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F0 - Free
| Features | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard Translation | 2 million characters of any combination of standard translation and customised translation training free per month |
| Text translation | |
| Language detection | |
| Bilingual dictionary | |
| Transliteration | |
| Custom Translation | |
| Training | |
S1 – Pay as you go
| Features | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard Translation | |
| Text translation | $- per million characters |
| Language detection | |
| Bilingual dictionary | |
| Transliteration | |
| Document translation | $- per million characters |
| Document Translation (Image) | $- per thousand images 1 |
| Custom Translation | |
| Text translation | $- per million characters |
| Document translation | |
| Training | $- per million source + target characters of training data (max. $300/training) |
| Custom model hosting | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month |
1Each image includes up to 500 characters; if exceeded, billed in 500-character increments.
Commitment tiers
| Instance | Features | Price (per month) | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure – S1 | Standard Translation
(Includes only text translation) |
$- per 250 million characters | $- per million characters |
| $- per billion characters | $- per million characters | ||
| $- per 4,000 million characters | $- per million characters | ||
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Standard Translation
(Includes both text and document translation) |
$- per 250 million characters | $- per million characters |
| $- per billion characters | $- per million characters | ||
| $- per 4,000 million characters | $- per million characters |
Disconnected containers
| Features | Price per year | Max usage per year | Projected usage per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard
(Includes both text and document translation) |
$- | 120B Billed Units | 10B Billed Units |
| $- | 48B Billed Units | 4B Billed Units |
Volume discount
Please note that Instances S2, S3, and S4 instances have been deprecated. For discounted rates on standard translation, please use Commitment Tiers.
| Features | Instance C2 | Instance C3 | Instance C4 | Instance D3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document translation Using standard translation |
$- per million characters of document translation | $- per million characters of document translation | $- per million characters of document translation |
$-/month 675 million characters per month included Overage: $- per million characters |
| Custom Translation | ||||
| Text translation |
$-/month Up to 62.5 million characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$-/month Up to 250 million characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$-/month Up to 2.5 billion characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$40 per million characters of customised translation |
| Document translation |
$-/month Up to 62.5 million characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$-/month Up to 250 million characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$-/month Up to 2.5 billion characters per month Overage: $- per million characters |
$40 per million characters of document translation |
| Training | $- per million source + target characters of training data (max. $300/training) | $- per million source + target characters of training data (max. $300/training) | $- per million source + target characters of training data1 | $10 per million source + target characters of training data (max. $300/training) |
| Custom model hosting | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month |
1Charged for the first 30 million characters of training data, all characters afterwards are free.
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Frequently asked questions
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Image document formats such as JPG, BMP, PNG, and WEBP are billed at $- per thousand images, with support for up to 500 characters per image. Images containing more than 500 characters are treated and billed as multiple images.
Example: An image with 672 characters is counted and billed as two images. -
Standard Translation is an easy one-step process, in which you provide an input sentence and Azure’s pre-trained models translate them into a target language. By contrast, Custom Translation is a two-step process, in which first you train your own models using training data that you upload to the translation service. Once your model has been trained, you can perform the translation as you would with Standard Translation.
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There are three billed activities that you can perform during Custom Translation:
- Model hosting: Hosting a model means that it is available to use for Custom Translation. You are charged a flat fee for every model that is hosted during a billing period. This is NOT pro-rated if the model is hosted for less than the full month.
- Training: Every time you train a model, you are charged a fee for every character in the training data. You are charged for characters in both the source and target languages of the training set, but there is a cap to how much you can be charged for any given training run, regardless of how many characters are in your training data. This cap applies to each training run, i.e. you would be charged if you were to rerun the same set.
- Translation: You are charged for every character of text translated by your Custom Translation model.
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The S1 instance’s commitment tiers are designed to provide discounts for users who require high volumes of Standard Translation (not Custom Translation) every month. While a discount is offered on the Standard Translation rates, the S1 instance’s commitment tiers do not include discounts on Custom Translation.
The C2-C4 instance tiers are intended to provide discounts to customers who regularly perform high volumes of Custom Translation. While a discount is offered on the Custom Translation rates, C2-C4 tiers do not include discounts on Standard Translation.
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In order to receive discounts on both Standard and Customised Translation, you will need to allocate an S1 instance with a specified commitment tier AND a separate C2-C4 instance, directing Standard Translation to the S1 instance and Customised Translation to the C2-C4 instance.
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Azure Translator in Foundry Tools is a non-regional resource and will be available regardless of the region where you create the resource.
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