Cloud Translation API

Dynamically translate between thousands of available language pairs

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Fast, Dynamic Translation

Cloud Translation API provides a simple programmatic interface for translating an arbitrary string into any supported language. Translation API is highly responsive, so websites and applications can integrate with Translation API for fast, dynamic translation of source text from the source language to a target language (e.g., French to English). Language detection is also available In cases where the source language is unknown. The underlying technology pushes the boundary of Machine Translation and is updated constantly to seamlessly improve translations and introduce new languages and language pairs.

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Translate Many Languages

Translation API supports more than one hundred different languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu. Used in combination, this enables translation between thousands of language pairs.

Language Detection

Sometimes you don’t know your source text language in advance. For example, user generated content might not contain a language code. Translation API can automatically identify languages with high accuracy.

Simple Integration

Translation API is an easy to use Google REST API. You don’t have to extract text from your document, just send it HTML documents and get back translated text.

Highly Scalable

Translation API can seamlessly scale with almost any volume. We provide a generous daily quota and allow you to set limits below that amount. If a higher quota is needed, you can simply request an increase.

Simple, Affordable Pricing

Translation API charges on a per character basis, even if the character is multiple bytes. Our prices are affordable, making Translation API a low cost localization solution compared to alternative methods.

Premium Edition ^Beta

The API is available in two editions. The Premium edition is tailored for users who need precise, long-form translation services. Examples include livestream translations, high volume of emails, and detailed articles and documents. The Standard edition offers translation in over 100 languages and price-performance that is ideal for short, real-time conversational text. The table below highlights the best use case for each edition

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Use case	Standard	Premium
Words and short sentence translations	Best fit	Supported
Short real-time chat translation	Best fit	Supported
Emails, articles, PDFs, documents	Supported	Best fit
Human-assisted localization and translation services	Supported	Best fit
Website translation	Supported	Best fit
Video livestream audio translation	Supported	Best fit

Cloud Translation API Features

Dynamically translate between thousands of available language pairs

Programmatic Access: Translation API is accessible via a standard Google REST API. See sample code for different programming languages including Python, Objective C and Ruby.
Text Translation: Translation API supports more than 100 languages and thousands of language pairs. You can send in HTML and receive HTML with translated text back. You don't need to extract your source text or reassemble the translated content.
Language Detection: Detect a document’s language and translate it using RESTful API.

Continuous Updates: Behind the scenes, Translation API is learning from logs analysis and human translation examples. Existing language pairs improve and new language pairs come online at no additional cost.
Adjustable Quota: Easily increase your quota from 2M characters per day to 50M per day or request a higher quota.
Affordable, Easy Pricing: Translation API pricing is based on millions of characters sent. Our pricing schedule is easy to understand and very affordable.