# Amazon Translate vs Phrase (slim)

> Amazon Translate scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Phrase leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes…

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Amazon Translate scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Phrase leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do translate text.

- Amazon Translate: B 69.5, rank #154 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-translate.min.md
- Phrase: B 64.2, rank #285 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phrase.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 55; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 70; Security & auth, 75 against 58.
- Phrase, good for Teams that keep translation projects, term bases and translation memories in Phrase and want an agent to run them, or to translate through engines chosen per language pair. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 83 against 25; Transparency & trust, 74 against 69. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amazon Translate | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Translate | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Phrase a.s. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://mcp.eu.phrase.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Price for translate text | $15 per 1M characters | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Phrase Terms of Service. The CLI, the Strings API clients and the deprecated local MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.phrase/mcp` |
| Last release | 2023-10-31 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 601k npm/wk | 49 stars, 40k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |