What a translated service costs, Sunday by Sunday
One service, two languages, a month of Sundays, worked through step by step with the numbers the pricing page states and nothing else.
Published 2026-09-12 · 2026-10-28
Churches ask the price before anything else, and the honest answer is a small piece of arithmetic rather than a number. Here it is, using only the numbers the pricing page states.
The unit: a Live Language Hour
One hour of one language, live, is one Live Language Hour. A ninety-minute service translated into two languages uses three: 1.5 hours × 2 languages. That is the whole formula. Captions come with the voice and are not counted separately.
One church, one month
Take a church with a ninety-minute Sunday service and two languages, say English and Farsi. A month has about 4.3 Sundays, so:
| Hours per service | 1.5 |
| Languages | 2 |
| Live Language Hours per Sunday | 3 |
| Sundays per month | ~4.3 |
| Live Language Hours per month | ~13 |
Starter is €97 a month and includes 10 Live Language Hours and 2 languages. The three hours above the ten are covered by one block, €25 for 5 more hours and room for one more language. So this church pays €122 a month, with a couple of hours to spare for a midweek service or a longer Sunday.
A church with a sixty-minute service and one language uses about 4.3 hours a month. That fits Essential: €49 a month with 5 Live Language Hours and one language, with a transcript, a summary and Ask the Sermon after every service, and the full content pack for one service a month.
When the next plan is cheaper
Growth is €247 a month with 35 Live Language Hours and 5 languages. Each €25 block adds five hours and one language to Starter, so a church a little over Starter adds a block or two instead of moving up. The calculator on the pricing page keeps suggesting Starter plus blocks up to three blocks, about 25 hours a month, and suggests Growth after that. Growth also carries 24 archive hours for Content Studio, two Press drafts a month, 60 dubbed Video Dub minutes, your branding on the listener page and priority support.
What is not on the bill
There is no equipment to buy: the listener's phone is the receiver, the sound desk already exists. The plan counts hours and languages, not listeners: the same hour costs the same whether ten people or two hundred choose a language. Monthly plans cancel monthly; the yearly option is on the same page.
How to check your own number
Count the minutes of one typical service, multiply by the languages you would offer, multiply by the Sundays in a month. Up to five hours in one language, Essential fits. Under ten, Starter fits as it is. Above ten, add one €25 block for every five hours more. Past about twenty-five, look at Growth. The pricing page is the only place the prices live, and this post will be wrong the day they change — so read the page, not the post. Price is the easiest thing to compare and the least useful on its own; the six questions worth asking any church translation software are the rest of the decision.
Further reading: what AI church translation costs, and how it works and which AI tools a church uses and what each is for.