What is Amazon Translate?
Amazon Translate applies artificial intelligence to translation and languages. The tool helps people and teams adapt texts, products and conversations for different markets.
Should you shortlist Amazon Translate?
Teams that need managed real-time or batch translation inside an AWS application rather than a standalone translation editor.
Try a small translation in the AWS console. For application use, configure programmatic access and move to the AWS CLI or an SDK after validating language support and output quality.
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Amazon Translate pricing
Standard text and batch document translation cost $15 per million characters. New AWS customers can translate up to 2 million standard-text characters per month free for 12 months. Real-time DOCX translation and Active Custom Translation use higher rates.
How to use Amazon Translate
Start with a representative text sample before connecting Amazon Translate to a production workflow.
- Open Amazon Translate in a supported AWS Region and translate a short sample in the console.
- Confirm the source and target languages, output quality and the translation type required by the workflow.
- For application use, grant the minimum required IAM permissions and call Amazon Translate through the AWS CLI or an SDK.
What to verify before you choose
- Supported source and target languages for the exact workflow
- Standard text, document and custom-translation rate differences
- IAM permissions, regional availability and data-handling requirements
Source checked August 15, 2026: AWS getting-started guide · Official AWS pricing. ToolVerity summarized the public vendor material independently; recheck the source before purchase.