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      "summary": "Microsoft's translation API, now part of Foundry Tools.",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@azure-rest/ai-translation-text"
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      "authNotes": "`Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` with the resource key plus `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region`, a time-limited bearer token, or Microsoft Entra ID (managed identity or service principal). LLM translation also needs a Microsoft Foundry resource.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Free F0 tier with 2 million characters a month of standard translation and custom training combined (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/translator/). Pay as you go (S1) in East US is $10 per million characters for text, $15 for document translation, $40 for custom-model translation and $10 for custom training, plus $10 a month per hosted custom model per region. Commitment tiers are $2,055 a month for 250 million characters ($8.22 per million over), $6,000 for 1 billion ($6) and $22,000 for 4 billion ($5.50) (https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=productName%20eq%20%27Translator%20Text%27). LLM translation bills input and output tokens at Azure OpenAI rates instead of characters (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/translator/text-translation/overview).",
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        "translate.formality"
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        "agentReady": true,
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          "$10 per million characters pay as you go, 2 million free a month on F0, commitment overage down to $5.50",
          "Text isn't stored and documents are hard-deleted after processing",
          "OpenAPI documents for 3.0 and 2026-06-06 in Microsoft's public spec repository",
          "Up to 1,000 texts and 50,000 characters in one NMT request, several targets per call",
          "Microsoft Entra ID with managed identities as well as keys"
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          "LLM translation needs a Foundry deployment and bills tokens on the Azure OpenAI meter",
          "Tone and gender controls only on the LLM option, which takes 50 texts of 5,000 characters a call",
          "No backoff or Retry-After guidance for 429",
          "The key can travel in a `Subscription-Key` query parameter"
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          "Send `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region` with the key for a regional resource",
          "Pin `api-version=3.0` until your client handles the 2026-06-06 `inputs` and `value` shape",
          "Batch up to 1,000 strings a call rather than one call per string",
          "Spread load across the hour, since the character caps are hourly and bursts get 429",
          "Treat 403001 as the free quota running out, not a permissions error"
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        "install": "pip install azure-ai-translation-text   # or: npm i @azure-rest/ai-translation-text",
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        "azure-text-to-speech",
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        "microsoft-execution-containers",
        "microsoft-entra-agent-id",
        "azure-key-vault",
        "azure-devops-mcp",
        "microsoft-learn-mcp",
        "playwright-mcp",
        "azure-mcp",
        "azure-maps",
        "microsoft-graph-calendar",
        "microsoft-teams",
        "dynamics-365-sales",
        "power-automate",
        "microsoft-advertising-api",
        "microsoft-excel-graph",
        "outlook-mail-graph"
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        {
          "item": "S1 custom-model translation",
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          "item": "Commitment 4B",
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        "domainRegistered": "1991-05-02",
        "domainNote": "The endpoint is on api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com, a Microsoft domain. microsoft.com's security.txt passed its Expires date on 2026-09-23.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement",
        "statusPage": "https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status",
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            {
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            {
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            {
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    "answer": "Azure Translator scores 72 (BB) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community.",
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      "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",
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        "streamable-http"
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@lingo.dev/cli"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "lingo.dev"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@lingo.dev/_sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "lingodotdev"
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      ],
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      "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).",
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        "pypiWeekly": 1975,
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      "docsUrl": "https://lingo.dev/en/docs/api",
      "registryName": "dev.lingo/main",
      "capabilities": [
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        "translate.glossary",
        "translate.detect",
        "translate.formality"
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        "usage-priced",
        "prepaid",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "cli",
        "webhooks",
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        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 71,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 62,
          "transparency": 71
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          "tasks"
        ],
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        "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"
        ],
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            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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        ],
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          "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"
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        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/lingo-dev"
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        {
          "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",
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          "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"
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      ],
      "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",
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          "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
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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### Azure Translator (BB)\n\nGood for: Azure shops that want cheap NMT at volume, Entra ID auth and a choice of an LLM per request for tone and gender.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 71\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 71\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The 2026-06-06 schema breaks v3.0 clients and drops BreakSentence and dictionary lookups from the spec\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 70\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 | Azure Translator | Lingo.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 71 | Azure Translator +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 54 | Azure Translator +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 75 | Azure Translator +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 62 | Azure Translator +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) | 70 | 87 | Lingo.dev +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 71 | Azure Translator +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72 · BB** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure Translator | Lingo.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Replexica, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com` | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for translate text | $10 per 1M characters | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | 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 | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `dev.lingo/main` |\n| Last release | 2026-06-06 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-05-07 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 156k npm/wk, 40k PyPI/wk | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Azure Translator.** $10 per million characters pay as you go, 2 million free a month on F0, commitment overage down to $5.50. The 2026-06-06 schema breaks v3.0 clients and drops BreakSentence and dictionary lookups from the spec.\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### Azure Translator\n\n1. Send `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region` with the key for a regional resource\n2. Pin `api-version=3.0` until your client handles the 2026-06-06 `inputs` and `value` shape\n3. Batch up to 1,000 strings a call rather than one call per string\n4. Spread load across the hour, since the character caps are hourly and bursts get 429\n5. Treat 403001 as the free quota running out, not a permissions error\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, Azure Translator or Lingo.dev?\n\nAzure Translator scores 72 (BB) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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