DeepL API API pricing
Premium-quality neural MT with a clean REST API and official SDKs in six languages; the go-to when translation accuracy matters most.
Free tier or trialBilled per million chars·Verified Jun 27, 2026
Free tier
500k chars/mo (API Free)
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| API Free | $0/month | Up to 500,000 characters per month; full text and document translation API access, no cost. |
| API Growth | ~$26/month (annual) | Includes ~12M characters/year (~1M/month) with overage billed around $27.50 per additional million characters. |
| Enterprise API | Custom | Up-front custom commitments for characters, speech-to-text and speech-to-speech; pay-as-you-go above commitment; includes 99.9% uptime SLA. |
What to watch for on the bill
- Narrow language coverage (~30 languages) vs Google's 100+; quality and availability drop sharply for Asian, African and Indic languages
- Premium per-character pricing (~$25/M chars) is far costlier than LLM-based translation, a developer measured ~$4/hr vs under $0.01/hr for Gemini Flash
- Customer support and billing rigidity are recurring complaints (support rated ~4.2/5 on Capterra; reports of 'no compensation' for failures)
- Rate-limit ('Too many requests') and character-limit errors require manual cost-control and backoff handling
The pricing page, as we saw it
Source: https://www.eesel.ai/blog/deepl-pricing. Prices change. Confirm on the vendor page before you commit.
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