Translation cost estimates for a small community

[quimgil]

@Nazım_Kılıç_MSc_Psy

AirBnB does this for years now: everybody writes in their own language and sees the responses in the language they write in.

One difference (among many) between AirBnB and my little project is that they have plenty of money to pay for automated translation where I don’t.

Does anyone have estimate about automated translation costs in their projects?

In any case, request a translation of a specific post to a specific language must be way cheaper than translating everything to all languages upfront, even when maybe you don’t get actual readers for many language-post combinations.

[Nazım_Kılıç_MSc_Psy (Nazım)]

@quimgil

One difference (among many) between AirBnB and my little project is that they have plenty of money to pay for automated translation where I don’t.

Does anyone have estimate about automated translation costs in their projects?

In any case, request a translation of a specific post to a specific language must be way cheaper than translating everything to all languages upfront, even when maybe you don’t get actual readers for many language-post combinations.

I don’t think financially it is such a big issue as you made it out to be, at least for some forums: to have a truly bilingual, automatically translated cozy little forum with about 500.000 new characters per month (about 250 pages, a whole book) would be completely free using the Google Translate API.

For 5 million characters (about 2500 book pages) you would pay about $100 per month.

I see many use cases for this: smaller forums without many posts, and large forums of companies/institutions who can afford it.

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

This new discussion is on a different topic from the initial post on How to structure a multilingual community, so I have moved it here. Also, your question may already have an answer in this topic:

How to estimate the cost of translation using the translator plugin

There is no reason to try to limit the feature to a category… Unless you have a lot of topics and consider the cost of translating everything This is why we were thinking to stick to one category. This in itself kind of reminded me of this bit from the first post: [image] I think it would be a substantial amount for our Forum if we enable it for all categories Could you offer any advise on how to estimate that cost? I think it is based on the number of charac…

If so, please let me know so I can close this one off @quimgil

[volanar]

Use yandex API and don’t pay anything

[quimgil]

The answer is good enough to consider my comment addressed (and corrected), thank you. I am having a +10 languages forum in mind, but in any case this seems to be cheaper than I thought.