Aurelo vs Voco

Hours stop mattering

Aurelo's tiers are 10, 20 and 50 hours a month at €49, €89 and €199. A church with two Sunday services and a midweek meeting is at roughly 18 to 20 hours before counting small groups or a conference, which puts it on the €89 tier with little headroom. Voco has no cap on any plan, so adding the Tuesday prayer meeting or a mission week changes nothing about the bill.

Two and a half times the language coverage

155+ attendee languages against 60+. For the top five languages in most congregations both tools work. The difference appears in the long tail — Tigrinya, Twi, Igbo, Hausa, Dari, Amharic — where Voco publishes per-language guidance covering diaspora church context, Bible availability and denominational vocabulary rather than a generic supported-language count.

Scripture and theological vocabulary handled deliberately

Voco detects spoken references like John 3:16 and inserts the officially published translation in the target language, and lets you pin how terms such as covenant, grace and sanctification are rendered rather than accepting generic model output. Aurelo does not describe equivalent handling. These are the errors a native speaker notices immediately.

Projection and post-service output

Voco's Church plan includes OBS browser sources and ProPresenter web items for on-screen captions, plus bilingual transcript export and AI sermon notes after the service. Aurelo does not describe these. If you want translation on the projector as well as on phones, or want the transcript afterwards for small groups and absent members, that is a practical gap.

A genuinely free tier, not just a trial

Two hours every month with no credit card is enough for one shorter service, permanently. For a small church testing whether anyone actually uses translation, or one that only needs it for a monthly bilingual service, that is a real offer and Voco has nothing equivalent — after seven days Voco is a paid product. If budget is the binding constraint, start with Aurelo's free plan.

Spoken audio translation

Aurelo delivers translated audio as well as captions, so attendees can listen rather than read. Voco is text-first and depends on the listener's phone for text-to-speech. For older congregants, for people who speak a language but read it less comfortably, and for anyone who would rather watch the preacher than a screen, Aurelo's delivery is better suited.

Meaningful annual discount

Aurelo publishes savings of up to 40% for yearly billing. For a church that has already decided translation is permanent and can pay annually, that is a substantial reduction on the headline monthly figure, and Voco does not publish an equivalent annual discount.