PodcastStats.com vs Podscan.fm

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.

Podscan.fm is a podcast database and search service for finding and working with episode audio and metadata. Its REST API provides access to more than 72 million episodes from more than 4.9 million podcasts, with full-text transcript search and filters for category, language and date. Podscan says it transcribes and analyzes thousands of new episodes daily. Summaries cover topics, key quotes, guests and sponsors, while topic extraction connects named subjects across the podcast corpus. The service also offers a real-time Firehose API, custom webhooks and a Zapier integration with pre-built triggers for new scan results. Its MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP-enabled clients, using OAuth 2.1 without an API token; REST API requests use API-key authentication. A free plan and 10-day trial are listed. After the trial, alerts pause and API access stops until a paid plan is selected. Premium costs $100 a month. One-time options include Day Pass at $20, paid once and Research Pass at $50, paid once.