Descript

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Video (primary)Productivityactivetarget: prosumer

Self-description (latest meta description): “Descript pricing starts free, with paid plans from $16/month. Compare plans for podcasting, video, and teams, then start creating in minutes.”

Entry (public availability)

2019 (year)

source

Exit / acquisition

none recorded

Observation window

2022-01-17 → 2026-09-06

59 snapshots · 57 pricing-page

Latest positioning (lexicon)

target terms: team · enterprise terms 4.46/1k words · vertical: support (0.692)

Current plans (latest pricing snapshot)

Snapshot #364 captured 2026-09-06 via live. Raw price language is preserved; the normalized column is filled only when the arithmetic is defensible.

Plan (as printed)	Raw price language	Amount	Unit	Billing	Normalized USD/mo	Note	Included usage (raw)	Confidence	Review
Creator pro	$24 $35 per person / month Scale to a team of 3 (billed separately) Unlock advanced AI-powere	24 USD	seat	—	—	not normalized: seat	—	conf 0.45	unreviewed
Business business	$50 $65 per person / month Scale to a team of 5 (billed separately) Empower collaboration on	50 USD	seat	—	—	not normalized: seat	—	conf 0.45	unreviewed
Enterprise enterprise	Custom	—	custom	—	—	custom/contact-sales pricing	—	conf 0.70	verified
Free free	$0	0 USD	free	—	$0	free tier	60 minutes; 600 minutes; 1800 minutes; 2400 minutes	conf 0.85	verified
Hobbyist named:hobbyist	$16 $24 per person / month	16 USD	seat	monthly	$16	as printed: USD per month, but the card title is not a standard tier name; excluded from price statistics until manually verified	—	conf 0.50	unreviewed

Price history

Normalized monthly USD per plan across pricing snapshots (only plans that could be normalized). Gaps are unobserved quarters, not zero prices.

Event	Plan	Occurred between	Old	New	Confidence
Unit Change	pro	2022-11-04 → 2022-12-05	$12 15 / editor / month Screen recording members are free! Everything in Free, plus... 10hrs	$12 $15 per user / month $144 billed annually Subscribe now	conf 0.45
Plan Removed	starter	2022-11-04 → 2022-12-05	Free	—	conf 0.85
Plan Added	named:live-onboarding-training	2024-01-08 → 2024-02-04	—	nscription limit at $2 per hour here. If you need a set amount of hours added to a	conf 0.50
Plan Removed	named:live-onboarding-training	2024-02-04 → 2024-03-04	nscription limit at $2 per hour here. If you need a set amount of hours added to a	—	conf 0.50
Plan Added	business	2024-05-15 → 2024-06-12	—	$40 $50 per person / month , billed annually Empower collaboration on your team Get started 4	conf 0.45
Plan Added	named:	2024-06-12 → 2024-07-07	—	nscription limit at $2 per hour here. If you need a set amount of hours added to a	conf 0.50
Plan Removed	named:	2024-07-07 → 2024-08-03	nscription limit at $2 per hour here. If you need a set amount of hours added to a	—	conf 0.50
Price Increase	pro	2024-07-07 → 2024-08-03	$12 $15 per person / month , billed annually Elevate your projects, watermark-free Get starte	$24 $35 per person / month , billed annually Unlock advanced AI-powered creativity Get starte	conf 0.45
Plan Added	named:hobbyist	2024-07-07 → 2024-08-03	—	$12 $19 per person / month	conf 0.50
Price Increase	business	2025-04-05 → 2025-05-29	$40 $50 per person / month. Unlimited people Empower collaboration on your team Get started 4	$50 $65 per person / month For larger teams Empower collaboration on your team Get started 40	conf 0.45
Price Increase	named:hobbyist	2025-04-05 → 2025-05-29	$12 $24 per person / month. 1 person included	$16 $24 per person / month	conf 0.50

Feature claims over time

Presence of each lexicon feature on the pricing page at each snapshot (1 = pattern matched). Flicker (present → absent → present) usually signals page A/B variants or extraction noise and is flagged in events.

