Made for your next broadcast
How many listening hours
does your station need?
One listener for one hour is one listening hour. Enter your listeners and your hours on air, and see your monthly total and the plan that covers it.
- Free to use
- No signup required
- Works in your browser
Your station
How many are tuned in at a typical moment.
Listening hours you need
7,200
10 listeners × 24 hours × 30 days, each month.
The Starter plan covers this: 20,000 hours a month, $19 a month. You would use 36% of it.
- Starter · 20,000 hours · $19/moabout 27 listeners on this schedule
- Pro · 150,000 hours · $49/moabout 208 listeners on this schedule
- Business · 500,000 hours · $99/moabout 694 listeners on this schedule
Hours are counted at 128 kbps. No plan limits how many people listen at once. Work out the gigabytes with the bandwidth calculator.
Your station, powered by Nobex
No cap on listeners. Just a monthly pool.
No Nobex plan limits how many people listen at once. Each plan has a monthly pool of listening hours at 128 kbps: Starter 20,000, Pro 150,000, Business 500,000.
- No limit on listeners at the same time
- A monthly pool of listening hours
- HTTPS streams on a global CDN
Plans from $19 a month. See the plans.
A few useful answers
What is a listening hour?
One listener connected for one hour. Two listeners for one hour is two listening hours. Ten listeners for 24 hours is 240.
Does 20,000 listening hours mean 20,000 listeners?
No. It is a monthly total of time, not a number of people. 20,000 hours is about 27 listeners tuned in all day, every day for a month, or many more listeners for shorter times.
Is there a limit on listeners at the same time?
Not on Nobex. No plan limits how many people listen at once. The plan sets the monthly pool of listening hours.
How do I find my average listeners?
Look at your stream host’s stats for the number connected at a typical moment, not your busiest show. If you are new, start small: most new stations have a handful of listeners at a time.
Does bitrate matter?
Plans are quoted at 128 kbps. A 64 kbps stream uses half a pool hour per real hour; a 256 kbps stream uses two. The bandwidth calculator shows the gigabytes for any bitrate.
Keep reading
Plans, costs and the stream behind them.
Written by the team that runs the streaming platform, not by a content farm.
Plans, billing and managing your subscription
Pick the right plan, see how a new station starts, understand the money-back guarantee and the overage cap, and manage everything — upgrades, pauses, streams, payment methods and invoices — from one Subscription page.
6 min read
How much does it cost to start an internet radio station?
An honest internet radio station cost breakdown: what hosting, licensing, music and equipment really cost per month — and what you genuinely get for free.
9 min read
Stream quality and delivery: HLS, MP3 and mounts
How your audio reaches listeners — adaptive HLS over CDN and universal MP3/Icecast — plus stream mounts, codecs, bitrates and the quality picker.
7 min read
Understand your audience with analytics
Read your live listener stats, then dig into listening hours, peak and average listeners, unique and returning listeners, an hour-by-day heatmap, countries and cities, devices, top tracks and session lengths — and export it all.
8 min read