Buying guide

Transistor pricing: match the tier to the constraint

Last materially reviewed 2026-09-19

Quick answerChoose from the current capacity and feature table, then price the complete production workflow.
Likely to work well when

✓ Small US teams handling several shows

✓ Agencies clarifying client ownership and billing

✓ Readers comparing hosting with a real operating constraint

Important limitations

— Guaranteed audience growth

— Enterprise security certification

— Recording-equipment or editing tutorials

Decision matrix

Current monthly USD base plans · checked 19 September 2026

On a narrow screen, scroll the comparison sideways to read both options.

PlanBase / monthMonthly downloads
Starter$1920,000
Professional$49100,000
Business$99250,000
What to know

Price and cost: read the current quote

On our review date, Transistor lists monthly USD prices of $19, $49 and $99 for Starter, Professional and Business. Their monthly download allowances are 20,000, 100,000 and 250,000 respectively. Annual billing changes the commitment. Treat these as a dated comparison, not a permanent quotation; check the merchant page before buying and confirm any applicable taxes or optional services.

What to know

Find the requirement that sets the tier

A small audience does not necessarily mean the entry package meets every requirement. Write down the features the team will actually use, then identify which are included in the selected tier. Capacity and functionality are separate reasons to upgrade. Avoid choosing from a single number such as show count when private audiences or a particular publishing feature could determine the real package.

What to know

Add the costs outside hosting

Recording, editing, transcription, artwork and staff time can remain separate expenses. Our allocation tool accepts your own combined monthly estimate so the host’s headline price does not become the whole budget by accident. Keep annual purchases, one-off migration work and recurring subscriptions on separate lines. Dividing an annual bill by twelve is useful for comparison, but it does not change when cash is actually due.

What to know

Get a quote you can reproduce

Save the date, billing period, selected tier and reason for choosing it. Include the anticipated audience range and who will review a limit before it becomes a surprise. If a needed add-on has no clear price in the available documentation, leave it unknown rather than entering zero. Revisit the quote when you add a show, change format or introduce private subscribers. A reproducible estimate is more useful than a confident total built from missing assumptions.

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The evidence behind this buying guidance

This guide draws on Transistor current plan table. Merchant-controlled records describe the provider’s own capabilities, terms or standards; they do not independently validate those claims. These records do not establish independent confirmation of the product claims.

Verify any current price, plan limit, label direction, compatibility rule, or commercial term that would materially change the decision. The dated source ledger shows the underlying records so this conclusion can be checked and updated.

Sources used for this page

These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.

  1. Transistor current plan table — Merchant documentation · transistor.fm · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-19