Control
- A risk policy with minimum risk levels for content types and user groups
- A risk level for every job, set by the user who submits it
- Quality gates and automatic checks in every job
One subscription for OneLanguage. Linguists only where your risk policy requires them.
Your Copilot and Claude, your colleagues in subsidiaries and your translators use the same language data and follow one risk policy. Every translation leaves a record.
From €750 a month for up to 5 target languages, with AI translation, your own translators’ work and any number of users included. Translation costs extra only when TextUnited linguists work on it, per 1,000 words.
Prices in EUR, excluding VAT.
Four quality levels, two ways to do the work
Your risk policy links each risk level to a quality level. At Professional and Four-eyes review, you choose who does the work: your own team, which uses no credits, or TextUnited linguists, paid in credits. Supervised AI is always done by TextUnited linguists. Automatic checks cover mistranslations, terminology, date and number formats, and spelling and grammar. They can send a segment to a linguist, but they never replace the linguist work your risk policy requires. The risk levels in this table show one example policy.
| Price | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality level | Example risk level | What happens | Self-managedYour staff or freelancers do the human work | Managed by TextUnitedTextUnited linguists do the human work |
| Automated | Low | OneLanguage applies your approved terminology and style guide. If automatic checks find a serious error, the user who submitted the job decides whether a person checks it. | Includedin the OneLanguage subscription | Not availableAutomated uses terminology and style guides entered by your users. |
| Supervised AI | Medium | OneLanguage delivers the translation at once. TextUnited linguists then correct the segments that automatic checks flag, and the corrections go back to your content system automatically. The price per 1,000 words stays the same, however many segments the linguists correct. Use it for content where an error does not put people at risk. | Not availableSupervised AI includes care of your language data by TextUnited linguists, with a monthly report per language on their corrections. | 2creditsper 1,000 words |
| Professional | Important | A professional linguist works on every segment without an approved translation at this level, before delivery. | IncludedYour team’s work uses no credits | 3creditsper 1,000 words |
| Four-eyes review | Critical | A second linguist reviews the work of the first linguist before delivery. | IncludedYour team’s work uses no credits | 6creditsper 1,000 words |
Credits per 1,000 new words and matches below 75%. One credit costs €25. Above your monthly credit budget, each credit costs 25% more, except in the free trial and the pilot.
Estimate your monthly cost
Set your target languages and, for each quality level, the source words you translate into each language in a year. The calculator shows your OneLanguage subscription and the credits for TextUnited linguists.
For more than 25 target languages, TextUnited quotes the prices.
Source words a year, for each target language
Total: 300,000 words a year (60,000 source words × 5 target languages).
Monthly payment
€1,355 a month
€16,266 a year
- OneLanguage subscription
- €9,000 a year
- TextUnited linguists
- €7,266 a year
290.6 credits a year at €25 each.
Compare with your current vendor
Local translation agency charges about €26,010 a year for the same words. TextUnited costs €16,266 a year, 37.5% less.
Where these rates come fromThe estimate does not include more connected content systems, DTP or languages with more credits. It assumes that 100% matches come from translations at the same or a higher quality level.
What the OneLanguage subscription covers
The subscription pays for everything listed below, except the items quoted separately. You do not need any additional translation memory, TMS or CAT system. When your own staff or freelancers do the human work, you pay them directly. When TextUnited linguists do it, their work uses credits.
Translation and review
- AI translation, delivered at once, with your terminology and style guide applied
- Review and approval by your staff, colleagues in subsidiaries and invited freelancers, with the same checks
- Any number of users, with single sign-on (SSO)
Language data
- Terminology, translation memory and style guides in every job, for linguists and for AI translation
- Import of translation memory (TMX) and terminology (TBX or XLSX), and export as TMX, TBX and Markdown
- Your terms, translation memory and style guides in Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Claude, through MCP, at no cost
Connections
- One connected content system, in both directions: Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, GitLab or a CCMS through the API or n8n
- File processing for PDF, IDML, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, Markdown, XLIFF, JSON, HTML, XML and SCORM
- An API and an n8n integration for automated workflows
Records
- A record of every translation, kept for 10 years at every quality level
- The risk level, the user who set it and the quality level
- The verdict of the automatic checks
- Who corrected or approved the translation
- The date and time of each step
- The terminology version used
- Your company can see and export the record
- Storage and processing within the EU
Quoted separately
- More connected content systems
- Desktop publishing (DTP) as a managed service
- Language AI engineering by TextUnited
- More credits for Professional and Four-eyes review by TextUnited in some languages. See which languages
Price rules
One subscription
The OneLanguage subscription depends only on your target languages. Up to 100,000 words per target language a year, it does not change with the number of words, jobs or users. AI translation covers more than 100 languages. €750 a month includes up to 5 target languages, and each additional one, up to 25, adds €75. You can add a target language at any time. The subscription includes the setup of your risk policy and one connected content system, and the import of your translation memory and terminology.
Large volumes
For more than 25 target languages, more than 100,000 words per target language a year or several business units, TextUnited quotes the prices.
