We calculate translation costs using August 2026 list prices and the measured tokens and characters.
List prices of the 57 models and their measured cost per million characters
| Model | Type | List price, August 2026 | Batch price, input / output | Price source | Measured cost per million characters | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI21 Jamba Large 1.7 | LLM | $2 / $8 per million tokens, input / output | vendor site | $4.21 | 100 | |
| Alibaba | MT engine | $7 per million characters | vendor site | $7.00 | 78 | |
| Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-235B-A22B | open-weight LLM | $0.7 / $2.8 per million tokens, input / output | last price listed by the vendor (the model moved to a legacy list) | $1.30 | 79 | |
| ALL-Lab | MT engine | $100 per million characters | vendor site | $100.00 | 14 | |
| Amazon | MT engine | $15 per million characters | vendor site | $15.00 | 69 | |
| Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | LLM | $10 / $50 per million tokens, input / output | $5 / $25 | vendor site | $31.39 | 100 |
| Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | LLM | $1 / $5 per million tokens, input / output | $0.5 / $2.5 | vendor site | $2.43 | 100 |
| Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | LLM | $5 / $25 per million tokens, input / output | $2.5 / $12.5 | vendor site | $15.58 | 100 |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | LLM | $3 / $15 per million tokens, input / output | $1.5 / $7.5 | vendor site | $7.45 | 100 |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | LLM | $2 / $10 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $5 | vendor site | $6.26 | 100 |
| AppTek NMT | MT engine | no public price | quote only | |||
| Baidu | MT engine | $6.85 per million characters | vendor site | $6.85 | 12 | |
| Cohere Command A Translate | LLM | no public price | contact sales | |||
| Cohere Tiny Aya | LLM | free | free on trial keys, no production price | |||
| DeepL Next Gen | LLM-based MT engine | $27.5 per million characters | vendor site | $27.50 | 85 | |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | LLM | $0.55 / $2.19 per million tokens, input / output | last price listed by the vendor (the model is retired) | $1.02 | 100 | |
| Elia Elhuyar Machine Translation System | MT engine | a price per word | a price per word | |||
| Google Cloud Advanced Translation API | MT engine | $20 per million characters | vendor site | $20.00 | 99 | |
| Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | LLM | $2 / $12 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $6 | vendor site | $4.79 | 100 |
| Google Gemini 3.5 Flash | LLM | $1.5 / $9 per million tokens, input / output | $0.75 / $4.5 | vendor site | $3.62 | 100 |
| Google Gemma 4 | open-weight LLM | $0.08 / $0.35 per million tokens, input / output | lowest price of an inference provider (open weights, no vendor API) | $0.14 | 100 | |
| Google Translation LLM | LLM-based MT engine | $10 / $10 per million characters, input / output | vendor site | $21.27 | 80 | |
| iFlyTek MT | MT engine | $12 per million characters | vendor site | $12.00 | 6 | |
| Meta Llama 4 Maverick | open-weight LLM | not checked | not in the price check of August 2026 (added on 1 September) | |||
| Microsoft Translator | MT engine | $10 per million characters | vendor site | $10.00 | 90 | |
| MiniMax M2.5 | LLM | $0.3 / $1.2 per million tokens, input / output | vendor site | $0.68 | 100 | |
| Mistral Large 3 | LLM | $0.5 / $1.5 per million tokens, input / output | $0.25 / $0.75 | vendor site | $0.84 | 100 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | LLM | $0.4 / $2 per million tokens, input / output | last price listed by the vendor (the model is off the price page) | $1.05 | 100 | |
| ModernMT Enterprise Edition | MT engine | no public price | no price list left, as ModernMT moves to Lara 2 | |||
| MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 | LLM | $0.6 / $3 per million tokens, input / output | vendor site | $1.36 | 100 | |
| Naver Papago NMT Commercial | MT engine | no public price | amounts shown only after sign-in | |||
| NiuTrans | MT engine | no public price | we could not verify the numbers on the price page | |||
| OpenAI GPT-4.1 | LLM | $2 / $8 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $4 | last price listed by the vendor (the model is off the price page) | $3.09 | 100 |
| OpenAI GPT-5.5 | LLM | $5 / $30 per million tokens, input / output | $2.5 / $15 | last price listed by the vendor (the model is off the price page) | $11.34 | 100 |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | LLM | $0.2 / $1.2 per million tokens, input / output | $0.1 / $0.6 | vendor site | $0.45 | 100 |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol | LLM | $4 / $20 per million tokens, input / output | $2 / $10 | vendor site | $7.80 | 100 |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra | LLM | $2 / $12 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $6 | vendor site | $4.54 | 100 |
| OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | open-weight LLM | $0.03 / $0.17 per million tokens, input / output | lowest price of an inference provider (open weights, no vendor API) | |||
| Oracle | MT engine | $10 per 1,000 requests | a price per 1,000 requests of up to 1,000 characters | |||
| Pangeanic | MT engine | a price per page | a price per page | |||
| SpeakLeash Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct | open-weight LLM | no public price | open weights, no hosted price per token | |||
| Supertext LLM | LLM-based MT engine | $23.4 per million characters | vendor site | $23.40 | 26 | |
| Swiss AI Apertus-8B-2509 | open-weight LLM | free | open weights, hosted free | |||
| SYSTRAN PNMT API | MT engine | $15.49 per month for 1 million characters | monthly subscription with 1 million characters | $15.49 | 57 | |
| Tarjama | MT engine | no public price | contact sales | |||
| TartuNLP | MT engine | not checked | not in the price check of August 2026 | |||
| Tencent Cloud TMT | MT engine | $8.11 per million characters | vendor site | $8.11 | 13 | |
| Tilde | LLM-based MT engine | $20.5 per million characters | vendor site | $20.50 | 31 | |
| Translated Lara 2 | LLM-based MT engine | $24.99 per million characters | vendor site | $24.99 | 97 | |
| Widn AI Tower Anthill | LLM-based MT engine | $5 per million source characters | vendor site | $5.00 | 20 | |
| Widn AI Tower Sugarloaf | LLM-based MT engine | $10 per million source characters | vendor site | $10.00 | 22 | |
| Widn AI Tower Vesuvius | LLM-based MT engine | $20 per million source characters | vendor site | $20.00 | 20 | |
| xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning) | LLM | $1.25 / $2.5 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $2 | vendor site | $1.20 | 100 |
| xAI Grok 4.20 (reasoning) | LLM | $1.25 / $2.5 per million tokens, input / output | $1 / $2 | vendor site | $1.20 | 100 |
| Yandex | MT engine | $3.94 per million characters | vendor site | $3.94 | 83 | |
| Youdao | MT engine | $6.71 per million characters | vendor site | $6.71 | 92 | |
| z.ai GLM-5 | LLM | $1.4 / $4.4 per million tokens, input / output | vendor site | $2.11 | 100 |
Units — Measured cost per million characters: US$ per million characters
Measured cost: the median over the languages we translated with the model, without context, at the list price. For models with reasoning, the cost leaves out the reasoning tokens, so it is a lower bound.