Jul 8, 2026traininghigh
model training
Latest stance: training permitted
“g) to develop, market or train a machine translation algorithm;”Open citation
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Jul 8, 2026commercial usemedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“8.1.4 Customer is obligated to keep, and shall procure that its Internal Users keep, the access credentials provided by DeepL secure and shall not disclose them to any third partys. Customer is not entitled to repackage or resell access credentials or its access to the Services to any third parties unless expressly agreed by DeepL in advance in writing. 8.1.5 Customer is obligated to observe all legal requirements for the collection, processing and use of data which is transmitted to DeepL and processed by DeepL for Customer in connection with the Services under this Agreement. Customer shall immediately enter into DeepL's data processing agreement (which shall be provided by DeepL) if Customer intends to transmit personal data to DeepL using the Services. Customer agrees not to collect, process or use any personal data in connection with the Services without the express consent of the data subject or without sufficient other legal authorisation. DeepL shall reasonably cooperate with Customer in order to assist Customer in implementing such required legal authorisations. 8.1.6 Customer shall defend, indemnify and hold DeepL harmless against any and all third-party claims (regulatory or judicial orders and claims) and all resulting losses, damages, fines and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal fees), asserted against or incurred by DeepL arising out of or in connection with:”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026subprocessors / sharingmedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“8.3.5 In the event that a disclosure of access credentials to third parties is required for the contractually intended use of the API, Customer shall and is solely responsible to take adequate and effective precautions to protect the access credentials from misuse or unauthorised access. In particular, access credentials may not be stored in configuration files in plain text and may not be transmitted over unencrypted public network connections. 8.3.6 Customer is obligated to adhere to any security precautions, functional and other limitations of the API. In particular, Customer must not bypass, remove, defeat, avoid, deactivate or otherwise circumvent protection or authentication mechanisms or misuse API methods for purposes other than those intended or expressly documented. 8.3.7 To the extent reasonable and technically possible, Customer must take precautions during the implementation of the Application using the API to ensure that Customer’s Application will continue to work properly even if the API is not available, whether caused by DeepL’s or Customer’s fault. DeepL shall have no responsibility for any failure of the Application caused by any failure of the API. 8.3.8 Customer shall immediately inform DeepL if there are reasons to expect a significant increase in the number of API Requests for reasons such as an extraordinary surge in End Users, unusual marketing, promotions or other campaigns. 8.3.9 Customer acknowledges that DeepL may update the API from time to time.”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026retentionmedium
retention
Latest stance: indefinite or necessity based
“Within DeepL Write Pro, Customer's texts and their improved versions will be processed as long as necessary for the performance of the Service (as described in Section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 of the Terms and Conditions).”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026retentionmedium
retention
Latest stance: indefinite or necessity based
“Within DeepL Voice for Meetings, Customer's audio data, transcription data, and translation data will be processed as long as necessary for the performance of the Service (as described in Section 3.1.2 and 3.1.4 of the Agreement). DeepL Voice for Meetings can process requests more slowly or temporarily suspend the access to the Services on a case-by-case basis if the length of the meetings significantly exceeds the normal and reasonable use (Core and Business plan for AI translated captions: 40 hours per month and per user), and therefore the availability of the Services to all customers of DeepL may be affected. In addition, browsers, their JavaScript execution environment, and the various transmission techniques used impose technical limits. DeepL Voice for Meetings will try to notify the Internal User about exceeding these limits and warn about possible performance issues.”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026subprocessors / sharingmedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“16.6 Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the rights and remedies provided under this Agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law. 16.7 DeepL may at any time assign, transfer, charge or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement to a third party taking over the business or Services of DeepL. DeepL may subcontract certain elements of the Services, but shall remain responsible for performance of this Agreement.”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026traininghigh
model training
Latest stance: training permitted