feature	2022-01	2022-02	2022-03	2022-04	2022-05	2022-06	2022-07	2022-08	2022-09	2022-10	2022-11	2022-12	2023-01	2023-02	2023-03	2023-04	2023-05	2023-06	2023-07	2023-08	2023-09	2023-10	2023-11	2024-01	2024-02	2024-03	2024-04	2024-05	2024-06	2024-07	2024-08	2024-09	2024-10	2024-11	2024-12	2025-01	2025-02	2025-03	2025-04	2025-05	2025-06	2025-07	2025-08	2025-09	2025-10	2025-11	2025-12	2026-01	2026-02	2026-03	2026-04	2026-05	2026-06	2026-07	2026-08	2026-09	2026-09
Admin console
Audit logs																																																							●	●	●
Canvas / artifacts
Compliance certifications	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Credit-based usage	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Dedicated support / SLA																													●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Image generation																													●	●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Image input / vision																													●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Knowledge retrieval (RAG)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
MCP support																																																					●	●	●	●	●
No-training / zero data retention																																																							●	●	●
Priority access / faster responses																													●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Projects / shared workspaces	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
SCIM provisioning																																											●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
SSO / SAML	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Third-party integrations	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●					●		●	●
Unlimited usage claims	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Video generation																																						●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Voice interaction	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Workflow automation	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

Feature	Change	Between	Flicker?	Confidence	Evidence at first detection
Image input / vision	added	2024-05-15 → 2024-06-12		conf 0.50	et Underlord Our AI assistant will help bring your creative vision to life. Underlord For Work Teams One tool for all the vide
Image generation	added	2024-05-15 → 2024-06-12		conf 0.50	ive speaker Keep the active speaker smack-dab in the center Image generation Describe any image you can imagine; Underlord will create i
Priority access / faster responses	added	2024-05-15 → 2024-06-12		conf 0.50	ions with correction Add free Basic seats for collaboration Priority support (with SLA) Free $0 Get started on your creative journey wit
Dedicated support / SLA	added	2024-05-15 → 2024-06-12		conf 0.50	d free Basic seats for collaboration Priority support (with SLA) Free $0 Get started on your creative journey with text-bas
Image generation	removed	2024-08-03 → 2024-09-15		conf 0.50	—
Workflow automation	removed	2024-08-03 → 2024-09-15		conf 0.50	—
Image generation	added	2024-11-07 → 2024-12-13		conf 0.50	ive speaker Keep the active speaker smack-dab in the center Image generation Describe any image you can imagine; Underlord will create i
Workflow automation	added	2024-11-07 → 2024-12-13		conf 0.50	export sessions while retaining separate tracks for editing workflows. Transcription glossary Create a custom dictionary of words
Video generation	added	2025-02-02 → 2025-03-10		conf 0.50	ur AI assistant to help bring your creative vision to life. Generate video with AI Type a prompt, get a video. Add the finishing touch
SCIM provisioning	added	2025-07-10 → 2025-08-01		conf 0.50	solutions and enterprise-grade security, including SSO and SCIM, for large or growing teams. Contact us Compare all feature
Third-party integrations	removed	2026-02-01 → 2026-03-02		conf 0.50	—
MCP support	added	2026-05-12 → 2026-06-03		conf 0.50	thing you need to bring your creative vision to life. API + MCP Edit video through code, or from inside your AI assistant U
Third-party integrations	added	2026-06-03 → 2026-07-01	flicker	conf 0.50	Product Pricing Download Status Changelog Feature Requests Integrations Resources Blog Tools Community & Events Affiliate Program H
Audit logs	added	2026-07-01 → 2026-08-02		conf 0.50	of training, custom retention SOC 2 Type II: SSO, SCIM, and audit logs Procurement: custom MSA, legal terms, flexible billing Supp
No-training / zero data retention	added	2026-07-01 → 2026-08-02		conf 0.50	templates and company-wide guardrails AI and data controls: opt-out of training, custom retention SOC 2 Type II: SSO, SCIM, and audit logs
Third-party integrations	removed	2026-07-01 → 2026-08-02	flicker	conf 0.50	—
Third-party integrations	added	2026-08-02 → 2026-09-06	flicker	conf 0.50	Product Pricing Download Status Changelog Feature Requests Integrations Resources Blog Tools Community & Events Affiliate Program H

Model providers named on the page

Only providers/models literally named on this product's own pages are recorded; absence is not evidence of independence.

