Pricing

$59, $149, or $299 a month

Each plan is a number of sermons a month, a one-time allowance for the archive you already have, and a rate limit for your own website. The library, the embed, the podcast feed, the printable transcript, and the API come with all three.

Library

$59a month

A church that preaches one to three times a week and wants a library of its own.

Sermons a month: 15
Then, each: $6
Backfill credits: 25
Seats: 3

Platform Our recommendation

$149a month

A church that wants its own domain, its logo on the printed transcript, and its own site reading from the API, with room for more than three services a week.

Sermons a month: 30
Then, each: $5
Backfill credits: 200
Seats: 10

Pro

$299a month

A multi-campus church or ministry with a large archive, a sermon most days, and traffic to match.

Sermons a month: 60
Then, each: $4
Backfill credits: 1,000
Seats: No limit

Apply for an account What a sermon-equivalent is

Annual billing is 10 months’ price for twelve. There’s no setup fee and no minimum term.

The unit

What counts as a sermon

One sermon-equivalent: One sermon, measured on the audio you send. An unusually long recording counts as more than one, and the Upload page tells you how many before you send it. It’s charged when the transcription finishes, not when you upload.
Your monthly allowance: 15, 30, or 60 sermon-equivalents a month by plan, resetting each month on the day your subscription began, so your first month is a whole month. Past the allowance, uploads pause until it resets, unless you buy prepaid sermons or turn on extra sermons. Extra sermons bill at your plan’s rate up to a monthly limit you set.
Backfill credits: A separate, one-time pool for the archive you already have. Your plan grants 25, 200, or 1,000, one credit per imported sermon-equivalent. More come in packs of 50, 100, or 500, at $1.00, $0.75, or $0.50 each by plan. An import spends credits and never touches the month’s allowance.
If a recording fails: If we can’t finish a recording after retrying, the sermon-equivalent is credited back automatically. It isn’t a support request.

The table

Each plan, line by line

Every plan runs the same pipeline on every recording. The plan changes how many sermons a month it covers, how much of your existing archive it brings over, how hard your own website may call the API, and how your library and your PDF are branded.

What you get	Library, $59	Platform, $149	Pro, $299
Sermons a month Counted in sermon-equivalents: one per sermon, more for an unusually long recording.	15, then $6 each	30, then $5 each	60, then $4 each
Prepaid sermons In packs of 10, 25, or 50. Used after the month's sermons and before any extra is billed, and they never expire.	$5 each	$4 each	$3 each
Backfill credits included A separate one-time pool for the archive you already have. Imports spend credits and never touch the monthly allowance.	25	200	1,000
Extra backfill credits Sold in packs of 50, 100, or 500 on every plan.	$1.00 each	$0.75 each	$0.50 each
What we do to each recording Transcript, summary, topic tags, scripture citations, a scripture index, pull quotes, clarifications of what the transcription misheard, and a printable PDF.	All of it	All of it	All of it
Recordings processed at once A new upload always goes ahead of your own imports. The number is how many recordings we work on together, which shows when a large import is running.	2	4	8
Your own library site A public, searchable sermon site at your own shepherdsmessage.com address, and on Platform and Pro at a domain of your own too.	Yes, with a small Shepherd's Message line in the footer	Yes, unbadged, at your own domain	Yes, unbadged, at your own domain
Embed on your existing site Two custom elements you paste into a page. No build step.	Yes, badged	Yes, unbadged	Yes, unbadged
WordPress plugin Your sermons as pages on your own WordPress site, in your theme, installed from WordPress.org.	No	Yes	Yes
Podcast feed	Yes	Yes	Yes
PDF branding	Your church's name	Name and logo	Name and logo
Social graphics and clips A graphic of each sermon and each pull quote, and short clips in the preacher's voice (with the preacher in the picture when the sermon's video is hosted here), sized for each feed, each caption made from the sermon's own words.	No	Yes	Yes
Hosted sermon video Upload the service’s video and the sermon page plays it, with the transcript following along. The hours you keep show on your usage page, and there’s no limit on them yet.	No	Yes	Yes
Delivery API Read-only and public, for your own website. Keys are issued from your dashboard.	300 requests a minute	600 requests a minute	2,000 requests a minute
Management API Write access for your own tooling, with its own keys and scopes. On Library the dashboard does all of it.	No	Yes	Yes
Webhooks A signed callback when a sermon publishes, with every delivery logged.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Seats	3	10	No limit
Support	Email	Email, answered within one business day	Priority email, with onboarding

Leaving

Your archive is yours, including on the way out

One button in your dashboard, or one call to the API, produces a single file with your whole archive in it: every transcript, every PDF, the original transcription data exactly as it arrived, your series, tags, speakers and settings, and the audio too if you ask for it. It’s an ordinary gzipped tar, which your computer already opens.

We keep the archive for seven days and mint a fresh one-hour download link each time you ask, so no permanent link to your whole archive ever exists. Take a copy whenever you like, and take one before you cancel.

What the export holds

Per sermon: The source document, the timed transcript, the PDF, and the raw transcription data
Per library: Series, tags with their approval state, speakers, and your settings
Feeds: The published podcast feed and the records the API serves
Audio: Included when you ask for it
Format: One .tar.gz, with a manifest and a README inside
Kept for: 7 days, then rebuilt on request

The fine print

Before you decide

Preaching more than your plan includes

Uploads pause until your allowance resets, and nothing extra is charged unless you choose it. To keep going, buy prepaid sermons in Settings, Plan, at $5 each on Library, $4 on Platform, and $3 on Pro (they never expire), or turn on extra sermons: they bill at your plan’s rate, $6 on Library, $5 on Platform, $4 on Pro, up to a monthly limit you set. At 30 sermons in a month, Platform costs the same as Library, and past that it costs less. On Platform the same is true of Pro at 60.

A recording that fails

If we can’t finish a recording after retrying, the sermon-equivalent goes back to your account automatically. You don’t have to notice it or ask.

Monthly sermons and backfill credits

They’re two pools, and they never mix. Your monthly allowance covers the sermons you preach from now on. Backfill credits cover the archive you already have, they’re granted once, and an import can’t spend the month’s allowance.

When the allowance resets

Each month on the day your subscription began. Sign up on the 28th and it resets on the 28th, so your first month is a whole month.

Canceling

Whenever you like, and the service runs to the end of the period you’ve paid for. We don’t prorate a partial month. Take the export before you go: it’s one file with everything in it.

Contracts and minimum terms

There’s no minimum term and no setup fee. Annual billing is 10 months’ price for twelve, if you’d rather pay once.

The recordings we take

A video of the service (MP4, MOV, or MKV, from a phone, OBS, or a streaming recorder) or an audio file (MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, or OGG). On the upload page you mark where the sermon starts and ends, and we send only that part, so the transcript stays clean and your allowance is spent on preaching. On Platform and Pro the sermon’s video comes too and plays on its sermon page; on Library we keep only the sound.

Tell us about your church

Say how often you preach and how big the archive is, and we’ll tell you which plan fits and what the import would cost before you commit to anything.

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