Every paid Pod Engine plan includes full API and MCP access — there is no separate API plan to buy. Sign up for the $100/mo plan to get started, or book a demo if you would prefer to talk first.
NewMCP Server
Ship your podcast product in days, not months
Transcripts, contacts, social profiles, charts, and AI analysis—one API, zero infrastructure.
1M+ minutes transcribed daily
Updated every morning
5x response rate with validated emails
LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and 22 more
Video + audio in one search
Results in <100ms
Used by the world's best guest booking agencies
The only podcast operating system built for serious guest bookers.
100% podcast coverage. Zero maintenance.
Total podcasts
2,543,983
Active podcasts
473,794
Episodes
141,811,425
1. Coverage
100% podcast coverage
Every active show on Apple, YouTube, and Spotify is here the moment it launches — so you research the entire market, never a partial sample.
Podcasts we transcribe
80,123
Episodes transcribed
5,469,473
2. Transcription
Millions of episodes transcribed
We transcribe 10,000–20,000 episodes a day, so you can search what was actually said inside an episode — not just the title and description.
Total emails
3,185,723
Non-RSS emails
281,968
Podcast websites
3,415,826
3. Contact details
Emails & website links included
We go beyond the RSS feed to surface the emails and links it leaves out — so you can reach hosts directly without hunting them down.
Hosts
4,838,000
Guests
3,436,000
Sponsors
2,016,000
4. AI analysis
Guest & sponsor extraction
AI reads every transcript to pull out the guests and sponsors in each episode, turning raw audio into searchable opportunities you can act on.
Millions of podcaster social media profiles analysed
27 social media sites tracked including:
666,258
503,085
YouTube
369,528
393,147
213,883
102,094
TikTok
45,404
Patreon
31,428
Substack
33,544
Linktree
18,825
Bluesky
5. Socials
Social media profiles found & analysed
We connect each podcast to its social profiles, YouTube and Spotify presence, reviews, and more — the full picture of a show beyond its feed.
100% chart coverage, updated daily
We capture every chart each platform publishes
530
Apple Podcasts charts daily
across 34 countries
171
Spotify charts daily
across 26 countries
6. Charts
Historical Apple & Spotify charts
We track daily chart positions for every show on Apple and Spotify, so you can see exactly how a podcast’s ranking moves over time.
Everything you need to build podcast products
No more stitching together 5 different APIs.
Give your AI agents podcast superpowers
Claude, ChatGPT, and n8n can query our entire dataset—no code required.
Read about the MCP server
Compatible with 
Official SDKs for TypeScript and Python
Fully typed, with autocomplete across every endpoint and built-in auth, retries, and pagination — so you ship podcast features in an afternoon instead of hand-wiring HTTP calls.
- Full type safety and editor autocomplete across every endpoint
- Auth, pagination, and errors handled for you
- Automatic retries with backoff on 429s and 5xx
- Sync and async clients with smart date and enum parsing
import { PodEngine } from '@podengine/sdk';
const pe = new PodEngine({ apiKey: process.env.PODENGINE_API_KEY! });
// Search 4M+ podcasts
const { result } = await pe.search.searchPodcasts({
searchTerms: [{ searchTerm: 'startups', searchType: 'text' }],
});
// Pull a full transcript
const { episodeTranscriptText } =
await pe.episodes.getEpisodeTranscriptText({ episodeId });npm install @podengine/sdk TypeScript on npm import os
from podengine import PodEngine
pe = PodEngine(api_key=os.environ["PODENGINE_API_KEY"])
# Latest Apple chart
chart = pe.charts.get_latest_chart(chart_type="apple", country="us")
# Pull a full transcript
transcript = pe.episodes.get_episode_transcript_text(episode_id=episode_id)pip install podengine Python on PyPI Build vs. buy? We did the math.
3-5 engineers, 6-12 months, $20k/month in infrastructure. Or just use our API.
