Podcast database
Show counts and prices, and active shows at 5¢ a row.
A podcast database is sold in two ways. Rephonic and Podchaser sell API access by the month or the year: Rephonic has more than 4 million shows and its API costs $299 per month with 10,000 requests, and Podchaser has 6,000,000+ podcasts from $300 a year with 1,000 requests a month. Taddy, Listen Notes and the Podcast Index start free.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It sells podcasts as rows you keep. Its list of active shows holds the 420,667 podcasts in the Podcast Index that published an episode in the 90 days to November 7, 2026, with each show's owner, language, categories, episode count, last episode, website and feed.
A list costs 5¢ a row for the first 2,000 rows and 1¢ a row after, from $5, paid by card with no account. For shows that need a condition no file has, describe them in plain words and each match comes back as a row at 5¢, with a source URL on each value. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.
SpecStream, Rephonic and Podchaser side by side
| SpecStream | Rephonic API | Podchaser API | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shows covered | 420,667 active shows: every podcast in the Podcast Index with an episode in the 90 days to November 7, 2026. 168,596 of them publish at least weekly | More than 4 million shows. Its own article on the Podchaser API, updated May 07, 2026, still says over 3 million | 6,000,000+ podcasts |
| What you send | A pick from the lists by language and category, or the shows you want in plain words with the facts to bring back | REST requests, with 25 endpoints and 40+ filters | REST requests on the Starter and Professional plans. Each search, lookup or data retrieval counts as one request |
| What you get back | A CSV with the show, owner, author, language, categories, episodes, first and last episode, publishing frequency, website, feed and Apple Podcasts ID. From a request in words, rows with the facts you named, a source URL and read time on every value | Structured JSON: podcast metadata, full text episode transcripts with speaker identification, contact email addresses, social media links and website URLs | Audience demographics, transcripts, Apple and Spotify charts and search. Starter has contact emails from RSS feeds. Professional adds reach, full contacts, charts and sponsors |
| Price | 5¢ a row for the first 2,000 rows of a list and 1¢ a row after. From a request in words, 5¢ a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 and one set of related records, $1 for a deep row | $299 per month, with 10,000 requests a month: 2.99¢ a request | Starter: $300 a year billed annually, with 1,000 requests a month. Professional: $2,880 a year billed annually, with 10,000 requests a month. Enterprise: custom |
| Smallest purchase | $5 for a list, by card with no account. $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, for requests in words | $299 for the first month. No contract and no minimum commitment time | $300 for a year of Starter on annual billing |
| What 10,000 shows cost | $180 from a list, once: 2,000 rows at 5¢ and 8,000 at 1¢. The file is yours to keep | $299 pays for one month of 10,000 requests. The article does not say how many shows one request returns | On Professional, 100 results per search: 100 searches of the 10,000 a month. On Starter, 25 results per search: 400 searches of the 1,000 a month |
| Contacts | The lists carry the owner name and website, without contact addresses. A request in words can ask for a business email, at 5¢ more on the row that has it, or a phone at 15¢ more | Contact email addresses, social media links and website URLs | RSS feed contacts on Starter. Full contacts, with social media, agency, management and direct contacts, on Professional |
| Listener numbers and transcripts | Not in the lists. The lists say how often a show publishes and when it last did | Listener numbers and audience demographics, with transcripts and speaker identification | Demographics and transcripts on Starter. Reach, the estimated audience size, on Professional |
| From an agent | The MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp: the agent asks in the same words, sees the price, and gets the rows once you approve | REST API with structured JSON responses | An MCP server on the Starter and Professional REST API plans |
Why outreach and sponsorship teams take SpecStream for a podcast list
Active shows only
Rephonic counts more than 4 million shows and Podchaser 6,000,000+. A count of every show ever listed does not say how many still publish. The Podcast Index held 420,667 shows with an episode in the 90 days to November 7, 2026, and 168,596 that publish at least weekly. The SpecStream list holds those shows, so a pitch goes to a show that still records. Each row has the last episode date and the average days between episodes.
Pay for rows, and keep them
Rephonic's API costs $299 per month and Podchaser's Professional plan $2,880 a year, each with 10,000 requests a month. When the plan ends, so does the access. A SpecStream list is a CSV you pay for once: 1,000 shows cost $50, 10,000 cost $180, and the 250,000 active shows with the most episodes cost $2,580. Lists by language and category start at $5. See the podcast lists.
Conditions no filter has
A database gives you its filters: Rephonic has 25 search filters, Podchaser its search. On SpecStream you write the shows you need: "Podcasts about SaaS with a sponsorship page and a new episode in the last two weeks. Include the contact email." SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back, reads the live web, and returns one row for each show that meets them all.
A price before the run
A request in words is quoted before it starts: the most it can cost. Nothing runs until you approve it, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged.
What SpecStream does not hold
The lists have no listener numbers, no audience demographics and no transcripts. If you choose shows by audience size, age or income, Rephonic and Podchaser sell those estimates, and Taddy sells transcripts. SpecStream fits when you need the shows themselves: which exist, which are active, who owns them and where to reach them.
Other podcast databases
Taddy Podcast API
An API for over 4 million podcasts and 200 million episodes, with search, transcripts and webhooks. The free plan includes 500 API requests per month with no credit card, and Pro costs $75 a month for 100,000 API requests per month. Pro includes 100 episode transcripts. SpecStream sells the list of shows as a file, or builds it from your request.
Listen Notes Podcast API
A podcast search API with a free plan to start building, and a Podcast MCP server included with every API plan. It answers searches from an app, one request at a time. SpecStream sells the list of active shows as a file: 5¢ a row for the first 2,000 rows and 1¢ after.
Podcast Index API
The open index the SpecStream lists are read from. Its API is free: you register for a free API key and sign each request with four headers. You get the raw index and filter it yourself. SpecStream has already cut it down to the shows with an episode in the last 90 days and split them by language and category, as CSV files.
How SpecStream scores
The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.
| SpecStream |  Parallel |  Exa |  Tavily |  Perplexity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |
How to get your podcast list from SpecStream
For active shows by language or category, open the podcast lists, pick a list and pay by card. No account is needed, and the CSV opens on your screen when the payment clears and comes by email.
For shows with your own conditions, write them in plain words. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card: up to 200 shows at 5¢ a row.
Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.
curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"request": "Podcasts about B2B marketing with more than 50 episodes and a new episode in the last month. Include the publisher and feed.", "count": 25}'Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. Setup for each client is in the MCP docs.
Frequently asked questions
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Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server?
https://api.specstream.ai/mcp. An agent asks for podcasts in plain words, sees the most the run can cost, and gets the rows with their sources once you approve.Sources
SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.
- SpecStream podcast listsspecstream.ai/data/podcasts, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
- SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- Rephonic on its podcast databaserephonic.com/blog/podcast-search-tool/, read Nov 12, 2026
- Rephonic on its API and the Podchaser APIrephonic.com/blog/podchaser-api/, read Nov 12, 2026
- Podchaser APIpodchaser.com/api, read Nov 12, 2026
- Taddy API pricingtaddy.org/developers/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
- Taddy Podcast APItaddy.org/developers/podcast-api, read Nov 12, 2026
- Listen Notes Podcast APIlistennotes.com/developers, read Nov 12, 2026
- Podcast Index API docspodcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/, read Nov 12, 2026