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Email & Communication
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ai translation tool
Pricing
Freemium
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Free plan available

What is this tool?

The paid decision is refreshingly simple: $39 a month buys unlimited text and document translation, so once your volume is steady, per-word arithmetic stops being something you do. The uncertainty is all on the free side. Free use is bounded by daily and lifetime fair-use limits that the vendor says may change and does not express as numbers, and longer translations appear as a preview until you unlock or upgrade them. The third factor is human review: Pro includes up to 2,000 words a month of it, with more sold separately.

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The premise is that no single translation engine is reliably best, so MachineTranslation.com runs your text through several and puts the results in front of you together, with a quality signal to orient you. Text can be pasted or a document uploaded; the output is a comparison rather than a single answer.

The plan structure is short: three tiers with no per-word ladder in between. That is the point — at steady volume a flat rate is a simpler purchase than metering, and the only real question left is whether your volume clears the $39.

The free plan is where to be careful. The vendor's own wording is that unregistered and free-plan users translate within fair-usage limits including daily and lifetime limits, and that those limits may change over time. No number is published for either, and longer translations show as a preview until unlocked or upgraded. So the free tier tells you whether you like the output. It cannot tell you whether it will carry your week.

Human verification is the layer that makes this more than an aggregator. A professional linguist reviews the AI translation, Pro includes up to 2,000 words a month of that review, and further words are available a la carte. Two thousand words is a handful of pages — enough for the contract clause, the product claim or the customer email that has to be right, and not enough to review a body of content wholesale.

Outside the subscriptions, credits are sold in one-time packs from 300 up to 5,000. MachineTranslation.com presents every pack with a struck-through price roughly double the charge shown beside it. Treat the pack prices as a promotion rather than a list price to budget against.

Is this right for you?

Quick fit check against how you actually work.

ai translation tool
Choose this if
  • You would rather see several engines' output on the same text than trust one engine's answer
  • Your volume is steady enough that $39 a month flat beats counting words
  • Some of your content genuinely needs a human pass, and 2,000 words a month is about the right size for it
  • You have a single job to do and would rather buy a credit pack than hold a subscription
  • You want to judge the output before registering anything: free use needs no card
Consider alternatives if
  • You need a guaranteed free allowance: the daily and lifetime limits are not published as numbers, and the vendor says they may change
  • Your review needs are larger than 2,000 words a month and you would rather that capacity were included than bought a la carte
  • You are budgeting from the credit-pack prices, which are presented as a roughly half-price promotion against a struck-through figure
  • You specifically need one named engine's output, in which case an aggregator adds a step rather than a second opinion
  • Your longer documents must be fully visible before you pay, since long translations are previewed until unlocked

Key features

What you can actually do with this tool.

Several engines on the same passage, compared

The product's job is aggregation: you see how different engines render the same text, with a quality signal over them. Where the engines disagree is the obvious place to spend the human review that Pro includes.

A flat unlimited tier rather than a word meter

Pro is $39 a month for unlimited text and document translation. For steady work that removes the budgeting question entirely, which is the main reason to prefer it over buying credits.

Human verification layered on the machine output

A professional linguist reviews the AI translation. Pro includes up to 2,000 words a month of it and more can be bought a la carte, so review capacity is something you allocate rather than something you have.

Free use without registering a card

Unregistered and free-plan users can translate within fair-use limits, and longer translations appear as a preview. Enough to judge the output quality; not enough to size a workload.

One-time credit packs from 300 to 5,000 credits

A route for a single job that does not justify a subscription. Every pack is presented with a struck-through price roughly double the charge beside it, so the pack figures are a promotional arm rather than a stable list price.

Plans & pricing

Pricing tiers and what's included in each.

Free

$0 /month
  • Translation within daily and lifetime fair-use limits, which the vendor states may change
  • No credit card required
  • Longer translations shown as a free preview until unlocked or upgraded

Pro

$39 /month
  • Unlimited text and document translation
  • On-demand human review of up to 2,000 words a month
  • Additional human-review words available a la carte

Tailored

Custom
  • Quoted for organisations with specialised requirements
Official pricing pagePricing may have changed. Always verify before purchasing.

Frequently asked

Common questions about this tool, answered.

How much can I translate for free?

Translation within daily and lifetime fair-use limits. The vendor states those limits may change over time and does not publish either as a number. No credit card is required, and longer translations are shown as a free preview until you unlock or upgrade them.

What is human verification?

A professional linguist reviewing the AI translation rather than translating from scratch. It is the step that turns machine output into something publishable.