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Amazon Translate pricing
Amazon Translate publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Amazon Translate pricing is free across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Per million characters
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Amazon Translate plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard text translation | $15/month | 2 | Entry tier |
| Real-time document translation | $15/month | 1 | +$0/month, 1 more feature |
| Document translation (Office files) | $30/month | 1 | +$15/month, 1 more feature |
| Active Custom Translation | $60/month | 2 | +$30/month, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Standard text translation
$15/monthThe entry tier. It covers $15 per million characters, 2 million characters per month free for the first 12 months on aws.
Real-time document translation
$15/monthOver Standard text translation, this tier adds:
- Text and HTML documents, no free tier
Document translation (Office files)
$30/monthOver Real-time document translation, this tier adds:
- $30 per million characters, double the standard rate
Active Custom Translation
$60/monthOver Document translation (Office files), this tier adds:
- $60 per million characters
- 500,000 characters per month free for the first 2 months
What the product covers
The full Amazon Translate feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Text translation API
- Document translation
- Active Custom Translation
- Real-time document translation
- Formality control
- AWS-native integration
People bring Amazon Translate in for an aws-native development team wanting translation billed through the same console as the rest of their infrastructure, a new aws customer running a translation-heavy pilot project inside the generous first-year 2 million character monthly free tier, a team building a translation pipeline directly integrated with s3 and lambda for document processing, a business wanting formality-adjusted output for specific language pairs in customer-facing content. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Amazon Translate are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Translation
Too few translation tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Translate (this page) | Free | Per million characters | - | |
| Unbabel | On request | quote | - | vs Amazon Translate |
| Microsoft Translator | Free | Per million characters | - | vs Amazon Translate |
| XTRF | On request | quote | - | vs Amazon Translate |
| Plunet | On request | quote | - | vs Amazon Translate |
| Reverso | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Amazon Translate |
| Google Translate | Free | Per million characters | - | vs Amazon Translate |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Amazon Translate badges page.
Before you pay for Amazon Translate
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between $15/month and $60/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Amazon Translate runs on web, and is published by Amazon Web Services, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, United States. The full record is on the Amazon Translate review, and the rest of the category is under best translation tools.
Amazon Translate pricing questions
- How much does Amazon Translate cost?
- Amazon Translate publishes 4 tiers, from $15/month for Standard text translation up to $60/month for Active Custom Translation. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Amazon Translate have a free plan?
- Yes, Amazon Translate is recorded as Per million characters, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Standard text translation and Real-time document translation on Amazon Translate?
- Real-time document translation costs $15/month against $15/month, and adds text and html documents, no free tier.
- Is the Active Custom Translation plan on Amazon Translate worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is $60 per million characters, 500,000 characters per month free for the first 2 months. It costs $60/month against $15/month for Standard text translation. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which translation tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 translation tools listed alongside Amazon Translate have a free tier: Microsoft Translator, Reverso, Google Translate.
- What am I actually paying for with Amazon Translate?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an aws-native development team wanting translation billed through the same console as the rest of their infrastructure, a new aws customer running a translation-heavy pilot project inside the generous first-year 2 million character monthly free tier, a team building a translation pipeline directly integrated with s3 and lambda for document processing.
- Does Amazon Translate charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Amazon Translate prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Amazon Translate against before paying?
- The closest translation tools in this directory are Unbabel, Microsoft Translator, XTRF, Plunet. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Amazon Translate covering price, platforms and features.