LLMs are 800x Cheaper for Translation than DeepL

When looking at the cost of translation APIs, I was floored by the prices. Azure is $10 per million characters, Google is $20, and DeepL is $25. To come up with a rough estimate for a real-time translation use case, I assumed 150 WPM speaking speed, with each word being translated 3 times (since the text gets retranslated multiple times as the context lengthens). This resulted in the following…