“1.11 “Customer” refers to the person or entity ordering or subscribing to the DeepL Services as the contracting party of DeepL. If you place the order in a business capacity, the entity you work for will be the Customer. 1.12 “Customer Training Data” refers to bilingual terms, example documents and similar texts (monolingual or bilingual) submitted by Customer to the Services (for example glossaries) in order to improve and customise the translations produced by DeepL for the respective Customer. Further details on the use of Customer Training Data may be contained in the Service Specification or a separate addendum to these Terms and Conditions (if the corresponding features for the use of Customer Training Data are available). 1.13 “DeepL API Developer” refers to the API provided by DeepL free of charge. 1.14 “DeepL Translator Pro” refers to an extended version of the DeepL translator which provides Customer via different front ends (e.g., website and desktop application) with a user interface to the translation services in accordance with the Service Specification. 1.15 “ DeepL Voice for Meetings ” refers to a multilingual service that provides Customer with real-time transcription and translation of participant’s speech within virtual meetings as set out in this Agreement and in the Service Specification. 1.16 “DeepL Write Pro” refers to an extended version of DeepL Write which provides Customer via different front ends (e.g., website and desktop application) with a user interface to the improvement services in accordance with the Service Specification.”Open citation
Jul 8, 2026traininghigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“7.1 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable worldwide right to use and allow its Internal Users to use the Services for its internal purposes for the Subscription Term and within the scope of this Agreement, subject to the authorised number of Internal Users for which Customer has paid DeepL. 7.2 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable worldwide right to use the provided Documentation and support materials for the Subscription Term and within the scope of this Agreement, in particular, to reproduce them and provide them to Internal Users to the extent required for the intended use of the Services. 7.3 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive right to use the provided Code Samples for educational and internal development purposes without restriction in regard to time or location, in particular to reproduce the Code Samples and provide them to Internal Users, to modify and create derivative works of the Code Samples and to use, sublicense or distribute such derivative works without limitation. 7.4 All rights regarding the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data remain with Customer. However, Customer grants DeepL the non-exclusive worldwide right to use the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data solely in order to provide DeepL’s Services to Customer. In particular, Customer grants to DeepL the right to temporarily store, modify, process, translate, improve and transmit the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to its subcontractors, to the extent required to provide the Services set out in this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026privacymedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“8.1.4 Customer is obligated to keep, and shall procure that its Internal Users keep, the access credentials provided by DeepL secure and shall not disclose them to any third partys. Customer is not entitled to repackage or resell access credentials or its access to the Services to any third parties unless expressly agreed by DeepL in advance in writing. 8.1.5 Customer is obligated to observe all legal requirements for the collection, processing and use of data which is transmitted to DeepL and processed by DeepL for Customer in connection with the Services under this Agreement. Customer shall immediately enter into DeepL's data processing agreement (which shall be provided by DeepL) if Customer intends to transmit personal data to DeepL using the Services. Customer agrees not to collect, process or use any personal data in connection with the Services without the express consent of the data subject or without sufficient other legal authorisation. DeepL shall reasonably cooperate with Customer in order to assist Customer in implementing such required legal authorisations. 8.1.6 Customer shall defend, indemnify and hold DeepL harmless against any and all third-party claims (regulatory or judicial orders and claims) and all resulting losses, damages, fines and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal fees), asserted against or incurred by DeepL arising out of or in connection with:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026subprocessors / sharingmedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“DeepL may at any time assign, transfer, charge or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement to a third party taking over the business or Services of DeepL. DeepL may subcontract certain elements of the Services, but shall remain responsible for performance of this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
legal burden
Latest stance: liability limited
