Use casesSelling across languages
Understand supplier emails in languages nobody on the team speaks
Translates supplier and logistics correspondence in and out of your working language, in seconds, on a server in the EU.
- How it works
- Inbound emails from suppliers and logistics partners — Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Polish — are translated into your working language, and your replies are translated back, keeping the thread readable on both sides. It runs on the fast small model, so translations come back in seconds, and everything stays on your own server in the EU — which matters when the emails contain prices and terms.
- Data you need
- Just the emails themselves. Optionally a short glossary of your product and trade vocabulary (FOB, MOQ, your SKU names) so the model uses your terms consistently — most firms don't have one written down and simply build it up as odd translations appear.
- What to expect
- Fine for operational back-and-forth; not adequate for negotiating nuance, where a mistranslated hedge — 'we will try' versus 'we will' — costs real money. The small model is weaker on informal or abbreviated business Chinese than on European languages; when a translation reads strangely, re-run that message through the large model or ask the counterparty to rephrase rather than guessing. Expect the first weeks to surface product terms it translates oddly until your glossary covers them.
- Where people stay involved
- You read and send everything yourself; the model only translates. Anything contractual — payment terms, liability, quality agreements — gets a professional human translation before you sign, full stop.
Which model, and what it costs to run
Qwen3-8B
No public benchmark ranks this particular job, so this is not a leaderboard pick — it is where we would start: small, permissively licensed, and strong wherever it has been measured. We prove it on your own content before anything ships.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Weights at 4-bit
- 5 GB
- Context
- 32K tokens
- Publisher
- Alibaba (Qwen Team)
What the hardware costs
One 48 GB card holds it
- Rent in the EU
- $1.60/hrScaleway, Paris (PAR2)
- Buy the card
- $7,569new, one-off
- Or rent it by the token
- $0.04 / $0.04per M in / out · DeepInfra
Hardware only, third-party prices from 2026-07. The figure excludes the KV cache, which grows with context length and how many people use it at once — sized properly in a conversation, not guessed here. Renting by the token is cheaper up front; why our customers still self-host is below.
European languages
Previous-generation models — the board has not been rerun on the 2026 roster, so read the order of magnitude, not a ranking of today's models. And BLEU scores adequacy, not tone: it cannot tell you whether the register fits your brand. That is judged on your own copy.
Independent measurement · openGPT-X / Fraunhofer IAIS · captured 2026-07-10
The API is cheaper per token. Here is why our customers don't use it.
We will not pretend otherwise: renting a model by the token from a serverless API costs less per million tokens than a card we run for you. We show that price on every use-case page. What it does not include is the part a shop with a customer database actually pays for.
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Your data never leaves hardware you can point at
A serverless "we don't retain your data" is a clause in a contract. Running the model on a card in Amsterdam is a fact of architecture: your catalogue, tickets and customer records are never sent to a third party at all. For a GDPR audit, that is the difference between a promise and a floor plan.
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The price cannot move without your say-so
A serverless rate card is somebody else's lever. The provider can raise the price, retire the model, or change the terms, and your cost moves with it. The same model on the same card costs the same next year — you own the number.
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The model cannot be taken away
Hosted APIs deprecate models on their own schedule; the one you built on can be gone in a quarter. An open-weight model on your own hardware runs for as long as you keep the lights on. No vendor can end-of-life it out from under you.
And the price gap closes with volume: past a card you keep busy — very roughly four billion tokens a month — owning is cheaper outright, even before the three reasons above.
Getting a case like this one from a conversation to production takes about two months, and you can stop at the end of any phase.
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