Building it yourself
- Build & maintain redundant infrastructure
- Keep up with the latest changes in podcasting
- Public scraping failing daily
- Expensive transcription costs or hardware
- Cleaning up RSS data
- Evaluating AI analysis of podcasts
With Pod Engine API
- Launch in days, not months
- Always current—20+ sources scraped daily
- 99.9% uptime, zero scraping headaches
- 1M+ minutes transcribed daily, included
- Clean, structured data—no parsing required
- AI analysis included—summaries, entities, bias
Focus on your product. We'll handle the data.
We process 20k+ episodes daily so you don't have to.
1M+ minutes/day. Every English podcast with 10+ reviews.
Transcription
High-quality transcripts with timestamps, speaker detection, and full-text search. Ready to query the moment an episode drops.
20 sources. Daily. Charts, reviews, social, and more.
External data
Apple charts, Spotify rankings, social profiles, reviews—all scraped and normalized so you don't have to maintain scrapers.
Structured data from messy RSS feeds
Data quality
Automatically extract people, companies, products, and topics mentioned in every episode. Get structured data from unstructured conversations.
AI-extracted entities, summaries, and insights
LLM analysis
Every episode analyzed for mentions, topics, sentiment, and more. Search by what podcasts talk about, not just metadata.
Find any podcast in <100ms
Instant search
Elasticsearch-powered queries across 377k+ podcasts and 109M+ episodes. Filter by any field, combine any criteria.
See what's possible
Real products powered by the Pod Engine API.
- Pod Engine
All of Pod Engine is built on top of our own APIs and data. The most powerful guest booking platform on the planet, and the ultimate showcase for the power of our APIs.
- Automated podcast insight newsletter
Podcast Market Watch is a fully automated newsletter that identifies conversations about startup ideas, and posts a weekly newsletter with the best ideas.
- Expert podcast guest sourcing tool
Using Pod Engine APIs, this workflow in n8n uses the Pod Engine search API to source highly relevant guests according to any brief.
A Letter from Our Founders
You could build this yourself. Here's why you shouldn't.
With 3-5 full-time engineers, 6-12 months, and $20k per month in pure data processing costs (AI, proxies, transcription, GPUs), you could absolutely build a solid podcast data infrastructure. But it stops being fun at scale—and it never stops needing maintenance.
We know because we built it. In 2023, we looked for a podcast API that fit our needs and found nothing. So we built Pod Engine—the podcast API we wished existed.
Pod Engine is built for an AI-native world: data that's cleaned, enriched, and structured for LLMs. An MCP server out of the box. Vector embeddings ready to go. And a team that ships fast.
As engineers, we care deeply about:
- Clear documentation
- Being responsive (customers join us in Slack)
- Having integrity
- Having fun
We've been building businesses together for 15 years. If you need podcast data, we'd love to help you ship.
Joe
Co-founder
Luke
Co-founder
Simple, transparent pricing
Access the leading podcast database in your browser & over our API.
Included in every plan
$75/moSearch 4M+ podcasts with rich data
Contact emails, socials & websites
Charts & reviews
CSV & JSON exports
AI-powered research agentNew
Millions of searchable transcripts
YouTube channel data
Bolt-ons
Supercharge your workflows with AI and automations.
API Starter
IncludedFree
Plug Pod Engine into your stack, agents, or AI assistants — auto-added free to every plan.
Full API access
MCP server
Search 4M+ podcasts programmatically
Pull transcripts, contacts & ratings
Same data as the web app
Build agents, integrations & dashboards
+$100/mo
Automate most of the heavylifting of booking yourself onto podcasts.
Matches perfect podcasts to you
Writes personalized outreach
Creates interview prep docs
Podcast media kit included
Alerts you of new appearances
Used by leading booking agencies
Let's get started
Core Platform$75/mo
Guest Booking Bolt-on$0/mo
API StarterIncluded
Total$75/mo
$225 billed quarterly (Save $75!)
Available Discounts
We believe great tools should be accessible to everyone building amazing things.
Eligible for a discount? Contact us to learn more.
