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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "audiorista",
 "name": "Audiorista",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "audiorista.com",
 "category": "Content & Media",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "No-code platform for launching branded audio apps — podcasts, audiobooks, meditation and courses with subscriptions, on iOS, Android and web.",
 "best_for": "creators and media brands with a real audio catalog — podcasts, audiobooks, meditations, courses — ready to monetize subscriptions in their own branded apps",
 "skip_if": "you are still validating an audio idea on a small catalog or budget: the tier that actually ships to the app stores starts at $240 a month, before store commissions",
 "honest_knock": "The $29 Demo tier cannot actually publish to the App Store or Google Play — real branded apps start at $240 a month. The Business tier adds a per-active-user fee from $0.80 on top of $400 per app, so growth literally raises the bill — and Apple and Google's own store commissions still apply to in-app sales on top of everything.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$29",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month (preview tier, no publishing or monetization)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 29.0,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Demo",
    "price": "$29/mo",
    "includes": "All Lite features except app store publishing; monetization disabled; catalogue capped at 100 titles"
   },
   {
    "name": "Lite",
    "price": "$240/mo",
    "includes": "iOS and Android apps; 200 monthly active users; catalogue capped at 100 titles"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business",
    "price": "from $400/mo per app, plus from $0.80 per monthly active user",
    "includes": "Unlimited users; catalogue capped at 10,000 items"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "$400 per app plus further fees, floor $5,000/mo",
    "includes": "Unlimited users and catalogue; fees based on services, features, extensions, commitment"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-14 and re-read unchanged 2026-09-27 on their own pricing page, USD) Demo is $29/mo and Lite $240/mo for iOS and Android apps. Business is from $400/mo per app, plus a tiered variable fee from $0.80 per monthly active user. Enterprise sits on that same $400 per app with further fees based on services, features, extensions and commitment, and the plan card quotes a floor of $5,000/mo. 30-day free trial. Demo carries all Lite features except publishing to the App Store and Google Play, and monetization is disabled on it — a preview tier rather than a product. Paid app sales, RevenueCat in-app subscriptions and Zapier webshop sync start at Lite; the web app, Stripe web payments and push-notification campaigns start at Business. Read the quotas beside the prices, because they decide the tier as much as the money does: Demo and Lite both cap the catalogue at 100 titles, Lite includes only 200 monthly active users, Business lifts users to unlimited but caps the catalogue at 10,000 items, and only Enterprise is unlimited on both counts. Push notifications are still marked Coming Soon on Demo and Lite.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: unit · monthly active user of the app (Business, from $0.80, tiered)",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Uscreen",
  "why": "Uscreen is the video-first heavyweight for creator apps; Audiorista is audio-native — leaner for podcasts and audiobooks, with per-user fees appearing at the Business tier"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/audiorista.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/audiorista-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/audiorista/",
  "vendor_site": "https://audiorista.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.audiorista.com/?red=aibuil",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "audiorista:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "audiorista:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "audiorista:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "audiorista:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}