows: Creator is $24 with $35 struck, and Business is $50 with $65 struck.

What is included in the free plan?

The price is $0. Limits were not itemized. A media-hour cap, a watermark rule, a resolution, a credit grant, and a person count on Free were not observed on 2026-10-17. Hobbyist is the first card that counts people: 1 person included, at $16 with $24 struck.

Does Creator include three people for $24?

No. Creator is $24 per person per month, and the card says it scales to a team of 3 billed separately. Three people are three bills at the per-person price. Three times $24 is $72 on the display, and $72 was not printed as a bundle. Business is $50 per person, for a team of 5 billed separately. Five times $50 is $250, which is the same kind of arithmetic, not a sticker. A seat past those sizes was not observed. Hobbyist says 1 person included, and a second Hobbyist seat price was not observed.

Does Descript have an API and an official MCP server?

API and MCP are both marketed, so has_api is true and the MCP claim is real as marketing. No docs URL and no server URL were in the pricing extract, so mcp.official is false and this entry stores neither api_url nor mcp.url. Which plan includes the keys was not observed. Add an endpoint only after the vendor prints the URL.

Are these prices monthly or yearly?

They are printed per person per month, on a display the note calls annual-ish for the Hobbyist line. The meta repeats the paid floor as from $16 a month. Exact annual totals were not observed, and a second column of monthly-billed stickers, different from these figures, was not observed. The struck amounts are $24, $35, and $65. They are not, in the extract, labeled as the monthly list. Pay the figure checkout shows for the term you select.