Podchaser

Podcast search and research

Credits, guests, and reviews. The public directory is free. The outreach desk is sales.

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Podchaser is the credits database. Hosts, guests, crew. Reviews. Lists. You look up who was on a show the way you look up a filmography. The public directory is free. That is what working hosts actually use. Pro is the outreach and demographics desk for PR and ads. The Pro page will not tell you the dollar. It says book a demo. This listing does not invent one.

It fits a booker who wants appearance history, not only a search box. It fits a host who wants public credits and reviews on the show page. It fits a sales team that will pay for contacts and brand-safety flags. It does not fit someone who wanted Listen Notes for episode search. It does not fit a DIY download chart. That is a different aisle.

What people keep the free side for is the graph of people. Guest credits are the thing nobody else does this loudly. Charts, lists, and reviews sit next to that. The API is a separate product with a public ladder: Starter at $30, Professional at $300, then Enterprise. Developers buy that. Most hosts never should.

The later pain is the wall between free and Pro. Contacts, reach, and sponsor history live behind sales. If you only needed to confirm a guest's other shows, paying Pro is a waste. If you needed a mail merge of producers, the free directory will starve you. Do not treat the API Starter price as the Pro website price. They are different doors.

Claim your show and clean the credits before you pitch off someone else's page. Use free search for booking research. If you are an agency, take the demo and get a written quote. If you are building an app, start on API Starter and read the no-resale rule. Do not paste a guessed yearly Pro number into a budget.

Podchaser is the people graph. The deal is credits in public. If you will use the free directory, it holds. If you needed a self-serve outreach price, they will not show you one on the site.

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