We are using third-party translation services, and we are paying for the translation. That is why we need to charge you for the translation of NEW files that you upload and want to translate, to reimburse third-party fees we pay (so we do not make any profit on it). Using EXISTING machine-translated files from this site is free of charge.

You can buy translation credit points on this page, and they will be added to your account. Having enough translation credit points, you can run machine-translation for your own subtitles quickly and easily. The cost of translation depends on the number of characters in the file you want to machine-translate.

Rough estimation of machine-translation cost for typical 1.5-hour movie would be approximately 1 EUR. As we explained above, we do not make any profit on it, we just reimburse third-party fees we pay, and those fees are determined by current market prices for such services.

Alternatively, you can use free-of-charge machine-translation service, like Google Translate, but those services have limitations on the number of characters that can be translated at once, so to translate subtitles for a movie, you would need to split the file into many smaller chunks, and paste them many times into the translation service, finally, to restore them back into one .srt file, which is not very convenient. We implemented paid machine-translation service for people who want to avoid this inconvenience by paying a market price for the machine translation of long texts.