{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "amazon-translate", "name": "Amazon Translate", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/translate/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "AWS's neural translation API across 75 languages.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-translate.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-translate" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "AWS Signature Version 4 with IAM access keys or a role. Regional endpoints `translate.\u003cregion\u003e.amazonaws.com`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$15 per million characters for real-time text, batch and real-time text or HTML documents. Real-time Word (.docx) documents are $30 per million and Active Custom Translation $60. Parallel data storage is free to 200 GB, then $0.023 per GB a month. The pricing page lists 2 million characters a month free for up to 12 months from the first translation request, and 500,000 a month for 2 months of Active Custom Translation. Unused free characters don't roll over. Over 1 billion characters a month is by quote (https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 600597, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.documents", "translate.glossary", "translate.detect", "translate.formality" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "batch", "async-jobs", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2023-10-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 154, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 20, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 75, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "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.", "bestFor": "Operators already on AWS who want translation inside IAM and CloudTrail, with S3 batch jobs and terminology files.", "strengths": [ "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy", "No new capability in the document history since 2023-10-31", "10,000 bytes a `TranslateText` call and one string per call", "No published request rate for `TranslateText`", "A new AWS account needs a card before the free characters apply" ], "agentNotes": [ "Chunk real-time text under 10,000 bytes, not characters, so multibyte scripts fit less per call", "Pass `SourceLanguageCode` auto to detect the source language, and handle `DetectedLanguageLowConfidenceException`", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 20, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 75, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install boto3 # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-translate", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/\" \\\n --aws-sigv4 \"aws:amz:us-east-1:translate\" --user \"$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1\" -H \"X-Amz-Target: AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText\" \\\n -d '{\"Text\":\"Your table is booked for seven.\",\"SourceLanguageCode\":\"en\",\"TargetLanguageCode\":\"fr\",\"Settings\":{\"Formality\":\"FORMAL\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-translate" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "aws-secrets-manager", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-location", "amazon-ads-api" ], "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard text and batch", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 15, "note": "Also real-time text and HTML documents" }, { "item": "Real-time Word documents", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 30 }, { "item": "Active Custom Translation", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 60 }, { "item": "Parallel data storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.023, "note": "Above 200 GB free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "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", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-translate", "probe": { "target": "https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:15.385400511Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 247, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 257, "p95ms24h": 309, "samples24h": 270, "samples30d": 1962, "days": [ { "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-translate", "version": "3.1147.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:58:15.758277828Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3", "version": "1.43.109", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:58:19.122903114Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 744769, "pypiWeekly": 573748207, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:45.56973403Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:08.067744094Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "amazon.com", "registered": "1994-11-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:18.739682554Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/doc-history.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:26.650770831Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4ed712c7a38a" }, { "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:47.784867052Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5e80ed498008" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:15.385400511Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Translate scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "lingo-dev", "name": "Lingo.dev", "vendor": "Replexica, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://lingo.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "Lingo.dev is a hosted AI translation platform from Replexica, Inc. Customers configure engines with glossaries, brand voices, rules and a model per language pair, then call them through a REST API, a CLI or a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lingo-dev.json", "repo": "https://github.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@lingo.dev/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "lingo.dev" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@lingo.dev/_sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "lingodotdev" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-API-Key` header. A person creates the key in the dashboard after a browser signup, with no review or sales step. Personal keys exist on every plan and carry their creator's access. Organisation keys with their own role and engine scope need the Enterprise plan. The MCP server signs in through a browser with OAuth (authorisation code, PKCE, dynamic client registration) and the user picks one organisation on the consent screen. No OAuth scopes are published.