AI Translation Governance Pricing
Compare the cost of quality monitoring, hallucination detection, and human oversight against the liability of publishing ungoverned machine translation output at scale.
See the hidden costs ↓From no governance to full orchestration. The right approach depends on your content risk profile, regulatory exposure, and translation volume.
No quality monitoring, no hallucination detection, no audit trail. Acceptable for internal reference content only. For anything customer-facing, regulated, or brand-sensitive, this is liability without a price tag.
When an incident occurs — and with unmonitored AI output, it is a matter of when — the remediation cost includes content recall, re-translation, regulatory response, and brand repair. None of these have predictable budgets.
Hire quality analysts to review AI output manually. Expensive at scale — one reviewer handles approximately 50,000 words per month. No systematic hallucination detection. No cultural scoring. Limited to the languages your reviewers speak.
Works for small volumes but doesn't scale with AI translation adoption. As your MT output grows, the QA team either becomes a bottleneck or coverage drops. Neither outcome is acceptable for regulated or brand-sensitive content.
Systematic quality evaluation: terminology accuracy (97%), context adherence (95%), hallucination detection, cultural appropriateness scoring. AI agents handle intake and initial QA. Human experts validate at every risk threshold.
Complete audit trail for EU AI Act compliance. Scales with volume without linear cost increase. The governance layer costs a fraction of the translation itself — and pays for itself with the first prevented incident.
The governance investment is measurable and predictable. The cost of no governance is neither.
Quality monitoring, hallucination detection, cultural scoring, and human oversight add a governance layer to AI translation. This layer costs a fraction of the AI translation itself. The return: measurable quality (97% terminology accuracy), audit compliance, and brand protection.
The investment pays for itself with the first prevented incident. Every month of governed output builds an audit trail that demonstrates compliance and quality control to regulators, clients, and internal stakeholders.
97% terminology accuracy Full audit trail Predictable costOne hallucinated medical claim, one inverted legal clause, one culturally offensive campaign. Any single incident can cost more than years of governance investment. Add EU AI Act compliance risk and the calculation becomes straightforward.
Published quality metrics: 97% terminology accuracy, 95% context adherence, <5% hallucination target. Without governance, these numbers are unknown — and unknowable — until an incident forces measurement.
Unknown quality No audit trail Unbounded liabilityNo hidden fees, no compliance add-ons, no reporting surcharges. Every governance engagement includes these three pillars.
Systematic evaluation of every AI-translated piece. Terminology accuracy, context adherence, and tone adaptability scored and tracked. Monthly quality reports with trend analysis. You always know where your quality stands — not just when something goes wrong.
Hallucination detection. Cultural appropriateness scoring. Automatic escalation to human experts when confidence drops. Content risk classification for audit compliance. Every piece of content is evaluated before publication, not after.
Complete audit trail for every content piece. EU AI Act-ready documentation. Quality dashboards. No "reporting add-on" fees — governance without reporting isn't governance. Your compliance team gets what they need without procurement negotiation.
Get a custom proposal based on your AI translation volumes.
Request a Custom Pricing ProposalGovernance typically adds 15 to 30% on top of raw AI translation cost, depending on content risk level and volume. For high-risk content (medical, legal, regulated), the governance layer is closer to 30%. For lower-risk content (internal communications, reference materials), it can be as low as 15%. In all cases, the governance cost is a fraction of the liability exposure from a single ungoverned incident.
Yes. Governance is an orchestration layer, not a replacement for your MT engines. We integrate with your existing machine translation providers and add quality monitoring, hallucination detection, and human escalation on top. No need to change your technology stack or retrain your teams.
AI-powered quality monitoring scales more efficiently than human-only review. As volume increases, the per-word governance cost decreases because AI agents handle initial quality evaluation and only escalate to human experts when confidence thresholds are not met. This means governance costs do not increase linearly with translation volume.
EU AI Act compliance documentation is included in all governance plans. This covers audit trails, risk classification documentation, quality monitoring records, and human oversight logs. There is no compliance add-on fee. Governance without compliance reporting is not governance.
Yes. We offer a standalone AI translation quality audit that evaluates your current MT output across terminology accuracy, hallucination risk, cultural appropriateness, and compliance readiness. The audit produces a detailed report with risk scores and recommendations. Many clients use this as the first step before committing to ongoing governance.
Our governance layer is engine-agnostic. We currently support Google Translate, DeepL, Amazon Translate, Microsoft Translator, and custom-trained NMT models. The quality monitoring framework evaluates output regardless of the source engine. If you use a proprietary or custom engine, we can integrate with it.
Human escalation is included in governance pricing, not billed separately. When AI quality monitoring flags content below confidence thresholds, human experts review and correct it. The escalation rate depends on content type and MT engine quality. We provide transparent reporting on escalation rates so you can track quality trends over time.
Within 48 hours of receiving your volume details, content types, and quality requirements. The proposal includes a transparent cost breakdown, a comparison of governance vs. ungoverned risk, and projected quality metrics based on your content profile. No multi-week RFP process required.
Tell us your AI translation volume, content types, and quality requirements. We will send you a transparent pricing proposal within 48 hours — including a cost comparison of governance vs. ungoverned risk.
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