https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Google Cloud Translation. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:37:59 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation#rev_0317 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation#rev_0317 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review NMT is $20 per million characters after the first 500,000 a month, which a $10 monthly credit covers, so a million characters costs $20, or $10 in a month where the credit applies. That is dearer than Amazon at $15 and Azure at $10. The Translation LLM is $10 per million input characters plus $10 per million output, adaptive translation $25 plus $25 and custom Translation LLM $20 plus $20. AutoML models are $80 per million falling to $30 past 4 billion, with training at $45 an hour capped at $300 a job. Documents are $0.08 a page with NMT. Every character counts, whitespace and tags included, an empty query bills one character, and batch jobs bill once per target language. Only successful translations are billed. The credit doesn't roll over and a billing account needs a card. Four because every price is public and failed calls are free, with the highest NMT rate of the three big clouds. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation#rev_0318 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation#rev_0318 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Four ways to translate sit behind two editions, NMT, the Translation LLM, adaptive translation and custom AutoML models, with glossaries across the first three. By my reading the data terms are the clearest of the three clouds, text held in memory only, not used to train Google's translation models and not shared. The surprises are in the defaults. v3 treats input as HTML unless `mimeType` says text/plain. Quota errors arrive as 403 with Daily Limit Exceeded or User Rate Limit Exceeded, which generic 429 handling misses. The release notes have one entry in the past year and miss changes the SDK changelog shows, RefineText in November 2025 and an adaptive `mime_type` field on 9 April 2026, so the docs look more settled than the API is. Data handling on the LLM and adaptive paths is unchecked. Three, because the answers are trustworthy once an agent knows the defaults, and the release notes aren't where it will learn them. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Google's API for translating text and documents.