Voco is the cheapest unlimited-attendee entry in this market, and we are going to say so before we say anything else. Twenty-four pounds a month puts live translated captions in front of an unlimited number of attendees — no per-listener fee, a custom link for your church on every tier, and integrations that drop the captions straight into an AV booth's existing tools. If the whole job is text on a screen, nothing we sell beats that price, and this page will not pretend otherwise. But there is the hinge: the whole job is rarely text on a screen. This page is about the people in a congregation a caption cannot reach — and about the one line on Voco's own site that says when a voice might arrive.
01 — Credit firstWhat Voco is genuinely good at.
- The lowest entry price we have compared, once attendee limits are counted. Starter is £24 a month with unlimited attendees and no per-listener fee. Our Starter is $59 with a 75-listener cap. On the entry axis, Voco wins, plainly.
- Unlimited attendees on every tier. No caps anywhere in the ladder. We publish caps on every plan; they publish none.
- An AV-booth integration story that punches above its price. An OBS Browser Source, a ProPresenter Web Item, and a Signal API with Stream Deck support — the captions drop into the booth's existing tools rather than asking the booth to change.
- The right trial posture. A 7-day trial with no card required, and a refund if the first Sunday does not work out. That is how software should be sold to a church, and it is close to how we sell ours.
- A clean, published ladder. Three tiers in plain pounds, annual prices published, a custom church URL on all tiers, and the church's logo in the attendee reader on Church and Pro. Nothing requires a sales call except the Network and event packs.
02 — The one questionWho in the room can a screen of text not serve?
Here is the line. Voco delivers live translated captions — text on the attendee's screen. Spoken audio, per Voco's own site as of July 17, 2026, is on the roadmap as a paid add-on, with no price published. That is not a hidden fact; they state it. But it draws a boundary around who the product can serve today, and in most congregations the boundary runs through the middle of the room.
Walk an actual sanctuary. The grandmother who never got comfortable reading small moving text on a phone. The believer who prays with his eyes closed and his head down — captions require eyes on a screen for the whole sermon. The member who hears fine but never learned to read easily in any language on the menu; whole congregations come from oral cultures, and their literacy is nobody's business to test at the door. The vision-impaired listener a caption simply cannot reach. Every one of them is served by the same thing: a voice, in their language, in their ear.
That is what VoxLive delivers, both halves at once. A listener scans the QR code, picks a language, and chooses: read the live captions, hear the spoken translation, or both. One earbud serves the grandmother; captions on the projector cover the room for those who prefer to read; a spare phone plugged into a small speaker serves the row that has no phones at all. On the Growth plan, 2 spoken languages and 8 caption languages run at the same time, each listener choosing their own. On Voco, the spoken half of that sentence is a roadmap line.
A caption serves the eyes that can read it. A voice serves the rest of the room. On their site the voice is a roadmap line with no price; on ours it is the product.
03 — The pricingPounds against dollars, run through one real church.
Voco's published ladder, as of July 17, 2026, in pounds: Starter £24 a month (guidance of about 90 minutes a week), Church £48 (about 5 hours a week, 3 seats, the OBS and ProPresenter integrations, church logo in the attendee reader), and Pro £88 (unlimited hours and seats, the Signal API, priority support). Billed annually: £228, £456, and £840 a year — which works out to £19, £38, and £70 a month. Network and event packs are quote-only. Every tier includes unlimited attendees and a custom church URL, and the 7-day trial needs no card.
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.
- Voco at the benchmark: by Voco's own tier guidance, the benchmark's roughly 3 hours a week outgrows Starter (about 90 minutes a week) and fits Church — £48 a month, or £456 a year — with unlimited attendees, the booth integrations, and the logo. That is cheaper than VoxLive Growth, and we will not pretend otherwise. What it buys is the text half of the benchmark: both translated languages arrive as captions, and the hundred people following along read them. The benchmark's spoken half — a voice in the listener's ear — does not exist on Voco today at any price; their site lists audio as a future paid add-on with no price given.
- 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, with recordings, transcripts, human-interpreter mode, and Bible verse cards included.
- The honest hour comparison: Voco Pro at £88 includes unlimited hours and seats — more hours than any published VoxLive tier includes (Scale includes 36). If you broadcast far beyond Sunday and midweek and text is genuinely all you need, their ladder may fit you. What our hours do differently: they are soft. A broadcast in progress always finishes — 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.
A human interpreter's voice, carried or not. Voco's site lists no mode for a live human interpreter — the product is AI captioning. 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). Voco'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.
A named church vs. anonymous testers. Both products are young — VoxLive included — so ask hard questions of both of us. What we can show: a named church, Solid Foundation Texas, that runs VoxLive from a real booth every week, with its numbers in a public case study. What Voco shows, as of July 17, 2026: a launch around May 2026, a solo founder in the UK, and testimonials attributed to anonymous "Early Voco tester." A solo founder shipping quickly is not a flaw — it is roughly our own story. But a named church you can call is a different grade of evidence than a quote with no name on it.
