Translation

Compare LLMs for high-volume multilingual translation: per-language quality, monthly cost at scale.

Your usage

Default assumptions

Monthly requests1,000,000

Avg input tokens200

Avg output tokens200

When to use this scenario

High-volume translation: support tickets, product copy, UGC. Input ≈ output token count. Cost is purely a function of throughput × token rate.

Gemini 2.5 Flash, DeepSeek V3.5, and Qwen 3 Max all do excellent multilingual translation at <$1 per million tokens. Frontier models are wasteful here.

Common pitfalls

Using a frontier model "for quality" when a 0.5× cost model is indistinguishable on common language pairs
Ignoring batching — translation is the perfect batch API workload (50% off, 24h SLA acceptable)
Not testing per language pair — quality varies dramatically

Recommended routing

Sorted by best value for your usage

PRIMARY

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google · quality 78 · 320 tok/s

Monthly cost$560

Vs baseline−75%

P50 latency0.3s

Use this

FALLBACK

Qwen 3 Max

Alibaba · quality 84 · 130 tok/s

Monthly cost$800

Vs baseline−64%

P50 latency0.9s

Add as fallback

DeepSeek V3.5

DeepSeek · quality 81 · 95 tok/s

Monthly cost$84

Vs baseline−96%

P50 latency1.5s

Try

Baseline = GPT-5 at the same usage = $2.3K/mo.

Routing simulator

Phase 2 preview

Drag the slider to split traffic between Gemini 2.5 Flash (primary) and Qwen 3 Max (fallback). See how your monthly bill moves — without writing a line of gateway code.

Primary: Gemini 2.5 FlashFallback: Qwen 3 Max

70% Gemini30% Qwen

Blended monthly cost$632at the usage assumed above

Vs GPT-5−72%$2.3K → $632

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Use this routing via API

Phase 2 preview · gateway not live yet

PHASE 2 PREVIEW · gateway not live yetThis endpoint does not exist yet. The gateway is in Phase 2 — what you see below is a design preview of the planned interface, not a live API. We will email subscribers when it launches.

Preview the planned API call

$ curl https://api.aipricly.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIPC_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "scenario": "translation",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "..."}]
  }'

Get notified at launch

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