PodcastStats.com vs Podchaser

PodcastStats.com provides podcast analytics for tracking downloads, understanding audiences and following podcast growth. Its download tracking uses IAB-compliant bot filtering and deduplication to reduce bot traffic and duplicate counts, with live updates. Reports cover geography, devices, platforms, apps, retention and engagement, including city-level geographic detail. To connect a podcast, users can add tracking URLs to an RSS feed or send data through the REST API, which offers webhooks, embeds and custom integrations. Historical data can be imported from Libsyn, Anchor and Buzzsprout. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to 10K downloads per month, with basic dashboard analytics, seven-day data retention, bot filtering and email support. Premium costs $19 a month, allows up to 1M downloads per month and adds advanced insights, unlimited retention, API access and webhooks, widgets, geographic insights and priority support. Enterprise costs $99 a month and includes unlimited downloads, white-labeling, custom integrations and reporting, multi-user accounts, a dedicated support manager and a 99.99% SLA guarantee. A 14-day Premium trial requires no credit card.

Podchaser is a podcast database and search engine for finding podcasts, episodes, creators, audience insights and sponsorship information. Users can search more than 5.5 million podcasts and discover episodes by topic. Credits make hosts, guests, voice actors and crew searchable, while community-curated lists can be browsed or created and shared. Podchaser Pro provides reach and listener demographics for research and campaign planning, and can monitor custom keywords, people or organizations in podcast transcripts. Its API provides podcast metadata, creator credits, audience data, transcripts, charts, contacts, sponsor information and brand safety ratings, with higher tiers unlocking additional data types. Access includes a self-serve REST API and an Enterprise GraphQL API. Enterprise options include S3 data delivery, custom data, bespoke SLAs and dedicated account support. Starter costs $30 a month for 1,000 requests, 25 results per search and medium rate limits. Podchaser says it has no native app-store app, though its progressive web app can be installed from Android, iOS and desktop browsers.