Weekly guidance vs. soft hours. Voco's Starter and Church tiers carry weekly usage guidance (about 90 minutes and about 5 hours a week); Pro is unlimited. Their page does not say what happens the week you run past the guidance, so we make no claim about that. We can tell you our behavior, because we designed it deliberately: VoxLive's hours are soft — a broadcast in progress always finishes, and there is no overage line item on any plan.
05 — Ours to concedeWhere Voco has the better of us, and who should pick which.
The scale has weights on both sides. Voco's unlimited attendees beat our listener caps (75 on Starter, 250 on Growth, 350 on Pro, 450 on Scale). Voco Pro's unlimited hours at £88 beat every VoxLive tier's included hours. Individual audio on VoxLive needs listeners to have phones; captions on a projector cover the room, but not each ear. And at the entry point there is no contest: £24 against our $59. The free doors differ in shape too: Voco has no free tier — it has a 7-day trial with no card and a refund on the first Sunday, which is the right posture and close to ours. Our free plan is ongoing: live audio streaming (8 hours a month) plus one-time trials of AI captions (2 hours) and one spoken translation language (60 minutes) — built to carry your audio every week and give the AI one honest audition.
So, where Voco fits: a smaller church where everyone in the room reads comfortably — literate in an offered language, good eyesight, no interpreter team — a budget that starts and ends at tens of pounds, and ideally a UK bank account. That is a real church, and for that church Voco is a credible choice; take the 7-day trial, it costs nothing. If your congregation includes the grandmother, the new reader, or the listener who worships with her eyes closed — if anyone in the room needs a voice rather than a screen — or if you have interpreters you want to keep in front of the people they serve, 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 Voco cost for a church?
As of July 17, 2026, Voco publishes three tiers, priced in pounds: Starter at £24 a month (guidance of about 90 minutes a week), Church at £48 a month (about 5 hours a week, 3 seats), and Pro at £88 a month (unlimited hours and seats). Billed annually they are £228, £456, and £840 a year. Every tier includes unlimited attendees and a custom church URL. 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.
Does Voco offer spoken audio translation?
No. As of July 17, 2026, Voco delivers live translated captions only — text on a screen. Its site lists spoken audio as on the roadmap as a paid add-on, with no price published. VoxLive delivers both today: listeners scan a QR code and can read live captions or hear spoken translation in their own language on their phone.
What is the difference between VoxLive and Voco?
Both put live translated captions in front of a congregation through the browser with nothing to install. The differences: as of July 17, 2026, Voco is captions-only (spoken audio is on its roadmap as a paid add-on), lists no mode for human interpreters, and lists no Bible verse features. VoxLive delivers spoken audio translation alongside captions, carries a live human interpreter's voice to every listener's phone, and shows detected Bible verses in each listener's language.
Does Voco work with human interpreters?
Voco is an AI captioning 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.
Is Voco cheaper than VoxLive?
At the entry point, yes. As of July 17, 2026, Voco's Starter is £24 a month with unlimited attendees — the lowest published entry we have compared once attendee limits are counted — against VoxLive Starter at $59 a month. The two buy different things: Voco delivers translated captions only, while VoxLive delivers captions plus spoken audio translation, a human-interpreter mode, and Bible verse rendering. For a church where everyone reads comfortably, Voco is the cheaper way to put text on screens; for a church that needs a voice in someone's ear, captions-only does not cover that job at any price today.
SourcesEvery number, dated.
- Voco website and pricing — voco.church and voco.church/pricing, checked July 17, 2026: Starter £24/month (guidance of about 90 minutes a week); Church £48/month (about 5 hours a week, 3 seats, OBS Browser Source and ProPresenter Web Item integrations, church logo in the attendee reader); Pro £88/month (unlimited hours and seats, Signal API with Stream Deck support, priority support, logo included); annual £228/£456/£840; Network and event packs quote-only; unlimited attendees on every tier; custom church URL on all tiers; 7-day trial with no card; first-Sunday refund; captions-only, with spoken audio "on the roadmap as a paid add-on" and no price listed.
- Company and track record — voco.church/about, voco.church/security, and voco.church/changelog, checked July 17, 2026: launched around May 2026; built by a solo founder in the UK; site testimonials attributed to anonymous "Early Voco tester"; pricing published in pounds only.
- Annual arithmetic — computed from the published prices above: £228, £456, and £840 a year work out to £19, £38, and £70 a month.
- Benchmark methodology (two services a week, two languages, ~100 listeners) — the seven-service cost comparison.
- The named-church track record — the Solid Foundation Texas case study.
- VoxLive pricing — voxlive.app/pricing.
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