Legit.Show measured Descript's Security frame at 100/100. Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Descript?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Design & Creative

Descript

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-24 — deterministic & reproducible

Descript is a text-based video and podcast editing platform with built-in AI tools.

91/100

7/7 frames

Top 11% of 14,148 measured · #2 of 36 in video editor

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-24 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Descript 91/100 on 2026-09-24, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/descript-com/2026-09-24

Is Descript production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Descript 91 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Descript (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 67/100
Accessibility — 86/100
Security — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 84/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 476 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

product account @descript

Who it's for

Content creators · Podcasters · Video producers · Marketing teams · Enterprise video teams

Pricing

Free plan available; Hobbyist $16/month, Creator $24/month (most popular), Business $50/month, Enterprise custom pricing

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from descript.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: Descript, Inc., as named in descript.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-24.

Put together from public information, without Descript's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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