Google plan to charge its translation engine (Translate API)

Google announced about its plan to stop the third-party access to its translation engine, Translate API. Google will instead develop a plan to offer a paid version for others who wish to incorporate it into their services.



Google Translate API is currently available for free and using by a lot of developers that offers translation service. With this new plan, developers should pay to Google to use the engine.

There are a pro-contra about this plan, but all should accept Google decision. They are the owner of the service and probably they think it's the time to produce bulk of money from the service.

Google still provide free service for the users web translation (Google Translate). They are only restrict the access to the web services API that enable third-party applications utilize the translation API on their applications.