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Usage is billed from prepaid credits with auto-reload. Lingo.dev charges $2 per million output tokens on top of the LLM provider's price, which is passed through with no markup, plus $0.50 per engine a month and $0.01 per AI review run. Sandbox has a $0 base and 100,000 tokens a day, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Production is $99 a month with 5 million tokens a day, and Enterprise is custom. No free usage allowance was found, and whether signup needs a card could not be read without an account (https://lingo.dev/en/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs or the pricing page. The API's 402 status means the organisation's credit limit was reached and carries no payment instructions (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5402, "npmWeekly": 91991, "pypiWeekly": 1975, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://lingo.dev/en/docs/api", "registryName": "dev.lingo/main", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.glossary", "translate.detect", "translate.formality" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "typescript", "python", "closed-source", "status-page", "soc2", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 341, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 54, "security": 62, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. It has no public OpenAPI file, its `llms.txt` is one line, and scoped keys, roles and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan.", "bestFor": "Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.", "strengths": [ "Glossary terms, per-locale brand voice and rules apply on every call, sync or async, through one configured engine", "Each sync response reports the model used, token counts and cost in USD", "Async jobs take up to 100 target locales, an `idempotencyKey`, signed webhooks and cursor paging with `limit` up to 100", "The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration, with no key to paste", "Public prices, a weekly changelog since March 2026 and an OpenStatus page with incident history" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version", "Organisation keys with their own role and engine scope, RBAC and audit logs are Enterprise only. On other plans every member is an Owner", "The status page lists two partial API outages in 90 days, on 18 July 2026 (closed after 19 hours) and 22 September 2026 (1 hour 50 minutes)", "Errors carry a status code and a free-text `message`, with no machine-readable code and no `Retry-After` documented", "The privacy policy points to lingo.dev/security for sub-processors, and that page returned 404 on 8 October 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-API-Key` to https://api.lingo.dev and keep the key server-side. On non-Enterprise plans a personal key reaches every engine its creator can", "Use `POST /process/localize` for one language pair and `POST /jobs/localization` with an `idempotencyKey` for several. Pipeline stages run on async jobs only", "Treat 402 (credit limit) and 429 (daily token quota) as limits to report, not to retry. Retry 500 with backoff", "Read `usage.cost` on each sync response to track spend. Sandbox stops at 100,000 tokens a day", "Connect MCP clients to https://mcp.lingo.dev/account. Its tools can create and revoke API keys and invite members, so ask before those calls" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 54, "security": 62, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @lingo.dev/cli", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.lingo.dev/process/localize \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: your_api_key\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"engineId\": \"eng_abc123\", \"sourceLocale\": \"en\", \"targetLocale\": \"de\", \"data\": {\"greeting\": \"Hello\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add lingo --transport http https://mcp.lingo.dev/account --scope user", "config": { "lingo": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lingo-dev" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lingo.dev infrastructure fee", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "Computed from output tokens. The LLM provider's price is added with no markup" }, { "item": "Production plan base", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "5 million tokens a day. Sandbox base is $0 with 100,000 a day" }, { "item": "Each engine", "unit": "month", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Per engine on Sandbox and Production" }, { "item": "AI review run", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Per run" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Replexica, Inc.", "domain": "lingo.dev", "domainRegistered": "2021-05-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://lingo.dev/en/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://lingo.dev/en/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.lingo.dev", "changelog": "https://lingo.dev/en/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service (last updated 7 May 2026) cover the website, the platform, the APIs, the CLI and the MCP server, name Replexica Inc. and Lingo.dev (Replexica, Inc), and are governed by Delaware law.", "The privacy policy (last updated 7 May 2026) covers the website and the platform, including content submitted for translation.", "The API answers at api.lingo.dev and the MCP server at mcp.lingo.dev, both on the vendor's domain.", "lingo.dev/.well-known/security.txt gives security@lingo.dev, a canonical URL and a disclosure policy with a safe-harbour promise. It has no Expires field.", "RDAP for lingo.dev gives a registration date of 2021-05-03. The site footer says the company is headquartered in San Francisco. No street address was found in the terms or the privacy policy.", "The privacy policy says the sub-processor list is kept in the Data Processing Agreement and at lingo.dev/security. That URL returned 404 on 8 October 2026 and no published DPA was found." ], "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.json", "live": { "slug": "lingo-dev", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:25.772107047Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 628, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 730, "p95ms24h": 1336, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lingo.dev", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:45.164350131Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:25.772107047Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Replexica, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$15 per 1M characters", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for translate text" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "dev.lingo/main", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2023-10-31", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-05-07", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2026-05-07", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "601k npm/wk", "b": "5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Translate scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Translate or Lingo.dev?" }, { "answer": "Amazon Translate needs an API key. Lingo.dev takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Amazon Translate and Lingo.dev need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Amazon Translate has a hosted endpoint at https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Lingo.dev at https://mcp.lingo.dev/account.