Developer tools

Translate-API.com alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate16,042AGPL-3.0Self-hosted machine translation server with an HTTP API for offline translations.Open on GitHub argosopentech/argos-translate6,381MITOffline translation application and library providing local machine translation for text and documents.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Hosted SLA and uptime guarantees
Built-in multi-provider billing and usage dashboards
Enterprise features (RBAC, SAML, contracts)
Operational support and compliance assurances

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Translate-API.com, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.