Adobe Podcast pricing: the free plan, Firefly Pro and Premium

Bottom line: Adobe Podcast is free to use within daily limits: Enhance Speech on audio up to an hour a day, and Studio projects up to 30 minutes with two downloads a day. Since 30 August 2026 there is no standalone Premium plan for new customers; the paid tier now comes with Adobe Firefly Pro, shown at $19.99 a month on podcast.adobe.com and £19.99 a month including VAT on Adobe's UK Firefly page (both checked 17 October 2026). Firefly Pro also includes 4,000 generative credits a month and Adobe Express premium features, so you are buying more than a podcast tool.

Adobe Podcast's pricing changed recently. This post sets out what Adobe's current pages say.

The free plan

Adobe Podcast's plan comparison lists these limits for the free plan:

That is a generous free plan. If you only need to clean up the odd recording, or you record short episodes, you may never need to pay. The limits reset daily rather than being a one-off allowance.

What happened to Adobe Podcast Premium

Adobe's plan change FAQ, last updated 30 July 2026, says: "Starting August 30, 2026, Adobe will no longer be selling Adobe Podcast Premium as a standalone plan to new members." Since that date, checkout on podcast.adobe.com prompts new customers to sign up for Firefly Pro, "which includes everything Podcast offered (Enhance Speech and more)".

If you already had Premium, Adobe says nothing changes for you: you keep Premium at your current price, and Firefly Standard has been added to your account at no extra cost, with 2,000 generative credits a month. The catch is cancelling. If you cancel after 30 August 2026, Adobe says you would need to buy Firefly Pro to get Premium features back, because the old plan is no longer sold.

Adobe's stated reason is that bringing Podcast into Firefly lets it "expand into new AI audio capabilities like generating music, sound effects, and speech".

Firefly Pro: what it costs and what it adds

Prices were checked on 17 October 2026. Adobe offers a free trial of Firefly Pro.

On Adobe's UK Firefly page the other tiers are Firefly Standard at £9.98 a month, Firefly Pro Plus at £47.99 and Firefly Premium at £200.40, all including VAT, billed monthly. Adobe Podcast's pages name Firefly Pro as the plan that includes Podcast Premium for new customers.

Is Firefly Pro worth it for Adobe Podcast alone?

It depends on what you hit first on the free plan.

• You need video or longer files. Free Enhance Speech is audio only, 30 minutes per file and an hour a day. Firefly Pro raises that to four hours a day and two hour files, and adds video.
• You download a lot of Studio projects. Free is two downloads a day and 30 minute projects.
• You record remote guests and want separate tracks. Downloading original recordings per speaker is a paid feature.
• You would use Firefly anyway. If you already want image, video or audio generation, or Adobe Express premium, the Podcast features come along with it.

If none of those apply, the free plan is probably enough, and that is a perfectly good outcome.

How Paraphrase prices editing

Paraphrase is a narrower tool than Adobe Podcast: it edits your own recording by its transcript, with an AI cleanup that proposes cuts, and has no noise removal, enhancement, recording studio or captions. Its pricing is built around one unit:

• Credits buy transcription only. One credit transcribes one second of audio. Editing, AI cleanup and export never use credits, so re-editing and re-exporting are free.
• Free plan: 15 minutes of transcription when you sign up, no card, 3 AI cleanups a day, and projects up to 5 minutes of recordings in total.
• Premium: £13.99 a month, £83.85 a year (about £6.99 a month), or £179.65 for three years (about £4.99 a month). It includes 120 hours of audio a month, 30 AI cleanups a day and projects up to 4 hours.
• Credit packs work on either plan and never expire while the account is open: £3.99 for 4 hours, £12.99 for 13 hours 20 minutes, £34.99 for 40 hours.
• Free trial: 7 days of Premium on the monthly or annual cycle, card required.

Prices are in pounds, checked on 17 October 2026, and on the pricing page. The credits and plans docs explain how credits are counted.

Comparing the two honestly

Adobe's free plan does more than Paraphrase's: it renews every day, and it includes Enhance Speech, which Paraphrase has no equivalent for. If you are choosing purely on what you get for nothing, Adobe wins.

On paid plans, the two are not buying the same thing. In pounds, Firefly Pro is £19.99 a month including VAT and Paraphrase Premium is £13.99 a month, but Firefly Pro bundles Enhance Speech, Studio, generative credits and Adobe Express, while Paraphrase Premium buys transcription time and a higher daily cleanup limit for one job: cutting the words. Many people will want Adobe for the sound and Paraphrase for the words, and the free tiers of both cost nothing to try together.

For the feature side, see Paraphrase vs Adobe Podcast, our Adobe Podcast review and the Adobe Podcast alternatives. We have also compared podcast editor pricing across the tools we cover.

Try it on your own recording. Create a free Paraphrase account, no card needed, and see what the AI cleanup proposes cutting.