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4 self-hosted Podbean alternatives

Podbean is a podcast hosting and publishing platform for uploading episodes, managing RSS feeds, distributing shows to podcast directories, providing podcast websites, analytics, monetization tools and live streaming functionality.

Alternatives to Podbean

Castopod is an open-source podcast hosting platform to publish podcasts via RSS, interact with audiences (Fediverse), and track privacy-friendly analytics.

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Self-hosted, open-source podcast hosting and publishing server built with Rust and Axum. Provides multi-tenant sites, RSS feeds, analytics, scheduling and optional S3 media storage.

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ELEMENT.FM is an open source podcast hosting platform with Podcasting 2.0 support, unlimited shows and episodes, transcripts, team workspaces, analytics, and AI-assisted metadata.

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What replacing Podbean actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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