Descript is an editor rather than a generator. You edit the transcript and the video follows, which is a genuinely different workflow from everything else in this category.
Sixty minutes a month, and the export resolution matters
The free plan allows an hour of media a month, which is enough to edit a real episode rather than a sample. Descript prints export resolution as a per plan row in its comparison table, so check that row against what you need to deliver before you commit to the free tier.
Two figures on one card, and the toggle settles which is which
Descript's Hobbyist card prints two per-person figures. An earlier reading of this page could not tell which was the monthly rate and which was the annual, so this profile carried no entry price at all. Reading it again with the toggle switched by hand settles it: Monthly shows $24 and Annual shows $16, and the page's own line, save up to 35% with annual billing, matches the gap between them. The number at the top of this profile is the monthly one, because that is what you pay if you want to leave after a month.