Buzzsprout pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Buzzsprout (buzzsprout.com) is a podcast host. Flat monthly plans per podcast set by monthly upload hours (unlimited downloads), with a multi-podcast plan sharing hours across 5-10 shows; annual billing is discounted.. Free plan: Free plan with 2 upload hours a month, but episodes are removed after 90 days..
What Buzzsprout costs
- 1 show: $18/mo (Audio plan $18/mo on monthly billing includes 6 upload hours/mo (>= 4 needed); free plan deletes episodes after 90 days so does not count.)
- 50k downloads: $18/mo (Downloads are not capped on Buzzsprout plans, so the same Audio plan at $18/mo applies.)
- 3 shows: $36/mo (Multi-Podcast plan $36/mo monthly: up to 5 audio podcasts sharing 15 upload hrs/mo (12 needed); cheaper than 3 x Audio $18 = $54.)
Plan compared: Audio ($18/mo monthly, 6 upload hrs/mo). Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). The headline is one weekly show (4 one-hour episodes and up to 5,000 downloads a month, with a year of back catalogue kept online); the other figures are that show at 50,000 downloads a month, and three such shows.
Buzzsprout price hikes
- Buzzsprout dropped its $12 plan; a 4-hour show went from $16 to $19/mo · Aug 2025
Buzzsprout replaced its $12 (3 hrs/mo, $4/extra hr), $18 (6 hrs) and $24 (12 hrs) plans with $19 (4 hrs), $39 (15 hrs) and $79 (35 hrs) plans; the entry price rose from $12 to $19/mo.
Cheaper alternatives to Buzzsprout
At one weekly show, Buzzsprout costs $18/mo. 1 podcast host costs less:
- Spotify for Creators: free (Free hosting)
Buzzsprout alternatives: 2 podcast hosts compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jun 2026 · Price cut: Plans were restructured into Audio ($18/mo monthly, 6 hrs), Audio + Video ($30/mo) and Multi-Podcast ($36/mo, 15 hrs shared across up to 5 shows), replacing the $19/$39/$79 tiers. Seen in archives between 2026-03-04 and 2026-06-01.
- Mar 2026 · Repriced: The $19/mo entry plan's allowance was raised from 4 to 6 upload hours a month, with annual billing at $199/yr.
- Aug 2025 · Price increase: Buzzsprout replaced its $12 (3 hrs/mo, $4/extra hr), $18 (6 hrs) and $24 (12 hrs) plans with $19 (4 hrs), $39 (15 hrs) and $79 (35 hrs) plans; the entry price rose from $12 to $19/mo. Change seen in archives between 2025-05-28 and 2025-08-01.
Sources
Pricing page: buzzsprout.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Current monthly prices read from the official pricing page with ?period=monthly (default view shows annual). Change dates are first-seen months from Wayback snapshots, so actual changes may be up to a few weeks earlier; treatment of existing customers is unknown.