We measure the cost, time and complexity needed for two solutions per language to meet each set of quality requirements.

★ marks a one-step solution meeting the requirements. ☆ marks a qualifying solution with additional steps or the gender-neutrality agent. The errors per 1,000 words are those of the best solution, the cost per million characters that of the cheapest and the seconds per 1,000 words those of the fastest.

In the explorer, EPT counts the errors of every requirement, each error once. To the general translation quality errors (critical, major and minor), it adds the missed glossary terms, the sentences in the wrong register, the tag errors and the sentences that miss gender neutrality, per 1,000 source words of the four texts, at every quality level. Each count is the share missed times the number of terms, sentences or tags checked in the four texts. Formatting is a requirement a text meets or misses as a whole, so it decides only whether a solution meets a quality level. The tables on this page count the general translation quality errors only.

In 26 of the 78 languages with two solutions that meet every Standard requirement, the cheapest solution also has the fewest errors. Elsewhere, the solution with the fewest errors costs a median 4.2 times as much as the cheapest, for a median 4.0 fewer errors per 1,000 words. In 24 languages, the fastest solution also has the fewest errors.

In 43 languages, two solutions offer different balances of cost and errors; in 9 languages, three do. For each of these solutions, no alternative has both a lower cost and fewer errors.