Podpod vs Sesame

Comparing the features of Podpod to Sesame

Feature
Podpod
Sesame

Capability Features

AI Hosts
Cancel Anytime
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Contextual Web Pulling
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Custom Newsletter Podcast
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Email for Newsletter
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Gossip Host Personality
Host Personality Selection
Model Sizes
Tiny: 1B backbone, 100M decoderSmall: 3B backbone, 250M decoderMedium: 8B backbone, 300M decoder
Multiple Speaker Handling
Newsletter Generation
Objective Metrics
Word Error RateSpeaker SimilarityHomograph DisambiguationPronunciation Consistency
Partial Multilingual Support Planned
Planned for 20+ languages
Podcast Generation Automation
Podcast RSS Feed Support
Pronunciation Correction
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Text and Audio Input
TextAudio
Training Epochs
5

Integration Features

Add URL Integration
Add podpod.me/ before any article URL
GitHub Release
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer
Newsletter Email Integration
Forward a newsletter to your Podpod email
Platform Integrations
Web articlesNewsletters

Limitation Features

Cannot Model Conversation Structure
English Language Dominance
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly

Pricing Features

Free Preview
Free Tier
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Pro Plan Podcast Limit
64
Pro Plan Price (Monthly)
€3.99/per month
Starter Plan Monthly Price
€1.99/per month
Starter Plan Podcast Limit
18