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Listen Notes Review, Pricing, and Features
Listen Notes is a podcast search engine, podcast API, alerts product, and dataset provider that can be useful for investors, analysts, and builders treating podcasts as alternative research inputs. It can be used to search podcast metadata, monitor keyword mentions, build podcast discovery workflows, or buy/export podcast datasets for analysis. Podcast mentions are indirect evidence, so Listen Notes should complement financial statements, filings, market data, and verified sources rather than replace them.
Best for
- Investors and builders who treat podcast mentions, executive interviews, industry podcasts, and expert conversations as alternative research inputs.
- Podcast-data buyers comparing a free testing plan, a $200/month PRO base fee, enterprise terms, and downloadable datasets.
- Monitoring workflows that need keyword alerts across podcasts, RSS delivery, Zapier/IFTTT hooks, or podcast metadata in apps.
Watch out
- Podcast mentions are useful context but are not verified financial statements, market prices, or regulated disclosures.
- Free API access is limited to 300 requests/month and suspends until the next month after exceeding the limit.
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Pricing
Free • From $200/mo · 4 plans
FREE
PRO
ENTERPRISE
Datasets (Self‑service)
Key features
- Search tools across a large podcast catalog through the web product or Podcast API, with about 3.78M podcasts and 190.6M episodes in current API pricing copy.
- Tools for building with the Listen API v2 using REST endpoints, API-key authentication, official client libraries, OpenAPI documentation, and mock-server testing.
- Podcast search, directory, insights, batch-fetch, transcript, RSS, image, email, Listen Score, and Global Rank fields according to plan entitlements.
- Monitoring keywords with Listen Alerts, including daily email digests, per-alert RSS feeds, and Zapier, IFTTT, RSS, Slack, Trello, or Airtable-style workflows.
- Purchasable podcast datasets exported by keyword, category, playlist, iTunes IDs, or full-database Enterprise scope, with CSV or SQLite delivery.
- Podcast mentions, executive interviews, expert conversations, and industry shows as qualitative alternative data for research and monitoring.
- API limits: Free is for light testing at 300 requests/month, while Pro includes 5,000 requests/month before tiered overages.
- Plan-specific rules cover result caps, rate limits, caching, logo requirements, transcript access, and large-scale commercial use.
- The public status page for API uptime and incident context.
- Listen Notes is podcast data infrastructure, not a securities database, broker, market-price feed, regulated disclosure source, or investment recommendation engine.
FAQ
Is Listen Notes free?
Not entirely. Listen Notes includes a free tier, but its paid subscription and one-time options unlock more capacity. Visit the vendor site for current limits and pricing.
Who is Listen Notes best for?
It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does Listen Notes support?
You can use Listen Notes on Web and Mobile. Listen Notes offers an API (REST) with APIKey authentication. Integrations include Zapier, IFTTT, and RSS.
Which markets does Listen Notes cover?
Listen Notes covers North America, Europe, APAC, LatAm, Middle East, and Africa. It tracks Other.
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