Amazon Translate

Neural machine translation service that translates text and documents across 75 languages in real-time or batch operations

Also known as
amazon-translate

Available worldwide

What is Amazon Translate?

A cloud-based translation service that enables organizations to automatically translate user-generated content, documents, and applications across multiple languages while maintaining formatting. Supports real-time and batch processing with customization options for brand-specific terminology.

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Amazon Translate pricing

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from $0.02/gb_per_monthUsage-basedFree tier12-day trial

From $15 per million characters. 2M characters free monthly for 12 months. Volume discounts available for sustained usage over 1 billion characters/month.

Standard Text Translation

$15 per million characters, 2M characters free/month for 12 months
  • Real-time translations
  • 75 languages supported

Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML)

$15 per million characters
  • Supports Text and HTML files
  • Real-time processing

Real-Time Document Translation (DOCX)

$30-$60 per million characters, 500k characters free for 2 months
  • Supports DOCX format
  • Preserves document formatting

Active Custom Translation

$60 per million characters for text; $0.023/GB/month for excess parallel data storage above 200GB free

Customizes translation output using parallel data examples without building custom models

  • Custom terminology and brand names
  • Parallel data storage (200GB free)

Batch Document Translation

$15 per million characters

Asynchronous batch translation of large document collections from S3 buckets

  • Supports TXT, HTML, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, Xliff formats
  • Asynchronous processing

Add-ons

  • Parallel Data Storage$0.02 per gb_per_month

Platform & deployment

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Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

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Balanced composite 71 / 100
low · 34%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.088.4
Price level800.054.2
Security posture300.072.2
Reliability00.070.0-
Capabilities00.050.0-
Integrations00.040.0-

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Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityHqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 0.023 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
FedrampYeshighsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-19 · 75%