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Google Translate API (Free)

Paywalled Verified translation Google — Verified
You had translated prototypes, browser hacks, and terrible startup ideas for the price of asking politely. Then abuse got cited, billing got introduced, and innocence got deprecated.

You had exposed machine translation at no charge before Google retired the free version and kept a paid service.

Evidence

official Announced

This source records when Google Translate API (Free) stopped being meaningfully free and what changed in pricing or access.

Source

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis/

Archived docs

https://web.archive.org/web/20110501000000/http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html

Contributor note

You translated just enough to ship, which was all most of us could afford to want.

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