Five language tiers show how many solutions qualify and whether any qualifying solution is one-step.

For Basic, the tiers follow general translation quality, the only requirement of the level.

For Standard, a simple solution and a backup meet tone of voice, tags and formatting on their own in 39 or 40 of the 40 languages of tier 2, and general translation quality in 16 of them. In those 16, only two-step or three-step solutions meet all the requirements at once.

Of the 29 languages of tiers 3 and 4 for Advanced, 25 have fewer than two gender-neutral best solutions even with the gender-neutrality agent. In Afrikaans, Burmese, Portuguese (European) and Sundanese, the gender-neutral versions miss other requirements.

In the explorer, the tier chart and the table of errors, cost and time, EPT means total errors per 1,000 source words across all requirements. It adds the weighted general translation quality errors (minor 1, major 5, critical 10, as in the quality bar), missed glossary terms, sentences in the wrong register, tag errors and sentences that fail gender neutrality. Each error of the other requirements counts once, and the same error types are included at every quality level.

For each requirement, we calculate the count by multiplying the share that failed by the number of terms, sentences or tags checked across the four texts. We then express the total per 1,000 source words. Formatting pass/fail results affect whether a solution qualifies but do not add to EPT.

Languages of each tier, for the Basic, Standard and Advanced requirements

TierLanguages in the tierLanguages
Basic
Tier 154Albanian, Arabic (MSA), Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (European), Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh
Tier 225Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Basque, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, Frisian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Kyrgyz, Malayalam, Mongolian, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tatar, Uzbek, Yiddish
Tier 31Afrikaans
Tier 42Burmese, Sundanese
Tier 518Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Standard
Tier 138Albanian, Arabic (MSA), Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Macedonian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (European), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh
Tier 240Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Basque, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Sinhala, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Uzbek, Yiddish
Tier 32Afrikaans, Frisian
Tier 42Burmese, Sundanese
Tier 518Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Advanced
Tier 113Azerbaijani, Bengali, Danish, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Tier 240Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Dutch, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Odia (Oriya), Slovak, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Welsh
Tier 318Afrikaans, Bosnian, Frisian, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish (European)
Tier 411Albanian, Arabic (MSA), Burmese, Czech, French, Hebrew, Polish, Sinhala, Sundanese, Urdu, Yiddish
Tier 518Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu

Languages of each tier, with the number of them with a simple solution and a backup for each requirement taken alone

TierLanguages in the tierOf them with a glossaryGeneral translation qualityTone of voiceTerminologyTagsFormattingGender neutrality
Basic
Tier 15454
Tier 2250
Tier 310
Tier 420
Tier 518
Standard
Tier 138103838103838
Tier 2406163964040
Tier 3200222
Tier 4200122
Tier 518
Advanced
Tier 113113131131313
Tier 240719397404020
Tier 31861518618181
Tier 4112710211111
Tier 518

For each requirement of the level, the number of languages of the tier where two or more solutions meet that requirement on its own and at least one of them is simple (one-step). Terminology counts among the languages with a glossary. Gender neutrality: simple means gender-neutral without the gender-neutrality agent.

Language tiers for the Basic, Standard and Advanced requirements: errors, cost and time

Language tierBasicStandardAdvanced
Tier 1: simple solution + backup
  • 54 languages
  • 15.3 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $27.47 per million characters
  • 75 sec per 1,000 words
  • 38 languages
  • 15.2 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $11.37 per million characters
  • 68 sec per 1,000 words
  • 13 languages
  • 12.5 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $10.35 per million characters
  • 67 sec per 1,000 words
Tier 2: two or more solutions, none simple
  • 25 languages
  • 11.2 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $589 per million characters
  • 298 sec per 1,000 words
  • 40 languages
  • 11.8 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $577 per million characters
  • 262 sec per 1,000 words
  • 40 languages
  • 9.8 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $620 per million characters
  • 252 sec per 1,000 words
Tier 3: one solution
  • 1 languages
  • 19.1 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $562 per million characters
  • 203 sec per 1,000 words
  • 2 languages
  • 18.0 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $561 per million characters
  • 242 sec per 1,000 words
  • 18 languages
  • 13.3 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $966 per million characters
  • 210 sec per 1,000 words
Tier 4: no solution
  • 2 languages
  • 19.5 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $659 per million characters
  • 458 sec per 1,000 words
  • 2 languages
  • 19.5 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $659 per million characters
  • 458 sec per 1,000 words
  • 11 languages
  • 11.8 total errors per 1,000 words
  • $991 per million characters
  • 239 sec per 1,000 words
Tier 5: cannot assess
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result

Medians over the languages of the cell, one solution per language: among those that meet the level, the one with the fewest total errors per 1,000 words (errors from every requirement, as in the explorer), with its cost and time. In tier 4, where no solution meets the level, the available solution with the fewest total errors. The cost of a three-step solution includes the Intento LQA step, an estimate.

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