Podbean 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Podbean

3.9

(26)

Pricing

Starting at $9.00 per month

About Podbean

Podbean is a podcast management solution that helps organizations create, publish and manage audio and video podcasts, marketing campaigns, and live audio streams on a unified portal. The platform enables users to distribute podcasts across various online channels including Google, Apple, Spotify and more.

Podbean allows businesses to design personalized websites using custom themes and domain, view followers and respond to comments. Podcasters can embed podcasts into multiple blogs and websites and share posts on various social channels such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Additionally, it offers a host of features including user management, data import/export, customer engagement, reports and more.

Podbean facilitates integration with Mailchimp marketing application, which lets users create and run email marketing campaigns to share new releases and engage with the target audience. It is available on monthly/annual subscriptions and support is provided via email, tutorials and other online measures.

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Podbean Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $9.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$9.00

per feature, per month

No plan information available

Podbean Features

Popular features found in Live Streaming
Audience Analytics
Live Streaming Production
Moderation
Multistreaming
More features of Podbean
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
API
Audience Engagement
Audio Recording
Audio/video file upload
Bulk Uploading
Custom Domains
Customizable Branding
Dashboard
Data Storage Management
Distribution Management
Engagement Tracking
Event Scheduling
Hosting
Live Streaming
Mobile Access
Multi-Channel Distribution
Performance Monitoring
Publishing/Sharing
Real-Time Analytics
Real-time Broadcasting
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Session Recording
Social Media Streaming
Social Sharing
Statistics
Third-Party Integration
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Monetization Tools
Website Management

Podbean Integrations

WordPress

Meta for Business

Twitter/X

Mailchimp

Podbean User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.9

Ratings Breakdown

46%

31%

12%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.0

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Podbean

It's a perfect experience overall from the beginning till now.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Podbean is an absolute wonder to our podcast hosting. We just started our Podcast "The Maven Show" and it's been amazing so far.

Cons:

It's great and amazing so far and has no cons as per us.

CharRon S.

Verified reviewer

Broadcast Media

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Podbean give my podcast power

Podbean allows you 2 hours of free podcast time to try out podcasting and only $9 a month / $108 annual plan is pretty good.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I enjoy the third party integration. I am able to setup Mailchimp, Auphonic, and Resonate immediately after I upload a episode. I am glad of all the streaming service provider that are at my disposal. They even have tutorials on how to set them up. I am starting to use the live streaming program for my movie viewing .

Cons:

Since Anchor has landed, it is a hard sell to new customers that don't see podcast as a long process to use. But I understand that I still have ownership of my episode when I move podcast hosting sites. I do wish that patreon was a free addon to the basic plan.

Reasons for choosing Podbean

The security and the reliability that it give me and my episodes to shine.

Greg N.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Crippled Entry Level Packages

Good if you don't need any assistance. Support can take a while and some of the features are crippled in the lower cost packages to incentivize you needing to pay more to fix the problem.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Not a bad podcasting platform but they cripple the low end offerings to try to persuade customers to upgrade to the more costly packages.

Cons:

Crippled website at the lower cost packages. There's no reason for this other than to try to get the person to upgrade. You'll have to buy the video podcast package even if you don't do videos if you want to be able to white label your podcasting site.

Robert H.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

2-10 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Podbean. A good starting point Not sure about things after that

It was promising until I found out I can't schedule a launch. I get the free package should be limited but that's a pretty big limitation

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and free program for hosting. If we grow our podcast to the point where we can pay a monthly subscription I'll be checking back in on them

Cons:

Can't schedule podcast launches ahead of time

Noah M.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Podbean | Podcast Hosting in a Simple Way

