Free Translation Quote London: Fixed GBP Price, ISO 17100, Returned Within One Working Hour

How do you get a free translation quote in London?

Send your source document through the contact form, by email attachment or by drag-and-drop upload, confirm the target language and required certification tier, and a fixed GBP quote is returned within one working hour during London business hours, at no cost and with no payment details required.

What does a free translation quote from a London agency include?

A free translation quote from a London agency includes the fixed GBP price inclusive of UK VAT, the turnaround date, the language pair, the certification tier (certified, sworn, notarised or apostilled), the ISO 17100 TEP workflow scope, delivery format (certified PDF and posted hard copy where applicable), and a 30-day validity window.

How fast is a free translation quote returned in London?

A free translation quote is returned within one working hour during London business hours for standard documents submitted through the contact form; urgent same-day requests submitted before 11:00 GMT are acknowledged sooner, and complex multi-file technical packs receive a scoped estimate within four working hours.

How much does translation cost in the UK and how is a quote built?

Translation costs in the UK start at £30 per certified page, with contracts and legal documents priced £0.10–£0.18 per source word; a London quote is built from five levers — language pair, certification tier, subject specialism, turnaround band and formatting complexity — applied as fixed GBP line items.

Which documents can be quoted for translation in London?

London translation quotes cover certified civil documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce decrees, driving licences, passports, diplomas, academic transcripts), legal documents (contracts, court judgments, tribunal bundles), corporate documents (financial statements, marketing material, user manuals) and specialist content (patient records, scientific papers, privacy policies) across 150+ language pairs.

What is the difference between certified, sworn, notarised and apostilled translation quotes?

A certified translation quote covers a signed certificate of accuracy from an ISO 17100 agency (£30/page); a sworn translation quote adds a sworn translator’s declaration (£45/page); a notarised quote adds a UK notary public’s endorsement (£75/document); an apostilled quote adds FCDO legalisation for overseas use (£95/document).

Complete guide

A free translation quote in London is a no-obligation pre-project estimate issued by a London-based ISO 17100 translation agency, stating the fixed GBP price inclusive of UK VAT, turnaround date, language pair and certification tier. It is returned within one working hour during London business hours and remains valid for 30 days. Certified translation starts at £30 per page; sworn from £45 per page; notarised from £75 per document; FCDO apostille from £95 per document. New clients receive a 20% first-project discount applied automatically.

A free translation quote from a London agency includes the fixed GBP price inclusive of UK VAT, turnaround date, language pair, certification tier, ISO 17100 TEP workflow scope, delivery format and a 30-day validity window. Certified PDF is standard; posted hard copy costs £8 UK postage where required.

How long is a free translation quote valid?

A free translation quote is valid for 30 days from the date of issue. Once you confirm scope in writing within that window, the GBP price, deadline and certification type are fixed and cannot change.

Is the quoted price inclusive of UK VAT?

The quoted price is expressed inclusive of UK VAT where applicable, so the GBP figure on the quotation is the figure you pay. VAT lines are itemised for finance and procurement teams that need a formal breakdown for purchase orders.

A free translation quote is returned within one working hour during London business hours for standard documents submitted through the contact form, by email attachment, or via the drag-and-drop upload tool. No payment details are required at any stage of the quoting process, and the quote carries zero obligation to proceed. The one-hour turnaround applies to the majority of document types — including civil certificates, legal contracts, academic transcripts and business correspondence — provided they are submitted as legible files with a confirmed target language and deadline.

Urgent same-day requests submitted before 11:00 GMT are acknowledged sooner, and a project manager will confirm feasibility by return. Complex multi-file technical packs — those exceeding ten files or requiring specialist subject-matter review — receive a fully scoped estimate within four working hours rather than one, so that every line item in the fixed GBP price is accurate from the outset. The quotation, once issued, is valid for 30 days from the date of issue, giving London buyers a firm price to present to finance teams or procurement sign-off processes without time pressure.

