DeepL Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees

DeepL Individual costs €7.49 a month billed annually, which is €89.88 for the year. Team is €24.99 per user per month and Business is €49.99, both on the annual plan, and Enterprise is a quote. These are the prices on DeepL's pricing page for Germany, in euros with VAT included, read on October 14, 2026. DeepL bills in other currencies for other countries, so check the page for yours.

The annual Individual plan is the default for one person. Team is not a discount on that seat, it is a higher price for shared controls. The API is a second contract, and mixing the two is how a translation budget gets signed twice. People who paste text and upload files buy a per-seat subscription, while software that translates on its own buys a character-metered API.

Toolradar data: the translation tools ranking we publish evaluated 114 tools, updated October 2026. DeepL is the seat-priced product in that set. Our best AI translation tools comparison is the category view, and the product record is on DeepL's Toolradar page.

Plan	Price, Germany	Best for	Limit that changes the decision
Free	€0	A few short texts a month	50,000 characters, 1 file, text may train models
Individual	€7.49/mo billed annually	One person, documents	300,000 characters, 3 files, 30-day trial
Team	€24.99/user/mo billed annually	2 or more people, shared rules	1,000,000 characters per user, 20 files
Business	€49.99/user/mo billed annually	Heavy document work	Unlimited characters under fair use, 100 files
Enterprise	Custom quote	SSO at scale, your own key	Character and file caps are negotiated
Write Pro add-on	€6.99/user/mo billed annually	Editing, not translating	Priced on Individual and Team, not in the seat
API	See the API tab on DeepL's pricing page	An app you ship	A separate plan from every seat above

Free is a personal cap, and the text can train models

The free plan is €0, and it is a personal check rather than a working allowance. You get 50,000 characters a month, 1 file translation, files up to 5 MB, 1 glossary with 5 entries per language pair, and 1 saved translation. A paragraph or a short clause fits, and a full document ends the month, so production work belongs on a paid seat.

DeepL's privacy policy says the free Translator and Write services process what you upload, and the translations, for a limited period to train and improve its neural networks, so free text is training data. Paid Translator Pro, API Pro, and Write Pro do the opposite: the text is kept only as long as needed to produce the result, then deleted, and it is not used to improve the service. Customer text, legal text, and anything under an NDA belongs on a paid plan even when the character count would fit on free.

Individual is the paid plan for one person

Individual is one seat, and billed annually it is €89.88 for the year. The page labels annual billing as a 16% saving over monthly billing, so take the annual charge if you will still be translating next quarter. A 30-day free trial is available for Individual and Team, and trials are not offered to users who have already received a DeepL trial.

The seat includes 300,000 characters a month, 3 file translations, files up to 30 MB, full-page translation, 1 glossary with 5 entries, 1 saved translation, and a formal or informal tone control. That step up from the free cap suits a writer, a founder, or a support lead who drops in a document a few times a week. The glossary is the ceiling, because a product vocabulary does not fit. Voice time on the plan is a sample: 30 minutes of DeepL Voice per user each month.

Buy this when you are the only person translating, including when the text should not sit on free. Skip it when two people must share terms, because this seat cannot be shared.

Team is an admin product at a higher seat price

Team is priced per user, and team administration starts at two users, so a solo buyer cannot open it for the shared settings. The annual invoice is €299.88 per user for the year, with a trial on the same terms as Individual. Single sign-on appears on the plan comparison only for 50 or more users, so a smaller company that needs SSO is already talking to sales.

Each user gets 1,000,000 characters a month, 20 file translations, files up to 30 MB, and bulk file translation, plus 5 glossaries with 1,000 entries per language pair, 5 shared style rule lists, and 10 saved translations. The shared glossary is why the seat costs more: a product vocabulary fits here and does not fit on Individual. File translations can be pooled across the team, or an admin can give every member the same file count, and you cannot give one person a larger cap than the others.

The higher seat pays for the shared glossary, not for more characters. Five Individual annual plans cost less than five Team seats, and Individual is already a Pro plan, so this is not a privacy upgrade. Open Team when product names have to match across people, and upgrades apply immediately.

Ten Team seats on the annual plan are €2,998.80 for the year. If the job is drafting rather than translating, the AI writing tools list is the other bill.

Business is where unlimited starts, under fair use

Business has no trial button on the pricing page, only Buy now, so the first invoice is a real charge. The annual price is €599.88 per user for the year. It includes everything in Team, then lifts characters to unlimited, file translations to 100 a month, and the file size cap to 100 MB, which is the allowance for people who live in documents. It also lists unlimited glossaries, 20 shared style rule lists, translation memory, user provisioning (SCIM), and domain capture, and Write Pro is listed as included, which Individual and Team sell separately.

