Wordly

You can give an audience that speaks several languages live captions and translated audio on their own phones, with no interpreters to book, no booths and no receiver headsets to rent. Adding a language costs nothing extra, because every language is included in the package price. Attendees scan a QR code or open a link, pick a language and need no account. It suits conference, association, corporate, education and public-sector organisers, and it is entirely AI-driven, with no human interpreters.

What it is for

You can use one service across a keynote, a webinar or a council meeting. Wordly names conferences, association events, town halls, training, city council meetings and religious services among its common uses, in person, virtual or hybrid, and says one session can take tens of thousands of users. Automatic language detection handles panels where speakers change language, and Push to Talk suits speakers sharing a room.

Features

• Live language. Live AI translation and live captions from a list of over 60 languages and 3,000+ language pairs. Attendees choose text, translated audio or both.
• Control over terms. Custom glossaries boost, block or replace names and technical phrases.
• Attendee access. A browser on any phone, tablet or computer, plus a free iOS and Android app that keeps audio playing when the screen is locked. Captions can also go on room screens.
• Organiser portal. Schedule sessions, see user numbers and download a CSV of billable minutes.
• After the session. Session transcripts arrive within minutes and export to SRT or VTT for subtitles. Transcript translation, voice transcripts for dubbing and AI summaries depend on the package.
• Optional extras. Audience Engagement (emoji reactions, highlights and live sentiment), Silent Theater (speaker audio to attendees’ phones and earbuds), Sponsor Logos on caption feeds, Caption Bridge (CEA-608 closed captions through your encoder), video captions, live event support and premium onboarding.

Plans and pricing

You pay only for time used, because a 30-minute session takes 30 minutes from your balance with no rounding up. Packages run for a 12-month term. Only the 10-hour entry price is published, and other packages are quoted.

Plan	Price	Billing	Includes
Starter (10 hours)	About $1,500	12-month term	All languages, audio and captions, transcripts, glossaries, integrations, support
Pro (25 hours)	Not published	12-month term	Starter, plus shared glossaries and minutes
Pro + (50 hours)	Not published	12-month term	Pro, plus transcript translation, voice transcripts and summaries
Corporate (100 hours)	Not published	12-month term	Same features as Pro +
Corporate + (250 hours)	Not published	12-month term	Same features as Pro +
Enterprise (500+ hours)	Not published	12-month term	Pro +, plus Workspaces, SSO access and configurable data storage

Prices as shown on its pricing page on 3 November 2026 in US dollars, with no tax note. Any quantity of hours can be bought. Volume discounts run from 10% to 30% or more, and non-profits, NGOs and educational bodies get a further 10% off Pro or higher. Buying online by card suits smaller purchases, and invoice billing goes through sales. Unused hours can roll over by arrangement with your rep.

Free plan and trial

You can test translation without a sales call, using a 10-minute online demo. No free plan is listed. A trial is available by asking a sales rep, with no published length or limits.

Integrations and API

You can keep your current meeting and event tools, since in-person sessions need no integration at all. For virtual events Wordly lists Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex, plus Bizzabo, Cvent, RainFocus, SpotMe, Stova, Swoogo, vFairs and Whova. Encore and Freeman resell it. Elsewhere, audio reaches Wordly through RTMP streaming, Universal Audio Capture or an invited Meeting Bot, and an iFrame embed shows captions in your own pages. A REST API opens once Wordly Support adds your portal to an allow list.

Deployment and platforms

Attendees install nothing and you rent no headsets or booths. Wordly is cloud-based SaaS hosted on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, with a free iOS and Android app. On site, it takes audio from your AV system through an analogue-to-digital converter into a tablet or computer. Wordly states SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, lists GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA support and a VPAT on request, and says customer data is not used to train its models. Workspaces let a colleague take over someone else’s sessions, but need SSO. No desktop app or self-hosted version is described.

Company

You get phone and email support that Wordly advertises as 24/7. Wordly, Inc. is a private company at 280 2nd St, Suite #250, Los Altos, California, founded in 2017 and launched publicly in 2019. It reports more than 5,000 customers and 6 million users across 120 countries.

What to check before buying

• Ask how attendee numbers affect your quote. The pricing page ties price to hours, but Wordly’s general FAQ says attendee volume counts too.
• Confirm what small packages include. The pricing page promises summaries in one fixed price, yet its table ticks them only from Pro + upwards.
• Get add-on costs and renewal terms in writing. Extras show no price, on-site support costs more, and the terms say subscriptions may renew automatically.
• Match the setup to your platform. The Cvent widget skips the conference mobile app, Zoom breakout rooms and Teams webinars use Meeting Bot, and a delayed hybrid stream can need two parallel sessions.
• Test with your own glossary, especially for legal, medical or technical sessions. Wordly says accuracy can reach 99%, but machine translation is not a human interpreter, audio plays after each sentence finishes, and it offers neither ASL nor CART.
• Ask about data handling if you are in the UK. The security page names EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework self-certification without the UK Extension, and no hosting region is published.

Wordly pricing

What Wordly publishes about its pricing, checked on its own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm the current terms with Wordly before you buy.

Pricing model	Priced per event
Published starting price	About $1,500 for a 10-hour package, usable for up to 12 months
Free plan	No
Free trial	Yes

Only the 10-hour entry price is published; other packages are quoted. Any quantity of hours can be bought for a 12-month term. Unused hours can roll over by arrangement with your rep. A trial is available by asking a sales rep, with no published length or limits.

Source: wordly.ai, checked 3 November 2026.

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Sources: wordly.ai pricing, platform, partners, security, fact sheet, FAQ, terms, help centre integrations, checked 3 November 2026.