Friday, September 02, 2011

Translation APIs: Microsoft Bing vs Google


Roles reversed: Google charging for services, and Microsoft offering them for free :)

Recently, Microsoft announced availability of a free web API for translation.
This is a useful tool, and an interesting news, since not too long ago
Google announced discontinuing of their translation "labs" web API (apparently due to misuse/overuse).

In the meantime, Google has quietly re-activated translation API,
and this time as a commercial tool, with pay-per-use pricing.

Web APIs:

Using the free Bing Translation APIs


Google Translate API v2
Pricing and Terms of Service

1 M characters of text: $20.00

Interactive translation:

bing Translator


Google Translate

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