RSS.com — Free plan
- Free allowance
- Unlimited. Free plan: 'Unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, with no storage cap', 'no trial and no expiry date', 'Your episodes are never deleted'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capMax file size 2 GB
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Unlimited. Free plan: 'Unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, with no storage cap', 'no trial and no expiry date', 'Your episodes are never deleted'. Only three stated limits: one podcast per account, 30 days of analytics history, one voicemail. Max file size 2 GB per episode — with unlimited episodes that is unbounded total capacity. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
2 GB per episode; one podcast per account; card on file; re-encoded to 128 kbps stereo (see reliability_note). API rate limit ~15 consecutive writes then HTTP 429 with no Retry-After header. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free and unmetered. No bandwidth line anywhere in the Free plan or the pricing page; delivery is offloaded to Triton Digital's CDN (rsscom.pdn.tritondigital.com) behind CloudFront. Zero egress pricing to the account holder. |
| Per-object cap | Max file size 2 GB (2000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | Unlimited. Free plan: 'Unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, with no storage cap', 'no trial and no expiry date', 'Your episodes are never deleted' |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | Official public REST API (api.rss.com/v4, X-Api-Key header, 10 keys/account) that 'create[s] new episodes, upload[s] audio' — but it is gated to the Max plan, NOT Free. On Free the only path is the web UI (no public upload endpoint verified). Third-party native integrations exist (Hindenburg, Auphonic, Zapier) but likewise target paid/API plans. |
| Composes with | N free accounts x unlimited episodes x 2 GB. Card required 'to verify the account' (never charged) is the only friction, so accounts are not trivially mass-produced the way an email-only signup would be. Also accepts .mkv/.mp4/.flac/.wav/.aiff/.ogg/.aac, so non-audio payloads pass the extension filter. |
| Reliability | RE-ENCODES. Verified live: enclosure https://content.rss.com/episodes/207227/3249482/diveclub/2026_10_20_...mp3 -> 307 -> https://rsscom.pdn.tritondigital.com/v1/download/... with a signed query string carrying br=128000 and dr=3522 (duration). 56,367,272 bytes / 3522 s = 128,035 bps, i.e. exactly 128 kbps — the original upload is NOT retrievable. Enclosure URL is permanent on content.rss.com but every fetch redirects through a signed token, so the bytes are CDN-served re-encodes, not your file. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | help.rss.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44002697443-the-f | 'Unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, with no storage cap'; 'Your episodes are never deleted'; 'we do not insert our own ads'; one podcast per account |
| 2026-10-21 | help.rss.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44000495445-how-d | 'Max file size: 2GB' |
| 2026-10-21 | help.rss.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44000493026-which | accepts .wav .mp3 .aac .aiff .mp4 .m4a .flac .ogg .mkv |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET media.rss.com/diveclub/feed.xml -> 200, 499,415 bytes, enclosures on content.rss.com; GET enclosure -L -> 307 -> 302 -> 206, Content-Range bytes 0-2047/56367272, token contains br=128000&dr=3522 |
| 2026-10-21 | rss.com/pricing/ | Free $0 '/mo. No trial. No expiration. Always free. Unlimited episodes and downloads' |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read