Localization Rates

Localisation pricing is how a localisation project is scoped and priced - by word, by minute, by asset and by engineering hour. The work goes to linguists who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

Yes. Localisation pricing is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Access is the control that matters, so it is kept to the assigned pair and nobody else. Localisation pricing often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Transfer is encrypted, every person involved is under NDA, and files are deleted on request once you no longer need them held.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text, or your own template applied so the file comes back ready to use. Headings, tables and numbering are built properly instead of pasted in. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. The format for localisation pricing is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish.

Three steps: send the material, approve the quote, receive the finished work by email. Nothing starts before you approve the price, and revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Say what the localisation pricing is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently.

By card, PayPal, Square, wire transfer or check, or on a monthly invoice where your finance team prefers one. Localisation pricing is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. Quotes are issued in writing and the invoice never exceeds the figure you approved.

Send it back and it is fixed at no cost: revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. A term you want changed is changed everywhere it appears, not only where you spotted it. Corrections on localisation pricing are usually about house style and not mistakes, and once yours is set it is applied to every later order. Where a preference differs from ours, yours is applied and not argued over.

Transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and translation at $0.10 per word. What moves the figure is what the material is, how long it runs and how quickly you need it back, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. Localisation pricing is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

The date is fixed in the quote, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available where you need it. Localisation pricing is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each finished file is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. What gets checked on localisation pricing is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.