2023-04-04: OpenAI2023-05-10: OpenAI2023-06-06: OpenAI

Snapshot	Provider	Model named	Evidence (quoted)	Confidence	Review
2023-04-04	OpenAI	GPT-4	Pricing \| Descript GPT-4 is coming to Descript. Join the waitlist here → Product Tour Features Transcrip	conf 0.75	unreviewed
2026-09-06	Anthropic	Claude	ChatGPT Connectors That Fit How Social Teams Actually Work By Matthew Scott 10 Claude MCP Servers, Ranked by What They Actually Get Done By Matthew Scott Claude Con	conf 0.75	unreviewed
2023-05-10	OpenAI	GPT-4	Pricing \| Descript GPT-4 is coming to Descript. Join the waitlist here → Product Tour Features Transcrip	conf 0.75	unreviewed
2023-06-06	OpenAI	GPT-4	Pricing \| Descript GPT-4 is coming to Descript. Join the waitlist here → Product Tour Features Transcrip	conf 0.75	unreviewed

Positioning over time

Lexicon counts on the pricing page: enterprise-governance terms per 1,000 words and vertical specificity (share of industry terms captured by the single most-mentioned vertical).

Snapshots and provenance

Every observation above descends from one of these immutable captures.

#	Captured	Method	Source	Archive / final URL	HTTP	Text chars	Collector	SHA-256	Notes
1162	2022-01-17 05:19	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220117051928id_/https://www.de…	200	7228	wayback-1.0	500cd4b1303c
3264	2022-02-01 02:12	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220201021247id_/https://www.de…	200	7254	wayback-1.0	fa4c01d0d33e
3266	2022-03-02 04:18	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220302041805id_/https://www.de…	200	7235	wayback-1.0	f78291ecd11e
1163	2022-04-03 20:47	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220403204745id_/https://www.de…	200	7235	wayback-1.0	0ef38a52f7fb
3267	2022-05-03 20:19	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220503201916id_/https://www.de…	200	7235	wayback-1.0	96f0615aa24d
3269	2022-06-01 07:09	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220601070920id_/https://www.de…	200	7249	wayback-1.0	8a4e582c9756
1164	2022-07-15 06:10	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220715061006id_/https://www.de…	200	7344	wayback-1.0	331ce2db44d1
3271	2022-08-14 13:14	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220814131404id_/https://www.de…	200	7357	wayback-1.0	610e7eb41158
3272	2022-09-15 17:30	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20220915173053id_/https://www.de…	200	7350	wayback-1.0	887468738cce
1166	2022-10-02 01:31	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20221002013151id_/https://www.de…	200	7350	wayback-1.0	3b8692f485fa
3274	2022-11-04 23:32	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20221104233257id_/https://www.de…	200	7350	wayback-1.0	c28ee6282a4f
3276	2022-12-05 12:05	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20221205120528id_/https://www.de…	200	8294	wayback-1.0	42cc36da4f8f
1168	2023-01-20 04:53	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230120045354id_/https://www.de…	200	8307	wayback-1.0	c4d83d2b679e
3278	2023-02-01 13:22	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230201132223id_/https://www.de…	200	8307	wayback-1.0	4282ef536b1f
3279	2023-03-04 19:09	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230304190925id_/https://www.de…	200	12950	wayback-1.0	ccb0242ec6fd
1170	2023-04-04 09:48	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230404094802id_/https://www.de…	200	13447	wayback-1.0	574747944c5f
3282	2023-05-10 07:54	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230510075415id_/https://www.de…	200	13447	wayback-1.0	e7b69aa1cb1c
3286	2023-06-06 16:24	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230606162453id_/https://www.de…	200	13449	wayback-1.0	bf48103faf3c
1172	2023-07-16 11:00	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230716110023id_/https://www.de…	200	13551	wayback-1.0	cd8add30eb80
3289	2023-08-10 23:48	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230810234813id_/https://www.de…	200	14939	wayback-1.0	c18fac867e29
