Required Quality Level
As we translate for all business needs & budgets, we have three service levels on offer. Please see the Service Levels we have on offer for common business enquiries.
Unlike many companies, we do not offer machine translation at all, and our starter “Professional” Translation Level is already of a much higher standard than at other firms, as it’s 100% human professional translation, performed an established fully qualified & vetted native speaker translator with expertise in the subject-matter, full revision & spell-check included.
For complex needs, high-volume translation, regular translation support we will tailor the service level and the price.
The rarity of the language
The rarer the language, the higher the price we charge for the translation. For most common languages such as Spanish, the rate will start from £0.08 per word depending on the level of quality required.
Complexity of work
The price rises with the degree of difficulty. The more specific your text, the higher our rate is. This is to cover time for terms research, creating of term dictionary etc.
Urgent and Off-hours work
Additional fees will be raised for urgent and weekend work. We charge an extra fee of 10-50% depending on the urgency of work.
Format
A higher rate will be charged for translation of non-editable or hard copies, as it takes more time to pattern after the original layout. An additional fee is between 5 and 10%. handwriting & special file formats such as Indesign, XML etc, will also be charged higher as this is time-consuming to translate such files.