What it costs to run

How costs add up

Each string is translated once, then served from your database. Translation costs depend on your site’s size, the number of target languages and how much you change later.

There is no translation charge per view or visitor, and no minimum charge. Keeping existing translations costs nothing in translation fees.

Text a plugin or theme translates for itself costs nothing, because WPGlotty never queues it. A clock costs words once, for its pattern. A count that is not a clock costs words twice: once when it is first translated whole, and once more when a different number turns up and its pattern is translated. After that, WPGlotty spends no more words.

Where the money goes

With your own key, most spending goes on the bulk model during the first run. The Model setting handles strings sent one at a time. Bulk model handles every call with more than one string, which covers nearly all translation work.

Your licence page shows spending by provider and model. Use these figures to compare costs and decide whether a more expensive model is worth using.

Limiting spending

With your own key, the monthly budget stops new work when spending reaches your limit. Batch size, requests per minute and tokens per minute control how fast you spend, not how much.

For WPGlotty credits, set a monthly word limit per site on your account’s credits page. A site pauses at its limit until the next month.