With Amazon Translate, you pay-as-you-go based on the number of characters of text that you processed. It’s easy to get started with the Amazon Translate Free Tier. Translate up to 2M characters monthly - free for the first 12 months, starting from your first translation request.
Standard Translation
Free Tier for Standard Translation
The Free Tier is available to you for 12 months, starting from the date on which you create your first translation request. 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.
Batch Translation
Free Tier for Batch Translation
The Free Tier is available to you for 2 months, starting from the date on which you create your first Active Custom Translation request. When your free usage expires, or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay Active Custom Translation, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Active Custom Translation
Free Tier for Active Custom Translation
The Free Tier is available to you for 2 months, starting from the date on which you create your first Active Custom Translation request. When your free usage expires, or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay Active Custom Translation, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Real-Time Document Translation
Free Tier for Real-Time Document Translation
Amazon Translate provides 200 GB free parallel data storage for every account. Customers pay $0.023 per GB per month for excess data stored.
Pricing examples
Translation Examples |
Text Length |
Standard Translation Cost |
Active Custom Translation Cost |
1,000 requests, 1,000 characters per request |
1M characters |
$15.00 |
$60.00 |
Average email message |
~3.1K characters |
$0.0465 |
$0.19 |
Typical news article |
~6.5K characters |
$0.0975 |
$0.39 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
~10.7K characters |
$0.1605 |
$0.64 |
Andersen's Fairy Tales |
~361.3K characters |
$5.4195 |
$21.68 |
Company Website: |
2M characters per website |
$30.00 |
$120.00 |
Animated video: |
2.5K characters per animation |
$0.0375 |
$0.15 |
Conversational application: |
30K characters per user per month |
$0.45 |
$1.80 |
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