A creator can start multiple podcasts on Transistor without paying for each additional show. The plans instead scale with monthly downloads, private subscribers, and storage. The service is for independent podcasters, teams, and brands; it delivers audio hosting, RSS distribution, a website, analytics, and support. The ongoing bill pays for a show to remain accessible, distributed, and manageable over time. Current plans · About
A hosting company built on prior podcast experience
Founders Jon Buda and Justin Jackson met at the XOXO festival in 2014. Transistor's account says Jon had previously built a podcast hosting tool and Justin had a podcast. They worked on smaller projects together, signed a partnership document in February 2018, and launched publicly on August 1 that year. They did not start without relevant experience. Justin's own account lists an interview podcast begun in 2012, an indie-founder community started in 2013, and a marketing book and course sold in 2015. Those experiences gave him product knowledge as well as existing relationships and content. About · Justin's account
At launch, their announcement emphasized multiple shows for one price, along with distribution, team collaboration, analytics, an embeddable player, an automatically generated podcast site, and migration tools. It also reports a number-one Product Hunt placement that day. The founders recorded a weekly show, Build Your SaaS, about the process of starting the company. The show was both content and a visible example of the kind of work their product supported. These activities are documented; their individual contributions to paying-customer acquisition are not. 2018 launch announcement · Founder podcast
Educational content leads to a continuing service
The current site offers getting-started guides, feature explanations, FAQs, and comparisons. Material about starting a podcast explains recording, publishing, and distribution, while the pricing page offers a trial. A reasonable inference is that Transistor first answers a creator's “how do I begin?” question, then lets people who need dependable hosting try the service. We have not verified search traffic, conversion rates, or acquisition shares for those pages. The number of articles alone is not a measure of acquisition success. Site · FAQs · Pricing
Checked on October 29, 2026, the pricing page offers a 14-day trial and no permanent free plan. Starter is $19 per month and includes unlimited shows, 20,000 monthly downloads, and 50 private subscribers. Professional is $49 per month, with 100,000 monthly downloads and 500 private subscribers. The annual option says twelve months for the price of ten. A help article gives capacity limits and says an account that exceeds them is not automatically upgraded or charged an overage fee; the team contacts the customer about upgrading. The charging unit reflects the service's continuing usage rather than each new podcast created. Checkout taxes, trial conversion, current revenue, and profit were not obtained. Pricing · Limits
The company's current about page says it has five team members and serves more than 30,000 podcasts. Podcasts here means shows, not paying customers. In 2022, Transistor reported 20,199 hosted shows and more than 647,679 published episodes. Those are dated show and episode counts, not revenue or profit. The figures show a change in delivery scale but do not reveal average spending or acquisition channels. About · 2022 milestone
One action for a solo builder: list what users can freely create in a continuing service, then identify what actually consumes resources over time. Discuss the difference with five intended users and make a one-page table of trial experience, continuing cost, and upgrade trigger. Finish with five records of their needs and one charging unit you can explain, rather than copying “unlimited podcasts.”