My Podbean experience has been, overall, positive. I used them from 2018-2022 before switching to a host that provided more at a lower price. I enjoyed how easy-to-use Podbean was, and how it felt so different and customizable compared to it's competitors. This is truly a great place for new podcasters looking to get their feet in the water, and don't know how to deal with all the functions that go into podcasting (IE how to submit RSS feeds, website design, and social media). However, I have dove into the deep end and began looking to branch out my creative endeavors, and I've learned quite a bit about "manual" podcasting. Podbean has a lot of automation, and thus I left when I was ready to take away the automation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Podbean was my podcast host for years before I eventually left. The positives about Podbean are that they: Have easy distribution, allowing podcasts to be distributed to podcatchers within a matter of days Post customizability. Episode have the wrong MP3? Wrong cover art? Need to change a description? In a matter of clicks, you can easily change what you need. Interface. It wasn't until I switched hosts that I realized how much I miss the Podbean interface. It's easy to navigate, and doesn't take long at all to find what you need. Comments and podcasts. The Podbean website is set up in such a way that you get notifications for new subscribers or comments, and you can easily find podcasts for certain categories, even smaller podcasts. I feel that this encourages smaller creators to keep creating, because it really isn't too hard to discover them.

Cons:

I left Podbean because a new competitor, Disctopia, offered more of what I wanted for less of the price. I was on the first paid subscription to Podbean, which allowed for some template-style customization. I wanted to make an entire website, and I kind of did. Unfortunately, the customization at the lower tier for websites is pretty bad, using a lot of coding and drag/drop templates to design a website. Granted, Podbean never claimed to be a website designer. In fact, they boast Wordpress/blog style feeds, making it easier for content creators to post. This was a turn-off for me, but may be great for others. Live-streaming. Oh boy. My cohosts and/or guests had to dial in using their phone, the audio quality was awful, the chat interface was great (as long as you had a Podbean account). I was so excited for this feature, but it just doesn't stand up to it's competitors in terms of usefulness. Used it once, then immediately switched to a different livestream website. Multiple podcasts. On my subscription, I couldn't start another podcast. I'd have to upgrade to be able to, but competitors offered multiple podcasts at a lower rate. This was the main reason I left. As I've crafted a business, I need to be able to host multiple podcasts for multiple clients. Podbean's tiers started jumping up. Customer service. It's not bad, but every time I needed help I was pushed off to a "how-to" video somewhere on the internet. Sometimes it helped. Sometimes I was frustrated.

Riccardo L.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Podbean really seems to give podcasters everything they need

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Podbean is one of the few media hosts that really seems to give podcasters pretty much everything they need from start to finish. In particular, I like that Podbean lets you: – share your podcast content to different platforms – easily edit a web page that's automatically created and that accompanies each episode that you publish – different podcast monetization avenues – the ability to live stream your episodes in real-time and even have guests or a co-host call in – join its free community of podcasters to network and learn from others – host video content (perfect if you are considering using or adding video for your show) – mobile app you can use to record, publish episodes, listen to podcasts, go live, and get paid

Cons:

The analytics don't seem as accurate and "complete" as on other platforms and depending on what you need, you may end up paying quite a bit for your Podbean plan

Jason J.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

My Podbean Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It’s easy to use and it’s affordable as well

Cons:

Nothing really I’m really happy with the product

Verified

Reviewer

Entertainment

Self-Employed

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Absolutely sickening product and support

Everything. I told them I had a lot of content I need to upload and they told me I could do it via FTP. I told them I would need their system to extract the ID3 metadata from files while creating episodes and they ASSURED me that it can. It can't. I spent a lot of time uploading 16gb of files all for nothing. It doesn't read a damn thing and all still have to be manually named. Avoid at all cost. They have since stopped replying to my emails because they got caught lying.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nothing, it's the worst online software I have ever used

Cons:

Everything, especially incompetent support

Philasande N.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Podbean review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can listen to any podcast you like cost free

Cons:

The phone app of this software is not always up to date, it sometimes gives me some problems.

Osarumwense I.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

A review of podbean

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like this this app because it is easily accessible. It runs smoothly without glitch. I like the download option as well. Great functionality!

Cons:

I am yet to experience any negative thing with Podbean...

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