Translation cost estimates for a small community

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. :slight_smile:

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.

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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.

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

If so, please let me know so I can close this one off @icaria36 :slight_smile:

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Use yandex API and don’t pay anything

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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.

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