First-time clients benefit from a 20% new-client discount applied automatically to the first project, so the price shown in the one-hour quote already reflects that reduction. Because the price is fixed and inclusive of UK VAT where applicable, there are no surprise line items between quotation and invoice.

Pricing

The quote itself costs £0 — no payment details are required, and there is no obligation to proceed once the quotation has been issued. The translation work that follows is a paid professional service, and that distinction matters: the quotation is the mechanism by which a fixed GBP price, inclusive of UK VAT where applicable, is established before any commitment is made.

Free machine-translation tools produce raw output that UK authorities, courts and regulated bodies do not accept for certified purposes. A free quotation from a professional London translation agency therefore covers the cost of human, ISO 17100 certified translation — a translator, a reviser and a project manager working under a structured TEP workflow — rather than unedited machine output. The quote makes clear which certification tier applies: certified translation starts at £30 per certified page, sworn translation at £45 per page, and notarised translation at £75 per document, so buyers can compare tiers before committing.

New clients receive a 20% first-project discount applied automatically to their opening order, and the quotation remains valid for 30 days from the date of issue, meaning the price is locked whether the project begins immediately or requires internal approval first. Submitting a document for quotation is straightforward: use the contact form, send an email attachment, or drag and drop the file directly — all three channels return a fixed price within one working hour.

London translation quotes cover civil, legal, corporate, medical and specialist documents across 150+ languages. Our full Document Translation catalogue lists every document type we handle, and quotes reference the same categories.

• Civil: birth certificates, marriage certificate, divorce decrees, driving licences, passports, diploma, academic transcripts.
• Legal documents: legal contracts, court judgments, tribunal bundles, witness statements.
• Corporate: financial statements, marketing material, user manuals, privacy policies.
• Medical: patient records, clinical reports, scientific papers.
• Audio evidence: transcription quoted separately, often preceding translation.

Which language combinations are quoted from London?

Quotes are issued for 150+ language combinations across eight regional clusters. High-volume pairs include Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese, Polish, French, German, Spanish and Mandarin, handled by mother tongue linguists rather than generalists. Arabic and Portuguese requests are quoted daily for UK courts, UKVI and university admissions.

ISO 17100 certified translations produced under our London agency’s TEP workflow are prepared to meet the submission standards of the Home Office, UKVI, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the passport office, DVLA, ENIC and UK universities. Every certified translation is accompanied by a signed certificate of accuracy — on agency letterhead, with the translator’s full name, qualifications and contact details — because those authorities require that specific declaration before accepting a translated document as legally valid.

The certificate confirms that the translation is a true, accurate and complete rendering of the source document, and that the translator or the agency holds ISO 17100 accreditation. This is the standard that UK regulatory bodies recognise as the benchmark for professional translation quality. For tribunal and court proceedings in particular, the certificate must accompany every page of the translation; our workflow produces both a certified PDF for digital submission and a posted hard copy where the receiving body requires an original wet signature.

For documents intended for overseas use — consular applications, foreign court filings or corporate submissions in Hague Convention member states — the sworn translation tier at £45 per page, notarised translation at £75 per document, or apostille at £95 per document provides the additional layers of legal endorsement those authorities require. Always confirm the precise format with the receiving authority before submission, as requirements can vary by jurisdiction and document type; our project managers provide guidance on the appropriate tier as part of the free quotation process.

Once a quote is accepted and confirmed in writing, the ISO 17100 translator–reviser–project-manager workflow begins within one working hour. The project manager assigns a mother-tongue specialist for the subject matter in question — legal, medical, academic or technical — and a second linguist is allocated as reviser under the TEP (Translation, Editing, Proofreading) process, ensuring no certified translation reaches the client as single-reviewed output.

