When somebody official has to accept it
Certified translation
A complete translation with a signed certificate of accuracy attached to it.
By the page, from the rate card.
Four groups, one office
Everything we do
Sorted by who is going to read the result rather than by language or by document, because that is the only question that changes what the work actually has to be.
How this list is arranged
An official, a colleague, a listener, or a machine that went first
An official reads the certificate before the prose. A colleague or a counterparty never sees a certificate at all and asks a harder question instead: does the English do what the original did. Nobody reads an interpreter — somebody hears them, once, and it cannot be checked afterwards. And where a machine wrote the first draft we say so on the page and charge about half.
When somebody official has to accept it
A certificate of accuracy, signed by the person who did the work, attached to a translation that accounts for everything on the page. The three acts that sometimes go with it — a notarial signature, an apostille, a sworn translator abroad — are somebody else's acts and each has its own page saying whose.
When somebody official has to accept it
Notarised translation
A notary public watches the translator sign, and attests who signed.
The page rate plus the notarial fee.
When somebody official has to accept it
Apostille and legalisation
We prepare it and lodge it. A Secretary of State issues it.
A handling fee, plus the authority's own fee at cost.
When somebody official has to accept it
Sworn and official translation abroad
For countries where the state appoints the translator by name.
Quoted case by case, because the appointed translator sets it.
When the translation has to do a job
No certificate, no official reader, and a harder question instead: does the English text do what the original did. Priced by the word, quoted before we start, and delivered in the file format you sent.
When the translation has to do a job
Legal translation
Contracts, pleadings, evidence and corporate records.
By the word, at the legal rate.
When the translation has to do a job
Medical and clinical translation
Records, discharge summaries, consent forms and study documents.
By the word, at the medical rate.
When the translation has to do a job
Financial and corporate translation
Statements, audit reports, tender documents and board papers.
By the word, at the financial rate.
When the translation has to do a job
Technical translation
Manuals, specifications, safety documentation and drawings.
By the word, at the technical rate.
When the translation has to do a job
Website and marketing translation
Campaigns, landing pages, product copy and brand material.
By the word, at the marketing rate — the highest on the card.
When it is spoken
Live, once, and unreviewable afterwards, which is why the preparation is most of the work. We take the names, the documents and the subject in advance.
When it is spoken
On-site interpreting
One interpreter in the room, taking turns with the speaker.
By the hour, two-hour minimum.
When it is spoken
Remote interpreting
Video or telephone, in half-hour blocks, often the same day.
By the half hour, one block minimum.
When it is spoken
Simultaneous and conference interpreting
Two interpreters in a booth, working in twenty-minute turns.
By the hour, per interpreter, three-hour minimum.
When a machine did the first draft
We offer this openly and price it at roughly half, because a company that will not name the cheaper thing it also sells is not making an argument.
When a machine did the first draft
Machine translation with human review
A machine writes the draft. A translator reads every line and is answerable for it.
By the word, at roughly half the from-scratch rate.
When a machine did the first draft
Review of a translation done elsewhere
A second pair of eyes on something you already have.
By the word, at the review rate, with an honest answer first.
What it costs
Three units, and the unit follows the group
Certified work is priced by the page rather than by the sheet — the caption under the table gives the count, and it is the single most useful thing this site can explain to somebody standing at the counter holding a birth certificate. Everything quoted for a reader who is not an official is priced by the word instead, at a rate that depends on the discipline and on how many people in this city can do the pair. Interpreting is priced by the hour or the block, with a minimum, because an interpreter’s afternoon is gone either way.
| Group | Why it costs what it does | A page |
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| Group one | The largest pools of translators in this city, and the pairs we can usually staff the same morning. | $32 |
| Group two | A working panel rather than a queue of candidates — a day or two of notice makes a difference to who takes it. | $38 |
| Group three | A handful of people we trust in the pair, most of them working somewhere else at the time. The rate is what it costs to reach them, not a judgement about the language. | $46 |
Where the figures come from. Every figure on this site comes from the rate card, and the estimator shows its arithmetic rather than only its answer. What it cannot know is how many words are actually on your document, which is why a quote follows a reading and an estimate does not.
How it works
The sequence is the same whichever of the four you buy
Somebody reads the actual document rather than guessing from its name, quotes before starting, and tells you at that point if there is a problem with what you have sent.
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You send it, or bring it in
A photograph or a scan is enough to quote and usually enough to work from. The whole sheet, flat, in daylight, including the reverse and every stamp. If it is a set, send the set.
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We read it and quote before starting
Somebody reads the actual document rather than guessing from its name, counts it, and sends you a figure and a date. If there is a problem — the wrong version, a page missing, something unreadable — that is when you hear about it, not afterwards.
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It is translated, then read again
By a person, in the pair, against the source. Every certified document is read a second time before the certificate is signed, and that second reading is included rather than sold as an extra.
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Certified, and notarised if it needs to be
The certificate is signed by the translator who did the work. Where the receiving body needs a notarial signature or an apostille, that is arranged from here and tracked from here, and we tell you the realistic date rather than the hopeful one.
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It reaches you, and we keep a copy
A PDF the day it is finished, and paper in the post where you asked for it. We keep the file so that a further copy later costs a copy rather than a job, and so the terminology matches if you come back with the next document in the same matter.
What a working day is. Working days, starting the working day after we have a legible copy of everything. Public holidays are not working days and neither is the Saturday morning the counter is open.
Straight talk
What we will not promise you
Every service above carries its own list of what it is not. ten pages say the rest of it out loud — each one quotes an advertisement this trade genuinely runs, and then says what is actually true.
Send us the document
A photograph is enough to quote from. Or work out the figure yourself first — the estimator shows its arithmetic rather than only its answer.