Azure AI Translator
Microsoft's Translator API (part of Azure AI Foundry Tools) with custom models, document translation and monthly commitment tiers.
Standard text translation costs $10 per million characters, falling to $5.50 with a 4-billion-character commitment. Documents cost $15 per million; custom models cost $40 plus model hosting. The F0 tier includes 2 million characters free each month. Choose the Europe geography endpoint to keep processing in the EU.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States (parent: Microsoft)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- F0: 2M characters/month free (standard + custom translation).
- Open source
- No
- Website
- azure.microsoft.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.
| Plan | Base fee / month | 1M additional characters |
|---|---|---|
| Free F0 | $0 | $0 |
| S1 pay-as-you-go | $0 | $10 |
| Commitment 250M | $2,055 | $8.22 |
| Commitment 1 | $6,000 | $6 |
| Commitment 4 | $22,000 | $5.5 |
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.
Free F0
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 2
- 1M additional characters
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 2 characters / month (millions)
S1 pay-as-you-go
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 0
- 1M additional characters
- $10
Commitment 250M
- Base fee / month
- $2,055
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 250
- 1M additional characters
- $8.22
Commitment 1
- Base fee / month
- $6,000
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 1,000
- 1M additional characters
- $6
Commitment 4
- Base fee / month
- $22,000
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 4,000
- 1M additional characters
- $5.5
US East list prices from the Azure Retail Prices API (the pricing page renders them client-side). S1 standard text translation $10 per 1M characters; document translation $15/M; custom translation $40/M plus $10/month per hosted custom model per region. Monthly commitment tiers: 250M chars for $2,055 (overage $8.22/M), 1B for $6,000 ($6/M), 4B for $22,000 ($5.50/M); connected-container tiers are slightly cheaper. Resources can be pinned to EU regions and the Europe geography endpoint (api-eur.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com) keeps processing in the EU. Microsoft Products and Services DPA applies.
Managed alternatives
At 50M characters / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Azure AI Translator: $6,000/yr estimated.
- GPT-6 Luna (via OpenAI API): $111/yr estimated · $5,889/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 · $5,884/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 · $5,861/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 · $5,721/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 · $5,678/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’d 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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