Basic
€14.99one-off
incl. VAT
5 hours of subtitles
€3.00 per hour
Pricing
You pay for the time subtitles are switched on — nothing else. No seats, no hidden bundles and no rounding tricks. Buy hours once and keep them, or take a monthly plan and pay less per hour.
Advanced
Save 11%€39.99one-off
incl. VAT
15 hours of subtitles
€3.00€2.67 per hour
Value
Save 20%€59.99one-off
incl. VAT
25 hours of subtitles
€3.00€2.40 per hour
In every plan here: Fast translation model · Hours never expire · Share your hours with others by code · Transcripts only if you switch them on — download them from the extension; the server forgets them in 24 hours · 3 glossaries
Every account starts with free minutes, added once you confirm your email address. No card required.
When the minutes run out
SubLive does not stop. Without minutes, or if you switch Free mode on in the extension, subtitles run on Chrome's own speech recognition and translation — free, with no time limit, until you top up.
Free mode is less accurate and covers fewer languages. It has no AI voice, no Answers panel and no saved conversations. Chrome sends the tab's sound to Google to recognise it. Company accounts use it only if the company administrator allows it. The free test video in the extension works with everything on and spends no minutes.
What you are actually paying for
Your balance runs down while the subtitle mode is on — not per translated sentence. An hour of subtitles is an hour, whether the call was talkative or mostly silent. Time is counted in 15-second steps and pausing stops the meter. If you share your code with other people, each of them running subtitles spends from your balance at the same rate: two people on a call means your hour lasts thirty minutes.
Hours you buy outright do not expire: they stay on your balance until you use them, however long that takes. Hours that come with a monthly plan work differently — they refresh at the start of each billing period and whatever is left over does not carry into the next one. That is the trade for the lower price per hour, and it is the only difference between the two.
An AI summary of a saved conversation costs one minute from the same balance, charged once when you generate it — reading it again later is free. If the summary fails, the minute goes back.
Dubbing reads the translation aloud over the original; while the AI voice is on, a minute of conversation spends 1 minute of balance. The browser voice is the exception and is free, because your own computer does the speaking. The AI voice is off by default, you choose it in the extension settings, and the extension shows the rate on the switch and counts your balance down in real conversation time, not in raw hours. The AI voice is not part of the free mode that takes over when the minutes run out; the browser voice is.
Compare what's included
Real-time translation, any Chrome tab, an always-on-top window — every plan gets the core of SubLive. Here is what else each one includes.
| Feature | Basic | Advanced | Value | Monthly | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossaries | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Dialog mode | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Sharing | By code, from your balance | By code, from your balance | By code, from your balance | By code, from your balance | One shared team balance |
| Transcript & AI summary | Self-service, 24-hour file | Self-service, 24-hour file | Self-service, 24-hour file | Self-service, 24-hour file | Centralized archive, admin panel |
| Email recap | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| MCP access for AI agents | Included |
Billing questions
- Do prices include VAT?
- Yes. Every price on this page already includes VAT — what you see is what you pay. Paddle, our merchant of record, applies your country's rate at checkout. EU business customers who enter a VAT ID pay without VAT under the reverse charge.
- Can I get a refund?
- EU consumers have a 14-day withdrawal right. Unused minutes are refunded pro rata; minutes you already spent are not. See the Refund Policy.
- Should I buy hours or take a monthly plan?
- Buy hours if your use comes in bursts — a trip, a course, a hiring round. They cost more per hour and they never expire, so nothing is lost when a quiet month happens. Take a monthly plan if you use SubLive most weeks: the hour is cheaper, but the hours refresh with each billing period and unused ones do not carry over. If you are unsure, start with a pack — the hours you buy stay yours either way.
- What happens to my hours if I cancel a monthly plan?
- You keep them until the end of the period you have already paid for, and they expire when that period ends — the same as any other month on the plan. Hours you bought as a one-off pack are separate and are not affected: they stay on your balance. When both are on one account, plan hours are spent first, so the pack you paid for outright is the last thing to go.
- Which plan does a company need?
- Anything on the company tab: one balance for everyone, topped up by an administrator, with the conversation archive in the admin panel. Company plans come as 50- and 200-hour steps, one-off or monthly, and the monthly ones are cheaper per hour. Storing conversations centrally requires a signed DPA — the checkbox is part of company registration, not something to arrange later.
- Can our own tools read the conversation archive?
- Yes, on a company account. SubLive includes an MCP server: an AI client or automation can search conversations, read summaries and pull usage — under a person’s own permissions, with every read logged, and only after an administrator turns it on. See the MCP page.