DeepL is best for freelancers delivering the same document in two languages, French businesses writing to clients abroad and consultants who prefer a European vendor. Its clearest advantage: Glossaries hold product and client names steady across every document.
- Avoid if
- teams wanting a general assistant that also drafts and reasons
- Cheapest useful plan
- €8.99/mo · Individual
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: minutes
- Main limitation
- The free plan caps text at 50,000 characters a month and one file translation
- Glossaries hold product and client names steady across every document
- File translation returns a document that still looks like the original
- teams wanting a general assistant that also drafts and reasons
- anyone translating occasional short sentences, which the free tier already covers
What it actually does
Document translation preserving layout, glossaries and style rules, DeepL Write rewriting, DeepL Voice for real-time spoken translation in 30+ languages, desktop app for multilingual online meetings, API.
Before you pay
Free or Individual
The free plan translates up to 50,000 characters a month and one file, enough for the occasional client email. Individual is for someone who translates documents every week and wants glossaries to keep client and product names steady. Team and Business are priced per user.
What a year costs
Prices for France include VAT. Individual is 8.99 € a month billed monthly, 107.88 € over a year; yearly billing is advertised at 16 % less, about 91 € a year. Team is 29.99 € per user a month, 359.88 € a year, and Business 59.99 €. A 30-day trial is offered. We read the same 8.99 € on 5 September, 10 October and 25 October.
What we would check before paying
Whether you need translation or drafting: DeepL translates and rewrites, it does not write from a brief the way an assistant does. File translation keeps the layout of the original, which is often the reason to pay. The API is priced separately.
The limits to know
- The free plan caps text at 50,000 characters a month and one file translation
- Prices for France include VAT, so the figure is not comparable with US-listed tools
- It translates and rewrites; it will not draft from a brief the way an assistant does
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- €8.99/mo · Individual
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- 8.99 EUR/month billed monthly, VAT included; annual billing is advertised at 16% less
The pricing page, as read
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension, API
- Integrations
- Word, Outlook, Chrome, CAT tools, API
- Setup
- easy: minutes
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Frequently asked questions
What is DeepL?
DeepL is a tool from DeepL SE, used mainly for translating client documents, bilingual proposals, rewriting for tone. Main features: document translation preserving layout, glossaries and style rules, DeepL Write rewriting. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is €8.99/mo · Individual.
How much does DeepL cost?
The paid entry point is €8.99/mo · Individual. Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: 8.99 EUR/month billed monthly, VAT included; annual billing is advertised at 16% less. Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does DeepL have a free plan?
Yes. DeepL publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: the free plan caps text at 50,000 characters a month and one file translation.
What devices and tools does DeepL work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, DeepL runs on: Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension, API. Documented integrations: Word, Outlook, Chrome, CAT tools, API. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Read on the vendor's monthly view
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
What the vendor states
These statements come from the vendor's own documentation. They are useful, and they remain the vendor's: we report them attributed rather than adopt them as our own findings.
- data residency
DeepL states that translation is processed on its own infrastructure in Germany and that texts are deleted after translation.
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We have not independently verified this statement during this research cycle. Official documentation is valid evidence: it is just not our own finding.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 41 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 84 days ago | Fresh |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.