Translating a 100,000-word book with Claude: what it costs

Translating 100,000 English words into German costs an estimated $2.49 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, $4.97 on Opus 5.5, $12.43 on Fable 5.1 and $0.12 on Haiku 5.5.

The Batch API takes 50% off, so the Sonnet 5.5 job drops to about $1.25 when you can wait.

Target language matters: Hindi costs about 26% more than German on the same model, because it needs more tokens.

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