Cloud Translation is priced monthly based on usage. This page states usage fees and notes price differences between Basic and Advanced. Translation usage is calculated in millions of characters, where 1 million = 106 characters.
Prices per month
Translation API - Basic
| Feature | Eligible for free usage | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Language detection |
$20 per million characters* |
|
| Text translation (NMT general models) | $20 per million characters* | |
| Text translation (PBMT general models) | $20 per million characters* |
Translation API - Advanced
| Feature | Eligible for free usage | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Language detection | $20 per million characters* | |
| Text translation (NMT general models) | $20 per million characters* | |
| Text translation (PBMT general models) | $20 per million characters* | |
| Text translation (AutoML models) | ** | Tiered pricing based on monthly volume (see AutoML Pricing page) |
* Price is per character sent to the API for processing, including whitespace characters. Empty queries are charged for one character. Google charges on per character basis, even if the character is multiple bytes, where a character corresponds to a (code-point). For example, translating "こんにちは" to English counts as 5 characters for the purposes of billing.
** Effective 11/1 $40 worth of free usage/month will be applied to AutoML Model Translation Predictions Operations per billed account, this is equivalent to 500k characters per month.
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Language detection price applies to detect (Basic)
, and detectLanguage (Advanced) method calls.
Google does not charge extra for language detection when you do not specify the
source language for the
translate or the translateText
method calls for Basic and Advanced, respectively.
Prices are 'pro rata' (proportional and incremental). Charges are scaled to the number of characters actually provided to the service. For example, if you send 75,000 characters for processing within a month, you are charged $1.50.
This pricing is for applications on personal systems (for example, phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops). Please contact us for approval and pricing to use the Translation API on embedded devices (for example, cars TVs, appliances, or speakers).
If you are requesting translation or language detection for over a billion characters per month, then contact a sales representative to discuss discount pricing.
Projects charged
When a custom or general model is used, pricing is checked against the project associated with the model.
For example consider this translate text request:
POST https://translation.googleapis.com/v3/projects/project-number-1/locations/us-central1:translateText
{
"model":"projects/project-number-2/locations/us-central1/models/model-id",
"sourceLanguageCode": "en",
"targetLanguageCode": "ru",
"contents": ["Dr. Watson, please discard your trash."]
}
This request is charged to project-number-2 instead of project-number-1.
Google Cloud Platform costs
If you store documents to be translated in Google Cloud Storage, or use other Google Cloud Platform resources in tandem with Cloud Translation, such as Google App Engine instances, then you will also be billed for the use of those services. See the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator to determine other costs based on current rates.
To view your current billing status in the Cloud Console, including usage and your current bill, see the Billing page. For more details about managing your account, see the Cloud Billing Documentation or Billing and Payments Support.