Pricing
RealPodcast is a monthly platform fee plus a fixed price per produced episode. Studio is $40 a month and $40 an episode; a weekly show pays about $200. Recording, transcripts and manual editing are unlimited on every plan, and iterating on an episode never costs extra.
Studio
One show
$40/month
plus $40 per produced episode
Everything needed to run a single show: record it, keep it, edit it by hand as much as you like, and pay per episode for the ones you want produced.
- 2 seats
- 25 recording hours a month
- 300 GB of storage
- Produced episodes at $40 each
Studio Pro
A show with a team
$150/month
plus $35 per produced episode
For a show with a producer, an editor and a marketer in it. Same product, more room, and a lower rate on every episode you produce.
- 5 seats
- 60 recording hours a month
- 1 TB of storage
- Produced episodes at $35 each
Podcast department
A slate of shows
Let's talk
Priced to the slate
A network or an agency running several shows at once, with volume rates on production and the guest sourcing, booking and distribution handled end to end.
- Unlimited seats
- Volume rate on every produced episode
- Storage and recording hours to fit
- Replaces $3,300-11,000 a month of agency
Every plan starts with a call. The first show is set up with you — the strategy brief, the guest list and the format are configured before you record anything, and that is not a self-serve step.
What does a produced episode include?
One recording taken through a full AI pass: the cut, the titles and show notes, six captioned vertical shorts, and up to 20 AI edit requests. You ask for it per episode, and the price is known before it starts.
- Produced episode
- A full AI pass over the recording: the cut, the titles, six captioned shorts, and up to 20 AI edit requests. $35 on Studio Pro.
- $40
- At 25+ episodes a month
- The network rate. Applied automatically once you cross it — there is nothing to ask for.
- $30
- Extra shorts
- Each captioned short beyond the six that come with the episode.
- $6
- Beyond fair use
- Per AI edit past the twentieth on a single episode. The envelope is set from real usage, so this is rarely reached.
- $1.50
Why per episode instead of AI credits?
Because a credit meter makes you hesitate before asking for one more pass, and one more pass is usually what makes the episode good. Every tool that meters AI actions is quietly charging you for the thing it told you to do, and its users can feel it.
So we bill the finished episode. Reword the intro, recut the tangent, regenerate the shorts, throw the whole thing out and start again — the price does not move. Internally that is a lot of work; you never have to think about it. Nothing meters while you record, nothing meters while you edit, and no episode is ever produced unless you ask for it.
What will I actually pay?
A weekly show on Studio pays $200 a month. Below is the arithmetic for the four shapes of show we see, next to what the same output costs from a freelance editor or a production agency.
| Show | Plan | Episodes | A month | Replaces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortnightly show | Studio | 2 produced | $120 | $300-1,000 of editing |
| Weekly show | Studio | 4 produced | $200 | $600-2,000 |
| Daily show | Studio Pro | 22 produced | $920 | $3,300-11,000 |
| Agency or network | Podcast department | 20+ produced | Let's talk | $3,000-10,000 |
What is unlimited on every plan?
Recording, transcription and the manual editor are unlimited on every tier, including the cheapest one. They cost us almost nothing, and a studio you are afraid to open is not a studio.
- Recording, for as long as you want to talk
- Local HD capture for every guest, backed up while you record
- Word-level transcripts on every track
- The manual editor, with unlimited revisions
- Guest sourcing, intake and scheduling on your own domain
Questions
- How much does RealPodcast cost?
- Studio is $40 a month plus $40 for each episode you have produced, so a weekly show pays about $200 a month. Studio Pro is $150 a month with episodes at $35. Recording, transcripts and manual editing are unlimited on every plan.
- Why is there a charge per episode instead of AI credits?
- Because a credit meter makes you hesitate before asking for one more pass, and one more pass is usually what makes the episode good. A produced episode is a fixed price however many attempts it takes, so iterating never costs you anything.
- What counts as a produced episode?
- One recording taken through a full AI pass: the cut, the titles and show notes, six captioned vertical shorts, and up to 20 AI edit requests. Recording an episode and editing it by hand is not a produced episode and is not charged.
- Is there a free trial?
- No. Every plan starts with a call, because the first show is set up with you rather than by you — the strategy brief, the guest list and the format are configured before the first recording, and that is not a self-serve step.
- Can I be surprised by a large bill?
- No episode is produced unless you ask for it, and each one is a known fixed price before you start. There is no per-minute meter running while you record or edit, so the only thing that changes your bill is how many episodes you choose to publish.
Work out what your show would cost
Tell us how often you want to publish and we will show you the arithmetic against what you are paying now. Thirty minutes, and you leave with a number either way.
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