Compare · Leelo vs Descript
Descript is an editor: you record or upload audio and video, then edit it by editing the transcript. Leelo starts from a script and makes the audio. Many people use one for each job.
Descript's plans and features checked on their own site on 17 October 2026.
01The short answer
If your work starts with recordings (a podcast, an interview, a screen capture), Descript's text-based editing is hard to beat. If it starts with a script and you need finished narration, dialogue or dubbing in many voices and languages, Leelo is built for that, at a lower price for the audio itself.
02Side by side
| Feature | Leelo | Descript |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Credits: a word in a standard voice is 1 credit, and every tool draws from the same month | Per person: media hours plus AI credits a month |
| Free plan | 1,000 credits once, no card, for personal projects | 60 media minutes a month, 100 AI credits once, 720p with a watermark |
| Cheapest paid plan | $19/mo or $190/yr (Starter: 80,000 credits, about 9 hours of narration in standard voices) | $24/mo, or $16/mo billed yearly (Hobbyist) |
| Voices and languages | 762 voices in 82 languages | 25+ stock AI speakers, 60+ on Business |
| Voice cloning | From Starter ($19/mo); voice design from a description too | From Hobbyist |
| Several speakers in one script | Yes: a voice per speaker, every line editable on its own | Not stated on its site |
| Dubbing | Yes, 5,000 credits a minute per language | From Hobbyist, 30+ languages |
| Transcription | Yes, every plan, 40 credits a minute | Yes, every plan, 25 languages |
| Noise removal | Yes, every plan | Yes (Studio Sound) |
| Sound effects | Yes, generated from a description | Not stated on its site |
| Voice changer | Yes, every plan | Not stated on its site |
| API | REST API, webhooks and an MCP server on Pro and Business | An editing and automation API, not a text-to-speech API |
| Team seats | Pro 3, Business 10 | Creator 1 to 3, Business up to 5 |
| Embeddable player | Yes, every plan: one line of HTML | Shareable pages |
03Prices
Leelo meters everything in credits: a credit is a word in a standard voice, and dubbing, transcription and the other tools come out of the same month.
04What Descript does well
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06Other comparisons
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