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Cloud vs In-house Translation Cost Calculator
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Daily Data Volume
No. of characters to translate daily		Engineers Pay
Annual Cost to Company per Engineer		Average Text Length
No. of characters
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10 M$30,000250
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GCP
Managed service from Cloud		GPU
In-House solution on rented Infra
The metrics are calculated per GPU 		CPU
In-House solution on rented Infra
The metrics are calculated per CPU
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Latency
Translation Time in seconds		Better than In-House0.85
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Throughput
Translation of characters per hour		Better than In-House1.1 M0.18 M
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Translation Time
in hours		Better than In-House8.955.6
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Infra Rental Cost
per hour in dollars		03.50.19
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Service Subscription Cost
cost in dollars per Million characters on GCP		$20.0$0.0$0.0
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Daily Translation Cost
in dollars		Streaming
compute instance runs 24 x 7		$200.0$84.0$28.5
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Batch
compute instance runs for limited time		$200.0$31.1$10.6
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Monthly Bill Amount
in dollars		Streaming
compute instance runs 24 x 7		$6,000.0$2,520.0$855.0
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Batch
compute instance runs for limited time		$6,000.0$933.0$318.0
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Development costTeam Size
No. of Engineers required to build the solution 		144
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Development Time
in months		133
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Development Cost
in dollars		$2,500$30,000$30,000
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Maintenance costTeam Size
No. of Engineers required to maintain the solution 		122
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Maintenance Time
in months		366
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Maintenance Cost
in dollars		$7,500$30,000$30,000
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Total Cost
Development + Maintenance		$10,000.0$60,000.0$60,000.0
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Cost Trends & Insights
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Daily Data Volume
No. of characters to translate daily		1. Trend for a Stream processing business use case
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10.0 M
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GCP (Cloud)GPU (In-House)CPU (In-House)
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Jan$6,000$2,520$855
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Feb$6,000$2,520$855
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Mar$6,000$2,520$855
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Apr$6,000$2,520$855
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May$6,000$2,520$855
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Jun$6,000$2,520$855
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Jul$6,000$2,520$855
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Aug$6,000$2,520$855
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Sep$6,000$2,520$855
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Oct$6,000$2,520$855
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Nov$6,000$2,520$855
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Daily Data Volume
No. of characters to translate daily		2. Trend for a Batch processing business use case
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10.0 M
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GCP (Cloud)GPU (In-House)CPU (In-House)
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Jan$6,000$933$318
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Feb$6,000$933$318
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Mar$6,000$933$318
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Apr$6,000$933$318
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May$6,000$933$318
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3.1 Translation Cost based on Data Volume for a Streaming business use case