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Hunyuan Translation Lite API Pricing

Hunyuan Translation Lite is Tencent's cheaper and lower-latency translation row for real-time or cost-sensitive multilingual conversion. Tencent Cloud's public pricing page lists Y1.00/M input and Y3.00/M output, which AI//COST stores as $0.141/M and $0.423/M at Y7.1/USD. Pulled directly from cloud.tencent.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.14/M
Original Y1.00/M CNY source
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.42/M
Original Y3.00/M CNY source
Cache N/A
$0.14/M
No cache listed publicly N/A
Effective - agentic blend
$0.16/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with Hunyuan Translation Lite's public Tencent row. Use it when you want a dedicated translation model but the full Hunyuan Translation tier looks heavier than the workload actually needs.

$ /mo
Workload split
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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

LIVE

Real-time support translation

$0.002/turn
8k in - 1k out~63,613 turns/$100
VOICE

Speech subtitle pass

$0.006/segment
12k in - 9k out~17,667 segments/$100
ECOM

Catalog localization

$0.004/batch
20k in - 1.5k out~28,612 batches/$100
CHAT

App UI copy

$0.001/screen
3k in - 1k out~124,069 screens/$100
§ 03 / TAPE

Price history.

Tencent's lighter translation row still lists Y1.00/M input and Y3.00/M output.

Input · $0.14/M
Output · $0.42/M
Cached · $0.14/M
NOV 25 Tencent announced hunyuan-translation-lite for natural-language translationAPR 22 Tencent's real-time speech translation demo documented translation-lite as the default lower-latency modelMAY 23 Re-verified on Tencent Cloud pricing page at Y1.00/M input and Y3.00/M output
§ 04 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

Estimate · tencent-tokenizer-estimate · ≈3.85 chars/token Auto-counts as you type

This is a chars-per-token approximation, not a real tokenizer. Actual tokens vary by language, code density, and tool-call overhead — counts are typically ±10–20% off for English prose, more for code or non-Latin scripts. For exact billing, use the vendor's official tokenizer.

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§ 05 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Hunyuan Translation Lite Current $0.14 $0.42 $0.16 agentic 92/8 documented elsewhere Low-latency Tencent translation
Hunyuan Translation $0.17 $0.51 $0.20 pricier full tier documented elsewhere Full translation workloads
Doubao Seed Translation $0.17 $0.51 $0.20 same as Tencent full tier documented elsewhere ByteDance translation workloads
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash $0.02 cache $0.00 $0.21 $0.02 generic ultra-budget alternative 256K High-volume low-cost chat
Hunyuan TurboS $0.11 $0.28 $0.13 non-specialist Tencent budget peer documented elsewhere Fast general-purpose chat

Frequently asked.

Practical Hunyuan translation-lite pricing questions, with Tencent's public CNY row separated from latency assumptions.

Q · 01 What is Hunyuan Translation Lite priced at today? +
Tencent Cloud's official Hunyuan pricing page lists Y1.00/M input and Y3.00/M output for Hunyuan Translation Lite. AI//COST stores that as $0.141/M and $0.423/M using the queue's Y7.1/USD conversion rate.
Q · 02 Why use Translation Lite instead of the full Translation row? +
Tencent's own real-time speech translation demo documents hunyuan-translation-lite as the default lower-latency model. The full Hunyuan Translation tier is more expensive and is the better fit when you want the heavier translation specialist instead of the lighter row.
Q · 03 Does Tencent publish a cache-hit discount for Translation Lite? +
No. The public pricing row does not show a separate prompt-cache or cache-hit price. This page therefore treats cached input the same as standard input instead of inventing a discount.
Q · 04 How does it compare with Doubao Seed Translation? +
Doubao Seed Translation is pricier at $0.169/M input and $0.507/M output after the same CNY-to-USD conversion rule. Translation Lite is the cheaper dedicated-translation pick between the two.
Q · 05 Is there an even cheaper option for multilingual traffic? +
Yes, but usually not as a dedicated translation specialist. Generic low-cost rows such as Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash are cheaper, though they are not purpose-built translation SKUs.
Q · 06 Does this page include tax or enterprise discounts? +
No. AI//COST stores Tencent's public pre-tax list price and converts it to USD for cross-vendor comparison. Contract rebates, private discounts, and non-public billing terms are outside this page.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder - AI//COST - Pricing pulled daily from cloud.tencent.com - Last verified May 23, 2026
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