Bootstrapped Startups
50% off first year
Students & Educators
50% off first year
Nonprofits
50% off first year
Pay Annually
2 months free
For agencies & enterprise
Your complete podcast research operating system — unlimited searches, team members, alerts, and dedicated support.
Booking for 30 guests
Unlimited alerts
Unlimited team members
Unlimited searches
Integrations
Priority support
Whitelabel branding
Access all data
$1000/mo
Book a demoSave $2,000 with an annual plan
Compare all features
| API & MCP access included in all plans | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | Core Platform | Core + GuestPopular | Agency |
Search & Data | |||
| Podcast search & discovery | |||
| Contact emails & websites | |||
| YouTube channel data | |||
| Apple & Spotify ratings | |||
| Podcast Authority score | |||
| Episode transcripts | |||
Tools & Workflows | |||
| Podcast lists & projects | |||
| CSV & spreadsheet exports | |||
| Mention tracking | |||
| Research AI agent | |||
Guest Booking | |||
| AI podcast matching | |||
| Outreach generation | |||
| Interview prep docs | |||
| Media kit pages | |||
| Appearance tracking | |||
| Search strategies | |||
Integrations | |||
| Airtable sync | |||
| Google Sheets | |||
| S3 bulk delivery | |||
Developer Access | |||
| API access | |||
| MCP server | |||
Usage limits | |||
| Searches | 10,000/mo | 10,000/mo | 50,000/mo |
| Transcript downloads | 1,000/mo | 1,000/mo | 2,000/mo |
| Transcription requests | 1,000/mo | 1,000/mo | 2,000/mo |
| Podcast lookups (API) | 5,000/mo | 5,000/mo | 10,000/mo |
| Episode lookups (API) | 5,000/mo | 5,000/mo | 10,000/mo |
| Deep research queries | 200/mo | 200/mo | 500/mo |
| Alerts | 30 | 30 | 100 |
| Projects | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| API rate limit | 3 req/sec | 3 req/sec | 3 req/sec |
| Exports (CSV/JSON) | 100/mo | 100/mo | 500/mo |
Plan & Support | |||
| Guest profiles | $100/ea | 1x included | 30 included |
| Team members | 5 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Custom domain | |||
| Priority Slack support | |||
| Dedicated onboarding | |||
“Unlimited” allowances are subject to fair use. See Section 2.6 of our Terms of Service.
Frequently asked questions
Powering products with 100M+ in revenue
Custom delivery, custom agreements, custom data—whatever you need to ship.
- Custom delivery mechanisms
If our API and S3 integrations aren't enough, we can work with you to get the data you need in the format you need.
- Custom agreements
We have transparent and fair ready-made agreement, but are happy to work with you on a custom agreement where necessary.
- Additional data on request
We regularly work with customers to get the data they need. We can add further external data points and derive more data with AI at scale.
Frequently asked questions
Have a different question and can't find the answer you're looking for? Reach out to our support team by sending us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
- How can I try the API?
- How much does it cost?
The Pod Engine plan is $100/mo and includes the API, MCP server, web app, and everything else. See the full pricing page for Guest Booking addons and Agency options.
- Do you offer CSV or SQL exports?
We are able to offer this, but it is not a standard feature. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
- How can I get the data into my system?
We have a number of options for you. If you would rather not make raw HTTP requests, use one of our official SDKs — TypeScript (@podengine/sdk) on npm or Python (podengine) on PyPI. If you need data in bulk, then we have an S3 integration (requires enterprise plan).
- Where do you get your data from?
We run all of our own data infrastructure for AI analysis, transcriptions, and more. In some cases we source data from other providers to increase coverage, freshness, and quality.
- How often is the data updated?
We pride ourselves on having fresh, high quality data. How often we refresh data depends on the data type. For example, Youtube data is typically refreshed monthly, Apple charts daily, and transcripts are pretty much every second.
- What if I need more searches?
If you need more searches than your plan includes, get in touch and we can put together a plan that fits your volume.