“12.1 DeepL warrants that the Services shall perform in accordance with the Documentation and Service Specification in all material respects, other than where any non-conformance is caused by use of the Services in breach of this Agreement. DeepL does not give any guarantee regarding the correctness of the translations created by the machine translation system. 12.2 Customer shall immediately inform DeepL of any occurring non-conformity in writing (email to support@deepl.com is sufficient) and Customer shall assist DeepL in rectifying the defects free of charge, in particular by providing DeepL with all required documents, data and other information required to analyse and correct the defects. 12.2.1 If the Services do not conform with the foregoing warranty, DeepL shall, at its expense, use all reasonable commercial endeavours to correct any such non-conformance promptly, or provide Customer with an alternative means of accomplishing the desired performance, and failing which DeepL shall refund any charges already paid in advance proportionally. Such correction, substitution or refund constitutes Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of the warranty set out in Section 12.1. If third-party software which DeepL has licensed from third parties is being used, procurement of publicly available upgrades, updates or patches shall be deemed sufficient. 12.3 DeepL does not warrant that the Customer's use of the Services shall be uninterrupted, or that the Services or Processed Content shall be completely accurate or error free or meet Customer's requirements.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
legal burden
Latest stance: liability limited
“12.7 If Customer is a consumer in accordance with applicable mandatory law in the country where the individual is habitually resident, Customer is entitled to such statutory warranty rights applicable to a consumer under this Agreement and DeepL will honour any mandatory consumer duty to provide Customer with Services that are as described on our website and that meet requirements imposed by applicable law.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
legal burden
Latest stance: liability limited
“all warranties, representations, conditions and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law or otherwise are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from this Agreement; and b) the Services are provided to Customer on an "as is" basis”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
legal burden
Latest stance: liability limited
“b) the Services are provided to Customer on an "as is" basis.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
legal burden
Latest stance: indemnity
“Customer shall defend, indemnify and hold DeepL harmless against any and all third-party claims (regulatory or judicial orders and claims) and all resulting losses, damages, fines and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal fees), asserted against or incurred by DeepL arising out of or in connection with: a) DeepL's use of Customer's Content and/or Customer Training Data in accordance with this Agreement infringes a third party's intellectual property or other rights; or b) Customer's breach of this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026traininghigh
model training
Latest stance: training permitted
“g) to develop, market or train a machine translation algorithm;”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026traininghigh
model training
Latest stance: training permitted
“1.11 “Customer” refers to the person or entity ordering or subscribing to the DeepL Services as the contracting party of DeepL. If you place the order in a business capacity, the entity you work for will be the Customer. 1.12 “Customer Training Data” refers to bilingual terms, example documents and similar texts (monolingual or bilingual) submitted by Customer to the Services (for example glossaries) in order to improve and customise the translations produced by DeepL for the respective Customer. Further details on the use of Customer Training Data may be contained in the Service Specification or a separate addendum to these Terms and Conditions (if the corresponding features for the use of Customer Training Data are available). 1.13 “DeepL API Developer” refers to the API provided by DeepL free of charge. 1.14 “DeepL Translator Pro” refers to an extended version of the DeepL translator which provides Customer via different front ends (e.g., website and desktop application) with a user interface to the translation services in accordance with the Service Specification. 1.15 “ DeepL Voice for Meetings ” refers to a multilingual service that provides Customer with real-time transcription and translation of participant’s speech within virtual meetings as set out in this Agreement and in the Service Specification. 1.16 “DeepL Write Pro” refers to an extended version of DeepL Write which provides Customer via different front ends (e.g., website and desktop application) with a user interface to the improvement services in accordance with the Service Specification.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026retentionmedium
retention
Latest stance: indefinite or necessity based
“Within DeepL Translator Pro, Customer's texts and their translations will be processed as long as necessary for the performance of the Service (as described in Section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 of the Agreement).”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026retentionmedium
retention
Latest stance: indefinite or necessity based
