Descript Free Plan (2026): What You Get and What's Limited

Descript lists the Free plan at $0 and describes it as text-based editing plus a first look at its AI tools. These are the limits on Descript's pricing page, read on 21 October 2026.

Two details are easy to miss. Media minutes are the minutes of imported or recorded media that Descript processes, so one long recording can take most of the month's 60 minutes. And the 100 AI credits do not renew: once they are spent, the Free plan has none left.

Descript prices its paid plans per person per month and discounts annual billing. On the pricing page, Hobbyist is $16 a month billed annually or $24 billed monthly. Creator is $24 billed annually or $35 monthly, and Business is $50 billed annually or $65 monthly.

• Hobbyist: 10 media hours and 400 AI credits a month, 1080p export without a watermark, Underlord (Descript's AI co-editor), tools such as Studio Sound, Remove Filler Words and Create Clips, and AI Speech with custom voice clones.
• Creator: 30 media hours and 800 AI credits a month, 4K export without a watermark, top-ups for media hours and AI credits, and video generation with the latest AI models.
• Business: 40 media hours and 1,500 AI credits a month, with a team of up to 5 billed separately.

The Free plan is the only one without watermark-free export. If you plan to publish what you make in Descript, Hobbyist is the first plan that allows it.

Descript is built around editing recordings by editing their transcript. You bring or record audio and video, Descript turns it into text, and you cut and rearrange the text to edit the media. The Free plan suits three jobs:

• Trying the editor on a short recording before you pay.
• Editing one podcast or screen recording a month, if a 720p export with a Descript watermark is acceptable.
• Seeing how Descript's AI tools behave within the 100 credits you receive once.

It fits less well if you need to publish finished videos regularly, because watermark-free export starts on the paid Hobbyist plan. It also fits less well if you want to create a new video from a topic alone. Descript lists generating video as limited on Free and included on paid plans, so on Free it is a preview of that feature.

A practical test: import a clip you would really edit, run it through the transcript editor, and check the exported file before you decide whether the paid tier is worth it.

FluxNote publishes this page, so weigh the comparison with that in mind. The two products do different jobs.

Descript edits recordings you provide. FluxNote generates new videos: you give it a topic or a script and it produces a finished video with an AI-written script, voiceover, captions and AI or stock visuals, and it can publish to social platforms.

It does not edit or clip existing recordings, so if that is your task, Descript is the better fit.

Its Free plan includes 1 finished AI video a month at 720p, 100 Image Studio credits and preview access to UGC Studio, with no credit card. No FluxNote export is watermarked on any plan.

Free is meant for personal use and evaluation, and commercial rights come with paid plans. The Rise plan on FluxNote's pricing page is $20 a month, or $10 a month billed yearly.

Every Descript figure on this page comes from Descript's pricing page, read in the US view on 21 October 2026. Descript changes its plans from time to time, so confirm the numbers there before you decide. The FluxNote figures come from its own pricing page and policies. Nothing here comes from hands-on testing of either product.