---
title: Machine translation - Google Translate
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/configuring-translation-services/machine-translation-microsoft-translator.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/translating-content-using-external-services.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/translating-content-using-external-services/translating-localization-strings-using-machine-translation.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** **Enterprise license required**
>
> Features described on this page require the **Kentico Xperience Enterprise** license.

This service uses the [Google Translate API](https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/) to translate text. Google Translate is a paid service.

> **Note:** **Character limit**
>
> This service has a 2000 character limit for every translation request. When translating pages, the service submits the content of every field and editable region as a separate unit, so the total number of characters per page is not restricted.

## Configuring the Google Translate service

To set up the Google Translate service on your website:

1. Sign in to the [Google APIs console](https://code.google.com/apis/console/) using a Google account.
2. Create a new project and activate the **Translate API** service.
3. Obtain your project's API key on **API Access** pane.
4. Sign in to the Xperience administration interface and open the **Settings** application.
5. Select the **Content -> Translation services** category.
6. Copy the **API Key** into the corresponding setting in the **Google Translator** section.
7. Click **Save**.

You can now [translate pages](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/translating-content-using-external-services.md) and [localization strings](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/translating-content-using-external-services/translating-localization-strings-using-machine-translation.md) using the Google Translate service.