Plans

Every plan is a monthly allowance of credits, Free included, and one credit is one hour of audio. A new episode costs its length in hours, rounded to the nearest hour, never less than one: a forty-minute show is 1, a three-hour interview is 3. An episode already in the library is 1, whatever its length, and it is yours forever. An AI Search query is 1. Speed is the one other dial: the fast lane doubles the price of a new episode. Not format, not which plan you're on: nothing else moves a price. Each plan also sets how many API requests a day your key can make.

Free
$0 /mo

10 credits every month

no card needed

Ten hours a month, no card. Read, transcribe, search.

  • 10 hours of new transcription, or 5 in the fast lane
  • 10 episodes from the library
  • 10 AI Search queries
  • 1,000 API requests a day
Log in free
Plus
$9 /mo

120 credits every month

$0.075 per hour

A few episodes a week, some of them brand new.

  • 120 hours of new transcription, or 60 in the fast lane
  • 120 episodes from the library
  • 120 AI Search queries
  • 5,000 API requests a day
Pro most popular
$29 /mo

500 credits every month

$0.058 per hour save 23%

A whole back catalogue a month, new or from the library.

  • 500 hours of new transcription, or 250 in the fast lane
  • 500 episodes from the library
  • 500 AI Search queries
  • 20,000 API requests a day
Business
$99 /mo

2,000 credits every month

$0.050 per hour save 34%

Built for the API: our cheapest hour, our biggest request allowance.

  • 2,000 hours of new transcription, or 1,000 in the fast lane
  • 2,000 episodes from the library
  • 2,000 AI Search queries
  • 50,000 API requests a day

standard

Ready within the hour

Our own machine, and a new request goes to the front of its queue. The job carries a real estimate from the queue length and measured throughput, and we email you when it lands. 1 credit per hour of audio, on every plan.

fast lane

Ready in minutes

The same episode on a rented GPU, whatever its length. Measured, not promised: we publish the typical time here. The promise is 5 minutes for a typical job, longer for big batches and always stated before you confirm. Miss it and the extra credit comes back on its own. 2 credits per hour of audio, on every plan.

api requests

1,000 to 50,000 a day

Every call made with your key counts as one request against the plan's daily allowance, site clicks included. Only the calls marked with a credit price on the API page cost anything on top; search, episode lists, status, jobs and transcript reads just count as requests.

See exactly what you get, before you spend a credit

Everything below is real output from one episode we have unlocked for everyone: #878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More. Each row shows how to ask for it and a glimpse of the answer; the button opens the complete file, every line of it. That is what 1 credit buys for any other episode in the library.

Unlock an episode 1 credit

One call, then every format below is yours forever. On the site it is one button.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/unlock -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transcript": "a7c18c255b33d645"}'

response

{
  "unlocked": "a7c18c255b33d645",
  "credits": 9,
  "formats": [
    "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=text",
    "…"
  ]
}
Plain text included

Paragraphs, no clutter. What you read on the site and what ?format=text returns.

request

curl "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=text" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome. It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation Uh Incredible insights and advice devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a very large percentage of my waking hours, and that is …

Timestamped text included

?format=txt. A clock in front of every segment.

request

curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=txt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result

#878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More

Timestamped transcript from https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645

[00:00:00] Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.
[00:00:06] It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation
[00:00:18] Uh
…
Subtitles: .srt and .vtt included

Drop straight into a video editor or player. Cues stay in sync with the live audio.

request

curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=srt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"
curl -O "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=vtt" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

.srt

1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:06,800
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.

2
00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:18,800
It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation
…

.vtt

WEBVTT

00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:06.800
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.

