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We are processing about 50 million words per day for about 12 languages. I can tell from experience that google translate is giving the best results. It similarly prices to deepl. We explored the idea of using chatgpt, but its extremely expensive compared to google/deepl 500.000 words for +-20 dollars versus a lot more with chatgpt.

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A translation tool like PoEdit can mass translate a bunch of text strings using a few different services. It's the simplest demonstration of the lower quality of Google Translate vs. DeepL at least for shorter strings. GTranslate rarely knows how a native speaker would say short phrases and concepts, preferring to translate them literally.

I'm surprised you haven't run into problems with community verified translations. They're so predictably poor that I'd stop using GTranslate just to avoid that.

That's first time I hear someone would be praising Gtranslate, while they improved recently and they are catching up with DeepL, DeepL is still by far superior to GT, everything else is in completely different league (i don't have experience with ChstGPT). Btw. Reverso should be using same neural model as DeepL and provides also interesting results, though both DeepL and GT are superior to Reverso.

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