Tools
Captions vs Descript
Captions or Descript? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Text to video, Edits video, AI presenters, Dubbing, Captions, Sound and music
- Only Captions states: Lip sync
- Only Descript states: 4K, API
Captions
Captions is an AI video editor for creating, editing, captioning, translating, and generating short-form videos.
Plans
Max
- $24.99/mo
- Access our library of curated AI Edit styles
- Create a fully-produced video with AI
- Create digital twins or custom AI actors
- Use a chat-based editor to handle changes for you
- Turn a long video into a batch of post-ready clips
- Access 500 credits per month
Frontier
- $69.99/mo
- Everything in Max, plus
- 1,400 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Frontier 2x
- $139.99/mo
- 2x usage
- 2,800 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Frontier 4x
- $279.99/mo
- 4x usage
- 5,600 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Enterprise
Price on request
- Bulk credit discounts
- Custom seat options
- Dedicated account management team
- Training data exclusion
- Customer onboarding, priority training, and hands-on support
- Early access to beta and new features
Free
Free
- Basic tools like trimming and transitions
- Some media library assets
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “Prompt to video” source
- Edits video — “Captions' AI editing transforms footage into a fully edited video that's ready to share.” source
- AI presenters — “Make an AI twin or choose from digital avatars.” source
- Lip sync — “AI Lipdub” source
- Dubbing — “Translate and subtitle in 100+ languages.” source
- Captions — “Create auto-captions with stylized fonts.” source
- Sound and music — “Generate royalty-free music or sound effects that complement your video.” source
Descript
Descript records, transcribes, and edits audio and video by letting users edit media through its transcript.
Plans
Hobbyist
- $16 per person / month
- $24 per person / month
- 10 media hours / month
- 400 AI credits / month
- Export 1080p, watermark-free
- Access to Underlord, our AI video co-editor
- AI tools including Studio Sound, Remove Filler Words, Create Clips, and more
- AI Speech with custom voice clones and video regenerate
Creator
- $24 per person / month
- $35 per person / month
- 30 media hours / month
- 800 AI credits / month
- Export 4k, watermark-free
- Full access to Underlord, our AI video co-editor and 20+ more AI tools
- Generate video with the latest AI models
- Unlimited access to royalty-free stock media library
Business
- $50 per person / month
- $65 per person / month
- 40 media hours / month
- 1500 AI credits / month
- Team-wide access to Brand Studio
- Translate and dub video in 30+ languages with proofread
- Generate custom avatars from photo upload or text
- Priority support (with SLA)
Enterprise
Price on request
- AI credits and media hours: sized to your team
- Brand Studio: shared templates and company-wide guardrails
- AI and data controls: opt-out of training, custom retention
- SOC 2 Type II: SSO, SCIM, and audit logs
- Procurement: custom MSA, legal terms, flexible billing
- Support: dedicated CSM, onboarding, priority response
Free
Free
- Text-based editing
- Give our AI tools a spin
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “Create bespoke, custom video and images from a prompt.” source
- Edits video — “Editing video in Descript is as easy as using docs and slides.” source
- AI presenters — “AI Avatars” source
- Dubbing — “Translate to dozens of languages.” source
- Captions — “Add subtitles to extend your reach in a single click.” source
- Sound and music — “Fill in the gaps with generated video, voice audio, music, and images that blend seamlessly with your footage.” source
- 4K — “Up to 4K video” source
- API — “API + MCP Edit video through code, or from inside your AI assistant” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “We have achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance by going through a Certified Public Accounting firm and auditing our internal measures and controls against the SOC 2 standards.” source
- SOC 2 — “We have achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance by going through a Certified Public Accounting firm and auditing our internal measures and controls against the SOC 2 standards.” source
- GDPR — “We align with SOC 2 standards and guidelines, as well as GDPR, CCPA, and the Privacy by Design framework.” source
Latest updates
- Release roundup—September 17, 2026 (145.0.15)
Captions now have presets and animations. Descript's AI can make background music and sound effects on request.
- Release round-up—August 5th, 2026
Schedule a Room, edit an image by drawing on it, and generate a YouTube thumbnail without leaving your project.
- Release round-up—June 11th, 2026 (v0.11.0)
Tone Tags for AI speakers, gradient fills, concurrent AI media generation, and Descript in Claude and ChatGPT.