00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:18.800
It is very late night after a long day of writing in an undisclosed foreign location, and this is the Tim Ferriss Show. We are going to cover a compilation

00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.600…
Word-level JSON included

The start time of every single word. Karaoke highlighting, clip cutting, deep links to the second.

request

curl "https://podmenti.com/api/v1/transcripts/a7c18c255b33d645?format=json&timestamps=1&words=1" -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY"

result, first segment

{
  "id": "a7c18c255b33d645",
  "title": "#878: How to Start When You're Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and More",
  "segments": [{
    "start": 0.2, "end": 6.8,
    "text": "Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gyms. This is a special ASMR edition of the Tim Ferris show. Welcome.",
    "words": [{"w": "Hello,", "s": 0.2}, {"w": "boys", "s": 0.5}, {"w": "and", "s": 0.8}, {"w": "girls,", "s": 0.8}, {"w": "ladies", "s": 1.2}, {"w": "and", "s": 1.4}, …]
  }, …]
}
Transcribe a new episode 1 credit per hour

For anything not in the library yet, priced by length. Unlock included, email when it lands. On the site: tick the episodes, press Transcribe.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/requests -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"episodes": [{"guid": "…", "url": "https://…/episode.mp3", "title": "…"}]}'

response

{
  "request_id": "9f1c…",
  "already_transcribed": [],
  "queued": 1,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 9,
  "delivery": "queued now, typically ready within the hour at current volume; we email you when it lands"
}
AI Search 1 credit

Ask for anything, get verbatim quotes with timestamps. This is the real answer for this episode, every mention it found.

request

curl -X POST https://podmenti.com/api/v1/ai-search/query -H "Authorization: Bearer pm_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transcript_id": "a7c18c255b33d645", "topic": "books recommended by title"}'

response

{
  "found": true,
  "summary": "The host introduces several guests by listing the books they wrote.",
  "mentions": [
    {
      "quote": "Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls.",
      "timestamp_seconds": 114,
      "listen_url": "https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645#t=114"
    },
    {
      "quote": "Seth Godin has written twenty-one bestsellers, including Purple Cow, Linchpin and The Practice.",
      "timestamp_seconds": 2707,
      "listen_url": "https://podmenti.com/t/a7c18c255b33d645#t=2707"
    }
  ],
  "credits": 8
}

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Episodes we already have

Thousands of episodes from the most popular shows, and the library grows every day. Anything in here is already transcribed, so it is cheap.

  • Find the show, list its episodes, see what's ready
    On the site or through the API. No credits, on every plan.     0
  • Unlock an episode, any length
    The full transcript to read, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads. Paid once, yours forever, every format, however many times you come back.     1
  • Any episode you've unlocked before
    Open it again, download it again, in any format, from any device with your key. Never charged twice, whatever happens to your plan.     0
  • AI Search query
    Ask a question, get back exactly where it's answered. How it works. Refunded automatically if it fails.     1

Episodes nobody has yet

Here we run the audio through our transcriber, which is real compute on a real machine. This is what credits are actually for.

  • Transcribe an episode, per hour of audio
    Rounded to the nearest hour, never less than one: 40 minutes is 1, 90 minutes is 2, three hours is 3. Includes its unlock, so it is yours forever from then on. Up to 25 at a time. We email you when it lands.     1 / h
  • Fast lane, per hour of audio
    The same episode on a rented GPU, whatever its length. Usually ready in a minute or two. Promised within 5 minutes for a typical job, longer for big batches and always stated before you confirm; if we miss it, the extra credits come back on their own. Tick "Fast lane" on the show page, or pass fast: true in the API.     2 / h
  • AI Search on one we don't have
    Just the two prices added together, never a surcharge: transcribe it once (its hours), then query it as often as you like (1 each).     2+

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How billing works

  • Credits arrive monthly, not once. Every plan, Free included, tops you back up to its full allowance each cycle. Unspent credits don't roll over.
  • A verified email is all it takes. No password: your key is the account, and it works on the site and the API alike.
  • Changing your mind is cheap. Upgrade, downgrade or cancel from your account at any time, in Stripe's own billing portal. Cancelling drops you to Free at the end of the period, it doesn't delete anything.
  • Unlocks survive everything. An episode you've unlocked stays unlocked, to read and export in every format, whatever happens to your plan afterwards.
  • Speed is measured, not promised, and it costs the same on every plan. The fast lane's median time above comes from real jobs. The only promise is the one on the job itself, and missing it refunds the premium automatically.
  • Requests are the plan's other number. Credits pay for compute; the daily request allowance is how much you can call the API, and it grows with the plan. Both are shown live on your account.

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