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Pricing overview

With Amazon Translate, you pay-as-you-go based on the number of text characters, including white space characters, that are translated per month. It’s easy to get started with the Amazon Translate Free Tier. Upon signup, translate up to 2M characters monthly - free for up 12 months.

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Why Amazon Translate?

Amazon Translate provides Real-Time Translations, Batch Translation, Active Custom Translation, and Real-Time document translations. With Amazon Translate, you pay-as-you-go based on the number of characters of text that you processed. Amazon Translate also offers a free tier for some of its translation services.

Free tier

As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Translate for free. The Amazon Translate Free Tier is offered for some translation services and available to you for 12 months, starting from the date of your first translation request. Your usage for the Free Tier is calculated each month across all AWS Regions and automatically applied to your bill; unused monthly usage will not roll over. Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.

Batch Document Translation

Translate a large collection of documents stored in a folder in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. Asynchronous batch operations are particularly useful for translating large collection of documents with one API call, when the application doesn't need a real-time response. Batch translate supports the translation of Txt, HTML, DOCx, PPTx, XLSx, Xliff files.

Standard Text Translation

Create high-quality, affordable and customizable machine translation in real-time across 75 languages.

Real-Time Document Translation

Translate document in real-time while preserving the source formatting of the document. Real-Time document translate supports the translation of Txt, HTML, DOCx files.

Active Custom Translation

Customize your translated output without the need to build and maintain a custom translation model. Simply provide translation examples called parallel data (PD) along with your batch translation job request and Amazon Translate will use these examples to customize the translation output during runtime.

Amazon Translate

Translation Type
Pricing
Free Tier
Standard Text Translation

$15.00 per million characters

2 million characters per month for 12 months
Batch Document Translation

$15.00 per million characters

2 million characters per month for 12 months
Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML)

$15.00 per million characters

No Free Tier for this service
Real-Time Document Translation (Docx)

$30.00 per million characters

No Free Tier for this service
Active Custom Translation

$60.00 per million characters

500,000 characters per month for 2 months

Amazon Translate provides 200 GB free parallel data storage for every account. Customers pay $0.023 per GB per month for excess data stored. For sustained usage greater than 1 billion characters a month, please contact us for volume discount.

Pricing examples

Translation Examples
Text Length
Standard Translation Cost
Active Custom Translation Cost
1,000 requests, 1,000 characters per request

1M characters

$15.00

$60.00
Average email message

~3.1K characters

$0.0465

$0.19
Typical news article

~6.5K characters

$0.0975

$0.39
Universal Declaration of Human Rights(Guinness World Record for most translated document)

~361.3K characters

$5.4195

$21.68
Andersen's Fairy Tales(One of the world's most translated book)

~361.3K characters

$5.4195

$21.68
Company Website: - Average length of a webpage: 20k characters - Number of pages per website: 100

2M characters per website

$30.00

$120.00
Animated video:- Average length of a single narration text: 100 characters- Number of narration texts per animated production: 25

2.5K characters per animation

$0.0375

$0.15
Conversational application:- Average spoken response length: 100 characters- Requests per user per month: 300

30K characters per user per month

$0.45

$1.80