“DeepL Translator Pro offers a service accessible by Customer using their DeepL Pro access credentials. Access can be via a website or Microsoft Windows or MacOS application. The service allows to input texts and receive their machine translations. As DeepL Translator Pro uses the API for translating, it supports the set of source and target languages as described in Section 1 of the Service Specification. Within DeepL Translator Pro, Customer's texts and their translations will be processed as long as necessary for the performance of the Service (as described in Section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 of the Agreement). DeepL Translator Pro can process translation requests more slowly or temporarily suspend the access to the Services on a case-by-case basis if the length of the entered texts significantly exceeds the normal and reasonable use (starter: 1 million characters per month, Advanced: 5 million characters per month, Ultimate: 10 million characters per month, Business: 10 million characters per month) and therefore the availability of the Services to all customers of DeepL is affected. In addition, browsers, their JavaScript execution environment, and the HTTP transmission techniques used impose technical limits. DeepL Translator Pro will try to notify the Internal User about exceeding these limits and warn about possible performance issues. DeepL Translator Pro allows Customer to translate whole documents. Ability to translate documents is subject to the ability of DeepL Translator Pro to correctly read and translate the documents, which can't be guaranteed. Requirements and limitations for document translation: File formats and file size for:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026retentionlow
retention
Latest stance: deletion or time bound
“DeepL will only temporarily store Content or Processed Content to the extent technically required to provide its Services. Any further storage of Content or Processed Content will only be carried out at Customer’s request, e.g. by using the "saved translations" feature. If Customer has requested such storage of Content and Processed Content, this will be deleted 90 days after the end of the Agreement. During this period, Customer will no longer have access to this Content and Processed Content. For the avoidance of doubt, DeepL shall be entitled to create and retain access logs for billing, security and statistical purposes. Such access logs shall not contain any Content or Processed Content. However, access logs may contain meta data of API Requests such as time of the API Request and size of the transmitted Content.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026retentionlow
retention
Latest stance: deletion or time bound
“3.1.1 DeepL shall provide Customer with access to the Services during the Subscription Term within the terms and scope of this Agreement, including the Service Specification. 3.1.2 DeepL will only temporarily store Content or Processed Content to the extent technically required to provide its Services. Any further storage of Content or Processed Content will only be carried out at Customer’s request, e.g. by using the "saved translations" feature. If Customer has requested such storage of Content and Processed Content, this will be deleted 90 days after the end of the Agreement. During this period, Customer will no longer have access to this Content and Processed Content. For the avoidance of doubt, DeepL shall be entitled to create and retain access logs for billing, security and statistical purposes. Such access logs shall not contain any Content or Processed Content. However, access logs may contain meta data of API Requests such as time of the API Request and size of the transmitted Content. 3.1.3 DeepL may process Content, Processed Content and Customer Training Data on its servers as well as on technical infrastructure owned and/or operated by third party cloud providers. DeepL has the right to determine the location of data processing. The location of the data processing may depend, among other things, on the location of the customer or its Internal Users and the availability and capacity of the technical infrastructure used.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“File formats and file size DeepL API Growth: .docx or .doc Up to 30 MB .pptx Up to 30 MB .xlsx Up to 30 MB .html Up to 5 MB .pdf Up to 30 MB .txt Up to 1 MB .xlf / .xliff Up to 10 MB Number of characters - Up to 1.000.000 File formats and file size DeepL API Developer: .docx or .doc Up to 10 MB .pptx Up to 10 MB .xlsx Up to 10 MB .html Up to 5 MB .pdf Up to 10 MB .txt Up to 1 MB .xlf / .xliff Up to 10 MB Number of characters - Up to 500,000”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“DeepL API Growth (v3 endpoint only) also includes a speech to translated text function for realtime audio. This function is only available to users with a DeepL API Growth subscription type.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“In derogation from Section 3.1.2 sentence 1, DeepL API Developer reserves the right to perpetually store any Content or Processed Content. 3.3.3 In derogation from Section 3.2.4, DeepL reserves the right to modify the functional scope of the DeepL API Developer at any time or to completely discontinue the free provision of the API at any time.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“If Customer uses DeepL API Developer, Customer shall not process any personal data with the API. If Customer processes any personal data with the Free API in breach of this restriction, Customer will indemnify DeepL from all claims of third parties, including the necessary costs for legal defense as well as fines or other official or judicial orders and claims, which are asserted against DeepL as a result of the processing of personal data by Customer.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“DeepL API Growth and DeepL API Developer are accessible through a REST interface. Request parameters are used to pass information to DeepL API Growth or DeepL API Developer, results are returned in a suitable representation (e.g., JSON). Request parameters must be encoded in accordance with the documentation provided under https://developers.deepl.com/docs . Authentication is based on fixed keys, SSL handling transport security. The translate function provides the following functionality: Text - Text to be translated Only text encoded in accordance with the documentation is supported.