Unlimited sits under a fair usage policy, and the page does not publish the number. Ask sales what that means for a weekly product catalog before you treat the seat as open-ended. Ten Business seats on the annual plan are €5,998.80 for the year. That comparison fits reviewers who are in the files all day, and it does not fit a script, because this seat does not include the API.

Enterprise is a quote once self-serve runs out

Enterprise has no public price. It offers custom character and file limits, unlimited glossaries and style rules, translation memory, bring your own key, and 99.9% availability, against 99.0% on Business. Unlimited items still carry the fair-usage condition, and large-seat discounts are quoted case by case, so multiplying the Business seat will not predict the invoice.

Ask for Enterprise past the self-serve needs, or when procurement wants a key you control. Single sign-on on the self-serve comparison waits for 50 users, so a smaller company that needs SSO on day one is already talking to sales.

Write Pro is an editing add-on, not a translation tier

The Write Pro add-on is €6.99 per user per month when billed annually, VAT included, and DeepL shows that price on Individual and Team. It is a writing assistant for clarity and tone on top of the translator seat. A trial of the add-on is available only while the DeepL Pro subscription itself is still in trial, so you cannot sample the editor after that window.

The add-on does not buy more characters, because the character cap, the file cap, and the glossary stay on the translator plan. Buy it when the same person who translates also rewrites the English before it goes out. If writing is the whole job, start from the AI writing tools shortlist and a ChatGPT review rather than an add-on on a translator.

For a note when this seat price moves, read AIpresso.

The API is a second price list

DeepL's help center says the Translator plans do not give you access to the DeepL API, and that the Write Pro add-on and the Voice plans do not either: each needs an API plan. DeepL's privacy policy names a paid DeepL API Pro plan, and the pricing page has an API tab with its own plans, so confirm the name and the rate on the invoice before you budget.

The API documentation lists the upload limits per document. On free API plans a Word, PowerPoint, PDF, or text document is capped at 500,000 characters, and on paid plans at 1 million characters, with file size caps that vary by format, for example 100 MB for Word on paid plans against 10 MB on free. Those are per-document limits, not a monthly allowance.

A person uploading a PDF should stay on a seat, and a product that translates on every request should be on the API meter. The Google Translate record on Toolradar is the other engine next to this meter.

Included Voice minutes are not a Voice subscription

Individual, Team, and Business plans list 30 minutes of DeepL Voice per user each month, and that inclusion is not a Voice subscription. DeepL's help center says the Voice plans are separate, with a stand-alone Voice for Conversations plan available through sales, and that the Voice plans do not give you API access for real-time speech translation. DeepL's privacy policy covers its Voice products in a separate section from text translation.

Buy a Voice seat when meetings are the product. Thirty minutes on a translator plan is a sample, and a team that lives in translated calls will burn it in a week. Recorded voices sit on the AI voice generators and AI dubbing tools lists, not on this seat.

What the same volume costs at Google and Microsoft

Google's and Microsoft's figures come from each vendor's own page, checked October 2026, and they are in US dollars. Google's figure is Cloud Translation neural machine translation, and Microsoft's figure is Azure Translator S1 standard text.

Buyer	DeepL	Google Cloud Translation	Microsoft Translator
Light use	Free, 50,000 characters	First 500,000 NMT characters a month free	F0, 2 million characters a month
One person, documents	€89.88 for the year on Individual	$20 per million characters after the free slice	$10 per million characters on S1
10 people, annual Team	€2,998.80 for the year	No shared seat	No shared seat
5 million characters in a month	See the API tab on DeepL's pricing page	$90 on NMT, after the free 500,000	$50 on S1

Google also charges $0.08 per page for NMT document translation of DOCX, PPT, and PDF, so a deck is a page bill. The translation LLM is $10 per million input characters plus $10 per million output characters. Microsoft charges $15 per million characters for S1 document translation and $40 per million for custom text. F0 is capped at 2 million characters per hour, and S1 at 40 million per hour, so a burst can hit the hourly ceiling before the monthly one.

Five million characters is a cheap API month and an impossible Individual month. Individual stops at its character cap, and Business can absorb that volume only under fair use, while the seat price does not fall when the characters do. A chatbot with a translate prompt is a different product: see ChatGPT pricing, Claude pricing, Claude vs ChatGPT, Gemini vs ChatGPT, the Gemini review, and the Claude review. For live web answers, use the Perplexity review.

Fees the sticker price leaves out

The sticker above is the annual price in euros with VAT included. A dollar figure pasted into a European purchase order would be the wrong number, and so would a euro figure pasted into a US one, because DeepL bills by country: euros for billing addresses in the EU, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, yen for Japan, Canadian dollars for Canada, and US dollars for all other countries.

Annual billing is the cheaper interval on the three translator seats, at the 16% label DeepL prints. Business has no trial button, and a trial, when it exists, is once per account.

