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        "http"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "boto3"
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      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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        "level": "no",
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        "translate.text",
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        "translate.glossary",
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        "translate.formality"
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        "hosted",
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        "python",
        "typescript",
        "enterprise",
        "batch",
        "async-jobs",
        "card-required"
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          "transparency": 73
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          "performance",
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        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "IAM policies scope access per action and resource, with a `TranslateReadOnly` managed policy, and CloudTrail logs each call. AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy.",
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          "IAM policies scope access per action and resource, with a `TranslateReadOnly` managed policy, and CloudTrail logs each call",
          "Formality, profanity masking and brevity on `TranslateText`, reported back in `AppliedSettings`",
          "S3 batch jobs up to 5 GB and 1 million documents, with a `ClientToken` for idempotency",
          "Covered by the Amazon Machine Learning Language SLA",
          "Public service model and llms.txt for the developer guide"
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          "AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy",
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          "No published request rate for `TranslateText`",
          "A new AWS account needs a card before the free characters apply"
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          "Read `AppliedSettings` in the response, since unsupported formality or profanity settings are dropped without an error",
          "Retry `TooManyRequestsException` with backoff, which the AWS SDKs do by default",
          "Set the AI services opt-out policy before sending private text"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        },
        "provenanceScore": 95
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install boto3   # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-translate",
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        "amazon-polly",
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        "aws-mcp-servers",
        "amazon-ses"
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          "item": "Real-time Word documents",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 30
        },
        {
          "item": "Active Custom Translation",
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          "usd": 60
        },
        {
          "item": "Parallel data storage",
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        }
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        "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.",
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        "domainNote": "The endpoints are on amazonaws.com, an AWS domain. The security.txt on aws.amazon.com passed its Expires date on 2026-09-24.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
        "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/doc-history.html",
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        "score": 95
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.json",
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        "probe": {
          "target": "https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
          "method": "get",
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          "lastOk": true,
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
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          "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/llms.txt",
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        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "amazon.com",
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:18.739682554Z"
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            "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/doc-history.html",
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            "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/",
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      "slug": "deepl-api",
      "name": "DeepL API",
      "vendor": "DeepL",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.deepl.com/en/products/api",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "translation",
      "summary": "Translation API for text and documents in over 100 languages, with glossaries, formality control, style rules, custom instructions, a writing endpoint and a voice API.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepl-api",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepl-api.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepl-api.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepl-api.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/DeepL/deepl-mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT (MCP server)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "deepl-node"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "deepl"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "deepl-mcp-server"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "`Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key \u003ckey\u003e` header. API Free keys end in `:fx` and go to api-free.deepl.com, paid keys to api.deepl.com. The hosted MCP at mcp.deepl.com signs in with OAuth 2.1 against a DeepL account and takes no API key. The local MCP server reads `DEEPL_API_KEY`.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "DeepL has replaced its API plans. API Free (500,000 characters a month) and API Pro can no longer be bought. API Developer, where the free API key sign-up leads, allows 1,000,000 characters in total and never resets. API Growth is a monthly or yearly subscription with 1 million characters a month included (12 million a year), pay-as-you-go above that, and caps of 50 million characters and 300 speech-to-text hours a month. Enterprise is custom (https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021200939-DeepL-API-plans, https://www.deepl.com/en/ai-agents). Every source character counts, spaces included, but HTML and XML tags don't when tag handling is on. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files bill at least 50,000 characters each (https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020685720-Usage-count-and-billing-in-DeepL-API). We couldn't read the per-character rates, which the pricing page renders only in a browser.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": 328192,
        "pypiWeekly": 291467,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.deepl.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.deepl.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://developers.deepl.com/api-reference/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "translate.text",
        "translate.documents",
        "translate.glossary",
        "translate.detect",
        "translate.formality",
        "speech.translation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "eu",
        "enterprise",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 72.4,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 70,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 1,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 52,
          "schema": 95,
          "security": 82,
          "transparency": 84
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Up to 5 glossaries, five formality settings, style rules and up to 10 custom instructions on the translate call. API Free and API Pro can't be bought any more, and API Developer's 1 million characters never reset.",
        "strengths": [
          "Up to 5 glossaries, five formality settings, style rules and up to 10 custom instructions on the translate call",
          "OpenAPI document synced daily to GitHub, llms.txt and 17 dated changelog entries since 1 July 2026",
          "API Key Permissions scope a key to chosen endpoints, and keys travel only in a header",
          "Two official MCP servers, hosted with OAuth and local with an API key, the local one with CI and 15 releases since July",
          "Documented retry rules, retry 429, 529 and 5xx with backoff, don't retry 456"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "API Free and API Pro can't be bought any more, and API Developer's 1 million characters never reset",
          "Per-character rates only appear on a browser-rendered pricing page",
          "No published request rate and no SLA found for self-serve plans",
          "The privacy policy doesn't say how API Developer text is handled",
          "Office and PDF files bill at least 50,000 characters each"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Match the host to the key. Keys ending `:fx` go to api-free.deepl.com, others to api.deepl.com",
          "Send the key in the `Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key` header, since query and body keys now get 403",
          "Retry 429 and 529 with exponential backoff but stop on 456, which means the quota is spent",
          "Set `tag_handling` to html for markup so the tags survive and aren't billed",
          "Put a key-level usage limit on any key an agent holds, and scope it to the endpoints it needs"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 72.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 52,
          "schema": 95,
          "security": 82,
          "transparency": 67
        },
        "provenanceScore": 100
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install deepl   # or: npm i deepl-node",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate -H \"Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key $DEEPL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"text\":[\"Your table is booked for seven.\"],\"target_lang\":\"FR\",\"formality\":\"prefer_more\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http deepl https://mcp.deepl.com/v1/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "deepl": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "deepl-mcp-server"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "DEEPL_API_KEY": "${DEEPL_API_KEY}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepl-api"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "DeepL SE",
        "domain": "deepl.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2010-04-22",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-license",
        "privacy": "https://www.deepl.com/en/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.deepl.com",
        "changelog": "https://developers.deepl.com/docs/resources/roadmap-and-release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy names DeepL SE and DeepL AI GmbH, Maarweg 165, 50825 Cologne, as controllers.",
          "security.txt is PGP-signed and expires on 2026-12-01, per the 30 September check.",
          "The changelog says status.deepl.com became one combined page with a dedicated API view on 2026-07-16. It renders only in a browser."
