Google Cloud Translation
Half a million characters translated free every month.
What it is
Machine translation charged per character, with the first 500,000 characters each month handed back as a $10 credit. No plan, no seat, no minimum — but as with the rest of Google Cloud, a billing account has to exist before the first call.
What it costs
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| First 500,000 characters a month | Free, applied as a $10 credit each month |
| Text translation, NMT | $20 per 1M characters above the free tier |
| Translation LLM | $10 per 1M characters in and $10 per 1M out |
| Document translation | $0.08 per page |
| Monthly fee | None |
Before paying
Listed model: Free tier you can stay on. Check the linked pricing page for the exact plan and current terms.
Credit expiry: Nothing is bought up front — billed monthly for what you used. Account required: Not confirmed.
Our observations
- The free half million characters arrive as a credit every month, not once, so light use costs nothing month after month.
- Their newer LLM translation is $10 per million in and $10 per million out, which works out level with the older engine rather than above it.
- Documents are priced per page at $0.08 regardless of how little text is on the page.
Things we noticed while comparing this category, not a review — we have not run every tool here. Where a score is shown, it is someone else's and we say whose.
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Good to know
We last opened this pricing page on 16 Sep 2026 and wrote down what it said. Prices change without warning — if you find something different, tell us so we can check the source again.