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Number of characters - Up to 1.000.000 File formats and file size DeepL API Developer: .docx or .doc”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“6.1 DeepL may provide Customer with a free trial subscription for selected Services at its own discretion. 6.2 After the free trial period, the free trial subscription is automatically extended to a paid subscription to the Service selected by the Customer. The free trial subscription can be terminated at any time during its term by DeepL or Customer. In the event that DeepL or Customer terminates the free trial subscription during its term, the free trial subscription is not continued as a paid subscription.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“14.1 DeepL can modify and adapt these Terms and Conditions with effect from a future stated date. Such changes may be required because of a technical change in the Services or in order to integrate new features, due to third party requirements, due to changes in applicable law, or for other reasonable reasons. 14.2 DeepL will submit the modified Terms and Conditions in text form to the Customer at least eight (8) weeks before they are planned to come into force and will make a separate reference to the new provisions and to the date of their effect. DeepL will grant the Customer a reasonable duration of time of at least eight (8) weeks in order to decide whether the Customer accepts the amended Terms and Conditions for the further use of the Services. If no objection is made within this period, which shall start from the receipt of the notification, the modified Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to apply. DeepL shall separately advise Customer at the commencement of the notice period as to this legal consequence, i.e., the right of objection, the objection period, and the consequences of a failure to object. In case the Customer objects to the modification within the notice period, the Agreement may be terminated by either Party on written notice to the other. In this case, Customer will be refunded fees already paid proportionally.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“9.1 Customer shall pay the base charges as well as all usage-based charges as set out on the DeepL website upon conclusion of the Agreement and at the intervals specified. 9.2 All amounts shall be paid in full in the currency indicated on the invoice. The Customer shall bear all bank and transfer charges as well as any currency conversion costs (if any). 9.3 API Requests shall be billable in terms of Section 9.1 if (i) the API Request has been successfully transmitted using the API and (ii) there has been a valid API Response in accordance with the Documentation. Server errors shall be deemed as valid API Response only if they occur due to failures on Customer’s side, including the use of incorrect, incompatible or insufficient Content or other use of the API which does not comply with the technical requirements set out in the Service Specification or Documentation provided by DeepL. Charges for texts entered into DeepL Translator Pro or shall be billable in terms of Section 9.1 if translated / improved and displayed in DeepL Translator Pro or the respective Add-On interface. 9.4 DeepL API Growth for speech-to-text charges Customer based on the total Audio Minutes streamed, irrespective of the connection duration or the speed of transmission. Any fractional Audio Minutes shall be rounded up to the nearest whole minute for billing purposes. 9.5 DeepL Voice for Meetings will be billed in accordance with Section 9.1.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“For document translations, a minimum of 50,000 characters per document is charged. DeepL API Growth (v2 endpoint only) also includes a text improvement function. This function is only available to users with a DeepL API Growth subscription type. The text improvement function provides the following functionality: Text - Text to be improved. Only text encoded in accordance with the documentation is supported. Target language - The language in which your improvements are provided can be one of the following:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“If Customer exclusively uses free services, both Parties are entitled to terminate the Agreement at any time. Specifically, DeepL may terminate this Agreement if Customer has not used the free services for a longer period of time.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Source language - Language of the text to be translated. If this parameter is omitted, DeepL API Growth or DeepL API Developer will make efforts to detect the language of the text. Currently, the following languages are supported:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“4.1 DeepL shall use its reasonable endeavours to provide an annual average of at least 97% uptime availability for the fee-based Services. For the Business plan, DeepL offers an annual average of 99.0% uptime availability. The availability calculation excludes any downtime for planned maintenance work as well as service interruptions which are beyond DeepL’s reasonable control, including but not limited to short-term and undue increase in the number of requests by Customer which requires an unplanned increase in system capacity. 