( Who it’s for )
A podcast editor that finishes episodes for under $30 a month
Most shows do not need a studio subscription — they need one episode finished before Thursday. Cast is free to start with a whole workflow, $9.99 a month when an hour of uploads stops being enough, and $29.74 a month at the tier that adds lossless export and the commercial licence.
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What the free plan actually includes
Not a trial and not a watermark: the free plan is the whole workflow. Transcription, transcript editing, filler and pause removal, voice cleanup, generated music with ducking, chapters, captions and unlimited exports at standard quality. The limits are 60 minutes of uploads and 100 credits a month, MP3 at 128 kbps, and no commercial licence on the generated music.
For a fortnightly show under half an hour, that is a complete production pipeline at no cost. When it stops fitting, it stops fitting on a number you can see.
- 60 min uploads / month
- 100 credits / month
- Unlimited exports (MP3 128k)
- No commercial licence on Free
The two numbers that usually decide it
Upload hours and the licence. Lite at $9.99 a month raises uploads to ten hours and exports at MP3 320k — that is the weekly-show tier. Plus at $29.74 a month is where lossless export and the creator commercial licence arrive, which matters the moment the show is sponsored or the episode belongs to a client.
Editing, transcription and export never cost credits on any plan. Credits are spent on generation only — music from five credits a track, sound effects from ten — so a show that uses two music beds an episode spends very little of its allowance.
- Lite $9.99 — 10 hrs of uploads
- Plus $29.74 — lossless + commercial licence
- Editing and export never cost credits
The costs that are easy to miss
A cheap editor stops being cheap when you add the things it does not include. A stock-music subscription is the usual one: another monthly fee, and clearance on an episode you published last year that can depend on a subscription you are still paying. In Cast the music is generated inside the editor, and on Plus and Max every export carries its own licence record — a document you can point at, not a subscription you have to keep alive.
The other quiet cost is hosting lock-in. Cast does not host: you export a file and upload it wherever you already publish, so changing host costs you nothing here.
FAQ
01What do the plans include?
Editing is never metered and never watermarked: transcription, filler and pause removal, noise removal, captions and audio export cost zero credits on every plan, including Free. Credits buy generation (music and SFX); the uploads allowance caps how much audio you bring in. Free: 100 credits, 60 min, MP3 128k. Lite: 700, 10 hrs, MP3 320k. Plus: 2,750, 25 hrs, WAV, commercial license. Max: 6,500, unlimited, broadcast (EBU R128), stems.
Read more →02What do credits get spent on?
Only generation — music and sound effects. Transcription, every kind of transcript editing, noise removal, captions and exporting are free on every plan. The exact price is shown next to the Generate button before you spend anything.
Read more →03Is the music licensed for commercial use?
Yes — music you generate in Cast comes with a commercial license on Plus and Max, and every export made on those plans carries its own license record. Free music is only free until a platform, a client or a rights holder asks where it came from; here you have the answer on file. (Free and Lite have no commercial license, and music you upload yourself is yours to clear.)
Read more →04What happens when I hit a limit?
Nothing you already made is ever taken away, hidden or deleted because you crossed a limit — not even if you move down to a smaller plan. Limits apply only when you create something new: at your project limit (Free holds five projects), delete a finished project or move up a plan; at your monthly upload allowance, it resets with your next billing month.
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