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Amazon Translate pricing

Amazon Translate is AWS's pay-as-you-go neural machine translation service, called through an API.

AI translation toolsFree planPriced per charactersSelf-serve + sales
Visit Amazon TranslatePrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Amazon Translate cost?

Usage price from $15/characters
Free plan
Yes
Usage price
$15/characters
Enterprise
Contact sales
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In your favor

  • Free plan. Free tier: 2M characters per month for 12 months for standard text and batch document translation (500,000 characters per month for 2 months for Active Custom Translation). Unused usage does not roll over; after expiry or above the allowance, standard pay-as-you-go rates apply.

Watch out for

  • Extra usage is billed. Usage above the free tier is billed at standard pay-as-you-go rates

How you buy and get started

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Sign up
Self-serve AWS account signup
"Get started for free"
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
Contact for volume discount above 1 billion characters a month
"For sustained usage greater than 1 billion characters a month, please [contact us](/contact-us/) for volume discount."
Support
Pricing assistance from AWS specialists
"Contact AWS specialists to get a personalized quote."

What Amazon Translate does

Amazon Translate translates text and documents in real time or in batch, with an option to customize output using parallel data examples. It is billed per character translated, with a 12-month free tier.

Good for
Developers and organizations that want to add batch or real-time machine translation to applications such as chat, email, helpdesk, and user-generated content.
Channels
API, AWS console
Main product
Amazon Translate
Also includes
Standard text translation, Batch document translation, Real-time document translation, Active Custom Translation
Connects to
Amazon S3
Public API
Yes
MCP server
Not stated
  • Custom glossariesNot stated
  • Document file translationBatch translate supports the translation of Txt, HTML, DOCx, PPTx, XLSx, Xliff files.
  • Translation APIBuild batch and real-time translation capabilities into your applications with a single API call.
  • 100+ languagesNot stated
  • Translation memoryNot stated
  • Human review workflowNot stated
  • No training on dataNot stated
  • Live speech translationNot stated

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Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?Not stated
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2Not stated
GDPRNot stated
CCPANot stated
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centerNot stated

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyIncludedOver the allowanceWhere it says so
Standard Text Translationper million characters $15per characters – 2e+06 characters – "Standard Text Translation | $15.00 per million characters | 2 million characters per month"
Batch Document Translationper million characters $15per characters – 2e+06 characters – "Batch Document Translation | $15.00 per million characters | 2 million characters per mont"
Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML)per million characters $15per minute – – – "Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML) | $15.00 per million characters | No Free Tie"
Real-Time Document Translation (Docx)per million characters $30per minute – – – "Real-Time Document Translation (Docx) | $30.00 per million characters | No Free Tier for t"
Active Custom Translationper million characters $60per characters – 500000 characters – "Active Custom Translation | $60.00 per million characters | 500,000 characters per month f"

Free plan: Free tier: 2M characters per month for 12 months for standard text and batch document translation (500,000 characters per month for 2 months for Active Custom Translation). Unused usage does not roll over; after expiry or above the allowance, standard pay-as-you-go rates apply.

Fine print

Billing increment
per character
"you pay-as-you-go based on the number of text characters, including white space characters, that are translated per month."
Billed beyond usage
Usage above the free tier is billed at standard pay-as-you-go rates
"When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates."
Contract
Not stated
Refunds
Not stated
Auto renew
Not stated
Price change notice
Not stated

"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.

About the company

Legal name
Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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Questions

Is Amazon Translate free?

Yes. Free tier: 2M characters per month for 12 months for standard text and batch document translation (500,000 characters per month for 2 months for Active Custom Translation). Unused usage does not roll over; after expiry or above the allowance, standard pay-as-you-go rates apply.