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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).", "priceSummary": "$10 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 156429, "pypiWeekly": 39569, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/translator/", "openapi": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/translation/data-plane/TextTranslation/stable/2026-06-06/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.documents", "translate.glossary", "translate.detect", "translate.formality" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "batch", "async-jobs", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 72, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 119, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1223, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 20, "reliability": 83, "schema": 83, "security": 75, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "$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.", "bestFor": "Azure shops that want cheap NMT at volume, Entra ID auth and a choice of an LLM per request for tone and gender.", "strengths": [ "$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" ], "weaknesses": [ "The 2026-06-06 schema breaks v3.0 clients and drops BreakSentence and dictionary lookups from the spec", "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 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"azure/azure-sdk-for-python", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:13:17.543860592Z", "stars": 5624, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-26T07:08:10Z", "openIssues": 767, "openPRs": 389, "issuesOpened90d": 187, "issuesClosed90d": 226, "prsMerged90d": 715, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 50, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-22T21:47:29Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 11, "medianDays": 1.7 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T02:13:23.074699533Z" } }, "answer": "Azure Translator scores 72 (BB) on agent readiness against Smartcat's 54.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Smartcat leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "smartcat", "name": "Smartcat", "vendor": "Smartcat Platform Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smartcat.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "Smartcat is a hosted AI translation and localisation platform with projects, translation memories, glossaries and a linguist marketplace. Agents reach it through a REST API with webhooks, a real-time translation endpoint and a command-line tool.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartcat.json", "repo": "https://github.com/smartcatai/SmartCAT-API", "license": "Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://smartcat.ai/api/integration", "packages": [ { "registry": "packagist", "name": "smartcat/smartcat-api" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A company account is needed, and freelancer accounts can't use the API. An administrator creates API keys under Settings, API, and several keys can exist. Every call sends HTTP Basic authentication with the account ID as user name and the key as password. No scopes, expiry or read-only keys are documented. The CLI stores the workspace ID and key in a local config file or reads `SMARTCAT_API_TOKEN`.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API access is listed from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year with 2,000,000 Smartwords per the help centre (20 October 2026). Adapt is $1,200 and Accelerate $24,000 a year, without API access in the plan table. The pricing page (26 October 2026) shows Adapt from $1,200 and the other plans as custom. Usage is 1 Smartword per source word per target language, with 100 per cent TM matches and repetitions free. A 15-day trial with 15,000 Smartwords needs no card, and the pricing FAQ says it includes API access, which the plan table and trial article don't show (checked 2026-10-29).", "priceSummary": "$100 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guides, the API reference, the OpenAPI file or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-29). Plans are billed annually by contract or card.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-29" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smartcat.com", "openapi": "https://smartcat.com/api/methods/v1/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.documents", "translate.glossary" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "webhooks", "cli", "php", "trial", "no-card", "status-page", "soc2", "enterprise", "sales-led" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 810, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1223, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 56, "schema": 67, "security": 42, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-29" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Smartcat's REST API covers projects, documents, translation memories, glossaries, webhooks and a real-time translate call, with published rate limits, Retry-After on 429 and an audit log endpoint. Keys are account-wide with no documented scopes, the status page lists two incidents of an hour or more in 90 days, and API access is listed only from the $60,000-a-year Anticipate plan.", "bestFor": "Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading documents, applying translation memories and glossaries, exporting results and calling real-time translation from an app.", "strengths": [ "Rate limits published per method group, with Retry-After on 429 and `x-rate-limit-remaining` and `x-rate-limit-reset` on other responses", "A public OpenAPI 3.0.1 file with 187 operations at smartcat.com/api/methods/v1/swagger.json", "`POST /api/integration/v1/smartTranslation/translate` returns translations synchronously, and a charges method reports the Smartwords each call cost", "Webhooks for project, document, export and report events, retried 8 times over about 2 hours, with a `lastErrors` endpoint", "`GET /api/integration/v1/audit/logs` returns account events with user, type and payload, filterable by date" ], "weaknesses": [ "API access is listed only from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year per the help centre, while the pricing FAQ says the trial includes it", "API keys are account-wide, with no scopes, expiry or read-only option in the reviewed documentation", "The status page lists a 4-hour slowdown on 2 September 2026 and a 2-hour access outage in the Americas on 21 September", "The OpenAPI file isn't linked from the developer docs and declares no security scheme", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, and SOC 2 Type II is a claim on Smartcat's pages", "The only official client is the PHP library, and the developer docs have no llms.txt or Markdown copies" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Basic` with base64 of `accountId:apiKey` to the account's region host, https://smartcat.ai, https://us.smartcat.ai or https://ea.smartcat.ai.", "On 429, wait the seconds in Retry-After before retrying. The 429 itself carries no `x-rate-limit-*` headers.", "Create a smart translation profile in the web app first and pass its ID as `profile` to `smartTranslation/translate`.", "Store each `requestUid` and look charges up later with `smartTranslation/charges`, since the translate response doesn't include the cost.", "Treat callbacks as hints and poll project, document or export status as a fallback, because failed deliveries are dropped after the last retry." