Podbean vs Podcast.co

Podbean is a podcast hosting and publishing service with tools for distribution, audience statistics, monetization, and private or video podcasts. It supports RSS feeds and distribution to major directories. Its iPhone and Android apps cover recording, publishing, statistics, and listening, and episodes can be automatically shared to Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, and WordPress. The Basic Free Plan provides 5 hours or 500MB of storage, 100GB of monthly bandwidth, up to three published episodes per day, a 100MB single-file limit, and up to 20 episodes in its RSS feed. Free hosting supports MP3 and M4A files, includes basic statistics, and does not require a credit card to sign up. Paid plans add options such as audio or video publishing, private podcasts, team access, and AI tools for audio optimization, content assistance, transcripts, and podcast creation. The listed Unlimited Audio plan costs $17 a month when billed yearly. Podbean also offers advanced, IAB-certified analytics and monetization features including an Ads Marketplace, dynamic ad insertion, and Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.

Podcast.co provides podcast hosting, distribution and management for brands, businesses and people with stories to share. Episodes can go live when uploaded or be scheduled for a chosen date, then distributed to podcast directories with one click. It also supports invite-only private podcasts through a web portal or private RSS feed. Published episodes can populate podcast pages, and customizable players can be embedded for a whole show or an individual episode. Analytics show popular episodes, listener locations and top-performing platforms. Integrations named by the service include YouTube, WordPress, Slack, Twitter, Trello, Google Drive, LinkedIn, Gmail, Facebook, Radio.co, Zapier and its API. Plans start at $19/mo, with a 14-day trial and no free plan. Monthly download allowances are account-wide; if an account exceeds its allowance, the show remains available while upgrade options are discussed. Transcription is listed at $20 per month for 10 hours, and trials include 60 minutes. Podcast.co was founded in 2019 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.