Wordly
AI translation, captions, transcripts, and summaries for meetings and events
By Wordly, Inc. · HQ Los Altos, US · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Organizations running multilingual meetings, conferences, town halls, or webinars that need live translation without interpreters or AV hardware
- Event, association, and meeting teams that must satisfy language-access and accessibility mandates such as ADA/WCAG, Title VI, SB 707, or the EAA
- Global enterprises, agencies, and universities holding many multilingual events a year
- Public agencies and public-safety teams running hybrid public meetings in multiple languages
Ideal size: 5–50 event/AV organizers; 10–10,000+ attendees people · Any size, from scale-up to global enterprise with recurring multilingual events
Not for
- Teams needing written document, website, or marketing-content translation rather than live meetings
- Buyers wanting month-to-month or per-seat pricing instead of an annual prepaid hour package
- Clinical or legal settings requiring certified human interpreters for regulated proceedings
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Same day — accounts activate in 5–10 minutes
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$12,000/yr
Starts at $1,500 · Prepaid hour packages on a 12-month term; one fixed price covers all languages and four products (translation, captions, transcripts, summaries).
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Hour packages: Starter 10, Pro 25, Pro+ 50, Corporate 100, Corporate+ 250, Enterprise 500+ annual hours; any quantity available.
Add-on costs
- Silent Theater
- Sponsor logos
- Caption Bridge
- Video captions & subtitles
- Live event support
- Premium onboarding & support
Company & support
Who is behind Wordly, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2017 · 9 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Los Altos, US
How you get support
- PhoneAll plans
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-sitePaid plans
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Not stated
Support page states 24/7 phone and email support, a self-serve knowledge center with how-to guides, and optional on-site customer success managers plus premium onboarding for events.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Wordly sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Wordly
- PaperCut
- ClickTime
- ITILITE
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- Substly
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Wordly ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Wordly's core job is live AI speech translation and captioning across 3,000+ language pairs, with neural-voice audio, AI-generated transcripts, summaries, subtitles, and dubbing. Sources do not document model choice, customer-supplied keys, or per-action AI logging.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Wordly is a live AI translation and captioning platform for meetings and events. Attendees join by QR code or link and read captions or listen to translated audio in their own language; afterward organizers get transcripts, summaries, subtitles, and dubbing. Pricing is prepaid hour packages, starting at about $1,500 for 10 hours over a 12-month term, covering all languages and four products. Setup takes minutes and needs no hardware, interpreters, or downloads.
Frequently asked questions
How is Wordly priced?
Wordly sells prepaid hour packages on a 12-month term. Pricing starts at about $1,500 for a 10-hour package, and you can buy any quantity; common tiers are 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 500+ hours. Volume, multi-year, non-profit/NGO, and education discounts are published. One fixed price covers all languages and four products: translation, captions, transcripts, and summaries. You are billed only for time used, without rounding up, and unused hours can roll over.
How fast can we get live translation running for an event?
New accounts are usually activated within 5–10 minutes of purchase, and the vendor says organizers set up a session in minutes with no equipment or downloads; attendees join by QR code or link on their own device. Wordly recommends an onboarding session with a customer success representative, and the platform scales from a 10-person team sync to a 10,000+ attendee conference without infrastructure changes.
Does Wordly replace human interpreters?
For most multilingual meetings, conferences, and training it is positioned as a lower-cost alternative: Wordly reports customers save up to 90% versus human interpreters, with dozens of languages, 3,000+ language pairs, two-way translation, and custom glossaries for accuracy. It does not advertise certified legal, medical, or court interpretation, where accredited human interpreters are typically still required.
What does Wordly integrate with?
Wordly runs in person, hybrid, and virtual, with integrations for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, and event platforms such as Cvent and Encore, plus direct connection to in-room audio mixers and developer APIs. Attendees use their own phone, tablet, or computer, or read captions on venue monitors.
What compliance and data-protection commitments does the vendor state?
Wordly publishes language-access compliance resources covering ADA/WCAG, Title VI, California SB 707, Washington SHB 2475, the EAA, and Bill 96. The vendor states that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant, ISO 27001 certified, participates in the Data Privacy Framework, supports GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA, and offers a VPAT. Confirm current certificates, audit scope, and a BAA directly during procurement.
Who uses Wordly today?
Wordly reports 6 million users across 120 countries and thousands of customers, including enterprises such as EY, Roche, Hyatt, and Bloomberg, universities including USC, and organizations such as the City of San Jose, The Linux Foundation, and the United Nations Foundation. Common uses are industry conferences, town halls, employee training, city-council meetings, and religious services.