SimpleTranslate is a document translation service: Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and scans. A language model translates the file, every line is checked by a back-translation and a comparison of the numbers, and you get the document back in its original layout. The price starts at $0.5 per 250-word page.
The first page is free, then from $0.5 per page. No subscription: you pay for the volume.
Hover or swipe across the text: the lens shows the translation.
You upload the file and press one button. The rest happens without you: translation, five checks on every line, a finished document in the same format. Below is that same process, sped up to a minute.
Four steps, and the service does all four: upload of the file and the estimate, translation by a model using your glossary, checks on every line, a finished file in the original format.
Machine translation hands you the text and says nothing about what is wrong with it. After translating, SimpleTranslate checks every line with a back-translation, compares numbers and terms, and shows you a list of questions instead of a page that looks finished but was never checked. Tested on a real textbook: 324 pages, 2,711 lines, 162 figures and a glossary of 1,307 terms.
The translated text is translated back by a different model and compared with the source. A difference in meaning shows up before the file reaches you.
Doses, ranges, percentages and the word “not” are compared deterministically, without any model. A finding like that outweighs any opinion and is never let through.
The terms you approve become a rule for every future text. Decide once, and you are not asked again — the term stays the same across the whole book.
The translation goes into the original document: styles, tables, figures and the table of contents stay in place. Captions inside images are read and translated too.
From $0.5 per page. A page is 250 words of the source, one standard for every language. The estimate is calculated from the file before the upload and then fixed: how many pages, at what price, and the total. There is no subscription — you pay for the volume.
Examples on the Start plan: a 20-page article is $10, a 150-page dissertation is $75, a 300-page book is $150. For comparison we took an approximate human translator rate of $10 per page; your figure may differ.
| What we compare | SimpleTranslate | Free online translator | Translation agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per page | from $0.5 | $0 | $8–20, approximately |
| File layout | comes back one to one | lost, the text is copied out | a designer redoes it by hand |
| Checking numbers and units | every line, without a model | no | an editor, selectively |
| One term across the whole book | glossary and translation memory | no | depends on the editor |
| Checking the meaning | back-translation and a second model | no | an editor |
| A 300-page book | hours | minutes, with no checks | weeks |
Word (.docx), PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, text files, images and scans. Every format is first converted to .docx, translated, and then returned: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files in their own format, a PDF with a text layer as a PDF, scans and images with their captions redrawn. Whatever is lost on the way back is stated on the file before you pay.
Yes. The translation is written into the original file rather than assembled from scratch: styles, tables, figures, headers and the table of contents stay in place, and Word recomputes the page numbers. Captions inside images are read separately and painted over the image when the background is uniform; otherwise the translation becomes a caption beneath it.
Three checks on every line. The back-translation: the text is translated back by a different model and compared with the source. Numbers, units, ranges and negations are compared without a model, and a discrepancy of that kind outweighs any opinion. Terms are checked against the glossary, and on the Pro plan a second model reads the whole pair. Whatever fails ends up in a list of questions instead of hiding inside a finished file.
No. The service shows you what reads back out of the translation, in your own language, and highlights the differences from the source on both sides. You are not asked to judge the translation itself: you only answer questions that are written in a language you know. A disputed line can be handed to a teammate who does know the language.
A page is 250 words of the source, one standard for every language; for scripts without spaces (Chinese, Japanese) characters are counted instead. The estimate is calculated from the file before the upload and then fixed: how many pages, at what price, and the total. Uploading the same file again for the same language pair is not charged. The price is from $0.5 per page on Start and $0.9 on Pro.
The text of the document is sent to the language model provider (OpenAI, USA) for translation and checks; this is stated plainly in the privacy policy. Files are stored inside your own organisation and are not available to other customers of the service. A project can be deleted together with its files and exports at any time.
Into any pair from the service language catalogue: Russian, Uzbek, English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese and others. The interface is available in Russian, Uzbek and English. If some of the checks stay silent for a given pair, the service says so in advance instead of showing an invented score.
Translation and the checks run on the server without you: a 10-page article is ready in minutes, a 300-page textbook in hours rather than weeks. You can close the tab: the run continues on the server, and the result waits in the project together with a list of questions, if any came up.
The reviews below are examples for the mock-up. Real ones will appear after the test group, with their authors' consent.
I do not know English well enough to check a translation. Here they show me the back-translation in Russian and highlight where it diverges. That is the only thing I can judge myself, and it was enough for me.
A 300-page textbook went to the editorial office in two days instead of three months. The terms are the same across the whole book: that used to be a separate job for a proofreader.
They counted the pages in advance, like an agency, only the price was twenty times lower. The Excel file came back as Excel, with its formulas and sheets.
We reply during Tashkent business hours. For volumes from 500 pages we will prepare an estimate and a contract for your organisation.
The estimate appears before you pay: pages, price, total. Upload, one click, a finished file in the same format.
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