Deep Translate - cheap alternative to Google Translate
Hi folks,
Some time ago I've started media with huge demand for Google Translate API. Amount of documents for translating was so high that I had to find the way of purchasing Google APIs for special bulk pricing.
Then I was stuck with the idea to start fancy cloud translation service with really affordable pricing. And here it is:
I've decided to open the API via RapidAPI marketplace and there's even the free Basic plan with 100,000 characters. Much more then 500 characters of Google Translate :)
Pricing for advanced users drops from $2.95 to $0.95 per one million characters when you're enable Mega plan :)
So just compare standard Google pricing of $20 per 1M with Deep Translate's pricing of $0.95 - that's 20x cheaper! Quality is the same. Wow :)
Would like to know - does anyone interested here?
Hmm interesting have you thought of basically using an uber-mode and spread to different service not just google translate but also bing translate and there is deepl.com which I think produces better results than google translate at least in the past for some languages. And then mix them back together. This would at least provide more value to customers then just sitting on top of a single provider.
Also out of curiosity don't have to answer this if you don't want to but do you have any margin if you have to relay to google translate itself though?
We should have margin if the model will scale as supposed by our predictions. But I don't know that for sure :) Maybe we should increase pricing to afford marketing and other type of costs.
The idea about uberization is interesing but I think RapidApi already did it for all form of APIs. Maybe it's not so easy to switch between translation providers but its possible without much pain.
Interesting idea. Are you building on existing technology?
Yes, the core translation service based on Google's Translator, but HTML preprocessing and some other parts of Deep API was created inhouse.
Please check it out on the RapidAPI platform:
https://rapidapi.com/gatzuma/api/deep-translate1