Interprefy pricing, explained
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What Interprefy charges
Interprefy does not publish prices. There is no price list, no per-minute rate and no plan comparison. The pricing page routes to a sales conversation.
What is documented about the model is more useful than a number would be:
- Pricing scales with the number of languages as well as with hours
- Unused hours do not roll over
Both facts are load-bearing when you model your own cost.
Why the language-based component matters
Charging by language is a reasonable way to price a conference. Each language is an interpreter channel and a delivery cost, serving many listeners.
It is a poor fit for a small multilingual conversation. A four-person call in four languages carries four language charges for a meeting with four people in it — where at a conference those same four languages might serve four hundred.
If your meetings are that shape and recur, model this before signing. It is the single line item most likely to surprise you, and it is the one Interprefy’s structure handles worst.
Why “no rollover” matters
Hours are bought in advance, against a forecast made before you have observed your own usage. If usage is regular, this is fine. If it is lumpy — a heavy quarter and a quiet one — the quiet quarter’s hours are gone.
The combination of a sales-set commitment and no rollover means the risk of forecasting wrong sits entirely with the buyer.
What to ask them
If you are getting a quote, these are the questions that determine your real cost:
- What is the per-language charge, and how is a “language” counted — per event, per session, or per active pair?
- What is the minimum commitment, in hours and in months?
- What happens to unused hours at the end of the term, in writing?
- Is AI-only priced differently from sessions with human interpreters?
- Is there a per-session minimum — does a 20-minute call bill as an hour?
Question 5 catches out anyone planning to use an event platform for short meetings.
How our pricing differs
| Interprefy | VoxTranslate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price published | No | Yes, per minute |
| Charges by language | Yes | No |
| Minimum commitment | Yes, via sales | None |
| Unused capacity | Does not roll over | Credits do not expire |
| Human interpreters | Yes | No |
The differences are not accidental on either side. Interprefy prices a hybrid service sold to organisations with procurement functions. We price software sold to people who want to start today.
If you need interpreters, pay their price — it buys something real. If you need a weekly four-language call, get the per-language charge quoted before anything else.
When not to choose VoxTranslate
Interprefy's pricing model exists because its product does something ours does not: it provides human interpreters and can escalate from AI to a human within a session. If you need that, the price structure is the cost of a capability rather than an obstacle, and we are not an alternative at any price. Its 82 fully supported languages plus around 19 partial also exceed what most AI-only products cover, and its Swiss base is a genuine advantage in European procurement. If your events are large, planned in advance, and involve one or two languages each, the language-based component of its pricing will barely register and the per-hour economics at volume may be better than ours. We are the better answer for the case its model prices worst — a handful of people, several languages at once, happening weekly, scheduled at short notice — and for buyers who want to know the cost before booking a call.