The pair that carries most of the volume, and the one where the direction matters most: material going into Chinese is read by people inside the market, while material coming out of Chinese is read by a team who will not skip a term because it is unfamiliar.
Every language pair has its own failure modes. These are the ones that decide whether an English deliverable is usable.
Unlike most pairs on this site, English ⇄ Chinese runs heavily in both directions — market-entry material going in, and technical documentation, filings and corporate reporting coming out.
Chinese is compact. English rendered from Chinese typically runs longer, which matters for anything with a fixed layout — UI strings, labels, packaging, table cells.
Long English⇄Chinese programmes are where a termbase earns its cost: the same product, standard or component named three ways across a document set is the most common defect we are asked to fix.
These are not languages we source ad hoc. English is taught as a degree subject at Chinese universities and has been for decades, and there is continuous movement of students, professionals and long-term residents between China and the countries where it is spoken. That is the pool the work is staffed from, and it is why the rate reflects the Chinese market rather than an agency markup.
Written by linguists living in the Chinese market, so the output reads as though it was written for its reader rather than translated toward them.
The Chinese source is read by people to whom its vocabulary is ordinary; the English is produced or reviewed by a native speaker at L3 and L4.
Every entry below is a project we have published, with the language direction as recorded on the case study itself.
USD per 1,000 source words. Published in full — no quote request needed to see a number.
| L1 · Angel AI Review | L2 · Angel Pro | L3 · Angel Premium | L4 · Angel Global |
|---|---|---|---|
| $28 | $55 | $92 | $129 |
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