If they don't want to pay, they should be using a free open source alternative like https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
Yet tiny European languages like Latvian are supported, as are very difficult translation targets such as Estonian and Hungarian.
My hopes are dashed every time they add another tiny European language and Turkish remains off the table. :-(
> do you have some metrics you can share?
Not really. Try to have discussions using DeepL and Google Translate. Ask native speakers which one was more accurate and whatnot.
I do not know French, but DeepL allowed me to speak to someone using the language, and apparently at some point some people thought I was a native speaker!
I'd recommend pizza and beer at tech events instead (albeit the nutritional content of your diet could be more important than free food).
Even if they would have TOS for translate, pretty sure that’s unenforceable. Not unless hiding that page behind a paywall, or requiring a google account. Merely visiting a publicly available web page doesn’t create contractual relationship between end user and web server owner.
Even if they are, I have doubts that’s enforceable either. One doesn’t need to reverse engineer an API to consume that API, and it’s hard to find out who did the reverse engineering. The reverse engineering might be accomplished by someone else who’s not a Google’s Cloud customer, like an unrelated person answering a question on stackoverflow.com.