Translation Pricing
When making a decision to expend valuable resources on a translation, it is essential to begin with one basic premise: translation is not a commodity, but rather a professional service. Shopping for a translation service is not like shopping for the best rates at a favorite hotel. On the contrary, like doctors and lawyers, effective translation requires a considerable level of education, expertise, and a team of highly skilled professionals.
Green Crescent has an extensive range of translators and can customize our translation services to the requirements of your project and your budget. Not only can we put hundreds of first-rate translators at your disposal, our project managers are experienced professionals that can take care of all of your language communication needs at fraction of the cost of in-house production.
How much will my translation cost?
There are many variables that contribute to the cost of a translation. These include language pair, turn around time, formatting and design requirements, language memory requirements, target market, and end use.
When considering a translation, one should always attempt to strike the proper balance between cost and the level of quality required to achieve one's goals. In as much, Green Crescent offers several basic levels of service from which to choose:
| Simple Translations |
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| Translation whose goal is basic communication. These are translations performed by a single translator without the assistance of an editor or proofreader and should not be considered a polished work or publishable, though they are typically of very high quality. These translations are ideal for office use, personal letters, email, or as a first draft of work that will later be edited. |
| Standard Translations |
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| Such translations proceed with the goal of producing a high quality translation for use in most normal circumstances such as official business correspondence, websites, reports, presentations, and similar texts. These translations are performed by a minimum of two translators and are translated, edited, and carefully proofread. |
| Business Critical Translations |
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| These are translations were perfection is an absolute must. This option is recommended for texts that are to be published on a large scale, for texts that contain highly specialized language, or texts that must be localized for audiences outside of the mainstream. In brief, these are translations that cannot be performed by generalists alone, but require translators with specialized knowledge of the subject matter, defined areas of expertise, and extra quality control steps. Medical, legal, and technical texts as well as culturally sensitive marketing and business communications normally fall into this category. Such translation work requires not only editing and proofing, but most often language validation by one or more area experts. |
Additional Language Services
In addition to translation, Green Crescent offers a variety of other language services in such areas as interpretation, transcription, website design and development, and desktop publishing.
Minimum Fees
Green Crescent changes a minimum fee of $75 USD for all projects however small due primarily to the time it takes to set up, catalog and invoice a project. This fee can be reduced or waived for regular clients.
Volume discounts are also available for large projects and long-term clients.