4.2 Subject to the exceptions in Section 4.1, availability shall be calculated as the number of hours of the fee-based Services are functional, divided by the total number of hours within the respective calendar year. 4.3 Unavoidable downtime due to planned maintenance work shall be electronically notified to Customer in good time in advance (e.g., by e-mail).”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“If Customer is a consumer in accordance with applicable mandatory law in the country where the individual is habitually resident: a) Customer is entitled to recover from DeepL such losses incurred from DeepL's breach of this Agreement, unless such loss is: i. unexpected or unforeseeable; ii. caused by an event outside DeepL's control (provided DeepL took reasonable steps to mitigate such events); iii. something you could have avoided by taking reasonable action; or iv. business loss (which is not recoverable as a consumer – DeepL's liability to business Customer's is set out in the Sections above); b) nothing in this Agreement shall limit or exclude any liability which cannot be limited or excluded by applicable mandatory consumer protection law; and c) where any liability can be limited or excluded, DeepL's liability shall not exceed the charges paid by the consumer”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“The speech to translated text function returns the following representation of the processing result: Language - The language which has been detected for your audio. Text - The translated text(s) and the source transcript as text. DeepL API Growth for speech to translated text is designed to process a specific amount of target languages per stream for a specific maximum streaming connection duration and audio chunk size. The exact applicable information and units can be found in the Documentation. The audio stream speed shall not exceed two times real time; exceeding use may be limited, and Customers may encounter a 429 “Too Many Requests” error message, as described in the documentation. Applications using DeepL API Growth should implement a mechanism to handle such responses accordingly and, if appropriate, to try again later. A mechanism increasing the delay for another request exponentially is recommended.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“In addition to Section 3.1, the following shall apply to the DeepL Translator Pro: 3.4.1 DeepL Translator Pro provides Customer an enhanced user interface to use the DeepL services as set out in the Service Specification, providing means to translate texts in a web browser or another frontend application. 3.4.2 The license to use DeepL Translator Pro is a Single-User License. 3.4.3 If applicable, Customer may purchase Add-Ons (e.g., DeepL Write Pro Add-On or File Translation Add-On) to enhance their existing DeepL Translator Pro subscription. 3.4.4 Depending on the specific Add-Ons, licenses may only be allocated on a per-seat basis. For the DeepL Write Pro Add-On Customers may only purchase a number of licenses equivalent to the number of DeepL Translator Pro subscription seats they hold. 3.4.5 If the Add-On includes a specific usage limit, that limit must be utilized within a one-month period and cannot be carried over to subsequent months.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Within the free trial period, Customer and DeepL are allowed to terminate this Agreement at any time with immediate effect.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Transferability of quotas - Monthly quotas may not be carried over to subsequent months. Transferability to other users - In the case of Single-User Licenses, quotas cannot be transferred to other Internal Users. Within the framework of a team license, a total quota can be set up for the entire team.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Number of files - Depending on the DeepL package you have subscribed to, you can translate different numbers of documents per month. You can find an overview here: https://www.deepl.com/pro.html . The number of the files varies between the use of the website and the desktop applications. Website - You can have one file translated for each translation process. You will not be able to select several files at the same time. Desktop applications - You can have several files translated for each translation process. The files can be written in different source languages (as long as the said languages are supported by DeepL Translator). However, you are able to select only one target language for translation.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Transferability of quotas - Monthly quotas may not be carried over to subsequent months. Transferability to other users - In the case of Single-User Licenses, quotas cannot be transferred to other Internal Users. Within the framework of a team license, a total quota can be set up for the entire team.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“The translate function returns the following representation of the processing result: Detected source language - The language which has been detected for the source text. Text - The translated text. DeepL API Growth and DeepL API Developer allow Customer to translate whole documents. Ability to translate documents is subject to the ability of DeepL API Growth or DeepL API Developer to correctly read and translate the documents, which can't be guaranteed. Requirements and limitations for document translation: File formats and file size DeepL API Growth: .docx or .doc”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“DeepL Write Pro (as part of the DeepL Write Pro Add-On) can be accessed via a website or Microsoft Windows or MacOS application. The service allows Customer to input texts and receive their improved versions based on machine learning. DeepL Write Pro supports the following languages:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“DeepL Translator Pro can process translation requests more slowly or temporarily suspend the access to the Services on a case-by-case basis if the length of the entered texts significantly exceeds the normal and reasonable use (starter: 1 million characters per month, Advanced: 5 million characters per month, Ultimate: 10 million characters per month, Business: 10 million characters per month) and therefore the availability of the Services to all customers of DeepL is affected.