Pricing

Andromeda Translations does not, for the time being, have VAT registration, and therefore VAT shall not be added to any fees listed here. VAT is never added to fees for work that is copyrighted and thus VAT-exempt such as literary translation and translated subtitles.

Low-income or marginalised people, small organisations representing marginalised groups, and marginalised small business owners may enquire about reduced rates or pay-what-you-can arrangements. These are available when my personal finances permit.

Please note that interest-free payment plans for full-price work are always available.

See also Billing and Terms of Contract.

Literary translation

General fee

11–15€/1000 characters
200€ minimum fee
+50% rush fee

→ most prose manuscripts fall under the general fee
→ quoted price determined by job difficulty and schedule
→ rush fee applied depending on current work load and required deadline
→ final price determined by number of characters on finished manuscript

Includes
✓ novels
✓ short stories
✓ non-fiction books

Hourly fee

30–45€/h
200€ minimum fee
+50% rush fee

→ manuscripts in particularly challenging or unusual formats fall under hourly fee
→ quoted price determined by job difficulty and schedule
→ rush fee applied depending on current work load and required deadline
→ final price determined by total work hours spent

Includes
✓ comics
✓ plays
✓ picture books

Subtitling

Translated subtitling

1.79€/line with no template
1.36€/line with a template
1.46€/line with no template or 1.12€/line with a template for single-row cinema translation
101,15€ minimum fee

+25% foreign language fee for Finnish-to-English translations
+50% rush fee
+30% fee for partial script/dialogue list
+50% fee for no script/dialogue list
+10–30% template editing fee
+15–50% difficulty fee

→ final price determined by number of lines translated
→ rush fee applied to lines exceeding rush fee limit (the rush fee limit is 210 lines/weekday without template and 250 lines/weekday with a template)
→ partial script fee applied to lines that do not appear in the script/dialogue list
→ no script fee applied also if text materials are in a different language than spoken content
→ template editing fee applied if client-provided template is not usable
→ difficulty fee applied if job requires unusually much work or research (e.g. includes considerable amounts of a dialect, jargon or word play)
→ fees as per the AV translation agencies’ collective labour agreement and its May 2025 updates (links in Finnish)

Includes
✓ YouTube videos
✓ TV programmes
✓ films

Closed captions

1.34€/line with no template
1.02€/line with a template
75,86€ minimum fee


+50% rush fee
+30% fee for partial script/dialogue list
+50% fee for no script/dialogue list
+10–30% template editing fee

→ final price determined by number of lines transcripted
→ rush fee applied to lines exceeding rush fee limit (the rush fee limit is 210 lines/weekday without template and 250 lines/weekday with a template)
→ partial script fee applied to lines that do not appear in the script/dialogue list
→ no script fee applied also if text materials are in a different language than spoken content
→ template editing fee applied if client-provided template is not usable

Includes
✓ YouTube videos
✓ TV programmes
✓ films

Document translation

0.13–0.25€/word
75€ minimum fee
+50–100% rush fee

→ quoted price determined by job difficulty and schedule
→ rush fee applied depending on current work load and required deadline
→ final price determined by source text word count

Includes
✓ articles
✓ web content
✓ forms and questionnaires
✓ informational leaflets or bulletins

Editing

25–40€/h
75€ minimum fee
+50% rush fee

→ quoted price determined by job extent, language, difficulty and schedule
→ rush fee applied depending on current work load and required deadline
→ final price determined by total work hours spent

Includes
✓ manuscripts
✓ web content
✓ articles
✓ informational leaflets or bulletins
✓ theses and dissertations

Sensitivity reading

25–35€/h
75€ minimum fee
+50% rush fee

→ quoted price determined by job difficulty and schedule
→ rush fee applied depending on current work load and required deadline
→ final price determined by total work hours spent

Includes
✓ manuscripts
✓ articles
✓ web content