You asked how much translation costs. The honest answer? It depends — and that answer matters more than any flat rate ever could.
Translation pricing is shaped by forces most buyers never see: the rarity of qualified translators in a language pair, the legal weight of a document, the cultural reconstruction required to make marketing land in a new market, the turnaround window, the file format, and the industry-specific expertise a project demands.
A certified legal translation from English to Arabic carries entirely different complexity — and cost — than localizing a children’s app into Tamil or translating a pharmaceutical regulatory submission into Bengali. Treating them as equivalent is where expensive mistakes begin.
In this guide, Quadrate unpacks every layer of translation pricing — across industries, across languages, across global markets including India’s diverse regional landscape — so you walk in informed and walk out with translation that actually works.