AI avatar video platform for business training and communications with 230+ avatars and 140+ languages.
Descript
AI Video Creation & EditingDescript is a desktop and web editor that transcribes recordings and lets you cut video and audio by editing the text. It adds AI tools such as filler-word removal, Studio Sound, eye contact correction and its Underlord AI co-editor, which can apply edits from prompts. Podcasters, YouTubers and marketing teams use it for interview, tutorial and talking-head content.
Pricing
Descript pricing
Free plan (60 media min/mo, watermark); Hobbyist $16/mo; Creator $24/mo; Business $50/mo
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on descript.com
Features
What Descript does
- Text-based editing of video and audio
- Underlord AI co-editor for prompt-driven edits
- Studio Sound noise and echo removal
- Filler word and retake removal
- AI voice clones and stock voices
- Timeline export to Premiere, Final Cut and Pro Tools
Pros
- Transcript editing is fast for dialogue-heavy content
- Strong audio cleanup for podcasts
- Screen recording and multitrack recording built in
- Hands off to professional NLEs for finishing
Cons
- Free plan exports at 720p with a watermark
- Audio dubbing and custom avatars only on the Business plan
- No full mobile editing app
- Less suited to effects-heavy or music-driven edits
Fit
Who Descript is for
Look elsewhere if: Creators making trend-driven, effects-heavy short-form videos on a phone will find CapCut or Captions a better fit.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, a training opt-out and custom retention; AI features are opt-in.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- —
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- —
- GDPR DPA
- —
- Data residency options
- —
- No training on your data
- Enterprise opt-out
- Audit logs
- Enterprise plan
- Admin controls
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud
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| Video feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| AI avatars / presenters | Paid plans only |
| Generative text-to-video | Limited |
| Long-to-short clipping | Yes |
| Auto captions | Yes |
| Edit video by editing text | Yes |
| AI voiceover | Yes |
| Translation / dubbing | Business plan and up |
| Max export resolution | 4K (Creator and up) |
| Stock media library | Yes |
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