Wordly pricing, explained
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What Wordly charges
Wordly does not publish prices. The pricing page describes the structure without the numbers:
- Annual hour tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500+ hours
- Minimum purchase of 10 hours
- Unused hours expire after 12 months
Getting an actual figure requires a sales conversation.
How to read that structure
The tiering tells you the shape even without the rate. Effective cost per hour falls as you buy more, which means the model rewards volume and predictability, and penalises the opposite.
Ten hours is the floor. That is the smallest commitment available. If your genuine need is two hours a quarter, you are buying five times your usage to get in the door.
Twelve months is the ceiling on flexibility. Hours bought against a forecast made a year in advance disappear if the forecast was wrong. The risk of that estimate sits with you.
Neither of these is unreasonable for the market Wordly serves. Conference programmes are planned a year out and hours are forecastable. The structure matches the customer.
The part that matters more than the number
You cannot compare Wordly with anything without booking a call. Every vendor in the event translation category prices this way — Interprefy, KUDO and Boostlingo all do the same — so this is a category norm rather than a criticism of Wordly specifically.
It does have a practical consequence: evaluating three vendors means three sales conversations before you have a single comparable number, and that is usually weeks. If you are trying to solve a problem this month, that timeline is the real cost.
What to ask when you get the quote
- The effective per-hour rate at your realistic tier, not the tier above it
- What counts as an hour — is it session duration, or per-attendee, or per-language?
- What happens at 12 months to unused hours, in writing
- Whether the rate changes on renewal
- Whether there is a per-session minimum — does a 20-minute meeting bill as an hour?
How our pricing differs
| Wordly | VoxTranslate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price published | No | Yes, per minute |
| Minimum | 10 hours annual | None |
| Unused capacity | Expires at 12 months | Credits do not expire |
| Per-language charge | — | None |
| Time to first use | Sales conversation | Sign up |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA | None today |
If you can forecast your hours and need the certifications, Wordly’s model is built for you. If you cannot, the expiry is a real cost and worth pricing into the comparison.
When not to choose VoxTranslate
Wordly's pricing structure is built for organisations that can forecast their usage, and if you are one of them it is a reasonable deal rather than an obstacle. Buying 100 or 250 hours against a known conference calendar gets you a better effective rate than per-minute pricing will, and the 12-month expiry is only a cost if you were wrong about the forecast. Wordly also holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, serves more than 5,000 organisations, and covers 60 speaker languages across 3,000+ pairs — none of which we match today. If your buying process requires a contract, a certification pack and a named account manager, we are not a serious alternative and pretending otherwise wastes your time. We are the better answer when usage is irregular enough that expiring hours are a real cost, when the meeting is a conversation rather than a broadcast, or when you need to start before a purchase order could possibly be raised.