Paid version of Google Translate API now open for business
By Jeff
Chin, Product ManagerBack in May, we
announced
the deprecation of the free
Translate API
v1. Today, we’re introducing a paid version of the Google Translate API for
businesses and commercial software developers. The Google Translate API provides a
programmatic interface to access Google’s latest machine translation technology. This API
supports translations between 50+ languages (more than 2500 language pairs) and is made
possible by Google’s cloud infrastructure and large scale machine learning algorithms.
The paid version of Translate API removes many of the usage restrictions of
previous versions and can now be used in commercial products. Translation costs $20 per
million (M) characters of text translated (or approximately $0.05/page, assuming 500
words/page). You can sign up online via the
APIs console for usage up to 50 M
chars/month.
Developers who created projects in the API Console and
started using the
Translate API
V2 prior to today will continue to receive a courtesy limit of 100K chars/day until
December 1, 2011 or until they enable billing for their projects.
For
academic users, we will continue to offer free access to the Google Translate Research API
through our
University Research
Program for Google Translate. For website translations, we encourage you to use the
Google Website Translator
gadget which will continue to be free for use on all web sites. In addition,
Google Translate,
Translator Toolkit, the mobile
translate apps for
iPhone
and
Android,
and translation features within
Chrome,
Gmail,
etc. will continue to be available to all users at no charge.
Jeff Chin is the Product Manager for Google Translate. Whenever he travels,
Jeff enjoys learning and trying to speak the local language, and finding good local
restaurants and food to eat.Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