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Translate and Lingo.dev without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 71", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 54", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 75", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 62" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Operators already on AWS who want translation inside IAM and CloudTrail, with S3 batch jobs and terminology files.", "slug": "amazon-translate", "watchFor": "AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 25" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.", "slug": "lingo-dev", "watchFor": "No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version" } ], "job": { "capability": "translate.text", "name": "Translate text" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-azure-translator.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Azure Translator", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-azure-translator" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-crowdin.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Crowdin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-crowdin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-deepl-api.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs DeepL API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-deepl-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-google-cloud-translation.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Google Cloud Translation", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-google-cloud-translation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lara-translate.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Lara Translate API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lara-translate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-libretranslate.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs LibreTranslate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-libretranslate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingvanex.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Lingvanex Translation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingvanex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lokalise.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Lokalise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lokalise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-phrase.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Phrase", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-phrase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-systran.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs SYSTRAN Translate API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-systran" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "Azure Translator vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-lingo-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "DeepL API vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lingo-dev" }, { 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingo-dev-vs-lokalise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingo-dev-vs-phrase.json", "title": "Lingo.dev vs Phrase", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingo-dev-vs-phrase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingo-dev-vs-systran.json", "title": "Lingo.dev vs SYSTRAN Translate API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingo-dev-vs-systran" } ], "scores": [ { "amazon-translate": 90, "by": 19, "edge": "amazon-translate", "key": "reliability", "lingo-dev": 71, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-translate": 90, "by": 36, "edge": "amazon-translate", "key": "schema", "lingo-dev": 54, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "amazon-translate": 80, "by": 5, "edge": "amazon-translate", "key": "ergonomics", "lingo-dev": 75, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "amazon-translate": 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Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do translate text.", "verdicts": { "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.", "lingo-dev": "Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-translate.json\n- Lingo.dev: grade B, 62.3/100, rank #341 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lingo-dev.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Translate (B)\n\nGood for: Operators already on AWS who want translation inside IAM and CloudTrail, with S3 batch jobs and terminology files.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 71\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 62\n\nWatch for: AWS may store and use text to improve Amazon AI services unless the organisation sets an opt-out policy\n\n### Lingo.dev (B)\n\nGood for: Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 25\n\nWatch for: No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Translate | Lingo.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 71 | Amazon Translate +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 54 | Amazon Translate +36 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 75 | Amazon Translate +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 62 | Amazon Translate +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 87 | Lingo.dev +62 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 71 | Lingo.dev +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.5 · B** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Translate | Lingo.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Replexica, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for translate text | $15 per 1M characters | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `dev.lingo/main` |\n| Last release | 2023-10-31 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 601k npm/wk | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\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**Lingo.dev.** Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. It has no public OpenAPI file, its `llms.txt` is one line, and scoped keys, roles and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan.\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### Lingo.dev\n\n1. Send `X-API-Key` to https://api.lingo.dev and keep the key server-side. On non-Enterprise plans a personal key reaches every engine its creator can\n2. Use `POST /process/localize` for one language pair and `POST /jobs/localization` with an `idempotencyKey` for several. Pipeline stages run on async jobs only\n3. Treat 402 (credit limit) and 429 (daily token quota) as limits to report, not to retry. Retry 500 with backoff\n4. Read `usage.cost` on each sync response to track spend. Sandbox stops at 100,000 tokens a day\n5. Connect MCP clients to https://mcp.lingo.dev/account. Its tools can create and revoke API keys and invite members, so ask before those calls\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Translate or Lingo.dev?\n\nAmazon Translate scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Amazon Translate and Lingo.dev need an API key?\n\nAmazon Translate needs an API key. Lingo.dev takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Translate and Lingo.dev without installing anything?\n\nYes. Amazon Translate has a hosted endpoint at https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Lingo.dev at https://mcp.lingo.dev/account.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingo-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingo-dev.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"amazon-translate\", \"b\": \"lingo-dev\"}`. 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