Removed users keep the seat until the period ends. Adding a user takes effect immediately, with the previous payment credited pro rata. Cards, SEPA Direct Debit for euro bank accounts, and bank transfer for annual Team, Business, and Enterprise invoices above a country-specific threshold are accepted, and PayPal is not. Cancel from the subscription tab and the plan runs to the end of the cycle already paid.

Glossary size changes the plan before the character math does. Free and Individual stop at 5 entries per language pair, a short term list rather than a product vocabulary. Team jumps to 1,000, then Business lists unlimited entries under fair use. Style rule lists start at 5 on Team and move to 20 on Business, so count the entries before you multiply seats.

Which plan is worth paying for

For one person, pay annually for Individual, or stay on free if the text is not confidential and the free allowance is honestly enough. Move to Team when more than one person must share a glossary, not because the character allowance looks larger on a slide.

For a team that lives in documents, put Business only on the people who will use the file cap and the translation memory. A quiet teammate on that seat is the usual waste, because allowances are described per user. If you need single sign-on before the self-serve headcount, or a key you bring yourself, price Enterprise as a quote rather than as a multiple of the Business seat.

For a product, ignore the seats and price the API against the Google and Microsoft meters above, which is why a team keeps DeepL for the pairs reviewers prefer and sends bulk strings to the cheaper meter if the quality is acceptable. A general assistant belongs on the best AI chatbots guide. How to write AI prompts and best AI tools for business cover the wider workflow.

How we checked these prices

Louis Corneloup, founder of Dupple and Toolradar, wrote this breakdown. We checked DeepL's pricing page as shown for Germany, the privacy policy, and DeepL's help center articles on plans and billing currencies on October 14, 2026. API character rules come from DeepL's usage and limits documentation. Google figures come from Cloud Translation pricing. Microsoft figures come from the Azure retail prices API for Translator Text and Microsoft's service limits. The 114 tool count is from Toolradar's live translation ranking that same month. More on how we publish is on the AIpresso about page.

FAQ

How much does DeepL cost in 2026?

On DeepL's pricing page for Germany, Individual is €7.49 a month when billed annually, which is €89.88 for the year. Team is €24.99 per user per month billed annually, or €299.88 per user for the year, and Business is €49.99 per user per month billed annually, or €599.88 per user for the year. Enterprise is a custom quote. VAT is included in those prices, and DeepL bills in other currencies for other billing countries. The API is separate, and its plans are on the API tab of the pricing page.

Is DeepL free?

Yes, for a test rather than a workflow. The free Translator plan includes 50,000 characters a month, 1 file up to 5 MB, and a glossary of 5 entries. DeepL's privacy policy says free Translator and Write text is processed to train and improve its neural networks. Paid Pro plans are the ones that do not use your text to improve the service.

What is the difference between DeepL Individual, Team, and Business?

Individual is one seat at 300,000 characters and 3 files a month, the solo document plan. Team starts at two users, gives each person 1,000,000 characters and 20 files, and adds shared glossaries, style rules, and bulk file translation, which is the premium over a stack of Individual seats. Business raises files to 100 a month and lists unlimited characters, unlimited glossaries, and translation memory, with a fair-usage footnote and no trial button. Single sign-on is listed for 50 or more users on Team and Business.

Does the DeepL API cost extra?

Yes. A translator seat does not include API access, and the Write Pro add-on and the Voice plans do not either. The API has its own plans on the API tab of DeepL's pricing page. DeepL's documentation caps a single document at 500,000 characters on free API plans and 1 million characters on paid plans.

Is DeepL cheaper than Google or Microsoft?

For one person uploading files, DeepL Individual at the annual rate is a flat yearly charge, and Google and Microsoft do not sell that seat, so you are comparing a subscription with a meter. For bulk characters, Microsoft S1 standard text is $10 per million and Google NMT is $20 per million after its free monthly allowance. Five million characters in a month is $50 on Microsoft S1 and $90 on Google NMT. Quality on the pairs you care about is the reason to pay DeepL's rate, not the unit price.

Does DeepL train on my translations?

On the free Translator and Write services, yes. DeepL's privacy policy says that content is processed for a limited period to train and improve its neural networks and algorithms. On Translator Pro, API Pro, and Write Pro, submitted text is kept only as long as needed to produce the result, then deleted, and it is not used to improve the service.

How do I cancel DeepL?

Open the subscription tab in the DeepL account and cancel there. Access continues until the end of the period you already paid. Downgrades also wait until the period ends, while upgrades start immediately and unused payment is credited pro rata. A removed teammate keeps their seat until that same date. Trials for Individual and Team can be cancelled at any time before they end, and a trial is not offered again to a user who has already had one.

Cite this: AIpresso, "DeepL Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees", October 2026.

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