# google translate api 403 daily limit exceeded

## TL;DR

Fixes the Google Cloud Translation 403 when the daily quota is exhausted. Raise the quota, enable billing, or spread load across projects. Use when the error names a daily limit. Not for invalid credential errors.

## The error

```text
{"error":{"code":403,"message":"Daily Limit Exceeded. The quota will be reset at midnight Pacific Time.","status":"PERMISSION_DENIED"}}
```

## Fix it

### Step 1: Check current quota usage

```bash
node -e "console.log('open the Cloud Console quotas page for the Translation API')"
```

Expected: You see the daily limit and how much is consumed.

### Step 2: Raise the limit or enable billing

```bash
node -e "console.log('request a higher quota or attach a billing account to lift the cap')"
```

Expected: The quota reflects the new limit.

### Step 3: Retry with backoff after the reset or the increase

```bash
node -e "console.log('re-run the batch and confirm 200s')"
```

Expected: Translation requests succeed again.

## When to use this

- Translation API returns 403 daily limit exceeded
- A batch job dies partway through the day

## When NOT to use this

- The API returns 400, the request itself is malformed
- The key is rejected, check the credential configuration

## Tool and version compatibility

- Cloud Translation API v2 and v3
- Any client library

## Variant phrasings

### limit hit by one runaway job

Cap per-job character counts so one batch cannot eat the whole day.

### limit hit every day at the same time

Demand exceeds the quota. Raise it or add caching for repeated strings.

## Why it happens

Google caps Translation API usage per day per project. Batch jobs that translate whole catalogs can burn the quota in one run, and every further request that day gets a 403 until the midnight Pacific reset.

## Edge cases

- v2 and v3 quotas are separate; raising one does not raise the other
- Cached translations still count if the cache key misses on whitespace differences
- The reset is midnight Pacific, not your local midnight

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_BxtH0Ch69ez1NlV3u7vuCw

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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