Google Translate API Requests Limit

Question

I know the Google Translate API has a limit of 5,000 characters per request, but how many requests are allowed under a certain period of time?

Iceni

Need to update the correct answer, v1 has been deprecated. – Imply

Currently in 2020 there is a content quota saying 6,000,000 characters 60 seconds per project and user and For requests using an API key, the client IP address is used to enforce this limit. Does this mean when used e.g. in an Android app using the same API key every user has this rate limit per 60 seconds? – Fibrinolysis

Answer 1

It seems to be 100,000.

Though this can be increased. (Refer discussion in the link)

Rosner

Answer 2

With the (paid) google translate API v2, one can set different quotas, like a Per-User Limit, which throttles the maximum number of characters a user can send for translation / second. You can set this as low as you want, i.e. 10.0 characters/second/user.

Remark There is no more free google translate API: V1 was shut down on Dec. 1, 2011, and for V2 you have to pay. See: Google language APIs

Savona

Answer 3

By default, it's 5 requests/second/user and 200,000 requests/day (Billable limit) but you can increase the limit requests/second/user in your console web developer google (at https://code.google.com/apis/console/).

1. In the sidebar on the left, select APIs & auth, then select APIs and select Translate API.
2. On the API's info page, select the Quota link near the API name.
3. Click the Set per-user limits... button to increase your limits.

IMPORTANT : if you don't see the line "BigQuery API" -> 5 requests/second/user is because you don't have a professional account gmail. Also : You have to enable Biling (professional account or not).

Deafmute