Short answer: Wordly is the AI-translation brand most event planners already know — QR/browser, no app, broad integrations (Zoom, Teams, Cvent) — but its published entry packages now start around $1,500/year (10 hours minimum), gated behind an account, and it has no whitelabel or stated EU data residency. LiveInterpret.AI is self-serve from €19, unlimited listeners on every plan, and includes your branding. If your event needs enterprise integrations and thousands of listeners, Wordly fits; for a single church, conference or wedding this weekend, we're the cheaper, faster way in.
| LiveInterpret.AI | Wordly | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | language-minutes: packs €19–€299 (valid 12 months) or subscriptions €49–€760 per month, VAT included | annual hour packages, entry ≈$1,500 (10 h minimum, ≈$150/h), exact price gated behind account/sales |
| Cheapest way to try a real event | 30 free real minutes + unlimited free practice mode, no card, self-serve in ~1 minute | sales-assisted onboarding; no published free tier |
| Translated audio | yes — speech-to-speech in the browser | yes — browser, QR/no-app (same principle as us) |
| Works on locked phones | yes — audio keeps playing with the screen off | not documented |
| Listeners | unlimited, never priced | package pricing scales with attendee tier |
| Languages | 39, no per-plan caps on paid | broad language list, single hourly rate |
| Whitelabel (your own branding) | logo/colors on every plan; custom domain a separate add-on | iframe embed / branded link only — no published whitelabel tier |
| Data residency / GDPR | EU-hosted, GDPR-first, DPA published, audience pages tracking-free | US company; SOC2/ISO cited, no EU data-residency statement |
| Commitment | packs = none; cancel subs anytime self-serve | annual package purchase; unused-hour rollover not published |
| Where it's strongest | a single recurring venue — church, conference room, ceremony | enterprise/hybrid events, Zoom/Teams/Cvent integrations, five-figure attendee counts |
A 2-hour event, 2 target languages, 100 listeners = 240 language-minutes. Our €49 Event pack covers that with 210 minutes left over, valid 12 months, bought self-serve in about a minute. Wordly's own published pricing floor is a 10-hour annual package around $1,500 — you'd be committing to an annual account to translate one Saturday. Burn the whole package on single events and the effective per-event cost lands closer to $300; either way it's a bigger commitment than a single community event usually needs.
Wordly is the name that shows up in nearly every "best event translation" roundup, and that brand recognition is real: tens-of-thousands-listener scale, Zoom/Teams/Cvent integrations for hybrid events, transcripts and AI summaries, and SOC2/ISO certifications procurement teams recognize. For a large hybrid conference with an events-tech buyer and an existing Cvent stack, Wordly is a legitimate, proven choice — we won't pretend to match its integration surface.
Everything below the enterprise tier. Wordly's entry packages are annual and quote-gated — you can't see the exact price for your event size without an account or a sales conversation, and the published floor moved from roughly $750 to around $1,500 between our last two checks (2026-07-30 → 2026-09-01). We publish every price and let you provision a live event page yourself in about a minute, no card, no sales call. We also include your own branding on every plan and never price by attendee count — Wordly's package tiers scale with your audience size, Wordly states no EU data-residency posture (a US company citing SOC2/ISO, not a data-location commitment), and our audio keeps playing on a locked phone, which Wordly doesn't document either way.
Ask Wordly for the exact package price for your attendee tier in writing, without a sales call, and ask where the audio is processed — country, not certification name. Then run a free rehearsal with us: full practice mode, synthetic translation, costs nothing, before you spend any of the 30 free real minutes.
For a single event, almost never. Wordly's published entry point is an annual 10-hour package around $1,500 (≈$150/h) as of 2026-09-01, up from roughly $750 as of 2026-07-30; our €49 Event pack covers a 2-hour, 2-language, 100-listener event with minutes left over and no annual commitment. Wordly can make sense per-hour once an organization is running many large events a year on one account. Neither of us is "cheapest" — interpreter-and-headset rental costs €200–500 per event, which both of us beat.
No. Both are browser-based, QR-code entry, nothing for listeners to install — this is one of the few comparisons on our site where that's true of the rival too. The difference we document is locked-screen behavior: LiveInterpret.AI audio keeps playing when the phone locks; Wordly doesn't state this either way as of 2026-09-01, and some reviewers describe its text-to-speech voice as fatiguing over a long session.
Wordly, honestly. It has Zoom/Teams/Cvent integrations, a track record at tens-of-thousands-listener scale, and SOC2/ISO certifications that enterprise procurement teams ask for by name. LiveInterpret.AI is built for a single venue's audio feed — a sound desk, a room, a phone-in-hand audience — not a multi-platform hybrid broadcast.
Nothing to start. Self-serve signup provisions a live event page in about a minute, practice mode is free and unlimited, and the first 30 real language-minutes are free — no card, no annual package, no sales call.
Author: Ondřej Plevka, CTO by day. He built this after his Prague congregation needed it, and has run it live every week since June 2026. Corrections welcome: prices re-verified monthly, page updated when Wordly's change.