Scribe pricing (2026): the honest teardown
Scribe has a free plan, but it only covers web-app capture: no PDF export, no redaction, no branding. Paid plans are Pro Personal at $25/mo (annual) and Pro Team at $13/mo per seat with a 5-seat minimum (about $65/mo entry). If you want those basics for free, Dubble includes export, redaction and embedding on its free plan.
Scribe is the VC-backed leader in auto-generated step guides, with over 5 million users, a $75M Series C in November 2025, and a genuinely polished capture-and-edit experience. Its pricing, though, is where a lot of first-time users get caught out: the free plan looks generous until you try to export a PDF, blur a password, or add your own logo. This page walks through every Scribe tier with real numbers, spells out exactly what the free plan excludes, runs the per-seat math for a 5-, 10- and 25-person team, and shows how Dubble prices the same job differently.
Every Scribe plan, with the real numbers
Free — $0
Scribe's free plan gives you unlimited step-by-step guides, but only for web apps captured through the browser extension. There is no desktop capture, no PDF/HTML/Markdown export, no redaction or blur, and no custom branding. You share guides through a Scribe-hosted link or Smart Embed. It is real and usable for web-only, share-by-link documentation. It is just far narrower than the word "free" implies.
Pro Personal — $35/mo ($25/mo annual)
Pro Personal is the single-user paid tier: $35/mo billed monthly, or $25/mo effective when billed annually. This is the tier that unlocks the features most people assume are standard: desktop and mobile capture, PDF/HTML/Markdown export, manual and assisted redaction, and custom branding. In other words, the everyday basics live behind this $25–$35/mo paywall.
Pro Team — $17/mo per seat ($13/mo annual), 5-seat minimum
Pro Team adds team workspaces and analytics on top of everything in Pro Personal, at $17/mo per seat billed monthly or $13/mo per seat billed annually. The catch is the 5-seat minimum: even a two-person team pays for five seats, so the effective entry price is roughly $65/mo billed annually before you add a sixth creator.
Enterprise — custom pricing
Enterprise is quoted on request and layers governance and security onto Pro Team: enforced automatic PII/PHI redaction, SSO, SAML, SCIM, IP whitelisting, roles, data governance and translations. This is where Scribe genuinely earns its reputation for regulated industries (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA support), but there is no public price.
What the Scribe free plan actually excludes
The three exclusions that surprise people most are all things competing tools treat as basics. On Scribe's free plan you cannot:
| Capability | Scribe free | Dubble free |
|---|---|---|
| PDF / HTML / Markdown export | Paid (Pro) | Included (PDF + Magic Copy) |
| Redaction / blur sensitive data | Paid (Pro / Enterprise) | Included (even before recording) |
| Custom branding on guides | Paid (Pro) | Watermark-free images on free |
| Desktop (non-web) capture | Paid (Pro) | Paid (Mac beta) |
| Embed & share anywhere | Scribe-hosted link only | Included |
Put plainly: Dubble's free plan includes PDF export, redaction and embed-anywhere sharing; Scribe's free plan does not. That is the core reason people searching for a cheaper way to use Scribe end up on Dubble.
Per-seat math: 5, 10 and 25 creators
Scribe Pro Team is $13/mo per seat billed annually with a 5-seat minimum. Dubble Pro is $18/mo billed annually with 3 creators included, then +$6/mo per additional creator. Here is what a growing team pays per month (billed annually) for each.
| Creators | Scribe Pro Team /mo | Dubble Pro /mo | You save with Dubble |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | $65/mo | $30/mo | $35/mo |
| 10 | $130/mo | $60/mo | $70/mo |
| 25 | $325/mo | $150/mo | $175/mo |
At 5 creators, Scribe costs $65/mo against Dubble's $30/mo; at 25 creators the gap widens to $325/mo versus $150/mo. The maths only ever favours Scribe on price if you specifically need its enterprise compliance stack or template gallery. For pure seat cost, Dubble is consistently cheaper because there is no seat minimum.
Scribe vs Dubble pricing side by side
Every tier for both tools, straight from their pricing pages, so you can see where the paywalls fall.
| Tool | Free plan | Entry paid plan | All paid tiers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scribe | Unlimited guides for web apps only; no desktop capture, no PDF/HTML/Markdown export, no redaction, and no custom branding | Pro Team — $13/mo |
| Pro Team requires a 5-seat minimum (effectively $65/mo entry when billed annually). PDF export and redaction — often expected as basics — are paywalled above the free plan. |
| Dubble | Unlimited guides, image editing and redaction, blur sensitive content before recording, embed and share anywhere, unlimited private viewers. No video/audio capture, collaborators, or watermark removal. | Free — $0/mo |
| Annual billing saves ~20% (Pro effective $18/mo vs $24/mo monthly). Pro includes 3 creator seats; additional creators are +$8/mo (or +$6/mo billed annually). 14-day free Pro trial. Enterprise is custom-priced (contact sales). |
How Dubble prices the same job differently
Dubble takes a different bet than Scribe: put the basics on the free plan, keep one honest paid tier, and skip the seat minimums. The free plan includes unlimited guides, image editing, redaction and blur, PDF download, embed-anywhere sharing and unlimited private viewers. Those are the exact things Scribe charges for. Dubble Pro is a single tier at $24/mo ($18/mo billed annually) that adds video and audio screen recording, extra creators and watermark removal, with 3 creators included and additional creators at +$6/mo each annually.
The philosophy difference is straightforward. Scribe is VC-backed and prices to move teams up the tiers; everyday actions like exporting a PDF nudge you toward Pro. Dubble is bootstrapped and indie (now part of Paperform), so its pricing is built to be usable for free and cheap to grow into. If you mainly want portable documentation you own (pasteable as markdown or HTML into Notion, Confluence or Google Docs), Dubble delivers that without an export paywall. To go deeper on the feature-by-feature differences, read our full Dubble vs Scribe comparison.
Scribe's pricing is fair if you need its enterprise compliance, governance and template gallery, those tiers earn their cost. But for individuals and small teams, the free plan's missing basics (export, redaction, branding) and the Pro Team 5-seat minimum make it pricier in practice than it first looks. If your job is documenting everyday processes on a budget, Dubble gives you those basics free and a single, cheaper paid tier with no seat minimum.
Keep comparing
If you are still comparing, start from the comparison hub, see the full Scribe alternatives roundup, or compare Scribe against Tango. Or read the same plain-English teardown for Tango pricing. If your real goal is writing procedures, our guide to SOP software shows how these tools fit into a documentation workflow.
Scribe pricing FAQ
References
- Scribe pricing — scribe.com
- Scribe security & compliance — scribe.com
- Dubble pricing — dubble.so
- Scribe Pricing: Is It Worth The Cost? (2026 Compared) — Supademo
- Scribe Pricing: Plans, Costs & When to Switch — HappySupport
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