Google Translate Now Has A 5,000 Character Limit (2024)

FAQs

Google Translate Now Has A 5,000 Character Limit? ›

Translate longer text

QuillBot Translator lets you translate 5,000 characters at a time, but you can always delete a text and type in something else.

Break the text into smaller blocks. Google Translate has a limit of 5,000 characters per translation, so you can break your text into smaller blocks and translate them one by one.

Request a quota increase

To increase or decrease most quotas, use the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Request a higher quota.

Recently, the Google Translate app on Android got a fresh look, and in a few weeks we'll be bringing a new design to iOS. Our redesigned Translate experience provides a larger canvas for typing and more accessible entry points for translating conversations, voice input, and Lens camera translation.

DeepL is known for providing high-quality translations, especially for European languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. It's often praised for producing more natural-sounding translations with accurate grammar and context.

Also known as DeepL Translator or DeepL.com, DeepL prides itself on delivering “the world's best machine translation.” Its proprietary neural networks are trained with the Linguee database to identify even the smallest nuances in text and generate the highest-quality translation possible.

DeepL is generally rated as having higher-quality translations, along with options to choose between formal and informal tones. So if you want the most accurate and natural-sounding translations, DeepL is usually the best option. Google Translate (and other services) are cheaper than DeepL.

Cloud Translation enforces quotas on the content size of requests and the number of requests that you can send. Quotas protect the community of Google Cloud users by preventing unforeseen spikes in usage.

Can an average translator translate 5000 words a day? ›

Whilst a paper-based translator may be stuck on 1,800 words a day, translators working with electronic formats (file-based translations) and a good translation memory can achieve anything between 2,500 and 3,000 words.

DeepL Pro gives you unlimited text translation across both web and apps. The free translator has limitations on the number of characters and volume of translations. Change a document's language while retaining the original formatting, just drag and drop.

You may have received a notice from Google (pictured below) that its very popular Google Translator Toolkit has been discontinued, effective December 4th, 2019.

Well, the short answer is this: Yes, Google Translate is very accurate for the most part. In some cases, it's 94%+ accurate! In fact, it's one of the top-rated translation tools when it comes to translation accuracy, though the exact accuracy will depend on the language pairs that you've chosen.

With DeepL Pro, you can bypass the free translator's character limit and translate as much as you need via the web and desktop apps.