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 56, "schema": 67, "security": 42, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 91, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-29", "maintenance": "2026-10-29", "payments": "2026-10-29", "reliability": "2026-10-29", "schema": "2026-10-29", "security": "2026-10-29", "transparency": "2026-10-29" }, "last": "2026-10-29", "oldest": "2026-10-29", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "composer require smartcat/smartcat-api", "http": "curl -X POST https://smartcat.ai/api/integration/v1/smartTranslation/translate -u \"$SMARTCAT_ACCOUNT_ID:$SMARTCAT_API_KEY\" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"sourceLanguage\": \"en\", \"targetLanguages\": [\"de\"], \"profile\": \"PROFILE_ID\", \"texts\": [{\"text\": \"Your order has shipped.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smartcat" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Adapt (100,000 Smartwords a year, no API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "$1,200 a year billed annually, help centre and pricing page, checked 29 October 2026" }, { "item": "Accelerate (1,000,000 Smartwords a year, no API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 2000, "note": "$24,000 a year billed annually per the help centre of 20 October 2026; the pricing page shows custom" }, { "item": "Anticipate (2,000,000 Smartwords a year, API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 5000, "note": "$60,000 a year billed annually per the help centre of 20 October 2026; the pricing page shows custom" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Smartcat Platform Inc.", "domain": "smartcat.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-11-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.smartcat.com/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.smartcat.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.smartcat.ai", "changelog": "https://developers.smartcat.com/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-29", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (last updated 18 September 2026) name Smartcat Platform Inc., registered in the United States, or Smartcat Europe B.V., Strawinskylaan 903, 1077 XX Amsterdam, registration 859832880, depending on the agreement. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-translator.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-translator.json\n- Smartcat: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #810 of 1223. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartcat.json\n- Best machine translation APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/translation/index.md\n- All 78 translation comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/translation/index.md\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 56\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 67\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 42\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### Smartcat (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading documents, applying translation memories and glossaries, exporting results and calling real-time translation from an app.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: API access is listed only from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year per the help centre, while the pricing FAQ says the trial includes it\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure Translator | Smartcat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 56 | Azure Translator +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 67 | Azure Translator +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 57 | Azure Translator +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 42 | Azure Translator +33 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Smartcat +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 69 | Azure Translator +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 74 | Azure Translator +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72 · BB** | **54.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure Translator | Smartcat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft | Smartcat Platform Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com` | `https://smartcat.ai/api/integration` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| Price for translation | $10 per 1M characters | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-06-06 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 156k npm/wk, 40k PyPI/wk | 6 stars |\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**Smartcat.** Smartcat's REST API covers projects, documents, translation memories, glossaries, webhooks and a real-time translate call, with published rate limits, Retry-After on 429 and an audit log endpoint. Keys are account-wide with no documented scopes, the status page lists two incidents of an hour or more in 90 days, and API access is listed only from the $60,000-a-year Anticipate 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### Smartcat\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Basic` with base64 of `accountId:apiKey` to the account's region host, https://smartcat.ai, https://us.smartcat.ai or https://ea.smartcat.ai.\n2. On 429, wait the seconds in Retry-After before retrying. The 429 itself carries no `x-rate-limit-*` headers.\n3. Create a smart translation profile in the web app first and pass its ID as `profile` to `smartTranslation/translate`.\n4. Store each `requestUid` and look charges up later with `smartTranslation/charges`, since the translate response doesn't include the cost.\n5. Treat callbacks as hints and poll project, document or export status as a fallback, because failed deliveries are dropped after the last retry.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Azure Translator or Smartcat?\n\nAzure Translator scores 72 (BB) on agent readiness against Smartcat's 54.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Smartcat leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Azure Translator and Smartcat need an API key?\n\nAzure Translator takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Smartcat needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure Translator and Smartcat without installing anything?\n\nYes. Azure Translator has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com and Smartcat at https://smartcat.ai/api/integration.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-smartcat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-smartcat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"azure-translator\", \"b\": \"smartcat\"}`. 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