Rates
Rates charged for translation
by Harcz & Partner Ltd.
Translation, Localization and Editing Company
- Icelandic: EUR 0.19 - 0.26 per English source word.
- Eastern European languages: EUR 0.08 - 0.10 per English source word.
- Exotic languages: from EUR 0.12 per English source word.
- German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese: EUR 0.14 - 0.16 per English source word.
- German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese into American or Brtitish English: EUR 0.14 - 0.18 per source word.
It is always the amount of time and effort needed on our side to complete your project that determines our price. However, you can take it for granted that it will be significantly more favorable than what you’d get from American or Western European translation companies while the quality we produce will be at least as high thanks to the direct working relationships we maintain with native freelancers based in their native countries. We are located in Central Europe, and have extremely competent teams of native translators in a large number of languages, including Icelandic, Tagalog, Hungarian, Polish, as well as the major world languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese).
American and Western European translation agencies often assign their translation projects to translation companies like ourselves based in Central and Eastern Europe in order to utilise our extremely competent database, favorable prices, project management skills and vast experience, which, however, deprives them of the close control companies like ourselves possess over their freelance resources/network, and this can make them slower than us and less flexible. (Continued below the image.)
We prefer to quote on individual projects. The factors influencing our quotations include: language pair (combination), subject matter, whether the text is hand-written or is available in an electronic format, the degree of urgency, special requirements, technical complexity of your project, the number of pages/words required per day, the regularity of assignments from the client in question, etc.
The rate we'll quote on your project will contain both translation and subsequent editing and proofreading, each step being performed by different native and professional linguists, who we carefully tested and approved by means of our rigorous and well-established freelancer selection system.
Note that in the case of most language pairs we are ready and happy to translate at rates lower than what we usually employ provided the assignment is a book or a really long text with a comfortable deadline.
Our minimum charges range from EUR 50 to EUR 90 (USD 60 to USD 100), per language, per project. The more exotic and less available a language, the higher our minimum charge.
Payment is possible by bank transfer (wiring) and by PayPal, whichever you prefer. In the case of voluminous projects and projects from first-time clients, we usually request partial or full advance payment. Later on, as the initial trust is mutually established, this becomes unnecessary.
We look forward to receiving your first translation inquiry, which we'll answer promply even on a weekend.
