I have been thinking about developing a new product which has to be capable of translating text to several different languages. While I was doing my research, I have found the Python library named "googletrans", which is completely free to use. However, I also found something named Google Cloud Translation which has a price to use.
I have made some tests with googletrans library. It seemed OK to me, for my project at least. I wanted to ask that is it really the case? I mean, do these 2 APIs have any difference? Also, is it alright to develop a device that works googletrans on it, without any payment?
Thanks a lot.
As far as I know, "googletrans" as a daily limit and if you exceeds it your requests may be blocked, so you have to wait the next day to use it (Googletrans API error - daily limit or blocked IP?). It has even the maximum character limit on a single text is 15k (https://pypi.org/project/googletrans/). According to the terms of service, I'm not sure if you can use it for commercial purposes.
Anyway, I think it's a great free alternative and if you use it for personal projects it should be perfect.