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Pay-as-you-go
| Features | Instance S1 |
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| Standard Translation | |
| Text Translation | $- per million chars of standard translation |
| Language Detection | |
| Bilingual Dictionary | |
| Transliteration | |
| Document Translation | $- per million chars of document translation |
| Custom Translation | |
| Text Translation | $- per million chars of custom translation |
| Document Translation | $- per million chars of document translation |
| Training | $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training) |
| Custom model hosting | $- per hosted custom translation model per region, per month |
Commitment Tiers
| Instance | Features | Price (per month) | Overage |
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Azure - S1| Standard Translation |
$- per 250M characters |
$- per 1,000M characters $- per 4,000M characters $- per 1M characters |
$- per 1M characters $- per 1M characters |
Connected container - S1| Standard Translation |
$- per 250M characters |
$- per 1,000M characters $- per 4,000M characters $- per 1M characters |
$- per 1M characters $- per 1M characters |
Disconnected containers
| Features | Price per year | Max usage per year | Projected usage per month |
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| Standard | $- | 120B characters | 10B characters |
| $- | 48B characters | 4B characters |
Volume discount
| Features | Instance S2 | Instance S3 | Instance S4 | Instance C2 | Instance C3 | Instance C4 | Instance D3 |
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| Standard Translation |
$-/month 250M chars per month included Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 1B chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 10B chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation | S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation | S1 rates apply for standard (non-custom) translation | |
| Document Translation Using standard translation |
$- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation |
$-/month 675M chars per month included Overage: $- per million chars |
| Document Translation Using custom translation |
$- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $- per million chars of document translation | $-/month Up to 62.5M chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 250M chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 2.5B chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
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Custom Translation Translation |
S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting |
$-/month Up to 62.5M chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 250M chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
$-/month Up to 2.5B chars per month Overage: $- per million chars |
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Custom Translation Training |
S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training) | $- per million source + target chars of training data (max. $300/training) | $- per million source + target chars of training data (you are charged up to 30 million chars and free afterwards) | |
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Custom Translation Hosting |
S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and hosting | S1 rates apply for custom translation, model training and 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
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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.
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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, 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.
- Translation: You are charged for every character of text translated by your Custom Translation model.
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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.
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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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