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AWS neural machine translation API for real-time and batch text and document translation

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  • Deployment Cloud Based
  • Starting price $15/million characters
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Agencies

What is Amazon Translate?

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service from AWS that developers call via a simple REST API to translate text and documents in real time or in batch. It supports 75 languages and over 5,550 translation combinations, with automatic source language detection and support for TXT, HTML, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and XLIFF files while preserving formatting.

Pricing is pay-as-you-go per million characters, with new AWS accounts getting 2 million characters free per month for the first 12 months. Customization options include Active Custom Translation using your own parallel data and Custom Terminology for brand and industry-specific terms, plus controls for formality, brevity, profanity masking, and do-not-translate tags.

Key Features of Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate lists 8 documented features, including Neural machine translation via a single REST API call, 75 languages and 5,550+ translation combinations and Real-time and asynchronous batch translation. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • Neural machine translation via a single REST API call
  • 75 languages and 5,550+ translation combinations
  • Real-time and asynchronous batch translation
  • Active Custom Translation using your own parallel data
  • Custom Terminology for brand and industry terms
  • Automatic source language detection
  • Document translation preserving formatting (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, TXT, XLIFF)
  • Do-not-translate tags, profanity masking, formality and brevity controls

Amazon Translate Pricing

Amazon Translate lists 4 plans without published figures. Pricing is quoted on request.

Standard Text Translation

$15/million characters

2 million characters/month free for first 12 months

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Real-time and batch text translation

Real-Time Document Translation (Text/HTML)

$15/million characters

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Real-time document translation

Real-Time Document Translation (DOCX)

$30/million characters

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2x standard rate, preserves formatting

Active Custom Translation

$60/million characters

500,000 characters/month free for first 2 months

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Customize output using your own parallel data

Amazon Translate Specifications

Amazon Translate is available on web app. It offers an API and has a free trial.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
Billing cycle
Monthly
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Agencies
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Tickets
  • Phone
Integrations
AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Comprehend, AWS SDKs, AWS Management Console, AWS CLI
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
No
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Translate FAQs

New AWS accounts get 2 million characters per month free for standard text translation for the first 12 months; after that it is billed at $15/million characters.

It supports 75 languages, enabling more than 5,550 translation combinations.

Yes, Active Custom Translation lets you supply parallel data at $60/million characters, and Custom Terminology lets you define fixed translations for specific terms.

It supports plain text, HTML, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and XLIFF documents while preserving formatting.

No, it is an API and AWS Console service for developers to integrate into applications; there is no standalone consumer mobile app.