Amazon Translate
AWS neural machine translation API with real-time and batch document translation, custom terminology and Active Custom Translation.
Workloads already on AWS get a single flat rate of $15 per 1M characters for real-time text, batch documents and HTML documents alike, with .docx at $30/M and Active Custom Translation at $60/M. Volume discounts only start above 1B characters a month through AWS sales, and the 2M-character free allowance lasts just the first 12 months. That sits above Azure's $10/M list rate but below Google's $20/M, with EU regions including Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris and Stockholm.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States (parent: Amazon)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 2M characters/month free for up to 12 months (standard and batch translation).
- Open source
- No
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| 1M additional characters |
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| $15 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 0
- 1M additional characters
- $15
Standard real-time text, batch document and real-time text/HTML document translation all $15 per 1M characters; real-time .docx $30/M; Active Custom Translation (parallel data) $60/M. Free tier (2M chars/month) only for the first 12 months, so it is not modelled. Volume discounts above 1B characters/month via AWS sales. Available in EU regions (e.g. Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Stockholm). AWS GDPR DPA is part of the service terms.
Managed alternatives
At 50M characters / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Amazon Translate: $9,000/yr estimated.
- GPT-6 Luna (via OpenAI API): $111/yr estimated 路 $8,889/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken-to-character conversion assumes English source, short prompts and European-language output. Quality and retries are not priced.
- Qwen3.8-Flash (via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio): $116/yr estimated 路 $8,884/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken-to-character conversion assumes English source, short prompts and European-language output. Quality and retries are not priced.
- Mistral Small 4 (via Mistral API): $140/yr estimated 路 $8,861/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken-to-character conversion assumes English source, short prompts and European-language output. Quality and retries are not priced.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash (via DeepSeek API): $279/yr estimated 路 $8,721/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken-to-character conversion assumes English source, short prompts and European-language output. Quality and retries are not priced.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (via Gemini API): $323/yr estimated 路 $8,678/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken-to-character conversion assumes English source, short prompts and European-language output. Quality and retries are not priced.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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