Live translation pricing at the enterprise end of this market usually sits behind a quote form. Here are the numbers instead. Every plan includes every feature — 75+ target languages, up to five of them at once, captions on the projector, in ProPresenter and in an OBS overlay, the audience's own phones, and the spoken AI voice. The only thing you choose is how many translation hours you need per month. Prices are in euro and exclude VAT; the same plans in Swedish kronor are on priser.
🎉 Half price your first month — on every plan
No lock-in — subscriptions are paid monthly and you cancel in the portal whenever you like. In every plan: all 75+ languages · up to five in parallel · ProPresenter & OBS · AI voice · profanity filter · your own AI instructions · support. New accounts get a free 15-minute trial, no card needed (one per computer). Prices exclude VAT.
Since the plans differ only in hours, the useful number is what an hour of translation costs. This is simply the list price divided by the hours it includes:
| Plan | Price | Hours included | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event | €42 one-time | 10 h, valid 12 months | €4.20 |
| Basic | €55 per month | 15 h per month | €3.67 |
| Standard | €90 per month | 30 h per month | €3.00 |
| Pro | €220 per month | 75 h per month | €2.93 |
| Extra hours | €33 one-time | 10 h, roll over until used | €3.30 |
Those figures assume you use the hours. A plan you only half use costs twice as much per hour, which is the honest argument for starting on the smallest plan that fits and moving up once you have seen a month of real usage. A plan's monthly hours do not carry over to the next month; extra hours you buy do, until they are used.
Only active translation. When you press Mute — during songs, music, a break, the part of the meeting nobody needs translated — the clock stops. Nothing is counted for the audience: a phone reading the captions or listening to the voice costs nothing and uses none of your hours.
Each target language counts its own time. One hour of speech translated into two languages uses two hours from the plan, and five languages for an hour uses five. That multiplier matters more for a multilingual service than the difference between two plan prices, so count the languages you actually need before you count the hours.
The app warns at around 80% of the monthly hours, and translation pauses when both the plan's hours and any extra hours are used up. It stops rather than quietly billing you for the overage.
Ten extra hours cost €33 in the portal. They are a one-time purchase and they roll over until you use them, so a pack bought for a conference in March is still there for the autumn. That makes a smaller plan plus the occasional extra pack a reasonable way to handle a year with a few heavy months and many quiet ones.
Live captioning pricing here is per translation hour, never per screen, per seat or per listener. Any number of people can read the captions — on their own phones after scanning the QR code, on the projector, in the ProPresenter stage display, or in the livestream through the OBS browser source — and any number can listen to the translation spoken by the AI voice. None of that appears on the invoice.
Each of the up-to-five parallel target languages has its own permanent link and QR code, so a printed sign keeps working at the next event, and someone who scans the wrong code can switch language on the page. The practical limits, such as how many phones a venue's Wi-Fi will carry for the spoken voice, are covered in the FAQ.
AI interpretation pricing has a different shape from booking a simultaneous setup. There is no day rate and no travel, but the part that usually surprises people is the equipment line: no booth, no transmitter, no receiver and headset to rent, hand out, collect and count at the end of the evening, and no licence per listener. The audience uses the phone already in their pocket, so the number of people following along stops being a budget variable at all.
What the monthly fee buys is the whole capability in one place: up to five target languages at once, each with its own link and QR code; the projector, the ProPresenter audience and stage displays, the OBS overlay and the spoken AI voice; editable AI instructions and a profanity filter per language; and an invoice from an EU company. The overview on the home page shows what the output actually looks like, and the step-by-step guide covers the setup for each one.
Tolka Live is not a substitute for a certified human interpreter, and there are rooms where it should not be treated as one: court and other legal proceedings, medical consultations, and any regulated setting where a person's rights, health or money depend on the words being exactly right. AI translation is good and it is fast, but it does get things wrong — names, numbers and unusual expressions in particular. For a congregation, a conference audience or a lecture hall, the difference it makes is between following along and not. In a courtroom it is not enough.
Plenty of venues use both: an interpreter for the part that has to be exact, Tolka Live for everything else. The FAQ is candid about accuracy, and the guide explains how much a clean feed from the mixing desk improves it.
Every new account gets 15 minutes of translation free, with no card and no sales call — one trial per computer. Fifteen minutes is enough to hear your own microphone come back as captions on a phone, put the overlay into ProPresenter or OBS, and decide whether the hours are worth buying. If a question is left over, [email protected] reaches a person.
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