How is a translation priced?
On Crossleaf Standard there is no per-chapter price: your membership covers it. A premium model is quoted before it runs and charged for what it actually did.
There are two answers, because there are two ways a chapter can be translated.
On Crossleaf Standard
Nothing per chapter. Your membership covers Standard translation, so you press Translate and read the result. There is no quote to approve and no balance to watch, because nothing is being spent.
A membership does have a monthly allowance, described in chapters rather than in money — your account shows a bar and roughly how many chapters are left in the period. If you reach the end of it, Standard translation pauses until the period resets, and Plus doubles it. See How does a membership work?.
New accounts get 10 free chapters on Crossleaf Standard before any of this applies, with no card.
On a premium model
A premium model is one you pick by name under Choose the AI, and it is paid for in leaves.
Before the chapter runs, Crossleaf shows a quote and holds that many leaves from your balance. The quote comes from the chapter's length and the model you picked, so a long chapter on an expensive model costs more than a short one.
When the chapter finishes, you are charged for what the model actually did, rounded up to the leaf. If it came in under the quote, the difference goes back to your balance. If the English ran longer than estimated, the charge can be a little above it. Every charge has a receipt in your account showing the quote, the final amount, and the model.
Some rules that protect you:
- A chapter that fails before the model has done anything is fully refunded. If the model stopped part-way, you keep what it wrote and pay only for that; if it spent time thinking and then stopped before writing, you pay for that time. The receipt says which it was.
- A running job can never take more than your balance. If a charge would exceed it, it is capped and the rest is written off.
- The smallest charge for any job is 1 leaf.
Word counts for Chinese and Japanese, which do not use spaces, are estimated from characters, so quotes for those books are as accurate as for Korean or English.