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What would this document cost to translate?
Paste your text for an Arabic-aware word and character count, or enter a word count directly. Set a per-word rate, currency, and rush level to see an agency-style estimate, standard versus 48-hour versus 24-hour.
Unicode-aware word counting, including Arabic. Nothing you paste leaves this page.
Used only when the text box above is empty.
Agency human-translation rates vary widely by language pair, domain, and country.
Estimated agency price for this document
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Cost by turnaround
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| 48-hour rush (1.25x) | – |
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How translation is priced
The industry's standard unit is the word. An agency counts the words in your source document, multiplies by a per-word rate for the language pair, and adds surcharges: rush multipliers for tight deadlines, premiums for specialist domains like legal or medical, and often a minimum fee so a 40-word certificate does not cost less than the admin around it. Some markets quote per page instead, where a page is a convention of roughly 250 words, so the math lands in the same place.
Worked example (hypothetical)
Al Dana Holdings sends "Annual Report 2025.pdf" for Arabic translation: 24,000 words at an illustrative 0.35 per word is 8,400 in your currency. A 48-hour rush at 1.25x lifts it to 10,500, and a 24-hour rush at 1.5x to 12,600. The same report as a per-page quote would be about 96 pages.
Why layout is usually a separate line item
Traditional translation returns text, not documents. Rebuilding the formatting of a PDF, slide deck, or brochure is quoted separately as DTP or typesetting, usually per page, and it is where Arabic projects get expensive: flipping a document from left-to-right to right-to-left means redoing alignment, tables, and slide layouts by hand.
Layout-preserving machine translation removes that line item. TranslateX translates PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files into a finished copy next to the original, with fonts, tables, spacing, and slide structure preserved, including mirrored shape positions when the direction flips. See how layout preservation works.
TranslateX itself is not priced per word: the desktop app is a free download, premium comes with a one-month free trial, and enterprise deployments are scoped with our team. Details on the pricing page. To sanity-check deadlines too, try the turnaround estimator.
Frequently asked questions
How is the estimate calculated?
Word count times your per-word rate, times a rush multiplier (1x standard, 1.25x for 48-hour, 1.5x for 24-hour). It is an illustrative model of how agencies quote, not a price list.
What per-word rate should I use?
Rates vary widely by language pair, direction, domain, and country, from well under 0.10 to over 0.50 in major currencies. Use a figure from a recent quote for your pair, or leave the default to compare scenarios.
Does the word counter handle Arabic?
Yes. Counting is Unicode-aware and splits on whitespace, so Arabic, English, and mixed-direction text all count correctly, including text with diacritics.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. Counting and the estimate run entirely in your browser; nothing you paste leaves the page.
Translate the document. Keep the design.
Right-click a file, work inside Office, or press F6 on anything on screen. TranslateX returns the same document in the other language: fonts, tables, and layout intact, terminology on brand.
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