Most platforms in this category do one of two things with their pricing: hide it behind a sales call, or advertise a number that quietly multiplies the moment your church needs a second language. Neither is dishonest, exactly. But both mean the price on the website is rarely the price a multilingual church actually pays. So we did the comparison ourselves: one benchmark church, run through the published pricing of seven platforms — and through our own, with the same rigor.
01 — The benchmarkOne church, priced through every platform.
Headline prices can't be compared directly because the platforms meter different things — hours, languages, minutes, listeners, or some product of all four. So we price the same church everywhere: two services a week (about 9 a month, roughly 90 minutes each with about 75 minutes of actual speech), translated into 2 languages, with about 100 people following along on their phones.
That works out to roughly 11 hours of translated speech, or about 13.5 wall-clock broadcast hours, per month. For platforms that bill only actively translated speech, we credit them for silence and music — call it 9 active hours. If your church is bigger, smaller, or needs more languages, redo the math with your own numbers; every formula is shown below.
02 — The multipliersThree ways a headline price grows, plus the quote gate.
Before the numbers, the patterns. Almost every surprise bill in this category comes from one of four mechanisms:
- Hours × languages. Some platforms meter "translation hours," where one hour of preaching in three languages consumes three hours of quota. The advertised plan price is the single-language price.
- Per-language add-ons. Others include one language and sell each additional one as a monthly line item — sometimes costing nearly as much as the base plan itself. The second language is where multilingual churches live, so price that, not the base.
- Per-minute metering. Per-minute AI billing reads cheap and compounds fast: minutes × languages × every service × every week. Metered models suit occasional events; a church is the opposite of an occasional event.
- The quote gate. "Contact sales" is not a price. It usually signals annual contracts and event-sized budgets. If a vendor won't publish a number, budget a sales call — and get the all-in figure for your language count in writing.
03 — The tableEight platforms, one honest number each.
Here is the benchmark church's true monthly cost on each platform, from that platform's own published pricing. Sources and as-of dates at the bottom.
- VoxLive — $199/mo, flat. Growth plan: 2 spoken + 8 caption languages at once (drawn from the 60-language catalog), recordings and transcripts, voice cloning, Bible verse cards, up to 250 listeners, 22 broadcast hours (the benchmark uses ~13.5). No overage, no per-language fees. All prices published.
- Glossa — ≈$99/mo. Standard plan: 25 translation hours included; the benchmark uses about 18 (9 active hours × 2 languages). A third language or a long month moves into $4-per-extra-hour territory. Cheaper than VoxLive at this benchmark — we'd rather you hear that from us than discover it later.
- Hope Translator — from $20/mo. $20 buys 5 hours with 2 languages — about half the benchmark's hours, so a weekly church should expect a larger plan. Their 30 free minutes a month with no card is the smoothest free on-ramp in the category.
- SermonLive — $264/mo (≈$227/mo billed yearly). Text & Audio at $147 plus $117/mo for the second audio language. All plans include 10 hours a month — under the benchmark's usage — and sermons must currently be in English.
- LiveVoice — ≈$850/mo all-in with AI voices. AI speech is metered at $0.52 per minute per language: 675 speech-minutes × 2 languages ≈ $702, plus a base plan from $10/day. The honest flip side: if human interpreters cover every language, you pay only the base plan — that is LiveVoice's real sweet spot, and at that job it's well priced.
- Wordly — quote required. Annual hour packages (10 to 500+ hours a year), all languages included, behind "Contact Sales for a Quote." A third-party comparison (March 2026) reports about $540/mo on 12-month plans.
- KUDO — quote required. Pay-as-you-go and annual plans quoted per organization; no published prices. Offers both AI and professional human interpreters through its marketplace.
- spf.io — quote required. Public solutions pages reference denominational-conference plans from about $1,200/yr; weekly-church pricing is by quote. Captions-first, with human-review hybrid modes.
Two observations worth making plainly. First: VoxLive is not the cheapest row. At this exact benchmark, Glossa's metered plan costs about half of our Growth plan, and Hope's entry price is a fraction of it — if their models fit how your church runs, they belong on your shortlist. Second: the platforms that look expensive here are mostly priced for conferences, not congregations — per-event and per-hour models that are perfectly rational for a three-day summit and punishing for a church that meets every single week, forever.
VoxLive is not the cheapest row in this table. Pretending otherwise would defeat the point of publishing it.
04 — Our own mathWhy the honest VoxLive number is $199, not $59.
We could advertise "from $59/month" and let you discover the fit later. The truthful version: our Free plan carries captions in 2 languages but seats 25 people, and this benchmark church brings about 100. Starter at $59 speaks one language and seats 75 — the benchmark needs two spoken languages and more seats. The plan that actually fits is Growth at $199/mo ($1,990/yr — two months free): 2 spoken + 8 caption languages, 22 broadcast hours against the benchmark's ~13.5, and up to 250 listeners.
Flat means flat. No per-language fees, no overage, no metering — the month with five Sundays costs the same as the month with four. Recordings, transcripts, voice cloning, and Bible verses rendered on each listener's phone in their own language are included, not add-ons.
05 — The anchorThe comparison that actually matters.
Every platform on this page — including the expensive ones — costs less than the thing it replaces or supplements. A professional human interpreter typically runs $50 to $150 an hour, per language. Two services a week, one language: roughly $400 to $1,200 a month. Two languages roughly doubles it.
And if your church already has interpreters you love, that is not a reason to skip this category — it's the reason we built the augment mode: VoxLive carries your interpreter's live voice to every phone and lets AI cover only the languages they can't. You don't have to choose between the person and the platform.
If you want to test this against your own congregation rather than our arithmetic: run one real Sunday for $5. The First Sunday Pass unlocks the whole product for one full service — decide from your own congregation's experience, not from a table we wrote. If it doesn't work in your sanctuary, the $5 comes back.
SourcesEvery number, dated.
- Glossa pricing — glossa.live/#pricing, as of July 2026: pay-as-you-go $5/translation-hour/language (4 free hours); Standard $99/mo with 25 translation hours, +$4/extra hour. Their definition: a 1-hour sermon in 3 languages = 3 translation hours; silence and music not billed.
- Hope Translator — hopetranslator.com (their own pricing-comparison article), as of July 2026: $20/month (monthly rate; annual billing is lower) for 5 hours with 2 languages; 30 free minutes/month, no card.
- SermonLive pricing — sermonlive.com/pricing, as of July 2026: Text & Audio $147/mo ($127/mo yearly) + $117/mo per extra audio language ($1,197/yr); all plans 10 hours/month, unlimited viewers; English-source sermons only; 14-day trial.
- LiveVoice pricing — livevoice.io/en/pricing, as of July 2026: plans from €8/$10 per day; AI voice translation $0.52 (€0.42)/minute per language; live captions $0.21 (€0.16)/minute per language; free test up to 3 participants.
- Wordly pricing — wordly.ai/pricing, as of July 2026: annual hour packages, all languages included, contact sales; volume and nonprofit discounts advertised. Third-party price point: Hope Translator's pricing comparison (updated March 4, 2026) lists Wordly at €500/month (~$540) on a 12-month plan.
- KUDO plans — kudo.ai/pricing-plans-and-features, as of July 2026: quoted per organization, not published.
- spf.io — spf.io/request-a-quote, as of July 2026: quotes; denominational solutions pages reference plans from $1,200/year.
- VoxLive pricing — voxlive.app/pricing: Free $0; Starter $59/mo; Growth $199/mo; Pro $449/mo; Scale $789/mo; all-inclusive, no overage, no per-language fees.
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