Turnaround time is determined by word count, subject complexity and the certification tier selected:

• Under 1,000 words (civil documents): same-day delivery is available for projects submitted before 11:00 GMT, with a 30–50% urgency surcharge applied and disclosed in the quotation.
• Legal and academic packs: 24–48 working hours, reflecting the additional review required for subject-specific terminology and the production of a compliant certificate of accuracy.
• Business and general content (2,000–10,000 words): 2–3 working days, based on a production rate of 1,500–2,000 finished words per linguist per day under the full TEP workflow.
• Technical projects above 10,000 words: scheduled milestone delivery with agreed checkpoints, so the client and project manager maintain visibility throughout.

The price, turnaround and scope agreed in the fixed GBP quotation are locked at acceptance; no additional charges arise unless the source document or scope changes after confirmation. Where a notarised translation at £75 per document or an apostille at £95 per document is required, the notary or FCDO legalisation step adds one to three working days to the overall timeline, and that additional time is stated in the quotation rather than communicated after the event.

Our professional translation agency in London uses AI-assisted tools and neural machine translation only where the quotation explicitly states full post-editing by a qualified human linguist, and only for document types where the receiving authority permits that workflow. The distinction is always disclosed in the fixed GBP quotation before any work begins, so the buyer knows precisely what process their documents will go through.

Certified, sworn, legal, medical and official document translation — the categories most commonly requested through our London office — is produced exclusively by mother-tongue human translators working under the ISO 17100 TEP workflow. That workflow requires a translator, a reviser and a project manager as three distinct roles; raw or lightly edited machine output does not satisfy that standard, and UK authorities including the Home Office, UKVI and HM Courts and Tribunals Service do not accept it for certified submissions. Legal contract translation, for example, is priced at £0.10–£0.18 per source word precisely because it requires specialist human expertise and a full second-linguist review — not because a machine has produced a draft that a human has skimmed.

Where AI-assisted translation is genuinely appropriate — high-volume, low-sensitivity business content, for instance — the quotation will say so, state the post-editing tier, and price accordingly. A buyer who receives a quote that is silent on this point should ask directly before confirming, because the process determines whether the finished document will be accepted by the intended recipient.

Submitting a document for a free translation quote takes under two minutes. Three channels are available: the contact form, a direct email attachment, or the drag-and-drop upload tool on the quote page. All three routes deliver the document directly to a project manager, who returns a fixed GBP quotation — inclusive of UK VAT where applicable — within one working hour during London business hours. No payment details are required at any stage of the quoting process, and there is no obligation to proceed once the quote has been received.

1. Attach the source document via contact form, email or drag-and-drop upload. Accepted formats include PDF, Word, scanned images and most common file types; if the document is a scan, legibility determines whether a per-page or per-word rate applies.
2. Confirm the language pair, certification tier and deadline. Specifying the target language, the intended recipient (for example, UKVI, a foreign consulate, or an overseas court) and the required delivery date allows the project manager to select the correct tier — certified from £30 per page, sworn from £45, notarised from £75 — and confirm feasibility in a single response.
3. Receive the fixed GBP quotation within one working hour. The quote is itemised by line — per-page or per-word rate, certification tier, any urgency surcharge — so every cost component is visible before a decision is made.
4. Confirm scope in writing. Once the buyer confirms by reply, the price, turnaround and validity are locked. The quotation is valid for 30 days from the date of issue, so internal sign-off processes do not cause the price to lapse.
5. Receive certified PDF delivery, plus a posted hard copy with original wet signature where the receiving authority requires one. The full ISO 17100 TEP workflow — translator, reviser, project manager — begins within one working hour of written confirmation.

New clients receive a 20% first-project discount applied automatically, so the price shown in the returned quotation already reflects that reduction. There is no code to enter and no threshold to reach; the discount applies to the first project regardless of document type or certification tier.

Translation services in the UK cost from £30 per certified page and £0.10–£0.20 per source word for business content. Longer certified documents fall between £80 and £150 per standard document.