Listnr's paid plans differ almost only in volume: commercial rights, voice cloning, all 1,000+ voices, 142+ languages and unlimited downloads and audio embeds come with every paid plan, from Individual at $19 a month. What you pay more for is credits (20,000, 50,000 or 250,000 a month), storage (50, 100 or 250 GB) and videos (50, 150 or 250 a month), plus priority support and custom invoicing on Agency. The developer API has its own price card, metered in requests per day rather than credits, while Listnr's text-to-speech API page says API limits "follow your Listnr plan"; neither page says how the two fit together, so ask before paying for both.
Listnr does not define a credit on its pricing page, but it maps 20,000 credits to about 2 hours, 50,000 to about 5 and 250,000 to about 25, and advertises 1,000 free words, so a credit behaves like roughly one word. On that mapping:
Plan | Cost per audio hour, monthly billing | Cost per audio hour, yearly billing | Each extra hour over the plan below |
|---|
Individual | $9.50 | $7.92 | n/a |
Solo | $7.80 | $6.50 | $6.67 |
Agency | $3.96 | $3.30 | $3.00 |
Listnr gives the hours; the dollar columns are our arithmetic on its $19, $39 and $99 monthly and $190, $390 and $990 yearly prices. Yearly billing charges ten months up front, two months free. An illustrative workload: a weekly 20-minute podcast needs about 87 minutes a month, which Individual covers, while a 10-minute daily episode needs about 5 hours, at or just over Solo's allowance, with no headroom for retakes. The last column is the upgrade test: Agency's extra 20 hours cost about $3 each and Solo's extra 3 about $6.67, so compare those with what Studio charges for extra credits before topping up instead of upgrading.
When the credits run out, Listnr says you cannot generate new audio until the quota resets; the page describes no rollover. Upgrades apply immediately with proration, downgrades at the end of the cycle, and Listnr generally does not refund partial months or used quota.
Listnr's developer API page lists a Free tier with 100 requests a day and 50+ voices, Pro at $99 a month with 10,000 requests a day, the full voice library, real-time streaming and voice cloning, and Enterprise with unlimited requests and a custom SLA. Because the meter is requests rather than characters, on our reading the cost per hour depends on how much text each request carries. Voices cloned in Listnr Studio can be used through the API.
Hosting includes an RSS feed, an embeddable player and listener analytics, and Listnr names Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts and Overcast as destinations. Its podcast page shows no separate hosting price or plan gating, so check in Studio whether your plan includes hosting before you drop another host. The Free plan gives 1,000 starter credits once, not monthly, with limited downloads, no storage, no voice cloning and no commercial rights. Listnr asks that cloned voices be your own or used with permission. Seats, SSO and dedicated API throughput exist only on custom plans through sales.