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Easily conduct machine translation with a simple REST API call

Microsoft Translator is a cloud-based machine translation service supporting multiple languages, reaching more than 95% of world's gross domestic product (GDP). Use Translator to build applications, websites, tools, or any solution requiring multi-language support.

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Instance Features Price
Free
  • Standard Translation
    • Text Translation
    • Language Detection
    • Bilingual Dictionary
    • Transliteration
  • Custom Translation
    • Training

Pay-as-you-go

Instance Features Price
S1 - Web/Container

  • Standard Translation

    • Text Translation
    • Language Detection
    • Bilingual Dictionary
    • Transliteration
    • Document Translation

  • Custom Translation

    • Text Translation
    • Document Translation
    • Training
    • Custom model hosting
  • $- per million chars of standard translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $- per million chars of custom translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training)
  • $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month

Volume discount

Instance Features Price
S2
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation
  • Custom Translation
  • $-/month
    250M chars per month included
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting
S3 - Web/Container
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation
  • Custom Translation
  • $-/month
    Up to 1B chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting
S4
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation
  • Custom Translation
  • $-/month
    Up to 10B chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting
C2
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation

  • Custom Translation

    • Translation
    • Training
    • Hosting
  • S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $-/month
    Up to 62.5M chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $-/month
    Up to 62.5M chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training)
  • $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month
C3
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation

  • Custom Translation

    • Translation
    • Training
    • Hosting
  • S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $-/month
    Up to 250M chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $-/month
    Up to 250M chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training)
  • $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month
C4
  • Standard Translation

  • Document Translation

    • Using standard translation
    • Using custom translation

  • Custom Translation

    • Translation
    • Training
    • Hosting
  • S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation
  • $- per million chars of document translation
  • $-/month
    Up to 2.5B chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $-/month
    Up to 2.5B chars per month
    Overage: $- per million chars
  • $- per million source + target chars of training data (you are charged up to 30 million chars and free afterwards)
  • $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month
D3

Variable cost plus Fixed plus overage
  • Document Translation
  • $-/month
  • 675M chars per month included
  • Overage: $- per million chars

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Frequently asked questions

  • 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 you upload to the translation service. Once your model has been trained, you can perform the translation as you would with Standard Translation.

  • There are three billed activities that you can perform during Custom Translation:

    1. 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.
    2. 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, no matter 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 re-run the same set.
    3. Translation: You are charged for every character of text translated by your Custom Translation model.

  • The S1-S4 tiers are designed to provide discounts for users, who require high volumes of Standard Translation – not Custom – every month. While a discount is offered on the Standard Translation rate, S1-S4 tiers do not include a discount on Custom Translation. The C2-C4 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 rate, C2-C4 tiers do not include a discount on Standard Translation.

  • In order to receive volume discounts on both Standard and Custom Translation, you are required to allocate both an S1-S4 instance AND a C2-C4 instance, directing Standard Translation to the S instance and Custom Translation to the C instance.

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