3293	2023-09-10 03:13	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20230910031328id_/https://www.de…	200	14659	wayback-1.0	72f69746b1a3
1174	2023-10-10 03:58	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20231010035832id_/https://www.de…	200	14626	wayback-1.0	0085ae9818a4
3296	2023-11-10 13:19	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20231110131934id_/https://www.de…	200	14810	wayback-1.0	77780ccd8e6d
1176	2024-01-08 08:57	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240108085747id_/https://www.de…	200	14806	wayback-1.0	d6252dc936a7
3299	2024-02-04 17:53	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240204175318id_/https://www.de…	200	11603	wayback-1.0	65c4426b5602
3301	2024-03-04 12:14	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240304121420id_/https://www.de…	200	14823	wayback-1.0	64db51b57100
1178	2024-04-04 14:26	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240404142607id_/https://www.de…	200	14823	wayback-1.0	8792bbcfb46c
3304	2024-05-15 04:36	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240515043612id_/https://www.de…	200	15240	wayback-1.0	53e9dd15cf83
3307	2024-06-12 11:37	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240612113735id_/https://www.de…	200	15620	wayback-1.0	82c803c2f64b
1180	2024-07-07 02:47	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240707024703id_/https://www.de…	200	28903	wayback-1.0	f36c0ea2c24b
3309	2024-08-03 23:18	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240803231802id_/https://www.de…	200	26854	wayback-1.0	d30d116bf363
3313	2024-09-15 22:46	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20240915224637id_/https://www.de…	200	7019	wayback-1.0	421df3224d42
1182	2024-10-09 00:19	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20241009001932id_/https://www.de…	200	6966	wayback-1.0	dd7037d282b4
3315	2024-11-07 22:38	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20241107223856id_/https://www.de…	200	7143	wayback-1.0	8455a5905ad5
3318	2024-12-13 21:51	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20241213215136id_/https://www.de…	200	14943	wayback-1.0	16ec3a79c16f
1184	2025-01-09 23:48	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250109234829id_/https://www.de…	200	14849	wayback-1.0	7a64fad85b24
3321	2025-02-02 01:44	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250202014440id_/https://www.de…	200	15675	wayback-1.0	131b8b07e5dc
3324	2025-03-10 07:29	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250310072920id_/https://www.de…	200	16621	wayback-1.0	c00eb7f95279
1186	2025-04-05 02:06	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250405020620id_/https://www.de…	200	16799	wayback-1.0	f917c6ba29c3
3327	2025-05-29 12:07	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250529120751id_/https://www.de…	200	17225	wayback-1.0	1faf64acaabd
3331	2025-06-05 06:38	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250605063828id_/https://www.de…	200	17201	wayback-1.0	26d211938f36
1188	2025-07-10 04:23	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250710042313id_/https://www.de…	200	17256	wayback-1.0	596af8551c4c
3333	2025-08-01 00:51	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250801005150id_/https://www.de…	200	19163	wayback-1.0	eb150da37e77
3335	2025-09-04 14:43	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20250904144310id_/https://www.de…	200	17952	wayback-1.0	840ed0f43aef
1190	2025-10-09 08:38	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20251009083815id_/https://www.de…	200	16382	wayback-1.0	8c7198ed9ad8
3339	2025-11-05 23:50	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20251105235027id_/https://www.de…	200	17286	wayback-1.0	a7918425c3f2
3344	2025-12-03 01:54	wayback	pricing_page https://www.descript.com/pricing	https://web.archive.org/web/20251203015456id_/https://www.de…	200	17717	wayback-1.0	36a34ef635d2
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