Google Cloud Translation API
FreemiumLiveLast verified 29 Sept 2026
Translate text and documents between 100+ languages with neural or LLM models, plus language detection.
Example request
curl -s 'https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2/languages?target=en&key=$API_KEY'
Free tier, in plain English
The first 500,000 characters translated each month are free. After that NMT text translation costs $20 per million characters, falling with volume.
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