Podscan
AI mention monitoring across 4M+ podcasts, with alerts minutes after episodes publish.
About
Podscan transcribes new podcast episodes in 15+ languages, typically within about 10 minutes of publication (provider-claimed), and fires Boolean keyword alerts with sentiment and AI-verified context on every match. That context matters: the system filters false positives like a band that shares your brand's name or an unrelated ad read, so PR and brand teams get a mention feed they can actually act on. Each podcast and episode also gets a Podscan Reach Score, and the platform layers on GARM-aligned brand safety scoring, sponsor segment detection, and estimated audience demographics.
Pricing is public and flat: Premium starts at $100/month (50 alerts, 2,000 API requests/day), Professional at $200/month (500 alerts, 5,000/day), and Advanced at $2,500/month for firehose scale, with metered overage at $5 per 1,000 requests. A 10-day trial needs no credit card. For developers, there is a 90+ endpoint REST API, a Firehose webhook stream, data exports, and an MCP server that lets AI agents query the podcast database in natural language.
What it can do
- Real-time transcription of new episodes in 15+ languages (provider-claimed ~10 min after publish)
- Boolean keyword alerts with sentiment scoring
- AI-verified context to filter false-positive mentions
- GARM-aligned brand safety scoring per episode and podcast
- Sponsor segment detection with timestamps
- REST API (90+ endpoints), Firehose stream, data exports, and MCP server
Setup
- Start the 10-day free trial at podscan.fm.
- Create Boolean keyword alerts for your brand, competitors, and topics.
- Review matches with sentiment and AI-verified context in the dashboard.
- Connect the REST API, Firehose stream, or MCP server for programmatic access.
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Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (TIER verified, metrics-v1). Evidence: live product with public pricing ($100/$200/$2,500 tiers), a detailed public REST API and MCP server docs, and candid competitor-comparison pages published by the vendor. Strengths: transparent pricing and docs, real-time transcription and alerting pipeline, free trial. Docked for: (1) transcription speed (~10 min), coverage (4M podcasts), and accuracy claims are provider-claimed, never independently tested; (2) young company with limited independent review coverage. License: proprietary (SaaS, tiered plans).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · Live product with public pricing, detailed REST API + MCP server docs, and candid competitor comparison pages.
- · Transcription speed (~10 min), 4M podcast coverage, and accuracy are provider-claimed.
- · Young company with limited independent review coverage.
- · 10-day free trial, no credit card.
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