What is Amazon Translate used for?

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service from AWS that developers call to translate text and documents. It is a good fit for translating user-generated content at scale and adding multilingual features to AWS-hosted apps.

How much does Amazon Translate cost?

Amazon Translate is a paid product with no free plan. A free trial is available. Pay-as-you-go by characters: $15 per million for standard text and batch translation, $30 for real-time Docx and $60 for active custom translation. New accounts get a 12-month free tier of 2M characters a month.

Is Amazon Translate open source?

No. Amazon Translate is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Amazon Translate include LibreTranslate and Argos Translate.

What are some alternatives to Amazon Translate?

Amazon Translate competes with Google Cloud Translation, DeepL and Lingvanex. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Amazon Translate alternatives.

Amazon Translate: features, pricing and alternatives

About Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is a managed neural machine translation service offered by AWS. Developers use its API to translate text or documents between many languages inside applications, websites and data pipelines without running translation models themselves.

As with other AWS services, it integrates with the rest of the Amazon cloud and can be called from SDKs, command line tools or other AWS services. The vendor page could not be read when this entry was written, so confirm current features, such as custom terminology and batch translation, and supported languages in the AWS documentation.

Amazon Translate is proprietary software offered only as a hosted service, with usage-based billing under AWS. It is relevant to engineering teams that already run workloads on AWS and need scalable machine translation.

Key features

Neural machine translation API
Real-time and batch translation
Custom terminology support
SDK and AWS service integration
Scalable managed service

Good fit for

→Translating user-generated content at scale
→Adding multilingual features to AWS-hosted apps

Tags: machine-translation; aws; api; localization; neural-translation; developers; cloud

Amazon Translate: questions and answers

What is Amazon Translate used for?: Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service from AWS that developers call to translate text and documents. It is a good fit for translating user-generated content at scale and adding multilingual features to AWS-hosted apps.
How much does Amazon Translate cost?: Amazon Translate is a paid product with no free plan. A free trial is available. Pay-as-you-go by characters: $15 per million for standard text and batch translation, $30 for real-time Docx and $60 for active custom translation. New accounts get a 12-month free tier of 2M characters a month.
Is Amazon Translate open source?: No. Amazon Translate is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Amazon Translate include LibreTranslate and Argos Translate.
What are some alternatives to Amazon Translate?: Amazon Translate competes with Google Cloud Translation, DeepL and Lingvanex. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Amazon Translate alternatives.