# Amazon Translate vs Lingo.dev (slim)

> 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 & community. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & community. Both do translate text.

- Amazon Translate: B 69.5, rank #154 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.min.md
- Lingo.dev: B 62.3, rank #341 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.min.md
- Amazon Translate, good for Operators already on AWS who want translation inside IAM and CloudTrail, with S3 batch jobs and terminology files. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 71; Schema & documentation, 90 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 75; Security & auth, 75 against 62.
- Lingo.dev, good 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. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 87 against 25.

| Category | Amazon Translate | Lingo.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 71 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 54 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Translate | Lingo.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Replexica, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for translate text | $15 per 1M characters | not published |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `dev.lingo/main` |
| Last release | 2023-10-31 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-05-07 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 601k npm/wk | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |