Descript vs. Figma AI: data protection per plan
Descript (4 plans) and Figma AI (4 plans) side by side: DPA, training on inputs, hosting and data retention per plan, based on the providers’ public documents. Without rating.
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At a glance
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| Feature | Descript | Figma AI |
|---|---|---|
| Provider based in | Descript, Inc., 385 Grove St., San Francisco, CA 94102, USA | Figma, Inc., 760 Market St, Floor 10, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Plans recorded | 4 | 4 |
| Hosting | US only: all 4 plans | US only: Starter, Professional, OrganizationEU option: Enterprise |
| Training on inputs | opt-out available: all 4 plans | opt-out available: Starter, Professionalno: Organization, Enterprise |
| DPA | not documented: all 4 plans | yes: all 4 plans |
| As of | 18 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
Plans compared
Comparing: Descript Business vs. Figma AI Professional
| Feature | DescriptBusiness | Figma AIProfessional |
|---|---|---|
| differs by plan | not publicly documented | yes |
| Details: DPA available | not publicly documented (the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access'; whether it applies to self-service plans is not stated. The security page mentions data processing agreements with suppliers) | yes (Data Processing Addendum, as of 2026-03-30) Provider’s DPA |
| opt-out available | opt-out available | |
| Details: Training on inputs | Privacy policy (as of 2025-04-14): purposes include 'research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models'; projects: 'You can opt out of having your Projects used to improve the Descript Service' by disabling the 'Share Data with Descript' setting. Terms (as of 2025-02-25) section 8.4(e): use of Input and Output 'to train, improve, and develop its models and technologies' '(unless you have opted out of such use)'; third-party providers are said to be contractually prohibited from training on inputs/outputs. For AI speakers, voice data is used as training/research data. Security FAQ: sharing information to improve the algorithms is said to be 'disabled by default and can only be enabled by you'. Help Center 'Account data and privacy': the setting is requested during onboarding and can be changed at any time in the app settings ('Share data with Descript'); 'for any in-house AI training we maintain a clear data sharing opt-in'; according to the Help Center, current production models use no user data. | Help Center: 'By default, content training is turned on for Professional teams.' Admins of a Professional team can switch the option off at any time. |
| US only | US only | |
| Details: Data residency | Privacy policy: 'Descript is based in the United States and we process and store information in the U.S.' Trust Center: hosting with AWS, GCP and Heroku; backups additionally in a separate AWS region (region not stated). The sub-processor list mostly shows 'US' as the data region. | as Starter: AWS USA; EU hosting only for Enterprise customers. |
| list available | list available | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by plan | Trust Center | DPA |
| Details: Data retention | Trust Center (Data Erasure): 'Data is retained until a customer deletes their account or projects'; project data is permanently deleted from the servers within 30 days; daily backups, additionally in a separate AWS region. Privacy policy: storage 'for as long as necessary' for the purposes; voiceprints (Descript) and facial geometry data (at service providers) until the purpose has been fulfilled, at most three years after the last account access. | DPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated. |
| differs by plan | 50 USD/user/mo… (further prices in the details) | 20 USD/mo… (further prices in the details) |
| Details: Price | USD 50 per person per month with annual payment, USD 65 with monthly payment (pricing page; not stated whether VAT is included) | Full Seat USD 20 per month with monthly billing or USD 16 per month with annual billing; Dev Seat USD 15 or 12; Collab Seat USD 5 or 3 (pricing page, monthly/annual toggle; in EUR the same amounts in €; no statement as to whether VAT is included); AI credits beyond that are chargeable (for Professional billed monthly in arrears) |
| yes | yes | |
| Details: AI features included | yes (1,500 AI credits/month; up to 5 seats, team-wide access to Brand Studio, Priority Support with SLA according to the pricing page) | yes (Full Seat: 3,000 AI credits/month; Dev Seat and Collab Seat 500 each; AI surcharge: further credits via AI credits subscription or pay-as-you-go according to AI Terms, Section 6) |
| 7 sources | 8 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- differs by plan
- Descript Businessnot publicly documented
- Figma AI Professionalyes
- Descript Business
not publicly documented (the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access'; whether it applies to self-service plans is not stated. The security page mentions data processing agreements with suppliers)
Training
- Descript Businessopt-out available
- Figma AI Professionalopt-out available
- Descript Business
Privacy policy (as of 2025-04-14): purposes include 'research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models'; projects: 'You can opt out of having your Projects used to improve the Descript Service' by disabling the 'Share Data with Descript' setting. Terms (as of 2025-02-25) section 8.4(e): use of Input and Output 'to train, improve, and develop its models and technologies' '(unless you have opted out of such use)'; third-party providers are said to be contractually prohibited from training on inputs/outputs. For AI speakers, voice data is used as training/research data. Security FAQ: sharing information to improve the algorithms is said to be 'disabled by default and can only be enabled by you'. Help Center 'Account data and privacy': the setting is requested during onboarding and can be changed at any time in the app settings ('Share data with Descript'); 'for any in-house AI training we maintain a clear data sharing opt-in'; according to the Help Center, current production models use no user data.
Figma AI ProfessionalHelp Center: 'By default, content training is turned on for Professional teams.' Admins of a Professional team can switch the option off at any time.
Hosting
- Descript BusinessUS only
- Figma AI ProfessionalUS only
- Descript Business
Privacy policy: 'Descript is based in the United States and we process and store information in the U.S.' Trust Center: hosting with AWS, GCP and Heroku; backups additionally in a separate AWS region (region not stated). The sub-processor list mostly shows 'US' as the data region.
Figma AI Professionalas Starter: AWS USA; EU hosting only for Enterprise customers.
Sub-processors
- Descript Businesslist available
- Figma AI Professionallist available
- Descript Business
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud (hosting; US)
- AI/ML: Anthropic API, OpenRouter, Hugging Face, Baseten, ElevenLabs, Andromeda (US)
- Other service providers for analytics, sales and support (US); list contains no EU data region
Figma AI Professional- Amazon Web Services (cloud, USA; for Enterprise the selected hosting location)
- Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Sentry, Twilio (USA)
- AI (Figma AI): Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, Fireworks.ai, Google (Vertex), Jasper, Microsoft (Azure), OpenAI, Recraft (each 'United States*'; requests may run through global data centres, processing then transient in memory)
- AI (Figma Weave): including BytePlus and Enhancor (EU, Indonesia, Malaysia), Kling AI (Singapore), Lightricks (EU, Israel, UK, USA), Freepik (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), others in the USA
- Moderation: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Akismet, Hive (USA)
Retention
- differs by plan
- Descript BusinessTrust Center
- Figma AI ProfessionalDPA
- Descript BusinessTrust Center (Data Erasure): 'Data is retained until a customer deletes their account or projects'; project data is permanently deleted from the servers within 30 days; daily backups, additionally in a separate AWS region. Privacy policy: storage 'for as long as necessary' for the purposes; voiceprints (Descript) and facial geometry data (at service providers) until the purpose has been fulfilled, at most three years after the last account access.Figma AI ProfessionalDPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated.
Price
- differs by plan
- Descript Business50 USD/user/mo… (further prices in the details)
- Figma AI Professional20 USD/mo… (further prices in the details)
- Descript Business
USD 50 per person per month with annual payment, USD 65 with monthly payment (pricing page; not stated whether VAT is included)
Figma AI ProfessionalFull Seat USD 20 per month with monthly billing or USD 16 per month with annual billing; Dev Seat USD 15 or 12; Collab Seat USD 5 or 3 (pricing page, monthly/annual toggle; in EUR the same amounts in €; no statement as to whether VAT is included); AI credits beyond that are chargeable (for Professional billed monthly in arrears)
- Descript Businessyes
- Figma AI Professionalyes
- Descript Business
yes (1,500 AI credits/month; up to 5 seats, team-wide access to Brand Studio, Priority Support with SLA according to the pricing page)
Figma AI Professionalyes (Full Seat: 3,000 AI credits/month; Dev Seat and Collab Seat 500 each; AI surcharge: further credits via AI credits subscription or pay-as-you-go according to AI Terms, Section 6)
Evidence
- Descript Business7 sources
- Figma AI Professional8 sources
- Descript Business
- PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (as of 2025-04-14)Privacy notice, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms of Service (as of 2025-02-25)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- SecurityTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data SubprocessorsSub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Descript Trust Center (SecurityPal, as of 2026-08-21)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Account data and privacy (Help Center)Help Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Figma AI Professional- PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Figma AI Terms (Effective 2026-06-24)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Addendum (as of 2026-03-30)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Sub-processors (as of 2026-09-22)Sub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Manage AI settings and content trainingHelp page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Delete and restore files (Help Center)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AI credit updates FAQ; Manage AI credits (Help Center)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Building Figma AIDocumentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
| Feature | Descript | Figma AI |
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| differs by tool | not publicly documentedall 4 plans | yesall 4 plans |
| Details: DPA available |
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| differs by tool | opt-out availableall 4 plans |
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| Details: Training on inputs |
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| differs by tool | US onlyall 4 plans |
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| Details: Data residency |
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| list availableall 4 plans | list availableall 4 plans | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by tool |
| DPAall 4 plans |
| Details: Data retention |
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| Details: Price |
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| yesall 4 plans | yesall 4 plans | |
| Details: AI features included |
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| 7 sources | 10 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- differs by tool
- Descriptnot publicly documentedall 4 plans
- Figma AIyesall 4 plans
- Descript
- Free
not publicly documented (the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access'; whether it applies to self-service plans is not stated. The security page mentions data processing agreements with suppliers)
- Hobbyist / Creator
not publicly documented (the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access'; whether it applies to self-service plans is not stated. The security page mentions data processing agreements with suppliers)
- Business
not publicly documented (the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access'; whether it applies to self-service plans is not stated. The security page mentions data processing agreements with suppliers)
- Enterprise
not publicly documented (the pricing page mentions 'custom legal terms'; the Trust Center lists a 'DPA' document only with 'Request access')
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
yes (Data Processing Addendum, as of 2026-03-30; forms part of customer contracts; applicability to Starter not separately stated)
Provider’s DPA - Professional
yes (Data Processing Addendum, as of 2026-03-30)
Provider’s DPA - Organization
yes (Data Processing Addendum, as of 2026-03-30)
Provider’s DPA - Enterprise
yes (Data Processing Addendum, as of 2026-03-30)
Provider’s DPA
- Free
Training
- differs by tool
- Descriptopt-out availableall 4 plans
- Figma AI
- opt-out availableStarter (free of charge), Professional
- noOrganization, Enterprise
- Descript
- Free
Privacy policy (as of 2025-04-14): purposes include 'research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models'; projects: 'You can opt out of having your Projects used to improve the Descript Service' by disabling the 'Share Data with Descript' setting. Terms (as of 2025-02-25) section 8.4(e): use of Input and Output 'to train, improve, and develop its models and technologies' '(unless you have opted out of such use)'; third-party providers are said to be contractually prohibited from training on inputs/outputs. For AI speakers, voice data is used as training/research data. Security FAQ: sharing information to improve the algorithms is said to be 'disabled by default and can only be enabled by you'. Help Center 'Account data and privacy': the setting is requested during onboarding and can be changed at any time in the app settings ('Share data with Descript'); 'for any in-house AI training we maintain a clear data sharing opt-in'; according to the Help Center, current production models use no user data.
- Hobbyist / Creator
Privacy policy (as of 2025-04-14): purposes include 'research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models'; projects: 'You can opt out of having your Projects used to improve the Descript Service' by disabling the 'Share Data with Descript' setting. Terms (as of 2025-02-25) section 8.4(e): use of Input and Output 'to train, improve, and develop its models and technologies' '(unless you have opted out of such use)'; third-party providers are said to be contractually prohibited from training on inputs/outputs. For AI speakers, voice data is used as training/research data. Security FAQ: sharing information to improve the algorithms is said to be 'disabled by default and can only be enabled by you'. Help Center 'Account data and privacy': the setting is requested during onboarding and can be changed at any time in the app settings ('Share data with Descript'); 'for any in-house AI training we maintain a clear data sharing opt-in'; according to the Help Center, current production models use no user data.
- Business
Privacy policy (as of 2025-04-14): purposes include 'research and development purposes including training our artificial intelligence models'; projects: 'You can opt out of having your Projects used to improve the Descript Service' by disabling the 'Share Data with Descript' setting. Terms (as of 2025-02-25) section 8.4(e): use of Input and Output 'to train, improve, and develop its models and technologies' '(unless you have opted out of such use)'; third-party providers are said to be contractually prohibited from training on inputs/outputs. For AI speakers, voice data is used as training/research data. Security FAQ: sharing information to improve the algorithms is said to be 'disabled by default and can only be enabled by you'. Help Center 'Account data and privacy': the setting is requested during onboarding and can be changed at any time in the app settings ('Share data with Descript'); 'for any in-house AI training we maintain a clear data sharing opt-in'; according to the Help Center, current production models use no user data.
- Enterprise
Pricing page: the Enterprise plan lists 'AI and data controls' with opt-out from training and custom retention. Trust Center: 'Enterprise customer data is excluded from improving, training, or developing Descript’s AI systems.' Help Center: for Enterprise drives, data sharing is disabled by default and cannot be toggled.
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
Help Center: 'By default, content training is turned on for Starter teams.' Admins can switch off 'Content training'; content and changes added afterwards are no longer used for training. 'Building Figma AI' page: 'For Starter and Professional, content training is set to ‘on’ by default — admins can opt out'. AI Terms (as of 2026-06-24): training on Customer Content only if 'Content Training' is enabled.
- Professional
Help Center: 'By default, content training is turned on for Professional teams.' Admins of a Professional team can switch the option off at any time.
- Organization
Help Center: 'By default, content training is turned off on Organization and Enterprise plans.' and: 'Content training is currently disabled for Organization and Enterprise plans and can't be toggled on.'
- Enterprise
Help Center: Content Training is off by default for Organization and Enterprise and currently disabled (cannot be switched on).
- Free
Hosting
- differs by tool
- DescriptUS onlyall 4 plans
- Figma AI
- US onlyStarter (free of charge), Professional, Organization
- EU optionEnterprise
- Descript
- Free
Privacy policy: 'Descript is based in the United States and we process and store information in the U.S.' Trust Center: hosting with AWS, GCP and Heroku; backups additionally in a separate AWS region (region not stated). The sub-processor list mostly shows 'US' as the data region.
- Hobbyist / Creator
Privacy policy: 'Descript is based in the United States and we process and store information in the U.S.' Trust Center: hosting with AWS, GCP and Heroku; backups additionally in a separate AWS region (region not stated). The sub-processor list mostly shows 'US' as the data region.
- Business
Privacy policy: 'Descript is based in the United States and we process and store information in the U.S.' Trust Center: hosting with AWS, GCP and Heroku; backups additionally in a separate AWS region (region not stated). The sub-processor list mostly shows 'US' as the data region.
- Enterprise
as other plans: storage and processing in the USA according to the privacy policy; no EU option documented.
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
Sub-processors: AWS 'United States (or, for Enterprise plans, the hosting location selected)'. EU hosting only for Enterprise (Figma blog).
- Professional
as Starter: AWS USA; EU hosting only for Enterprise customers.
- Organization
as Starter: AWS USA; according to the blog, EU hosting only for Enterprise customers.
- Enterprise
Help Center 'Enable localized file hosting': data residency only on the Enterprise plan, regions including the EU (AWS eu-central-1, recovery eu-west-1), Australia, India, Brazil; file content is stored locally (including shapes, text, components, images, videos, AI output in files), but not comments, file names, plugins, preview thumbnails, 'AI chats', metadata, logs or user profiles; new file edits may be stored temporarily 'in the US for up to 30 days'; only 'data at-rest, not data in-transit'. Sub-processors: AWS 'for Enterprise plans, the hosting location selected'.
