Beta · free while it lasts

Pricing & Limits

Beta is free — no payment, no card, no trial watermark. Every limit is on this page. Paid tiers may come after Beta; until then this table is the whole contract.

Free (signed in)

¥0

100 translations / hour · 20 / minute burst

Per user; API keys inherit the owner's quota. Keys stay under a 3-per-user cap.

Anonymous Playground

¥0

10 translations / hour · 5 / minute per IP

No account needed on the home page. Sign in free to raise the limit 10×.

Super Key

—

No quota

Platform-level keys issued only through the Admin Center for Lite Lake internal integrations; not available for self-service.

Hard limits

Max text length5,000 characters / request
API keys per user3 active
LanguagesChinese ↔ English (auto detect)
FormatsPlain text · Markdown (structure kept)
Batch requestsNot in Beta

The hourly window resets on the hour; the burst window every minute.

About Beta

Beta · free while it lasts

LiteTranslate is a Lite Lake experiment running on a small local model. Quality on long or technical sentences has a ceiling — tell us where it fails and we will route the feedback into model upgrades. Only successful translations are counted; upstream failures are always free.

Paid tiers

Coming later

Beta has no paid plans and no billing hooks. A Pro tier (higher limits, batch API) may be introduced after Beta under a separate announcement — the API already carries a tier field, so existing keys keep working.

Try the PlaygroundRead the API docs

Limits FAQ

Do API keys have their own quota?

No. Keys inherit the owner's account quota — one 100/hour bucket per user across Playground and all their keys.

What counts as a usage?

One successful translation = one usage. Parameter errors, upstream failures, timeouts and Markdown structure rejections are not counted.

What happens at the limit?

The API returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header and the exact reset time; the Playground shows the same countdown.

Is the super key something I can apply for?

No. Super keys are unlimited platform keys issued only in the Lite Lake Admin Center for internal integrations. Self-service keys are always free-tier.