Malay work arrives through Southeast Asian distribution and platform localisation, frequently alongside Indonesian in the same release.
Every language pair has its own failure modes. These are the ones that decide whether a Malay deliverable is usable.
Shared roots make substitution tempting and wrong: vocabulary, spelling and official terminology diverge. Treating them as one target is a defect, not an efficiency.
Unlike most pairs here, Malay does not expand dramatically against Chinese, which makes fixed-width layouts less fragile.
Technical Malay borrows heavily. Deciding which terms stay in English and which are localised is a project-level decision that belongs in the termbase.
These are not languages we source ad hoc. Malay 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 Malay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $29 | $58 | $97 | $137 |
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