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“The write function returns the following representation of the processing result: Language - The language which has been detected for your text. Text - The improved text. DeepL API Growth and DeepL API Developer are designed to process at least 600 characters per minute and per Customer; exceeding use may be limited, and Customers may encounter a 429 “Too Many Requests” error message, as described in the documentation. Applications using DeepL API Growth or DeepL API Developer should implement a mechanism to handle such responses accordingly and, if appropriate, to try again later. A mechanism increasing the delay for another request exponentially is recommended. DeepL API Growth (v3 endpoint only) also includes a speech to translated text function for realtime audio. This function is only available to users with a DeepL API Growth subscription type. The function for realtime audio provides the following functionality: Audio Stream - Realtime audio stream to be translated into text in up to 5 languages. Input Languages (Audio) - The realtime audio stream you want to have translated can be in one of the following languages:”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“9.6 All amounts are understood to include applicable consumption or sales tax (e.g. VAT, sales tax or similar tax, as applicable according to applicable statutory tax regulations) unless expressely specified as “netto” or “net”. If the rate of such tax changes, DeepL may adjust the rate according to such change in law. 9.7 Unless Customer notifies DeepL in advance of any legal requirement, all invoices shall be made available to Customer exclusively in a digital format (e.g., as PDF files sent by e-mail to the invoice e-mail address indicated by Customer or available for download by Customer on the website in the customer account). 9.8 For Services with a fixed base charge, the charges are due at the beginning of each billing period. 9.9 If Customer chooses to pay by credit card or SEPA direct debit for Services with variable charges (in particular when using the API), DeepL reserves the right to debit advance payments in the course of the billing period. A first advance payment is due as soon as the number of characters has exceeded a certain equivalent value. The value of the advance payment may vary between an amount of 10 EUR and an amount of 500 EUR (according to the respective Customer and his usage behaviour). The relevant equivalent value related to the subsequent prepayments will be based on the future usage of Customer. The basic price of a subscription is due at the activation of a subscription and the basic price for the new billing period, as well as any outstanding usage-dependent payments, is due on the end date of the running billing period.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“Customer will receive a monthly invoice. 9.10 If DeepL is not able to debit the due advance payment in accordance with Section 9.7, DeepL may block the access of Customer to the Services. As soon as the debit is successful, DeepL will immediately restore the access. 9.11 DeepL reserves the right to block the access to the Services if Customer has not paid any due charges after having been sent a written notification by DeepL (a notification sent by e-mail will suffice). If the Customer pays all outstanding charges, DeepL will without any delay, but at the latest within three (3) Business Days after the receipt of the entire payment by DeepL, restore the access of Customer. Depending on the selected payment method, the following will apply additionally: 9.11.1 In case payments are made by invoice, DeepL will inform the Customer of the impending blocking after the due date and will request payment from the Customer. In case the payment is not made within a term of three (3) subsequent Business Days, DeepL will be entitled to block the access of the Customer. After the blocking, DeepL will send another payment request to the Customer in order to restore access. 9.11.2 In case DeepL is not able to debit the due payment for payments made by credit card or SEPA direct debit, DeepL will ask the Customer to update the agreed payment method or to provide a new payment method and will inform the Customer of the impending blocking.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026tier differencesmedium
tier condition
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier
