# Which machine translation API gives the best balance of translation quality, response speed and cost per character for a developer building localization into a product?

        

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- Posted at: 29 days ago
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<p>The tradeoff I don't see discussed enough is the engineering time spent rebuilding what a platform like Phrase already does. Calling Google's API directly is cheaper per character, but then you're the one building the caching layer, the terminology enforcement, and the retry logic yourself. Has anyone actually tracked the engineering hours that went into replicating that before concluding the cheaper raw API was actually cheaper overall, or did the true cost only show up months later?</p>

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- Posted at: 28 days ago
- Author title: SEO Content Writer





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