November 2, 2026 · 7 min
What it actually costs to translate a landing page with AI
Three tools, three billing models, and a 200× price gap. One page into five languages: $0, $0.10, or $20 a month — plus the two to four hours nobody counts.
Make it · Move it · Get paid
What selling across a border actually costs.
One order gets charged three times: to make it, to move it, and to get paid. Tarvolo prices all three — in dollars per order, not in percentages per policy.
Checked against primary sources Figures dated on every post
Every one of those three bills is quoted in a unit that hides the total. Tariffs arrive as a rate on a classification code. Payment fees arrive as a percentage plus a fixed fee plus a spread, from three different parties. AI tooling arrives as a subscription tier that has nothing to do with the job you are doing.
So the format here is fixed: take one real transaction, run the published numbers against it, and state the amount that actually leaves your account.
Three bills, one order
01
The AI Cost Lab
The tools that produce the page, the image, the listing, the video. Priced by the task rather than by the plan, because a subscription tier tells you nothing about the cost of finishing one job.
02
Move it
The Duty Desk
The United States suspended its $800 de minimis exemption for every country in August 2025, made the suspension indefinite by regulation in June 2026, and repeals it by statute in July 2027. That change gets reported in paragraphs. Here it gets reported as the amount added to a single order.
03
Get paid
The Money In
Processing fee, currency spread, withdrawal fee: three separate charges on the same dollar, collected by three different parties, and never shown together on any one pricing page. This is usually the largest of the three bills, and the least examined.
From the AI Cost Lab
01 entryWhy the name
Tarvolo is a constructed word: tariff, plus volare — to fly. The price, known before you take off. Which is also the editorial rule: a published rate gets converted into the cost of one transaction before this site is allowed an opinion about it.
What this site is not
- Not a list of "top 10 AI tools", and not a customs consultancy. No advice, only arithmetic you can check.
- Not sponsored. Affiliate links, where they exist, are labelled on the page they appear on.
- Not permanent. Tariffs and fees in this category change by executive order; every post carries the date its numbers were checked.