        ],
        "score": 100
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepl-api.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "deepl-api",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:46.33075245Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 403,
          "lastMs": 106,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.deepl.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:39:56.229450299Z"
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            "registry": "github",
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            "released": "2026-10-01",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:27.807003735Z"
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "deepl-mcp-server",
            "version": "1.3.11",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:26.603084889Z"
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "deepl-node",
            "version": "1.28.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:25.596712396Z"
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "deepl",
            "version": "1.32.0",
            "released": "2026-08-13",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:25:26.421996174Z"
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        ],
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        "pypiWeekly": 281954,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://deepl.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2026-12-01T09:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:41.728204325Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://developers.deepl.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:30.348086965Z"
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "deepl.com",
          "registered": "2010-04-22",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/deepl.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:06.317725836Z"
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        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://developers.deepl.com/docs/resources/roadmap-and-release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:47.389843547Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.deepl.com/en/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:59.644862858Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e08bbf1a8cc4"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-license",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:01.782037578Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c66ffa503bdb"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:46.33075245Z"
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    },
    "summary": "DeepL API has a score of 72.4 (BB) against Amazon Translate's 69.8 (B). Both do translate text. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 62 points."
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-deepl-api",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-deepl-api.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepl-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepl-api.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Translate for reliability (+38).\n\nPick DeepL API for schema \u0026 documentation (+5), security \u0026 auth (+7), payments \u0026 pricing (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+62), transparency \u0026 trust (+11).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Translate | DeepL API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 52 | Amazon Translate +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 95 | DeepL API +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 83 | DeepL API +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 82 | DeepL API +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | DeepL API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 87 | DeepL API +62 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 84 | DeepL API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.8 · B** | **72.4 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Translate | DeepL API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | DeepL |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT (MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 13 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2023-10-31 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 601k npm/wk | 117 stars, 328k npm/wk, 291k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Translate.** IAM policies scope access per action and resource, with a `TranslateReadOnly` managed policy, and CloudTrail logs each call. AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy.\n\n**DeepL API.** Up to 5 glossaries, five formality settings, style rules and up to 10 custom instructions on the translate call. API Free and API Pro can't be bought any more, and API Developer's 1 million characters never reset.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Translate\n\n1. Chunk real-time text under 10,000 bytes, not characters, so multibyte scripts fit less per call\n2. Pass `SourceLanguageCode` auto to detect the source language, and handle `DetectedLanguageLowConfidenceException`\n3. Read `AppliedSettings` in the response, since unsupported formality or profanity settings are dropped without an error\n4. Retry `TooManyRequestsException` with backoff, which the AWS SDKs do by default\n5. Set the AI services opt-out policy before sending private text\n\n### DeepL API\n\n1. Match the host to the key. Keys ending `:fx` go to api-free.deepl.com, others to api.deepl.com\n2. Send the key in the `Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key` header, since query and body keys now get 403\n3. Retry 429 and 529 with exponential backoff but stop on 456, which means the quota is spent\n4. Set `tag_handling` to html for markup so the tags survive and aren't billed\n5. Put a key-level usage limit on any key an agent holds, and scope it to the endpoints it needs\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Translate or DeepL API\n\n- [Amazon Translate vs Azure Translator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-azure-translator.md)\n- [Amazon Translate vs Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-google-cloud-translation.md)\n- [Amazon Translate vs Lara Translate API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lara-translate.md)\n- [Amazon Translate vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [Amazon Translate vs Lingvanex Translation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingvanex.md)\n- [Azure Translator vs DeepL API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-deepl-api.md)\n- [DeepL API vs Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-google-cloud-translation.md)\n- [DeepL API vs Lara Translate API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lara-translate.md)\n- [DeepL API vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [DeepL API vs Lingvanex Translation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lingvanex.md)\n",
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