Fees

The rate table on this page is the only place on the site where figures appear. Everything written below explains how a price is built and which part of it is ours — the numbers themselves stay in the table so that when a rate changes, exactly one thing has to change.

The unit: how a page is counted

A page is not a sheet of paper. It is counted as one thousand characters excluding spaces, measured on the translated text. A sparsely printed civil status extract can therefore come in under a page, while one densely typed sheet of a court judgment can be several.

You do not have to do this count. Upload the document and we do it, and the page count appears on the quotation as its own line so you can see what you are paying for. Turkish generally expands when translated into French, so the count is confirmed on the finished text rather than estimated from the original.

Language direction sets the rate

Turkish into French and French into Turkish are not the same price. The rate rises as the pool of translators who can write properly into the target language narrows. We work in five directions: Turkish to French, French to Turkish, Turkish to English, English to Turkish, and French to English. Each has its own listed rate.

We do not publish a single average rate, because the spread between directions is wide enough that an average would mislead you rather than help.

Displayed rates include VAT

Rates shown to consumers are inclusive of tax, so no additional tax line appears at the payment step. On a corporate invoice the tax is broken out as a separate line, but the total paid is the same.

Third-party items are listed separately

Notarisation, apostille and courier are not part of our translation fee. They are paid to another body or to a carrier; we carry out and track the procedure, we do not set the charge.

• Notary. The exact amount is calculated by the notary office when the document is presented to it. It is not a flat charge: statutory duties, stamp tax and the cost of official paper are added according to the document, and any figure published in advance would be wrong at the next tariff change.
• Apostille. Handled by the provincial governorship or the district office for administrative documents, and by the judicial commission for court documents. Whatever official charge arises at that step is determined by that authority.
• Courier. International dispatch depends on the carrier’s tariff, the destination country and the weight of the packet, so it is quoted per shipment rather than listed here.

Turnaround: you choose the pace

There are three delivery tiers. On the economy tier the delivery time is roughly double the standard and the unit rate is lower; the standard tier is the normal flow; on the fast tier the time is shorter and the unit rate is higher. The difference is the cost of working outside ordinary hours and ahead of the queue — it is not a difference in quality. The same translation and the same checks apply on all three.

Notary and apostille stages sit outside this. They run on the institutions’ own timetables and no tier shortens them.

What a quotation shows

A quotation is not one total. The translation fee appears with its language direction and page count; the notary item, the apostille item and dispatch appear separately where they apply. You can see at a glance which money comes to us and which goes elsewhere. Send the document through the quotation form to receive one.

What changes the price — and what does not

Changes it: page count, language direction, the tier you choose, whether notarisation or an apostille is required, the number of wet-signed copies you need, and legibility — handwriting and faded photocopies create real extra work.

Does not change it: which country the document is going to. A strict destination does not raise the translation rate. It only determines the order in which the chain is built.

When the destination adds a condition

If your file needs a translator registered in Québec, in Belgium or in a particular Swiss canton, we say so before quoting and set out what it changes about the order of steps. The quotation then lists each item separately: obtaining the documents, notarisation where it is needed in Türkiye, the apostille step, the translation where the procedure accepts one prepared here, and dispatch. The background is on where should you have it translated and on how costs are structured.