How much does Google Cloud Translation cost?
Usage price from
$20/minute
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $20/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free plan. First 500,000 characters per month across Basic and Advanced are free (applied as a $10 credit that does not roll over; not applicable to LLMs). Usage beyond that is billed at $20 per million characters for NMT.
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Charged monthly for content processed; failed batch operations charge only successful translations.
- Their pages disagree: language count. "Translate websites, apps, documents, and media across 189 languages." vs "Cloud Translation API takes the transcription output (plain text and s"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try Translation free, Request a demo, Contact sales, Start free
- Sign up
- Create a Google Cloud project with the API enabled "Create a Google Cloud project with the API enabled to use the service"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Over 1 billion characters per month (Basic) "Contact a sales representative"
What Google Cloud Translation does
Cloud Translation AI translates text and documents through the Cloud Translation API in Basic and Advanced editions, with glossaries, custom models, and Gemini-powered Adaptive Translation. Pricing is per character or page, with the first 500,000 characters each month free.
- Good for
- Developers and organizations that translate websites, apps, documents, and media at scale through an API.
- Channels
- API, Google Cloud console
- Main product
- Cloud Translation API (Basic and Advanced editions)
- Also includes
- Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Translation LLM and Adaptive Translation, Custom translation models, Glossaries, Batch translation, Document translation (DOCX, PPT, PDF)
- Connects to
- Speech-to-Text API, Transcoder API, Text-to-Speech API, Customer Engagement Suite, Cloud Storage
- Public API
- Not stated
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Custom glossaries
With Advanced edition, you can use glossaries, custom translation models, and
- Document file translation
Translate websites, apps, documents, and media across 189 languages.
- Translation API
Cloud Translation API
- 100+ languages
Translate websites, apps, documents, and media across 189 languages.
- Translation memoryNot stated
- Human review workflow
domain-specific content and content that requires human review and editing.
- No training on dataNot stated
- Live speech translationNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Committed to GDPR compliance | "We’re committed to transparency, compliance with regulations like the GDPR, and privacy best practices."privacy |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Privacy Resource Center | "Learn more in our [Privacy Resource Center.](https://cloud.google.com/privacy)"home |
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Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NMT text translation (free allowance) | $0 | – | 500000 characters | – | "First 500,000 characters per month" |
| NMT text translation (over free allowance)per 1,000,000 characters | $20per minute | – | – | – | "$20.00 / 1,000,000 byte" |
| NMT document translation (DOCX, PPT, PDF)per page | $0.08per minute | – | – | – | "0.31 x $10 = $3.1 0.33 x $10 = $3.3 translatedocument with nmt model to one target languag" |
| Custom model text translationper 1,000,000 characters (first tier, down to $30.00) | $80per minute | – | – | – | "0 count to 250,000,000 count $80.00" |
| Custom model document translation (DOCX, PPT, PDF)per page | $0.25per minute | – | – | – | "each 1,000 pages 1,000 x $0.08 = $80 translatedocument with custom model to one target lan" |
| LLM Adaptive translationper 1,000,000 characters, input and output each | $25per minute | – | – | – | "ats only pages sent to the api per month $0.25 $0.225 $0.20 llm adaptive translation https" |
| LLM Text translationper 1,000,000 characters, input and output each | $10per minute | – | – | – | "it is charged $10 per million characters input and $10 per million characters output" |
| LLM Custom text translationper 1,000,000 characters, input and output each | $10per minute | – | – | – | "s cost of custom model translations. if you use translation llm llm , then it is charged $" |
| Custom model trainingper hour | $45per minute | – | –Maximum $300 per training job | – | "oogle.com/docs/cuds-multiprice how-to-opt-in to learn more. custom model training costs mo" |
| Over 1 billion characters per month (Basic) | Quote | – | – | – | "Contact a sales representative" |
Their pages disagree: language count"Translate websites, apps, documents, and media across 189 languages." vs "Cloud Translation API takes the transcription output (plain text and srt files) and transl"
Free plan: First 500,000 characters per month across Basic and Advanced are free (applied as a $10 credit that does not roll over; not applicable to LLMs). Usage beyond that is billed at $20 per million characters for NMT.
Fine print
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Charged monthly for content processed; failed batch operations charge only successful translations. "You are charged on a monthly basis for the amount of content that Cloud Translation processes."
- Billing increment
- Per character (code point), including whitespace and untranslated characters; empty request counts as one character. "Cloud Translation counts usage on a per character basis, even if a character is multiple bytes."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Ships updates
- 1 in the last 12 months Last on Feb 24, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Nearly 90% of generative AI unicorns are Google Cloud customers" their claim
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Questions
Is Google Cloud Translation free?
Yes. First 500,000 characters per month across Basic and Advanced are free (applied as a $10 credit that does not roll over; not applicable to LLMs). Usage beyond that is billed at $20 per million characters for NMT.