Amazon Translate vs DeepL API pricing
Both are in translation apis. Amazon Translate is billed per million chars; DeepL API is billed per million chars. Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
Amazon TranslateFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 2M chars/mo for 12 months
- Billed
- Per million chars
- Best for
- MT inside the AWS stack
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
DeepL APIFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 500k chars/mo (API Free)
- Billed
- Per million chars
- Best for
- High-quality MT API for developers
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Amazon Translate plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Text Translation | $15.00 / 1M characters | Real-time and asynchronous batch text translation; billed per character including whitespace, pay-as-you-go. |
| Batch Document Translation | $15.00 / 1M characters | Asynchronous translation of documents stored in Amazon S3. |
| Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML) | $15.00 / 1M characters | Synchronous document translation preserving formatting; no free tier. |
| Real-Time Document Translation (Docx) | $30.00 / 1M characters | Synchronous Word .docx translation; no free tier. |
| Active Custom Translation (ACT) | $60.00 / 1M characters | Domain-customized output using parallel data; includes 200 GB free parallel-data storage ($0.023/GB/mo overage). |
| Free Tier | $0 | 2M characters/month free for first 12 months (standard & batch); ACT 500K characters/month free for 2 months. |
- No casual free tier beyond the 12-month allowance; requires AWS account and credit card, frustrating occasional users
- Docx real-time translation costs double ($30/1M) and ACT is 4x standard ($60/1M)
DeepL API plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| API Free | $0/month | Up to 500,000 characters per month; full text and document translation API access, no cost. |
| API Growth | ~$26/month (annual) | Includes ~12M characters/year (~1M/month) with overage billed around $27.50 per additional million characters. |
| Enterprise API | Custom | Up-front custom commitments for characters, speech-to-text and speech-to-speech; pay-as-you-go above commitment; includes 99.9% uptime SLA. |
- Narrow language coverage (~30 languages) vs Google's 100+; quality and availability drop sharply for Asian, African and Indic languages
- Premium per-character pricing (~$25/M chars) is far costlier than LLM-based translation, a developer measured ~$4/hr vs under $0.01/hr for Gemini Flash
- Customer support and billing rigidity are recurring complaints (support rated ~4.2/5 on Capterra; reports of 'no compensation' for failures)