PRICING

Straightforward pricing. No hidden meters.

We publish the deal model, the variables that move the price, and a real range so you can scope a budget before you ever talk to sales. The number on your invoice is custom; the rules behind it are not.

All licenses include MSA with IP indemnification · Volume discounts at 100 / 500 / 2,000 / 10,000 hours
The three deal types

Catalog, custom, or exclusive.

Pick the model that fits your project. Pricing variables and deliverables are the same across all three.

Catalog license

Low four figures/ hour

Off-the-shelf. Buy from our existing licensed catalog.

  • English (US, UK, AU) available now
  • Min order: 10 hours
  • Lead time: under 48 hours
  • Per-hour, paid up front
  • Volume discounts at 100 / 500 / 2,000 hours
Best for: benchmarking, fine-tuning, evaluating dataset fit.
Talk to sales →

Custom collection

Mid four to low five figures/ hour

Built to your spec by our network of professional podcasters.

  • Any language with podcast infrastructure
  • Min order: 100 hours
  • Lead time: 2–6 weeks
  • Milestone payment schedule
  • Significantly less for English
Best for: foundation training, language & accent expansion.
Scope a project →

Exclusive licensing

3–10× catalogtypical

Contractual exclusivity over the audio you license.

  • Perpetual or time-windowed exclusivity
  • Per-buyer data rooms
  • Per-file provenance certificates
  • Multi-stage payment schedule
  • For frontier labs & brand voice products
Best for: anyone whose moat depends on training data.
Request exclusivity terms →
What moves the price

Five variables. The same five every time.

1. Hours

More hours = lower per-hour rate. Volume tiers at 100 / 500 / 2,000 / 10,000 hours.

2. Language & accent

Common languages cost less. Under-represented languages and accents cost more, because the supply is harder to source.

3. Quality grade

Studio-grade with multi-track and verified consent is our default. We do not sell anything below that grade. There are no “budget tiers.”

4. Exclusivity

Non-exclusive (cheapest), per-buyer-windowed (mid), full exclusive (most expensive).

5. Custom requirements

Specific demographics, scenarios, equipment, or transcription depth — each adds production cost.

Always included

MSA with IP indemnification, DPA, 15 days of acceptance testing, and a named delivery contact for the duration of the project.

Included

What ships with every Order.

Audio & transcripts

Audio
48 kHz / 24-bit WAV
Transcripts
Word-level aligned, JSON / WebVTT / SRT / TextGrid
Diarization
Per-speaker labels

Metadata

Speaker
Language, accent, age range, gender, equipment, environment
File
SHA-256 checksums, consent record IDs
Manifest
Signed JSON, C2PA-compatible

Delivery

Targets
S3, GCS, Azure (your bucket or ours)
Acceptance
15 business days of testing
Contact
Named delivery lead

Legal

MSA
With IP indemnification
DPA
If required for your jurisdiction
Article 53
Training-data summary template included

Add-ons

QA
Human-verified transcripts + report
Alignment
Phoneme-level
Diarization
Custom passes
Modal
Multi-modal video + audio

Payment

Catalog
Net-15 from contract execution
Custom
Milestones (30 / 30 / 40)
Exclusive
Multi-stage, agreed in the Order
Currency
USD, EUR, or GBP
What we will not do

On price, ever.

No hand-wave numbers

We won't quote a hand-wave number to win a meeting and re-quote later. The number we send first is the number we sign.

No hidden royalties

We won't bundle in undisclosed downstream royalties. The MSA price is the price.

No bad-terms pilots

We won't offer “free” pilots that lock you into bad downstream terms.

No quality cuts

We won't sell catalog hours below the studio-grade threshold to hit a price target.

Ready for an actual quote?

Tell us target language, approximate hours, use case, desired exclusivity, and timeline. We'll quote within 2 business days.