Wordpress Translate Plugins - What am I missing?

After looking up prices on GTransle and TranslatePress, I decided to code my own monkey-path way into translating a blog into all the languages out there.
I'm a programmer, how hard it could be... right?

Turns out, that either I'm completely missing something, or the pricing is a bit... off.

Google translate, through their cloud translate API charges $20 for 1,000,000 characters.
For articles averaging 5,000 words, you pay ~ $20 for 200 visits.

I've seen a lot of blogs, especially spam blogs/paa being translated on the fly with plugins.

Is there something I'm missing?
GTranslate plugin offers what I want for $30/month and seems it's unlimited.

But how do they manage the unlimited part? DeepL charges the same.

I can probably code a script to do it one by one and the host the articles translated myself, but I really liked the idea of a plug and play way to do it on the fly. Especially when I want to translate 30,000 pages into 10 languages.

What's the catch? Is this some kind of high ticket issue, or am I just dumb and not finding the solution on my own?

I think Gtranslate is using yandex api

https://translate.yandex.com/developers/prices

Have you managed to find a solution for this ? or you made your own tool ?

Just translate the post on first visit and save it in database. Upon next visit fetch from db.

yandex

Also interested in knowing this

I went crazy and just bought the pro web version of DeepL to translate manually. It allows unlimited use and characters I think. You could also hire a VA to do it for you. But this was the cheapest way for me. Also DeepL is much better.

DeepHat said:

I went crazy and just bought the pro web version of DeepL to translate manually. It allows unlimited use and characters I think. You could also hire a VA to do it for you. But this was the cheapest way for me. Also DeepL is much better.

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It's not unlimited. You get 500,000 tokens free/month which is about 250 articles of 1,500 words. After that, it costs about $0,20/1500 words or so.

But anyway, managed to solve this with openAI and free credits for each PVA account.

Not an ideal solution, but cache it may be?

So the logic could be, if translated article doesn’t exist on db, fetch and insert. If exists, show from db.

Gogol said:

Not an ideal solution, but cache it may be?

So the logic could be, if translated article doesn’t exist on db, fetch and insert. If exists, show from db.

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Yes, that was the solution I wasn't seeing when I posted this.

For anyone wishing to use gTranslate on 50k articles, just purchase it for one month, visit all the URLs in all the languages, and either cache them or make hard copies, then cancel the subscription.

Ultimately, they use google translate, so I moved to something else, but it's worth mentioning.