Descript Underlord
AI co-editor inside Descript's transcript-based editor that performs editing actions on command: removing filler words, adding captions, generating short clips, and translating or dubbing.
- Resolution
- 3840x2160
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- Not established
Sits alongside Descript's discrete AI tools including Studio Sound, Eye Contact, Remove Filler Words, Green Screen and custom voice clones. Anything Underlord can be prompted to do in the app can also be driven through the Descript API and MCP server.
The research notes for this model record other terms but do not state a commercial-use position, and no licence page was retrieved, so it is not established here. Check the vendor's own terms.
- Requires consent from the person depicted. Voice cloning (custom voice clones, formerly Overdub) is a paid-tier feature; consent terms for cloned voices were not confirmed on the pages fetched
Specification
- What it takes in
- video, audio, text
- What it makes
- video, audio, text
- Maximum duration
- not established
- Maximum resolution
- 3840x2160
- Aspect ratios
- not established
- Controls
- auto-captions, auto-reframe, translation, voice-clone, object-removal
- Weights
- Not released
- API
- Yes
- Pricing
- Subscription with media hours and AI credits: Free $0 (60 min/mo media, 100 one-time AI credits, 720p export), Hobbyist $16/mo or $24 annual equivalent (10 hr/mo, 400 credits/mo, 1080p, limited Underlord), Creator $24/mo or $35 (30 hr/mo, 800 credits/mo, 4K export, full Underlord plus 20+ AI tools), Business $50/mo or $65 (40 hr/mo, 1,500 credits/mo, up to 5 seats, Brand Studio, translation and dubbing in 30 languages), Enterprise custom. API access is included for all paying users at no extra cost and draws on the plan's AI credits and media minutes.
- Released or updated
- not established
Maximum duration and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.
Strengths
- API is included free with any paid plan rather than a separate SKU, and mirrors Underlord's full capability set
- MCP server means agent-driven editing is a first-class path
- Transcript-first editing model suits interview, podcast and talking-head work
- Eye Contact and Studio Sound fix the two most common self-shot problems
Weaknesses
- API cannot export media files directly; only transcripts, timelines and published share links
- 4K export requires the Creator tier or above; free tier is 720p
- AI credits are consumed by both app and API usage from one pool
- Underlord is limited on the Hobbyist tier
Best for
- Podcast and interview post-production
- Talking-head content cleanup at volume
- Agentic or scripted editing pipelines via API/MCP
Where the sources disagree
Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.
- The Descript API is described as generally available for paying users in the FAQ but labelled 'early access' in site navigation. Descript's help centre article on Underlord returned HTTP 403 to our fetcher, so Underlord's per-action credit metering could not be verified beyond the plan-level credit allowances.
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