- Free allowance
- 1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 episodes per show on Starter (free); unlimited episodes only when the show is available in Acast's advertising marketplace
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | 1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'. So free capacity is 5 episodes unless you opt into ad monetisation, in which case episodes are unlimited but storage is still bounded by the 150 MB file cap. unit objects; metered on object-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 5 episodes per show on Starter (free); unlimited episodes only when the show is available in Acast's advertising marketplace source
- per-object-cap 150 MB per episode file, MP3 or M4A only, re-encoded at 128kbps source
150 MB hard per-episode cap — 'Acast sets the internal limit to 150MB also', and going over produces an 'episode unavailable' error on listener devices because Apple caps cellular downloads at 150 MB. MP3 or M4A only (no WAV/FLAC). |
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| Binding | volume-quota 5 episodes per show on the free Starter plan; lifting the episode count needs the advertising marketplace or a paid plan |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Free distribution to all major platforms; no egress charge. Acast monetises via ads, not storage. |
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| Per-object cap | 150 MB per episode file: Acast sets the internal limit to 150MB, in line with Apple's 150MB cellular download limit; MP3 and M4A only |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
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| Tooling | Dashboard only; no public upload API. |
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| Composes with | 5 episodes x 150 MB = 750 MB per free account in the honest reading; N accounts. Not interesting at scale. |
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| Reliability | Re-encodes to 128 kbps: 'Acast will encode your uploaded files at 128kbps, which will not impair the perceived quality for your listeners.' Two independent caps (150 MB, 5 episodes) plus a 128k transcode make this the weakest of the majors. |
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| Notes | Starter: Free, 1 show, 5 episodes ('Get unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'). Paid: Essential $14.99 / Month with unlimited episodes (the page's Monthly or Yearly toggle state is not visible in the captured text). |
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| Evidence note | documented The 2026-11-03 evidence rows read https://www.acast.com/en/pricing (episode count on Starter, unlimited only through the advertising marketplace, Essential price) and https://learn.acast.com/en/articles/ (which-audio-file-format-should-i-use-for-my-podcast) (150MB internal limit, re-encode of uploads). Every field that decides the verdict cites those captures; the identity requirement was not read. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 150 MB
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