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Amazon Translate

Automatic text translation between languages

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Vendor
Amazon Web Services
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.

Independently observed

Amazon Translate pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
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

What Amazon Translate does

The capabilities that matter for translation apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Capabilities
Custom glossary
✓
Custom model training
-
Document translation
-
Batch translation
✓
Auto language detection
-
Formality control
-
Profanity content filtering
-
No training on customer data
-
Self hostable
-
SOC2
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Amazon Translate FAQ

Common questions about Amazon Translate, answered from independent, dated evidence.

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. It is indexed under Translation Apis.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/

Is Amazon Translate free?

Amazon Translate offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.02. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/

What platforms does Amazon Translate support?

Amazon Translate supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/

Can Amazon Translate be self-hosted?

We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Translate, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/

What security certifications does Amazon Translate have?

We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Translate. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Translate not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/security/?nc1=f_cc

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Balanced composite 54 / 100
low · 43%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.055.4✓
Security posture300.123.7✓
Price level800.043.3✓
Capabilities460.041.7✓
Reliability00.070.0-
Integrations00.040.0-

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Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq5 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesCustom glossary, Batch translationmediumsource · 2026-09-29 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …highsource · 2026-09-06 · 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%
Trust centerhttps://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmpmediumsource · 2026-09-29 · 60%
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