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Help centre adds: 'The total file size should not exceed 500MB' and 'The total length of the file should not exceed 5 hours' — both accumulate and block further uploads when either is hit.","unit":"MB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000019893-basic-free-plan-features","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"file size should not exceed 500MB","bytes":500000000,"source_url":"https://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000019893-basic-free-plan-features","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000019893-basic-free-plan-features","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"100 GB per month on Free ('Monthly bandwidth: 100GB'), unmetered beyond that in the sense of no per-GB charge but the account stalls at the cap. 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Genuinely small — only interesting multiplied across many accounts, and each account needs an email + verification.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"file size should not exceed 500MB","source":"https://help.podbean.com/support/solutions/articles/25000019893-basic-free-plan-features"}],"limits_note":"3 episodes/day; 100 MB single file on Free (3 GB on paid); RSS feed exposes only the most recent 20 episodes on Free; formats on Free are MP3 and M4A only (paid adds ogg/zip/pdf/pptx/docx/xml — note zip is a paid-plan format, so Free cannot take archives at all).","identity_cost":{"kind":"country-phone","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ent-Range 0-1023/73948726; declared length 73948726 for a 3081 s episode = 191,988 bps, i.e. exactly 192 kbps CBR, and the ID3 tag names Lavf60.16.1 (ffmpeg) as the encoder. The uplo","country":null},"reliability_note":"Likely re-encodes. Verified live: enclosure https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rhvxkzpmimms9sf5/riverside_....mp3 -> 302 -> 206, Content-Range 0-1023/73948726; declared length 73948726 for a 3081 s episode = 191,988 bps, i.e. exactly 192 kbps CBR, and the ID3 tag names Lavf60.16.1 (ffmpeg) as the encoder. 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