NCEES certified translations

Choose By Words when you already know the exact word count (or have editable text). This is usually best for long, text-heavy documents.

• Good for contracts, manuals, reports, or long letters.
• Typical industry rates are calculated per word for high-volume text.

Choose By Pages when your file is made of separate certificates/forms or has heavy formatting (tables, stamps, signatures, mixed fields).

• Good for birth/marriage certificates, divorce decrees, USCIS-ready packets, and academic records.
• Each separate document often requires its own setup, certification workflow, and formatting pass.

Important page density rule: page estimates assume about 250–330 words per page. If a page has much more text, pricing shifts to word-based math for fairness and translator effort. Example: a 1-page marriage certificate with about 800 words is priced using the per-word rate, not a single-page minimum.

Mixed pricing can apply: some orders are rated with a combination of per-page and per-word logic depending on the document set (for example, multiple certificate-style pages plus high-density text pages in the same order).

Why estimates can differ: if your project has many separate documents with low word count per page, final pricing may still be higher than a quick estimate because layout recreation and per-document processing time are significant. This calculator is an estimate only, and the final quote may differ significantly based on formatting, certification needs, and document complexity.