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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
About Captions

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

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