Plan: Starter
$9/month — $79/year (save ~30%)
For podcasters who are building their first paying audience.
You’ve crossed 10 subscribers. Time to scale.
Starter is built for podcasters who are past the experiment phase — you’ve validated the concept, you’re growing, and you need room to keep going. Up to 50 paying subscribers and everything in the Benecaster core.
At 8 paying subscribers (at $10/month), Starter pays for itself versus Patreon’s 10% fee. Most Starter podcasters are in positive ROI from day one.
The full Benecaster feature set.
- Up to 50 paying subscribers
- Up to 500 total tokens (paying + free listener tier combined)
- 1 show
- Private subscriber RSS feeds with token authentication
- Multiple subscription tiers — set different release dates per tier for the same episode
- Episode management with full podcast RSS metadata
- MemberPress, WooCommerce Subscriptions, Paid Memberships Pro, and Restrict Content Pro bridges
- Subscriber management dashboard
- Welcome email with personal RSS URL and deep links to podcast apps
- Token reset — admin and subscriber-initiated
- Subscriber self-service account dashboard with QR code
- Basic subscriber analytics
- Full data export
- 30-day money-back guarantee
All add-ons — including Migration Wizard ($79 one-time), Email Editor, Analytics Dashboard, and every other tool — are purchasable on Starter. Your plan governs subscriber count, not tool access.
Starter pays for itself at 8 subscribers.
At $10/month per subscriber and Patreon’s 10% platform fee:
| Subscribers | Patreon fees/year | Starter cost/year | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | ~$96 | $79 | ~$17 |
| 20 | ~$240 | $79 | ~$161 |
| 50 | ~$600 | $79 | ~$521 |
Patreon fee estimate: 10% platform + ~2% payment processing.
Coming from Patreon or Supercast?
The Migration Wizard add-on ($79 one-time) is available on Starter. It’s included free with Growth, Pro, and Multi-Show — so if you’re migrating a large subscriber list, Growth may be the better starting point.
