specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: SYSTRAN
providerId: systran
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Machine Translation
- Translation
- NLP
- Localization
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of SYSTRAN spend. SYSTRAN Translate is billed primarily on
  characters translated. Developers start with a 14-day free trial including
  500,000 characters, then pay per character with no volume restrictions on the
  Cloud API. Professional is a seat-based SaaS subscription and Enterprise covers
  Cloud and on-premise deployments under negotiated agreements. The dominant cost
  driver for programmatic use is translated character volume across text, HTML,
  and file translation; NLP, dictionary, corpus, and profile management operations
  support that volume. On-premise / Pure Neural Server deployments trade
  per-character fees for licensed infrastructure.
notes: >-
  Per-character list rates and marketplace subscription tiers are not reconciled
  here; verify on the SYSTRAN store and Translate API product page. Track character
  consumption per profile/language pair to allocate cost, and prefer batching and
  translation memory (corpora) to avoid re-translating repeated content.
sources:
- https://www.systransoft.com/translation-products/translate-api/
- https://docs.systran.net/translateAPI/en/
- https://www.systran.net
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
publisherName: SYSTRAN
serviceCategory: Machine Learning and AI
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Usage-Based
  billingFrequency: Monthly
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Usage
  - Purchase
  - Adjustment
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: SYSTRAN Translate API
  ServiceCategory: Machine Learning and AI
  ProviderName: SYSTRAN
  PublisherName: SYSTRAN
  InvoiceIssuerName: SYSTRAN
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
  PricingCategory: Usage-Based
meters:
- name: characters_translated
  description: Characters translated across text, HTML, and file translation, the primary billing meter.
  unit: characters
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - profile
  - language_pair
- name: file_jobs
  description: Asynchronous file translation jobs submitted and processed.
  unit: jobs
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - profile
- name: nlp_requests
  description: NLP and language-detection calls (morphology, tokenization, segmentation, NER, LID) on the Platform surface.
  unit: requests
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - operation
- name: seat_subscriptions
  description: Professional SaaS seats subscribed on a monthly/annual basis.
  unit: seats
  aggregation: max
  dimensions:
  - account
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Track characters translated per profile and language pair, plus file-job and NLP request volumes, against the plan's character allowance.
- name: Allocation
  description: Name profiles per workload/team so translated-character cost maps to internal cost centers.
- name: Optimization
  description: Use translation-memory corpora and user dictionaries to avoid re-translating repeated content, batch file jobs, and consider on-premise deployment when volume is very high.
- name: Accountability
  description: Assign owners per profile and review monthly character consumption against subscription allowances and trial limits.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com