Is DeepL free?

What the free plan includes

DeepL is free to use, but the free translator has monthly limits. You get 50,000 characters per user a month, plus 1 file translation a month for a file up to 5 MB.

There's a small glossary allowance too: 1 glossary with 5 entries per language pair. That's the free plan's full glossary limit, not an unlimited glossary you can keep adding to.

The allowances are separate. You have a character limit for text, a monthly allowance for file translations, and a size limit on the file itself. When you're checking what's left, keep those separate rather than looking only at the 50,000-character figure.

Where the free plan stops

Which limit are you hitting? If it's text volume, the free allowance stops at 50,000 characters per user a month. If you're translating files, you have both the 1-file monthly allowance and the 5 MB size limit to work with.

The glossary limit is smaller still: 5 entries per language pair. If that's the part you've outgrown, look at glossary allowances when comparing plans, not just the number of characters.

There's also a privacy difference. DeepL's privacy policy says texts sent through the free version can be used to train its neural networks. For paid Pro services, it says texts are stored only temporarily and aren't used to improve its services.

That's worth checking before you paste. Paying for Pro changes more than the amount you can translate.

Pro plans and prices

As of November 2026, the prices below are in euros and include VAT. They're monthly prices with annual billing, not prices for paying month by month. Annual billing saves 16%.

Individual costs €7.49 a month billed annually. It includes 300,000 characters a month and 3 file translations a month, with files up to 30 MB. If you're comparing it with Free, those are the allowances to put beside your current 50,000 characters and 1 file.

Team costs €24.99 per user a month billed annually. It includes 1,000,000 characters per user, 20 files and 5 glossaries.

Business costs €49.99 per user a month billed annually. It includes unlimited characters under a fair use policy, 100 files up to 100 MB, and unlimited glossaries. Keep the fair use condition attached to that "unlimited" character allowance.

But don't read "unlimited characters" as unlimited everything. Business still has a stated file allowance and a maximum file size, even though its character and glossary allowances don't have the same fixed caps.

For payment, DeepL accepts cards, SEPA and bank transfer. PayPal isn't accepted.

Free trial

Free trials are available for Individual and Team. If you've had a DeepL trial before, you aren't eligible for another one.

When comparing the trial options, use the allowances for the plan you're considering: Individual has 300,000 characters a month and 3 files, while Team lists 1,000,000 characters per user and 20 files. The trial offer doesn't remove the need to choose between those plans.

The API is a separate product

The DeepL API is separate from the translator plans above. Its free Developer plan gives you a one-time allowance of 1,000,000 characters. That isn't a monthly allowance, and it isn't the same as Free's 50,000 characters per user a month.

If you're looking for an API for a Shopify store, a WordPress site or an app, Translinga is another option. It's made by Bitgate and is in early access; you can request a key using the Get early access button on translinga.com (no card needed).

Translinga accepts DeepL API requests as they are, including the DeepL-Auth-Key header. DeepL's Node and Python libraries work when pointed at https://api.translinga.com, so switching means changing the URL and the key.

Its Fast tier costs $2.50 per million characters, and Quality costs $5.00 per million. Spaces count, and characters are counted once per target language. Credit is prepaid from $5 and never expires; the first $1 is free, covering about 400,000 characters on Fast.