Google Translate
Google Translate (and Cloud Translation API)
Provider: Google Ireland Limited · Based in: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland · Provider website
- Plans
- 3
- Sources
- 13
- As of
- 18 Oct
As of 18 Oct 2026. Based on our research on this date and the process described in the methodology. No guarantee of accuracy, not legal advice. The provider’s current documents take precedence. Found an error? Report a correction.
Incomplete. 5 points could not be verified in any provider source (see open points). This does not mean the matter is unproblematic; it means we have not checked it.
At a glance
- Hosting
- mixed: Google Translate, Cloud Translation – BasicEU option: Cloud Translation – Advanced
- Training on inputs
- not publicly documented: Google Translateno: Cloud Translation – Basic, Cloud Translation – Advanced
- DPA
- not publicly documented: Google Translateyes: Cloud Translation – Basic, Cloud Translation – Advanced
- Provider
- Google Ireland Limited (Google Translate for users in the EEA/Switzerland) or Google Cloud EMEA Limited (Cloud Translation, contracting party in EMEA except France, Italy, Poland)
- Based in
- Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (privacy policy, q6); Google Cloud EMEA Limited, 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland (Google Cloud contracting party, q12)
Values from 3 plans, each listed with the plans it applies to. Details and evidence are in the plan table.
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Details per plan
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| Feature | Google Translate (web and app, free)Compare Google Translate Google Translate (web and app, free) with another tool | Cloud Translation – Basic (v2)Compare Google Translate Cloud Translation – Basic (v2) with another tool | Cloud Translation – Advanced (v3) incl. Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom modelsCompare Google Translate Cloud Translation – Advanced (v3) incl. Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom models with another tool |
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| differs by plan | 0 | In USD | In USD per 1 million characters |
| Details: Price | 0 (free service; a paid consumer plan is not documented on the retrieved pages) | In USD (pricing page): NMT text translation and language detection free for the first 500,000 characters per month (as a credit of USD 10 per month, shared between Basic and Advanced, does not roll over, not for formatted document translation); 500,000 to 1 billion characters per month USD 20 per 1 million characters (with Gemini Enterprise Flexible Savings Plan 1 or 3 years: USD 18 or 16); over 1 billion characters per month price via sales. Billed monthly by characters sent. The pricing page contains no information on taxes (q1). | In USD per 1 million characters (pricing page; discounts with Gemini Enterprise Flexible Savings Plan 1/3 years in brackets): NMT text free for the first 500,000 characters per month (USD 10 credit, shared with Basic), then USD 20 (18 / 16); NMT document translation USD 0.08 per page (0.072 / 0.064); custom models text tiered by monthly volume USD 80 up to 250 million, USD 60 up to 2.5 billion, USD 40 up to 4 billion, USD 30 above (with discounts down to USD 24); custom models document translation USD 0.25 per page (0.225 / 0.20); Adaptive Translation USD 25 input and USD 25 output (22.50 / 20); Translation LLM text USD 10 input and USD 10 output; Custom Text Translation (LLM) USD 10 input and USD 10 output (9 / 8). Training custom models USD 45 per hour, at most USD 300 per training job. The pricing page contains no information on taxes (q1). |
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| Details: AI features included | yes (machine translation of words, phrases and web pages; Workspace Help: 'Instantly translate words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages', q9) | yes (Neural Machine Translation (NMT): language detection and text translation, q1) | yes (NMT model, Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation, custom models (AutoML Translation), batch and document translation (DOCX, PPT, PDF, XLSX), romanisation, glossaries, q1) |
| differs by plan | not publicly documented | yes | yes |
| Details: DPA | not publicly documented (consumer service under the Google Terms of Service; in Google Workspace, too, Google Translate is not a Core Service but an additional service for which Workspace Help names the Google Terms of Service, q9; no DPA is mentioned) | yes (data usage FAQ: 'Cloud Translation API complies with the Cloud Data Processing Addendum', q2, q4) Provider’s DPA | yes (data usage FAQ: 'Cloud Translation API complies with the Cloud Data Processing Addendum'; according to the FAQ, glossaries are also stored in accordance with the CDPA, q2, q4) Provider’s DPA |
| differs by plan | not publicly documented | no | no |
| Details: Training on inputs | A Translate-specific statement on the use of entered texts for model training and an opt-out are not documented. The Google privacy policy (effective from 2026-10-16) states: 'We analyze usage of Google Translate to improve translation quality and increase the availability of Translate in more languages.' as well as the analysis of how often translations are marked as poor quality; publicly available information is used to train models for products such as Google Translate (q6). | Data usage FAQ (as of 2026-10-13): 'Google does not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Cloud Translation API service.' and 'Google does not use the content you send to train and improve our Google Translation features.' Content is not shared with third parties (q2). | Data usage FAQ (as of 2026-10-13): 'Google does not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Cloud Translation API service.' and 'Google does not use the content you send to train and improve our Google Translation features.' (q2). Custom models are trained with the customer's training data in the customer's project (pricing page: training billed by the hour, q1). |
| differs by plan | Signed-in users: translations are… | Data usage FAQ: 'text is held briefly… | Data usage FAQ: translation texts are… |
| Details: Data retention | Signed-in users: translations are automatically saved to the cloud and managed via 'My Activity'; the history and individual entries can be deleted; to avoid cloud history one must sign out, after which only on-device history is available (q8). Retention period: not publicly documented. | Data usage FAQ: 'text is held briefly in-memory in order to perform the translation and return the results to you.' (q2) | Data usage FAQ: translation texts are only held briefly in memory ('held briefly in-memory'); glossaries are stored encrypted on Google Cloud and can be managed from the customer's Google Cloud project (q2). Retention of training data for custom models and of Adaptive Translation datasets: not publicly documented. |
| differs by plan | mixed | mixed | EU option |
| Details: Hosting | Google privacy policy: 'We maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live.' A Translate-specific location statement or region selection is not documented (q6). | Data usage FAQ: Cloud Translation – Basic has global endpoints (regional endpoints are documented only for Advanced, q3); 'the Services are global and data cannot be configured to remain in a specific region for processing' (q2). CDPA: subject to agreed location commitments, customer data may be processed in any country in which Google or its sub-processors maintain facilities (q4). | Documentation 'Global and multi-regional endpoints' (as of 2026-10-13): besides the global endpoint there are translate-eu.googleapis.com and translate-us.googleapis.com; with a multi-regional endpoint, data at rest and ML processing stay within the EU or the US respectively. The default is the global endpoint. Custom AutoML models and Preview features are not supported on the multi-regional endpoints (only the pre-trained NMT model). Organisation policy administrators can restrict the regions available for Advanced resources via a resource locations constraint (q3). The data usage FAQ refers to the 'AI/ML Data Location' section of the Service Specific Terms for regional endpoints (q2). |
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Price and scope
- differs by plan
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0 (free service; a paid consumer plan is not documented on the retrieved pages)
- yes
yes (machine translation of words, phrases and web pages; Workspace Help: 'Instantly translate words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages', q9)
Contract and data use
- differs by plan
- not publicly documented
not publicly documented (consumer service under the Google Terms of Service; in Google Workspace, too, Google Translate is not a Core Service but an additional service for which Workspace Help names the Google Terms of Service, q9; no DPA is mentioned)
- differs by plan
- not publicly documented
A Translate-specific statement on the use of entered texts for model training and an opt-out are not documented. The Google privacy policy (effective from 2026-10-16) states: 'We analyze usage of Google Translate to improve translation quality and increase the availability of Translate in more languages.' as well as the analysis of how often translations are marked as poor quality; publicly available information is used to train models for products such as Google Translate (q6).
- differs by plan
- Signed-in users: translations are…
- Signed-in users: translations are automatically saved to the cloud and managed via 'My Activity'; the history and individual entries can be deleted; to avoid cloud history one must sign out, after which only on-device history is available (q8). Retention period: not publicly documented.
Hosting and sharing
- differs by plan
- mixed
Google privacy policy: 'We maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live.' A Translate-specific location statement or region selection is not documented (q6).
- list available
- not publicly documented (consumer service, no list)
Evidence
- differs by plan
- 3 sources
- Google Privacy Policy (Effective 2026-10-16)Privacy notice, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Find & manage Translate history (Google Translate Help)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Turn on or off additional Google services (Google Workspace Admin Help)Documentation, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
not documentedmeans: not publicly documented, not verifiable in any provider source. It does not mean “no”.
Third-country transfers
Cloud Translation: Cloud Data Processing Addendum: no SCCs are needed for countries with an adequacy decision; for other restricted transfers Google uses an 'Alternative Transfer Solution' or the SCCs; subject to agreed location commitments, customer data may be processed in any country in which Google or its sub-processors maintain facilities (q4). Cloud Translation – Advanced offers an EU endpoint (q3); for Basic the data usage FAQ names global endpoints, regional endpoints are documented only for Advanced (q2, q3). Google privacy policy / Data transfer frameworks: Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension; in addition SCCs where no adequacy decision applies (q7); according to the DPF list, Google LLC's certifications (EU-U.S., Swiss-U.S., UK Extension) are active (q13). Consumer service: servers worldwide (q6).
- Data usage FAQ, Cloud Translation (Last updated 2026-10-13) (Documentation), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Global and multi-regional endpoints, Cloud Translation (Last updated 2026-10-13) (Documentation), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Google Cloud) (DPA), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Google Privacy Policy (Effective 2026-10-16) (Privacy notice), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Google Privacy Policy: Data transfer frameworks (Privacy notice), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Privacy Framework List: Google LLC (Official register), retrieved 19 Oct 2026
Certifications (as stated by the provider)
ISO/IEC 27001: according to the compliance page, the certified ISMS of Google Cloud Services covers, among others, 'Cloud Translation'; certificates via the Compliance Reports Manager (q10). Further certifications for Cloud Translation not checked individually. For the consumer service Google Translate: not publicly documented.
- ISO/IEC 27001 – Compliance (Google Cloud) (Trust Center), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
AI Act
Functions: Machine translation of text, web pages and documents, language detection, romanisation, glossaries; in the API additionally Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom translation models (q1, q9).
Provider’s statement: Google Cloud has an 'EU AI Act' compliance page: Google Cloud intends to keep publishing information to support customer compliance and to demonstrate its own adherence to the Act (q11). A statement specifically on Google Translate or Cloud Translation is not publicly documented.
Classification (for review, not legal advice): For review: the customer is typically a deployer (Art. 3(4) AI Act); observe the AI literacy obligation under Art. 4. When integrating the API into own products, examine further roles where applicable. Examine Art. 50 when publishing AI-translated texts. Not legal advice.
- EU AI Act – Compliance (Google Cloud) (Trust Center), retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Current notes 2026
Cloud Translation data usage FAQ and endpoint documentation last updated 2026-10-13; the pricing page lists discounts via the Gemini Enterprise Flexible Savings Plan (1 and 3 years) and Translation LLM at USD 10 per 1 million characters input and output. Google privacy policy effective from 2026-10-16. The documentation refers to the discontinuation of Translation Hub ('Translation Hub deprecation').
Open points of the review
- Consumer service Google Translate: no Translate-specific statement on the use of entered texts for training and no opt-out documented; the privacy policy only mentions analysing usage to improve translation quality.
- Consumer service: retention period of the translation history in 'My Activity' and server locations not documented.
- Cloud Translation: retention of training data for custom models and Adaptive Translation datasets not documented; no tax note on the pricing page.
- Google Cloud sub-processor list without Translation-specific entries; assignment of individual third parties to Cloud Translation not evaluated individually.
- Further certificates (SOC, ISO 27017/27018/42001) for Cloud Translation not checked individually; certificates themselves not reviewed.
Frequently asked questions
Where does Google Translate store data?
mixed (plans: Google Translate (web and app, free), Cloud Translation – Basic (v2)); EU hosting selectable (plans: Cloud Translation – Advanced (v3) incl. Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom models). According to the provider, as of 18 Oct 2026.
Is there a DPA for Google Translate?
not publicly documented in: Google Translate (web and app, free); yes in: Cloud Translation – Basic (v2), Cloud Translation – Advanced (v3) incl. Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom models. Based on our research, as of 18 Oct 2026.
Does Google Translate use inputs for AI training?
not publicly documented in: Google Translate (web and app, free); no in: Cloud Translation – Basic (v2), Cloud Translation – Advanced (v3) incl. Translation LLM, Adaptive Translation and custom models. Based on our research, as of 18 Oct 2026.
Where is the provider based?
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; Google Cloud EMEA Limited, 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to the provider, as of 18 Oct 2026.
All sources
- 01Cloud Translation pricing (Google Cloud)Pricing page · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 02Data usage FAQ, Cloud Translation (Last updated 2026-10-13)Documentation · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 03Global and multi-regional endpoints, Cloud Translation (Last updated 2026-10-13)Documentation · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 04Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Google Cloud)DPA · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 05Google Cloud Platform SubprocessorsSub-processor list · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 06Google Privacy Policy (Effective 2026-10-16)Privacy notice · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 07Google Privacy Policy: Data transfer frameworksPrivacy notice · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 08Find & manage Translate history (Google Translate Help)Documentation · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 09Turn on or off additional Google services (Google Workspace Admin Help)Documentation · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 10ISO/IEC 27001 – Compliance (Google Cloud)Trust Center · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 11EU AI Act – Compliance (Google Cloud)Trust Center · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 12Google Cloud: Google contracting entity by regionLegal notice · retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- 13Data Privacy Framework List: Google LLCOfficial register · retrieved 19 Oct 2026
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Further reading
All tools in the category: Writing & translation. Google Translate has at least one plan with an EU hosting option; see also AI tools with an EU hosting option. Figures across all tools: Data report.