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Acast — Starter (free) plan Storage

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Free tier	1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'. So free capacity is 5 episodes unless you opt into ad monetisation, in which case episodes are unlimited but storage is still bounded by the 150 MB file cap. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free distribution to all major platforms; no egress charge. Acast monetises via ads, not storage.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown wrapper-only
Tooling	Dashboard only; no public upload API.
Composes with	5 episodes x 150 MB = 750 MB per free account in the honest reading; N accounts. Not interesting at scale.
Reliability	Re-encodes to 128 kbps: 'Acast will encode your uploaded files at 128kbps, which will not impair the perceived quality for your listeners.' Two independent caps (150 MB, 5 episodes) plus a 128k transcode make this the weakest of the majors.
Notes	1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'. So free capacity is 5 episodes unless you opt into ad monetisation, in which case episodes are unlimited but storage is still bounded by the 150 MB file cap.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.acast.com/en/pricing	Starter: 'Free', '1 Show', '5 Episodes', 'Get unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'
2026-10-21	learn.acast.com/en/articles/3505536-which-audio-file-format-	'Acast will encode your uploaded files at 128kbps'; 'Acast sets the internal limit to 150MB also'; 'MP3 and M4A files are the only audio filetypes that are supported'

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 show, 5 episodes on Free — 'unlimited episodes when you make your show available in Acast's advertising marketplace'. So free capacity is 5 episodes unless you opt into ad monetisation, in which case episodes are unlimited but storage is still bounded by the 150 MB file cap.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

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$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted