Aurelo is, on paper, the most credible new competitor we have written about. It puts translated audio and captions on every tier — including a free tier with no card. It prices all of its languages flat, with no per-language add-on. Listeners scan a QR code and hear the sermon in the browser, nothing to install — the same instinct we have. And billed annually its entry tier lands at about $49 a month — the same place our Starter lands. Monthly, ours is cheaper at $59 to their $79. Those are real strengths, and they come first. Then there is one sentence in Aurelo's own FAQ that, for most multilingual churches, decides the whole comparison — and this page is mostly about that sentence.
01 — Credit firstWhat Aurelo is genuinely good at.
- Audio and captions on every tier, including free. The free tier gives 2 hours a month with translated audio and subtitles, in all of its 60+ languages, with no card. That is a genuinely generous front door — most platforms we have compared gate audio behind paid plans.
- Flat all-languages pricing. No per-language fees on any tier. We have written a whole post against per-language add-ons, so credit where due: Aurelo made the same call we did.
- An entry price that ties ours. Like for like: monthly, Basic is $79 against VoxLive Starter at $59 — we are cheaper. Billed annually, both land at about $49 a month (their $49 against our $590/yr, which works out to $49.17). On the entry axis, call it a tie.
- QR-code listener flow, no app. Listeners scan and listen in the browser. Same design conviction we hold: the congregation should never have to find an app store during the announcements.
- An Enterprise lane. A custom-priced tier lists unlimited hours, multi-campus support, voice cloning, custom integrations, dedicated support, and an SLA — a real top end for larger organizations.
02 — The one questionCan every listener pick their own language at the same time?
Here is the sentence. Aurelo's own FAQ, as of July 17, 2026, says the product translates one language pair at a time, with multiple simultaneous translations described as coming soon. That is their page, not our characterization.
For a church with one language gap — an English service with a Spanish-speaking group — one pair at a time is the whole job, and Aurelo covers it. But the marketing image every platform sells, ours included, is the room where each listener picks their own language: Spanish in one pew, Portuguese two rows back, Mandarin in the balcony, at the same moment. By Aurelo's own FAQ, that room is on their roadmap, not in their product.
Simultaneous fan-out is what VoxLive does today, and it is plan-bounded honestly: Growth runs 2 spoken languages and 8 caption languages at once; Pro runs 4 and 12; Scale runs 6 spoken with captions in any of the 60 supported languages. Each listener picks their own from their phone, live, mid-sermon. Both products advertise a similar catalog breadth — their 60+ languages against our 60 — so the catalog is not the difference. How many of them can serve your congregation at the same time is.
Every listener choosing their own language at the same moment is the entire product. On their page it is coming soon; on ours it is the Sunday routine.
03 — The pricingHour meters, run through one real church.
Aurelo's published ladder, as of July 17, 2026: Free (2 hours a month), Basic $79 a month or $49 billed annually (10 hours), Pro $129 or $89 (20 hours, marked POPULAR), Ultra $249 or $199 (50 hours), and custom-priced Enterprise. Each paid tier also carries a second, smaller meter of "ultra-low-latency" hours — 3, 5, and 15 respectively. What latency the remaining hours run at is not stated on their page; that is a question to ask them, not a claim from us.
Benchmark church: two services a week (about 9 a month, ~90 minutes each), 2 translated languages, about 100 people following along — roughly 13.5 broadcast hours a month. Full methodology in the seven-service comparison.
- Aurelo at the benchmark: their page does not say whether the meter counts the whole broadcast or only translated speech. Counted wall-clock, the benchmark's 13.5 hours clears Basic's 10-hour meter and the fit is Pro — $129 a month, or $89 billed annually; counted as the benchmark's ~9 active speech hours (the reading our methodology credits metered platforms with), Basic at $79/$49 fits. Ask them which way the meter runs. Either way, their fit is cheaper than VoxLive Growth, and we will not pretend otherwise. Two caveats from their own page: Pro's ultra-low-latency meter is 5 hours against the benchmark's 13.5, and the benchmark's second simultaneous language is the exact thing their FAQ marks coming soon.
- VoxLive at the benchmark: Growth at $199 a month, flat — 2 spoken plus 8 caption languages running simultaneously, 22 broadcast hours against the benchmark's 13.5, up to 250 listeners, recordings, transcripts, human-interpreter mode, and Bible verse cards included.
- The honest hour comparison: Aurelo's Ultra includes 50 hours — more than any VoxLive tier's included hours (Scale includes 36). If you broadcast far beyond Sunday and midweek, read their ladder carefully; it may fit you. What our hours do differently: they are soft. A broadcast in progress always finishes — we do not cut a service the moment the meter runs out — and there is no overage line item on any plan — the bill is the plan price, every month.
04 — The differencesFour calls the two products made differently.
Browser studio vs. desktop app. Aurelo's operator side runs as a desktop application you install. VoxLive's studio runs entirely in the browser — the AV volunteer opens a tab on whatever machine the booth has that week, including a locked-down church PC, a borrowed laptop, or an iPad. No install policy fights, nothing to update before the service.
Interpreter-augment vs. interpreter-replacement. Aurelo's site lists no mode for a live human interpreter — the model its site presents is AI doing the translating. VoxLive is built to keep your interpreters: your volunteer speaks, their live voice reaches every listener's phone, and AI covers only the languages no human on your team speaks — the way a real bilingual church runs it in our case study. If your church has a translation ministry, this is the difference that decides it.
