Amazon Translate vs DeepL Translator

Amazon Translate is a paid API service for on-demand machine translation between 75 supported languages. It provides real-time and batch translation, website and document translation, glossary tools, and API access. Active Custom Translation uses parallel data examples to adapt output at runtime without requiring a customer-built custom model. Real-time requests are limited to 5,000 bytes per call. Batch jobs accept up to 5 GB per call, with individual documents up to 20 MB and 1,000,000 characters; supported formats include TXT, HTML, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and XLIFF. AWS documents integrations with Comprehend, Transcribe, Polly, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, Lambda, and Glue. Listed plans include Standard Text Translation and Batch Document Translation at $15 a month, Real-Time Document Translation (Text & HTML) at $15 a month, Real-Time Document Translation (Docx) at $30 a month, and Active Custom Translation at $60 a month. A free plan and free trial are listed.

DeepL Translator translates text, documents, and websites, and includes translation memory, glossary tools, and API access. It supports 100 languages. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge extensions provide translation and writing improvements while browsing; listed integrations include Microsoft Word, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and AI agents. The Free version costs nothing and includes 50,000 characters per user each month, one file translation per month for files up to 5 MB, and one glossary with five entries per language pair. Individual costs €7.49 a month billed annually and includes a 30-day free period; it allows 300,000 characters monthly and three file translations. Team costs €24.99 a month billed annually, while Business costs €49.99 a month billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom. DeepL lists TLS encryption and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified processes and infrastructure. For Pro subscribers, content and results are temporarily stored only as technically needed and then deleted. Team administration is included in Team and available for Business and Enterprise users; single sign-on is available for those tiers. The maker was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.