Comparison
TrackPodcasts vs Podscan
Podscan monitors mentions across the whole podcast world. TrackPodcasts is built for one job — podcast sponsorships — and costs 30% as much. Here is the honest difference.
Choose TrackPodcasts if
- You sell, buy or research podcast sponsorships
- You want the verbatim read, host-read vs inserted, position and promo code
- You want an alert when a brand buys a new show
- You want the same core workflow for $30, not $100, a month
Choose Podscan if
- You need the widest coverage: they list 4.9M+ podcasts and 71.4M+ episodes
- You need a real-time firehose, an MCP server or historical reports
- You need audience demographics, contact data or GARM brand-safety scores
- You need many more alerts and API calls per dollar at the entry tier
Side by side
Podscan figures from podscan.fm as published on 25 September 2026. “Not advertised” means we could not find it on their public site, not that it does not exist.
| TrackPodcasts | Podscan | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per month | ||
| Entry tier | $30 (Pro) | $100 (Premium) |
| Team tier | $60 (Team) | $200 (Professional) |
| Agency tier | $750 (Agency) | $2,500 (Advanced) |
| Enterprise | From $1,500 | From $5,000 |
| 24-hour pass | $6 | $20 |
| 72-hour pass | $15 | $50 |
| Free trial | 7 days, no card | 10 days, no card |
| Sponsorship data | ||
| Public, free advertiser index | ✓ | Not advertised |
| Verbatim ad read per placement | ✓ | Sponsor reads in brand console |
| Host-read vs network-inserted | ✓ | Not advertised |
| Pre/mid/post-roll position | ✓ | Not advertised |
| Promo codes extracted | ✓ | Not advertised |
| Sponsor alerts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free monitoring for verified brands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monitoring and data | ||
| Keyword alerts (entry tier) | 25 | 50 |
| API requests/day (entry tier) | 100 | 2,000 |
| Seats (entry tier) | 1 | 5 |
| Slack and webhooks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Organic mention sentiment | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time firehose | — | ✓ |
| MCP server for AI agents | — | ✓ |
| Historical reports | — | ✓ |
| Demographics and contact data | — | ✓ |
| GARM brand-safety scoring | — | ✓ |
| Podcasts covered | See /stats | 4.9M+ monitored |
Questions
- Is TrackPodcasts a Podscan clone?
- No. Podscan is a broad podcast-intelligence platform built around mention monitoring. TrackPodcasts is built around sponsorships: who advertises where, what the read says, and when a brand buys a new show.
- Why is it cheaper?
- We priced every tier at 30% of the Podscan tier it sits against, and we do less: no firehose, no demographics or contact data, no brand-safety scoring. If you need those, Podscan is the better buy.
- Can I switch from Podscan?
- Start a 7-day free trial, add the brands you track, and compare the sponsor data side by side before you cancel anything.
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