Credits for TextUnited linguists
One credit costs €25. You choose a monthly credit budget, which can be zero if your own team does all human work. Unused credits move to the next month. Each cost estimate shows the credits for the job and the credits left in your budget. With a zero budget, every credit counts as extra. When the month’s credits run out, each extra credit costs 25% more, €31.25, billed monthly, except in the free trial and the pilot.
Counting
TextUnited counts the words of the original text once for each target language. A document of 1,000 words translated into 5 languages counts as 5,000 words. Repetitions and 100% matches from the same or a higher quality level use no credits. A 100% match from a lower quality level counts as a new word.
Pilot
A pilot runs for 3 months. Without TextUnited linguists, it costs €750 a month for OneLanguage with up to 5 target languages. With them, it costs €1,250 a month, including 20 credits a month. The pilot includes the full setup: your risk policy, one connected content system, and the import of your translation memory and terminology. If your content is in a CCMS, TextUnited connects it through the API or n8n at no extra cost. After the pilot, you decide whether to continue with a 12-month subscription.
Term
Your subscription and credit budget run for 12 months, and TextUnited bills each month in advance. Prices and counting rules stay the same for the whole term. Unused credits expire when the term ends.
Frequently asked questions
How do translation memory matches change the credits?
Repetitions use no credits. A 100% match uses no credits when it comes from a translation at the same or a higher quality level. That translation is already approved. A 100% match from a lower quality level counts as a new word. Other matches use fewer credits for the work of TextUnited linguists.
| Match type | Automated, or your own team | Supervised AI by TextUnited | Professional by TextUnited | Four-eyes review by TextUnited |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repetitions and 100% matches from the same or a higher level | Included | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Matches from 85% to 99% | Included | 0.5 | 0.75 | 1.5 |
| Matches from 75% to 84% | Included | 1 | 1.5 | 3 |
| New words and matches below 75% | Included | 2 | 3 | 6 |
How does the comparison with an agency work?
Example policy: 40% Automated, 40% Supervised AI, 15% Professional and 5% Four-eyes review. TextUnited linguists do all human work. Each target language has 60,000 words a year. About half of the content is new. It has 15% repetitions and 100% matches, 20% matches from 85% to 99%, 15% matches from 75% to 84% and 50% new words. The calculator starts with this example for 5 target languages.
| Target languages | Words a year | OneLanguage a year | Linguist credits a year | Linguists a year | Total a year | Local agency a year | Difference | MLV a year | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 300,000 | €9,000 | 290.6 | €7,266 | €16,266 | €26,010 | 37.5% lower | €39,015 | 58.3% lower |
| 12 | 720,000 | €15,300 | 697.5 | €17,438 | €32,738 | €62,424 | 47.6% lower | €93,636 | 65.0% lower |
| 20 | 1,200,000 | €22,500 | 1,162.5 | €29,063 | €51,563 | €104,040 | 50.4% lower | €156,060 | 67.0% lower |
One credit costs €25. The comparison assumes €0.12 per new word for a local translation agency and €0.18 for a multi-language vendor (MLV). For matches, both use this share of the price: 25% for repetitions and 100% matches and 30% for matches from 95% to 99%. Matches from 85% to 94% cost 50%, and matches from 75% to 84% cost 70%. Slator analyzed rate cards that vendors submitted to the US General Services Administration. In that analysis, the largest vendors averaged USD 0.22 to 0.26 per word.
Why is OneLanguage not priced per word?
OneLanguage is the layer your content passes through: your risk policy, your language data and the connection to your content systems. Its price depends only on your target languages. Up to 100,000 words per target language a year, it does not change with each job, word or user. The work of linguists does grow with the words, so only the quality levels with TextUnited linguists are priced per 1,000 words.
What is a risk policy, and who sets the risk level?
A risk policy is a setup in your TextUnited account. For each risk level, from Low to Critical, it defines the quality level, the quality gates and the thresholds. TextUnited sets it up with you during onboarding. The user who submits a job sets its risk level, within the minimum levels your policy sets for content types and user groups. OneLanguage does not decide the risk level on its own. Automatic checks can send a segment to a linguist, but they never replace the linguist work your risk policy requires.
Does our company’s AI pay to use our language data?
No. Your company’s AI uses your terminology, translation memory and style guides through MCP at no cost. Translations through MCP have the same prices as any other translation. Before an assistant translates, it asks for the risk level of the job.
Do rush jobs cost more?
No. Rush jobs cost the same as other jobs.
Which languages use more credits?
At the moment, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish use more credits when TextUnited linguists do Professional or Four-eyes review. Linguists for these languages charge higher rates. TextUnited quotes these credits separately. The OneLanguage subscription and Supervised AI cost the same in every language.
Where does our data stay, and can we take it with us?
TextUnited stores and processes your data within the EU, including machine translation and AI. It uses your data for improvements only inside your own account. You can export translation memory as TMX, terminology as TBX and style guides as Markdown at any time.
Start with four answers
Tell TextUnited four things: your target languages, your yearly word volume, the types of content and who does the human work today. TextUnited suggests a risk policy for your content and sends a proposal with your subscription and credits. If you add your current price per word, the proposal compares both costs.
The 10-day trial is free and includes every quality level, with up to 10,000 words of work by TextUnited linguists. The trial runs in the web app on your own files. A pilot adds the setup, a connected content system and three months of real work.