- Free
Sub-processors
- Descriptlist availableall 4 plans
- Figma AIlist availableall 4 plans
- Descript
- Free
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud (hosting; US)
- AI/ML: Anthropic API, OpenRouter, Hugging Face, Baseten, ElevenLabs, Andromeda (US)
- Other service providers for analytics, sales and support (US); list contains no EU data region
- Hobbyist / Creator
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud (hosting; US)
- AI/ML: Anthropic API, OpenRouter, Hugging Face, Baseten, ElevenLabs, Andromeda (US)
- Other service providers for analytics, sales and support (US); list contains no EU data region
- Business
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud (hosting; US)
- AI/ML: Anthropic API, OpenRouter, Hugging Face, Baseten, ElevenLabs, Andromeda (US)
- Other service providers for analytics, sales and support (US); list contains no EU data region
- Enterprise
- as other plans
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
- Amazon Web Services (cloud, USA; for Enterprise the selected hosting location)
- Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Sentry, Twilio (USA)
- AI (Figma AI): Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, Fireworks.ai, Google (Vertex), Jasper, Microsoft (Azure), OpenAI, Recraft (each 'United States*'; requests may run through global data centres, processing then transient in memory)
- AI (Figma Weave): including BytePlus and Enhancor (EU, Indonesia, Malaysia), Kling AI (Singapore), Lightricks (EU, Israel, UK, USA), Freepik (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), others in the USA
- Moderation: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Akismet, Hive (USA)
- Professional
- Amazon Web Services (cloud, USA; for Enterprise the selected hosting location)
- Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Sentry, Twilio (USA)
- AI (Figma AI): Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, Fireworks.ai, Google (Vertex), Jasper, Microsoft (Azure), OpenAI, Recraft (each 'United States*'; requests may run through global data centres, processing then transient in memory)
- AI (Figma Weave): including BytePlus and Enhancor (EU, Indonesia, Malaysia), Kling AI (Singapore), Lightricks (EU, Israel, UK, USA), Freepik (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), others in the USA
- Moderation: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Akismet, Hive (USA)
- Organization
- Amazon Web Services (cloud, USA; for Enterprise the selected hosting location)
- Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Sentry, Twilio (USA)
- AI (Figma AI): Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, Fireworks.ai, Google (Vertex), Jasper, Microsoft (Azure), OpenAI, Recraft (each 'United States*'; requests may run through global data centres, processing then transient in memory)
- AI (Figma Weave): including BytePlus and Enhancor (EU, Indonesia, Malaysia), Kling AI (Singapore), Lightricks (EU, Israel, UK, USA), Freepik (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), others in the USA
- Moderation: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Akismet, Hive (USA)
- Enterprise
- Amazon Web Services (cloud, USA; for Enterprise the selected hosting location)
- Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Sentry, Twilio (USA)
- AI (Figma AI): Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cerebras, Fireworks.ai, Google (Vertex), Jasper, Microsoft (Azure), OpenAI, Recraft (each 'United States*'; requests may run through global data centres, processing then transient in memory)
- AI (Figma Weave): including BytePlus and Enhancor (EU, Indonesia, Malaysia), Kling AI (Singapore), Lightricks (EU, Israel, UK, USA), Freepik (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), others in the USA
- Moderation: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Akismet, Hive (USA)
- Free
Retention
- differs by tool
- Descript
- Trust CenterFree, Hobbyist / Creator, Business
- Pricing page: 'custom retention' in the…Enterprise
- Figma AIDPAall 4 plans
- Descript
- FreeTrust Center (Data Erasure): 'Data is retained until a customer deletes their account or projects'; project data is permanently deleted from the servers within 30 days; daily backups, additionally in a separate AWS region. Privacy policy: storage 'for as long as necessary' for the purposes; voiceprints (Descript) and facial geometry data (at service providers) until the purpose has been fulfilled, at most three years after the last account access.
- Hobbyist / CreatorTrust Center (Data Erasure): 'Data is retained until a customer deletes their account or projects'; project data is permanently deleted from the servers within 30 days; daily backups, additionally in a separate AWS region. Privacy policy: storage 'for as long as necessary' for the purposes; voiceprints (Descript) and facial geometry data (at service providers) until the purpose has been fulfilled, at most three years after the last account access.
- BusinessTrust Center (Data Erasure): 'Data is retained until a customer deletes their account or projects'; project data is permanently deleted from the servers within 30 days; daily backups, additionally in a separate AWS region. Privacy policy: storage 'for as long as necessary' for the purposes; voiceprints (Descript) and facial geometry data (at service providers) until the purpose has been fulfilled, at most three years after the last account access.
- EnterprisePricing page: 'custom retention' in the Enterprise plan; retention periods not documented.
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)DPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated.
- ProfessionalDPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated.
- OrganizationDPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated.
- EnterpriseDPA (as of 2026-03-30) section 5: after the end of provision, deletion or return of all Customer Content at the customer's choice 'within thirty (30) days', unless data protection law requires retention. During the term: files in the trash remain until they are restored or permanently deleted ('Figma will keep files in the trash until you, or another team member with access to those files, restores or permanently deletes them'). AI prompts: 'OpenAI and our other 3rd party model providers store data temporarily, or in some cases not at all' (Building Figma AI); no fixed periods stated.
Price
- differs by tool
- Descript
- 0 USDFree
- several tiersHobbyist / Creator
- 50 USD/user/mo… (further prices in the details)Business
- customEnterprise
- Figma AI
- 0 USDStarter (free of charge)
- 20 USD/mo… (further prices in the details)Professional
- several tiersOrganization, Enterprise
- Descript
- Free
USD 0 (pricing page; no credit card required)
- Hobbyist / Creator
Hobbyist USD 16, Creator USD 24 per person per month with annual payment; USD 24 and USD 35 respectively with monthly payment (pricing page; not stated whether VAT is included)
- Business
USD 50 per person per month with annual payment, USD 65 with monthly payment (pricing page; not stated whether VAT is included)
- Enterprise
Custom (pricing page: 'Talk to sales')
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
0 USD (pricing page 'Starter Free'); AI credits: 150/day up to 500/month
- Professional
Full Seat USD 20 per month with monthly billing or USD 16 per month with annual billing; Dev Seat USD 15 or 12; Collab Seat USD 5 or 3 (pricing page, monthly/annual toggle; in EUR the same amounts in €; no statement as to whether VAT is included); AI credits beyond that are chargeable (for Professional billed monthly in arrears)
- Organization
Full Seat 55 USD/month, Dev Seat 25 USD, Collab Seat 5 USD (pricing page, annual billing); AI credits beyond that are chargeable (billed quarterly in arrears)
- Enterprise
Full Seat 90 USD/month, Dev Seat 35 USD, Collab Seat 5 USD (pricing page, annual billing, 'Contact sales'); AI credits beyond that are chargeable
- Free
- Descriptyesall 4 plans
- Figma AIyesall 4 plans
- Descript
- Free
yes (100 AI credits one-off; 1 seat; export with watermark according to the pricing page)
- Hobbyist / Creator
yes (AI credits: Hobbyist 400/month, Creator 800/month; Underlord, Studio Sound, Green Screen, Eye Contact according to the pricing page; Creator up to 3 seats, billed separately)
- Business
yes (1,500 AI credits/month; up to 5 seats, team-wide access to Brand Studio, Priority Support with SLA according to the pricing page)
- Enterprise
yes (custom AI credits and media minutes according to the pricing page)
Figma AI- Starter (free of charge)
yes (150 AI credits per day, up to 500 per month according to the pricing page)
- Professional
yes (Full Seat: 3,000 AI credits/month; Dev Seat and Collab Seat 500 each; AI surcharge: further credits via AI credits subscription or pay-as-you-go according to AI Terms, Section 6)
- Organization
yes (Full Seat: 3,500 AI credits/month; Dev Seat and Collab Seat 500 each; AI surcharge as Professional via credits subscription/PAYG)
- Enterprise
yes (Full Seat: 4,250 AI credits/month; Dev Seat and Collab Seat 500 each)
- Free
Evidence
- Descript7 sources
- Figma AI10 sources
- Descript
- PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (as of 2025-04-14)Privacy notice, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms of Service (as of 2025-02-25)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- SecurityTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data SubprocessorsSub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Descript Trust Center (SecurityPal, as of 2026-08-21)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Account data and privacy (Help Center)Help Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Figma AI- PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Figma AI Terms (Effective 2026-06-24)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Addendum (as of 2026-03-30)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Sub-processors (as of 2026-09-22)Sub-processor list, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Manage AI settings and content trainingHelp page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- EU hosting for Figma and FigJam filesProvider blog, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Delete and restore files (Help Center)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AI credit updates FAQ; Manage AI credits (Help Center)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Building Figma AIDocumentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Enable localized file hosting (Help Center)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
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