Bible verses, rendered. When the preacher references John 3:16, each VoxLive listener sees the verse from a published Bible translation in their own language, automatically, on every plan (on free, during its AI trial). Aurelo's site lists no Bible features. For a product aimed at churches, we think Scripture deserves better than being machine-translated like the rest of the sentence.
Hard meters vs. soft hours. Aurelo's tiers are hour-metered (2, 10, 20, and 50), with the separate ultra-low-latency meter inside each. Their page does not say what happens when the meter runs out mid-service, so we make no claim about that. We can only tell you our behavior, because we designed it deliberately: a broadcast in progress always finishes when the hours run out, and there is no overage charge on any plan. One practical note from their site while you plan: music is not supported on Aurelo; budget your hours around speech.
05 — Ours to concedeWhere Aurelo has the better of us, and who should pick which.
The scale has weights on both sides. VoxLive is a newer product than the incumbents in this market, and Aurelo's verifiable public footprint is small as well — so on track record, ask hard questions of both of us. Our plans carry listener caps (75 on Starter, 250 on Growth, 350 on Pro, 450 on Scale). And individual audio on VoxLive needs listeners to have phones; captions on a projector cover the room, but not each ear. Our free tier is also shaped differently from theirs: ongoing live audio streaming (8 hours a month) plus one-time trials of AI captions (2 hours) and one spoken translation language (60 minutes) — Aurelo's free tier resets its 2 hours monthly with translation included, which is the more generous recurring free door. Theirs is the better free tier for indefinitely testing translation; ours is built to carry your audio every week and give the AI one honest audition.
So: if your church has exactly one language gap, no interpreter team, a preference for their tier shape, and an operator who does not mind a desktop install, Aurelo is a credible choice — take its free tier for a spin, it costs nothing. If your congregation speaks three languages at once, if you have interpreters you want to keep in front of the people they serve, if you want Scripture rendered rather than machine-translated, or if you want a meter that lets the sermon finish — that is the shape VoxLive is built around, at flat published prices from $59 to $789 a month.
The cheapest way to know is not this page — it is one real Sunday. The $5 First Sunday Pass unlocks the whole product for one full service, and you decide from your own congregation's experience. If it doesn't work in your sanctuary, the $5 comes back.
06 — FAQHonest questions, honest answers.
How much does Aurelo cost for a church?
As of July 17, 2026, Aurelo publishes five tiers: Free (2 hours a month, no card), Basic at $79 a month or $49 a month billed annually (10 hours), Pro at $129 or $89 (20 hours), Ultra at $249 or $199 (50 hours), and a custom-priced Enterprise tier. Every tier includes all of its 60+ languages. VoxLive publishes a flat ladder: Free, Starter $59, Growth $199, Pro $449, and Scale $789 a month, each all-inclusive with no per-language or per-hour add-ons.
Can Aurelo translate into multiple languages at the same time?
As of July 17, 2026, Aurelo's own FAQ says it translates one language pair at a time, with multiple simultaneous translations described as coming soon. VoxLive delivers simultaneous multi-language translation today: on the Growth plan a congregation can hear spoken translation in 2 languages and read live captions in 8 languages at once, with each listener choosing their own from their phone.
What is the difference between VoxLive and Aurelo?
Both send live translated audio and captions to listeners' phones through a QR code with no app to install. The differences: as of July 17, 2026, Aurelo translates one language pair at a time per its own FAQ, runs its operator side as a desktop application, and lists no mode for human interpreters or Bible verse rendering. VoxLive translates into many languages simultaneously, runs entirely in the browser, carries a live human interpreter's voice alongside AI languages, and shows detected Bible verses in each listener's language on every plan.
Does Aurelo work with human interpreters?
Aurelo is an AI translation product; as of July 17, 2026 its site does not list a mode that carries a live human interpreter's voice to listeners. VoxLive has one: your interpreter speaks, their live voice reaches every listener's phone, and AI covers only the languages no human on your team speaks.
Do listeners need to install an app for VoxLive or Aurelo?
No on both counts. Aurelo and VoxLive each let listeners scan a QR code and listen or read in the browser with nothing to install. The operator side differs: Aurelo's broadcaster runs as a desktop application, while VoxLive's studio runs entirely in the browser.
SourcesEvery number, dated.
- Aurelo website and pricing — aurelolive.com and aurelolive.com/#pricing, checked July 17, 2026: Free tier 2 hours/month, all 60+ languages, audio + subtitles, no card; Basic $79/month or $49/month billed annually (10 hours, 3 ultra-low-latency); Pro $129/$89 (20 hours, 5 ultra-low-latency, marked POPULAR); Ultra $249/$199 (50 hours, 15 ultra-low-latency); Enterprise custom-priced (unlimited hours, multi-campus, voice cloning, custom integrations, dedicated support, SLA); prices display in dollars or euros with identical digits depending on the visitor's region; "Yearly billing saves up to 40%" claim; QR-code listener access with no app; desktop application for the broadcaster side; music not supported.
- One-language-pair-at-a-time — Aurelo's own FAQ on aurelolive.com, checked July 17, 2026: one language pair at a time, with "multiple simultaneous translations coming soon."
- Footprint figures — Aurelo homepage, checked July 17, 2026: visible copy states "250+ churches across 42 countries"; the same page's embedded structured-data markup declares reviewCount 4 with ratingValue 4.9. Both are their own page's statements, reported side by side.
- Yearly-savings arithmetic — computed from the published prices above: Basic $79 to $49 is about 38%, Pro $129 to $89 about 31%, Ultra $249 to $199 about 20%.
- Benchmark methodology (two services a week, two languages, ~100 listeners) — the seven-service cost comparison.
- VoxLive pricing — voxlive.app/pricing.
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