Features & Pricing

From your first listener to your first million, Simplecast provides powerful tools needed to manage, distribute, share, and grow your podcast.

A Plan For Every Podcaster

Looking for enterprise-level features and support? Have a quickly growing show? We'd love to tell you about Simplecast Professional. Reach out – we're here to help.

Basic

$15/month

$13.50 /mo if prepaid annually

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Essential

$35/month

$31.50 /mo if prepaid annually

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Growth

$85/month

$76.50 /mo if prepaid annually

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Unlimited storage space

We don't limit the amount of audio you host with Simplecast, period.
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Unlimited uploads

Upload as much audio as you please. We don't charge extra for your uploads.
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Distribution to all platforms

Easy distribution to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, iHeartRadio, Overcast, Pocketcast, Radio Public, Stitcher, TuneIn, and more to come!
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Listener analytics & reports

See a comprehensive overview of your show's popularity over time.
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Themed show website

All Simplecast shows come with a beautiful website, no set up required!
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Secure RSS feed

All Simplecast feeds are secured by SSL.
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Additional team members

Add more users to your show to help you manage and distribute your show!
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API access

Use our API for integrations or custom built apps!
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Web Players

Simplecast provides you with the most beautiful, robust web players available. With three sizes and customizable colors, you can embed a single episode or an entire show library. Our players are oEmbed compliant, so it's seamless to add them on site-builders like Squarespace or Wordpress, blogs like Medium, and social media.

Standard web player

Our standard player for embedding your episodes around the web.
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Mini player

A small, elegant version of our embeddable web player.
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Show player

This powerful option lets you embed all your show's episodes in one player.
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Color customization

You can customize all your embedded players with all the colors of the rainbow.
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Website

With our all-new site builder, creating a site is as simple as publishing your first episode or trailer. Customize the theme colors or create additional pages. It's beautiful, mobile-friendly, and SEO optimized by default. Want a custom website domain? We got you. HTTPS security on all sites, too!

Secure site (https)

All Simplecast sites are secured by SSL.
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Color customization

You can customize your theme with colors and accents to match your show's branding.
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Google Analytics & Facebook Pixel

You can optionally use third party tools that integrate with our site in order to monitor its traffic.
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Custom domain (yoursite.com)

If you have a custom domain, you can easily use it with your Simplecast website.
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Custom pages - Coming Spring

Add more pages to your website.
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Recast

Recast® is a podcast sharing and discovery tool which allows your listeners to share custom clips of your episodes on social media. The industry's first listener-powered audiogram tool offers insights into your listeners' sharing habits through all-new reporting tools.

Sharing clip length (90s max)

This denotes the maximum length of the audio clip you can create with Recast.
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Download & Share

After creating your recast, you can download the new file and share it with the world!
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oEmbed sharing - Coming Soon

Share recast with just a link, no download required.
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Tracking analytics - Coming Soon

See how your recasts are being used and heard around the web!
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Listener Analytics

An audio analytics platform unlike any you've seen before. Better understand your users, where they are, where they listen (like at work or at home), and the apps and devices they use, with IAB compliant analytics right out of the box. We went and made enterprise-scale analytics affordable for podcasters everywhere.

ANALYTICS OVERVIEW

The analytics overview has everything that you had in Simplecast 1.0 (plus a little bit more).
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Show & individual episode reports

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Top episodes

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Top listening apps

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Top countries

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Most popular time of day

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Total recasts shared - Coming Spring

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Unique listeners from the last 7 days

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AUDIENCE INSIGHTS - New

Choose up to 7 preset date ranges (or customize your own!), view granularities of a month, week, day, or hour. You can also look at analytics for one episode at a time or for your entire show.
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Customizable download charts

Download customizable CSV reports of your analytics.
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Compare episodes

Plot your episodes' downloads over time or accumulative downloads against one another.
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Popular day/time matrix

Discover when your listeners are most likely to tune in.
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Interactive location map

See a global overview of the locations your listeners are coming from, and zoom in to see details about their specific locations.
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Countries & States/Provinces

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Detailed apps & browsers

See what apps and browsers your listeners are using to tune in
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Device types

See the kinds of devices your listeners are using, such as phones or smart speakers.
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Internet providers & listening locations

We provide information about your listeners' ISPs.
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Unique listener reports

Discover how many unique listeners are tuning into your episodes.
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RECAST INSIGHTS - Coming Spring

See analytics about how people are sharing and listening to your Recasts!
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Top share points

See what part of your episode is getting recasted the most!
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Heatwave™ Reports

See a visual heatwave of your Recast.
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Sharing locations & referrers

See the platforms your recasts have been shared.
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Per episode reports

See custom reports for individual episodes.
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WEB PLAYER INSIGHTS - Coming Spring

Details about how your web players are being listened to and shared.
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Episode % completed

Get information on how long listeners are tuned into your episodes.
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Listening speed

Are listeners playing at normal speed? 2x? Check it out!
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Frequent drop-off points

Learn about the places that users commonly stop listening to your episode.
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Embed locations & referrers

See the platforms your embeds have been shared.
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Recommended Downloads

You need to focus on building a high quality show and growing an audience, not worrying about file size limits, thresholds, or overage fees. That's why Simplecast provides 100% unlimited file storage and monthly uploads. In addition, each Plan's download thresholds are 100% creator-friendly – giving you plenty of room to grow before you'd need to upgrade.

Included downloads per month

The following numbers are soft limits on each pricing plan. If you go a little bit over the limit on a given month, we will contact you to talk about an upgrade, but we'll never bill you extra without letting you know first.
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20,000

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Simplecast Professional

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Looking for enterprise-level features and support? Have a quickly growing show? We'd love to tell you about Simplecast Professional. Reach out – we're here to help.

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