---
title: "Understanding Machine Translation Credits"
description: "For each machine translation you'll use one credit. But how do you know how many you have and how can your purchase more? Find out here."
url: "https://support.helpdocs.io/article/xura4on9sb-understanding-machine-translation-credits"
category: "Machine Translations"
updated_at: "2026-07-30T16:49:08Z"
---

# Understanding Machine Translation Credits

Machine translations help you expand your business to multiple regions and provide help to people who speak different languages.

We use a credit system to help you keep track of the number of machine translations you use. Depending on your plan, you'll get a certain number of machine translation credits that renew monthly 📆

Articles containing approximately 2,000 words or more cannot be machine translated.

The included monthly credits don't roll over to the next month, but extra credits purchased separately do.

### Finding Your Machine Translation Credit Count

You can check your remaining credits in two ways:

During article translation

When you're ready to translate your article, a popup displays your remaining credits.

![A UI popup showing how many translation credits are left](https://files.helpdocs.io/Ytt2uahFxY/articles/xura4on9sb/1653937140442/screenshot-2022-05-30-at-19-58-26.png)

In your account settings

You can check your current balance anytime from settings.

1. Head to **Settings** > **Language** > **Machine Translations**
2. Check balance under **Total Translations Remaining**  
   ![](https://files.helpdocs.io/Ytt2uahFxY/articles/xura4on9sb/1653937485206/image.png)

### Purchasing Extra Machine Translation Credits

Need more credits? You can purchase additional one-off machine translation credits that never expire, right from your dashboard 🦾

Extra credits are sold in packs of 100. Check current pricing on [our pricing page](https://www.helpdocs.io/pricing).

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1. Head to **Settings** > **Billing**
2. Scroll to **Machine Translations** and click **Buy more credits**
3. You'll be redirected to the Billing portal
4. Select your quantity by clicking **Qty: 100**
5. Enter your card details and click **Pay**
6. Your balance will be topped up with non-expiring credits 🎉