Podscan

Podscan is the broader product Arvid Kahl has been building publicly for the past few years, with the Alerts product covered separately. The umbrella platform encompasses the alerts system (real-time keyword notifications across millions of podcasts), the database (unlimited full-text search across 59M+ episodes), the REST API (programmatic access for developers and data teams), and the Ideas product (discovering business opportunities surfaced from podcast transcripts).

Pricing tiers run Premium, Professional, and Advanced, each with progressively higher alert quotas (50, 500, unlimited), team seat counts (3, 5, 10), and API access levels. All plans include unlimited notifications via email or webhook, and unlimited full-text search across episodes.

Specific dollar amounts aren't always consistently posted in third-party sources, so a direct check at podscan.fm/pricing is the safest move. A 10-day free trial requires no credit card, and recently-founded or bootstrapped businesses (within 2 years) get 50% off their first year on any plan.

For podcasters monitoring their own show, this is the wrong shape, your hosting analytics already cover the use case. Where Podscan earns its position is in three specific places: brand teams monitoring mentions across podcasts (the way they'd monitor press coverage), competitive intelligence teams tracking what competitors are advertising on or being discussed on, and developers building products on top of podcast data via the API. For those use cases there's genuinely nothing else with the same scope and recency in 2026.