Pricing that scales with your catalog.
Start free. Pay for the processing you use, on one flat overage rate. White-label when you’re ready to make it your own.
Plans
Free
- 200 credits of indexing (≈ 10 hrs, lifetime)
- Manual indexing, episode by episode
- Public library & discovery
- Search your indexed episodes
- AI clips — audio episodes become captioned vertical video
- Access Analytics — visitors, sources & AI referrals
- Custom domain with PodHood branding
Pro
Most popular- 6,000 credits (≈ 300 hrs), granted all at once — enough to backfill your archive
- One Channel, fully indexed
- Automatic indexing of every new episode
- Creator API — your full catalog, drafts included, over REST & MCP
- AI clips — audio episodes become captioned vertical video
- YouTube comment insights — sentiment, questions & recurring asks
- Access Analytics incl. what AI agents ask your catalog
- Unlimited team seats
- Top up anytime — $1 buys 10 credits
Studio
- 18,000 credits (≈ 900 hrs), granted all at once — enough to backfill your archive
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited Channels — one credit pool across your whole slate
- White-label — your library & MCP endpoint, your brand only
- More clip formats — 1:1 & 16:9 (coming soon)
- Catalog-wide audience insights (coming soon)
- Priority support
- Top up anytime — $1 buys 10 credits
Compare plans
| Capability | Free | Pro | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Included indexing credits | 200 credits lifetime (≈ 10 hrs) | 400 / mo · annual: 6,000 up front | 1,200 / mo · annual: 18,000 up front |
| Channels | 1 | 1 | Unlimited |
| Indexing | Manual | Automatic | Automatic |
| Credit top-ups ($1 = 10 credits) | |||
| Team seats | Solo | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Public library & discovery | |||
| Email subscribers & new-episode email | |||
| Custom domain | |||
| Creator API access | |||
| White-label library & MCP | |||
| AI clips — audio episodes as captioned vertical (9:16) video | |||
| More clip formats (1:1 · 16:9, coming soon) | |||
| Access Analytics — visitors, sources & AI referrals | |||
| YouTube comment analysis | |||
| Catalog-wide audience insights (coming soon) | |||
| Support | Community | Standard | Priority |
Frequently asked questions
Credits are indexing capacity: one hour of audio or video costs 20 credits, and $1 buys 10 credits — the same $2 per content-hour, expressed as points. On monthly billing you get a fresh grant every month: 400 credits on Pro (≈ 20 hrs), 1,200 on Studio (≈ 60 hrs). On annual billing you get a bigger pool — 6,000 on Pro (≈ 300 hrs), 18,000 on Studio (≈ 900 hrs) — granted in one lump on day one. Credits are fungible: one-time historical backfill, ongoing new-episode indexing, and re-indexing all draw from the same pool, and future features will meter on it too.
Three reasons. You get 2 months free. You get 25% more credits than twelve monthly grants — 6,000 instead of 4,800 on Pro, 18,000 instead of 14,400 on Studio. And the whole pool lands on day one, sized so you can point it straight at your back catalog and clear it immediately. On monthly billing, credits arrive month by month, so a large backfill means topping up instead.
Yes. Buy a monthly or one-year pass instead of subscribing: same price and credits as the subscription, paid once with Alipay, WeChat Pay or a card. It doesn't auto-renew — buy another when it runs out, and a pass bought early starts when the current one ends.
Capacity first: unlimited Channels sharing one credit pool, and more than three times the credits of Pro — enough to run a slate of shows rather than one podcast. Then the layer on top: white-label (your library and MCP endpoint carry only your brand), additional clip formats (1:1 and 16:9) and catalog-wide audience insights as they roll out, and priority support.
Free and Pro include one Channel. Studio is built for a slate: connect as many Channels as you run, all funded by the one credit pool on your account. Your public libraries stay up no matter what — a downgrade never takes a page offline.
Free includes 200 credits (≈ 10 hours of indexing) over the lifetime of the account. At the cap your account goes read-only — you keep and can still search everything you have indexed; you just can’t index more until you upgrade.
Indexing pauses — nothing is ever billed behind your back. Top up whenever you like at $1 = 10 credits (packs of 200, 500, or 1,000): purchased credits never expire, while plan credits reset with each term. Everything you have already indexed stays live and searchable either way — and AI clip rendering never draws from credits, so clips keep working too.
Included — Clips is live on every plan at launch, Free included, for RSS-sourced Channels. Rendering never draws from your indexing credits; each Channel has a fair-use daily render cap instead. Clips are cut from indexed episodes' key moments, so indexing — the thing credits meter — is what unlocks them.
Included — Access Analytics ships on every plan, Free included. It measures discovery: visits to your public library, the links, campaigns, and AI answers that sent them, and the questions AI agents ask your catalog over MCP. Comment insights (Pro and Studio) add what your audience says on top.
No. Transcription is one input. PodHood is discoverability infrastructure: it turns each episode into a structured knowledge graph and publishes it so your catalog can be found by people, cited by answer engines, and queried by AI agents over MCP.
A custom domain (included on every plan) hosts your library at your own address while keeping PodHood branding. White-label (Studio) goes further — it removes PodHood’s identity from the library and MCP endpoint on that domain.