--- description: Learn more about Google Translate price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Google Translate Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Translation Software](/directory/30934/translation-management/software) > [Google Translate](/software/1013631/google-translate) # Google Translate Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1013631/google-translate Page: 1 / 29\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1013631/google-translate?page=2) > Google Translate is a neural machine translation tool for translating text, documents \& websites from one language to another, for free > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 687 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 687 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Google ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Google Translate is a free translation tool. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Document Management - Language Detection - Machine Translation - Memory Management - Multi-Language - Workflow Management ## Integrations (1 total) - Google Chrome ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Translation Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30934/translation-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It offers support, convenience and fast and accurate translations. > > **Cons**: The quality of some African languages is very poor, I'd love to see an improvement on that. ----- ### "Google Translate - Language Translation Application" — 5.0/5 > **Nathaniel** | *31 March 2025* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Google Translate's camera function has allowed me to read text in foreign countries that I never would have been able to understand otherwise. This is by far the \#1 purpose that Google Translate serves to me. > > **Cons**: Back in the day, the number of languages available on Google Translate was lacking. However they have done a great job at continuing to add languages. As I write this, I have went back in and looked at all of the language offerings. It is quite impressive now\! > > I first downloaded Google Translate ahead of a business trip to a foreign European country that I had zero prior language knowledge of. Google Translate allowed me to read signs, menus, and other sources of text that I would have never been able to understand previously\! ----- ### "Google Translate does the job well for automatic Help Centre and Customer Feedback Translation" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *18 December 2025* | Maritime | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy API integration with Intercom and AppFollow enables automatically refreshed customer help articles to be published and developer responses to customer feedback to be sent in the customer's native language. This is important to ensure our customers can read our help content and feedback replies easily, to improve the effectiveness of both. > > **Cons**: While Google Translate's APIs do an excellent job of translating language, there are certain instances where it would be helpful to have more powerful tools for configuring specific technical terms and words specific to our industry to be auto-translated correctly, so context isn't lost. At times, though Google Translate has provided transparent passthrough of HTML with no issue, we have had issues with content tags not being accepted via API for Intercom, which means that formatting of tables and rich text has been lost via automatic translation. This is an Intercom issue though, not Google. > > Quick, efficient and reasonably priced. I would recommend Google Translate for anyone looking to integrate automation of content or dialogue at a platform level, suitable for public publishing. ----- ### "Some mistakes, but still operable\!" — 3.0/5 > **Parker** | *02 December 2025* | Music | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: I liked how immersive the application was itself, the way you could input different things inside of it and it spits out a (usually) pretty good translation. > > **Cons**: I've noticed, especially in Spanish translations, that there will some words or phrases that cannot be translated or translates to something completely different than what we were expecting. Sometimes these translations can be completely wrong or just off. about a 6/10 for the translation portions > > It is fast in terms of getting an answer for you, it is free, and it does do what you need it to, about 60-75% of the time. I guess no translation application will be able to utterly decipher a differing language, but for the ease of access and entry for people, this would probably be the one to go with. ----- ### "Overall positive but some accuracy concerns" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *03 August 2025* | Research | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is fast and recognises speech. Integration to other Google tools. File management is very easy. No special issues with bugs. Learning curve is fast. Good value for money. > > **Cons**: Significant grammatical errors. Needs double checking. Accuracy is central for professional and reliable translation. > > Positive although double checking is a recurrent task. 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