“DeepL API Growth (v2 endpoint only) also includes a text improvement function. This function is only available to users with a DeepL API Growth subscription type.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026subprocessors / sharinghigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“Customer grants to DeepL the right to temporarily store, modify, process, translate, improve and transmit the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to its subcontractors, to the extent required to provide the Services set out in this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026traininghigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“Customer grants DeepL the non-exclusive worldwide right to use the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data solely in order to provide DeepL’s Services to Customer. In particular, Customer grants to DeepL the right to temporarily store, modify, process, translate, improve and transmit the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to its subcontractors, to the extent required to provide the Services set out in this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026prompt ownershiphigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“All rights regarding the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data remain with Customer. However, Customer grants DeepL the non-exclusive worldwide right to use the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data solely in order to provide DeepL’s Services to Customer. In particular, Customer grants to DeepL the right to temporarily store, modify, process, translate, improve and transmit the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to its subcontractors, to the extent required to provide the Services set out in this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026ownershiphigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable worldwide right to use and allow its Internal Users to use the Services for its internal purposes for the Subscription Term and within the scope of this Agreement, subject to the authorised number of Internal Users for which Customer has paid DeepL.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026commercial usehigh
content license
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“7.1 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable worldwide right to use and allow its Internal Users to use the Services for its internal purposes for the Subscription Term and within the scope of this Agreement, subject to the authorised number of Internal Users for which Customer has paid DeepL. 7.2 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable worldwide right to use the provided Documentation and support materials for the Subscription Term and within the scope of this Agreement, in particular, to reproduce them and provide them to Internal Users to the extent required for the intended use of the Services. 7.3 DeepL grants Customer a non-exclusive right to use the provided Code Samples for educational and internal development purposes without restriction in regard to time or location, in particular to reproduce the Code Samples and provide them to Internal Users, to modify and create derivative works of the Code Samples and to use, sublicense or distribute such derivative works without limitation. 7.4 All rights regarding the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data remain with Customer. However, Customer grants DeepL the non-exclusive worldwide right to use the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data solely in order to provide DeepL’s Services to Customer. In particular, Customer grants to DeepL the right to temporarily store, modify, process, translate, improve and transmit the Content, Processed Content and/or Customer Training Data, and to sublicense the foregoing rights to its subcontractors, to the extent required to provide the Services set out in this Agreement.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026privacymedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“8.3.5 In the event that a disclosure of access credentials to third parties is required for the contractually intended use of the API, Customer shall and is solely responsible to take adequate and effective precautions to protect the access credentials from misuse or unauthorised access. In particular, access credentials may not be stored in configuration files in plain text and may not be transmitted over unencrypted public network connections. 8.3.6 Customer is obligated to adhere to any security precautions, functional and other limitations of the API. In particular, Customer must not bypass, remove, defeat, avoid, deactivate or otherwise circumvent protection or authentication mechanisms or misuse API methods for purposes other than those intended or expressly documented. 8.3.7 To the extent reasonable and technically possible, Customer must take precautions during the implementation of the Application using the API to ensure that Customer’s Application will continue to work properly even if the API is not available, whether caused by DeepL’s or Customer’s fault. DeepL shall have no responsibility for any failure of the Application caused by any failure of the API. 8.3.8 Customer shall immediately inform DeepL if there are reasons to expect a significant increase in the number of API Requests for reasons such as an extraordinary surge in End Users, unusual marketing, promotions or other campaigns. 8.3.9 Customer acknowledges that DeepL may update the API from time to time.”Open citation
Jun 17, 2026indemnity / liabilitymedium
data sharing
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing
“16.6 Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the rights and remedies provided under this Agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law. 16.7 DeepL may at any time assign, transfer, charge or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement to a third party taking over the business or Services of DeepL. DeepL may subcontract certain elements of the Services, but shall remain responsible for performance of this Agreement.”Open citation
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