Podchaser vs Podscan.fm

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.

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.