Podcast hosting, compared by the numbers
Real prices and limits from 6 hosting providers and 6 recording/editing tools. Every figure links to the vendor page it came from.
Podcast hosts price in very different ways: some charge a flat fee for unlimited everything, some count your monthly downloads, some count the hours of audio you upload, and some count gigabytes. That makes "which is cheapest?" depend on your show. This site lays out the published numbers side by side so you can see where your show fits.
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Hosting pricing table
21 plans from 6 hosts. Sort and filter by price, video, number of shows.
Hosting cost calculator
Enter upload hours, downloads, shows and team size; see which plans fit.
How to choose a host
The six questions that decide which pricing model suits you.
Free podcast hosting
What the free tiers actually include, and their catches.
Best-for guides
For beginners
Low cost, simple limits, trials.
For video podcasts
Which plans host video files, not just links.
For growing shows
What happens at 20k, 100k and 250k downloads.
For unlimited episodes
Hosts with no upload caps, for daily shows.
For multiple shows
Networks, agencies and side projects.
For private podcasts
Internal and subscriber-only feeds.
Head-to-head
Download-based vs flat-rate
Captivate and Transistor vs Castos and RSS.com.
Upload hours vs upload size
Buzzsprout vs Podbean.
Annual vs monthly billing
How much yearly billing saves, plan by plan.
Recording & editing
Remote recording tools
Zencastr, Riverside, Podcastle, Alitu.
Editing software
Descript, Auphonic, Podcastle, Alitu.
All-in-one platforms
Record, edit and host in one subscription.