Billing and Plans

Your plan decides what your account can do each month. This page explains how plans and allowances work, what happens when you reach a limit, and where to manage your billing.

See Your Plan

Your plan is shown in three places:

• The sidebar footer shows your Current Plan (on Free, with an Upgrade link)
• Account Settings shows the Subscription card with your plan, status, and renewal date
• The user menu in the header has a Billing entry: on paid plans it opens the Stripe billing portal, on Free it takes you to the pricing page

The Plans

PodcasterPlus has four self-serve tiers plus two special plans:

• Free: a taster for creating and publishing new episodes. One podcast, small monthly allowances, and paid features like automations, webhooks, AI credits, and back-catalogue import are not included
• Creator: for a growing solo show. Unlimited podcasts and the core paid features with entry-level allowances
• Studio: bigger allowances, more team seats, plus extras like data export
• Production House: high allowances, ten team seats, and agency features like client workspaces
• Enterprise: sales-led with custom pricing and negotiated limits. Not everything is unlimited; caps are agreed per contract
• Founders: a one-time early-adopter purchase that grants Studio-level features for three years

Prices and current per-plan numbers live on the pricing page, which always shows the live figures. For the full limit matrix, see Plan Limits.

How Monthly Allowances Work

Plans include monthly allowances for things like episode slots, automation runs, email sends, AI credits, and push notification deliveries.

• Allowances reset on the 1st of each month
• They're shared across all podcasts on your account, with one exception: calendar connections are counted per user, so each teammate has their own
• Storage isn't monthly: it's a running total of the audio you've uploaded, and deleting audio frees space immediately

Episode slots go by recording month

Your episode allowance is tied to the month an episode is scheduled to record, not when you create it. Each calendar month has its own set of slots, so you can plan ahead: scheduling a recording in a future month uses that month's slots.

When a month is full, PodcasterPlus tells you directly: every episode slot for that month is taken, and you can add an episode pack, upgrade your plan, or pick a date in another month. Guests booking through your booking links simply aren't offered dates in full months.

The Free plan has two separate episode limits

These sound similar but are different walls:

1. 2 episode slots per month: how many episodes you can line up for a given recording month
2. 2 published episodes per month: how many episodes can actually go live in a month. Unpublishing an episode doesn't free up this allowance; it resets on the 1st of the next month

Paid plans have larger slot allowances and no separate publishing cap.

AI credits

AI features draw from one shared pool of AI credits. Transcription uses about 1 credit per minute of audio, and AI guest research uses a flat 5 credits per job. When the pricing page talks about "transcription hours", that's the same credit pool expressed in hours.

If a job would exceed your remaining credits, it's skipped and you're notified; nothing is charged behind your back.

What Happens at a Limit

When you hit a wall, PodcasterPlus shows a dialog at the moment it matters, titled for the situation: Plan limit reached, You've reached your monthly limit, This month is fully booked, Publishing limit reached, or This is a paid feature.

Each dialog explains the specific limit and offers an Upgrade button: on Free it goes to the pricing page, on paid plans to the Subscription card in your settings. Hitting a limit only blocks the new action; nothing you've already created is removed.

Imports are a guideline, not a wall

Back-catalogue imports have a soft monthly allowance: going over prompts a nudge but never blocks an import. (Importing itself is a paid feature, so it isn't available on Free.)

Add-On Packs

Add-on packs absorb a busy month without changing plans. They're one-time purchases, not subscriptions, listed under One-time add-on packs on the pricing page with a Buy pack button:

Pack	Grants	Valid for
Episode pack	+10 managed episodes	6 months
AI credits pack	+300 AI credits	6 months
Email pack	+5,000 email sends	1 month

Packs apply to your account instantly after checkout. Your plan's base allowance is used first, then packs; unused pack balance expires at the end of its validity window.

Manage Billing

On paid plans, the Subscription card in Account Settings has a Manage Billing button. It opens Stripe's secure billing portal in a new tab, where you manage your payment method and invoices.

Upgrade or Downgrade

Plan change buttons live on the same Subscription card, such as Upgrade to Studio or Downgrade to Creator. A dialog previews the change before you confirm:

• Upgrades apply immediately. Your card is charged a prorated amount for the rest of the current billing period, and the new features are available right away
• Downgrades apply at the end of your billing period. You keep your current plan until then, and there's no charge today
• Downgrading to Free cancels your subscription; you keep your paid features until the end of the billing period

If you have more podcasts than the target plan allows, the dialog explains you can't downgrade yet and lists the podcasts to resolve first.

Enterprise and Founders plans are managed separately; the card directs you to contact support for changes.

Your exact numbers can differ

The plan matrix documents each plan's defaults. Your account's live numbers can be higher, for example from add-on packs or negotiated Enterprise caps, and the app always enforces and displays your real allowances.

What's Next?

• Plan Limits: the full limits and features matrix
• Account Settings: your Subscription and Storage cards