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      "slug": "crowdin",
      "name": "Crowdin",
      "vendor": "Crowdin OÜ",
      "vendorUrl": "https://crowdin.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "translation",
      "summary": "Crowdin is a hosted localisation platform that stores source files and strings, translation memories and glossaries, and runs machine and AI translation over them. Agents reach it through a REST API, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crowdin.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/crowdin/crowdin-cli",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crowdin/crowdin-api-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crowdin/cli"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "crowdin-api-client"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A person signs up in a browser, then creates a personal access token in Account Settings or registers an OAuth app. No review or sales approval is described. Every call sends `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. Tokens take an expiry date (the default is never), scopes with read-only or read-and-write access, and a granular option that limits them to chosen projects. OAuth is the authorisation code grant at accounts.crowdin.com, with a client secret or PKCE, and access tokens last 7,200 seconds with a refresh token. The MCP server accepts the same tokens, or an OAuth sign-in where the client registers itself at `https://mcp.crowdin.com/register`.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "A Free plan at $0 and a 14-day trial of the Team plan let an agent's owner start without a contract. Paid plans in the pricing page's structured data are Pro $50, Team $150 and Team+ $450 a month, with annual billing giving two months free. Plans are sized by hosted words (source words multiplied by target languages). Machine translation, AI and professional translation are paid from prepaid Crowdin Credits, or run on the customer's own engine keys. Plan limits, the comparison table and the CDN add-on's unit prices are drawn by script and were not read. Whether the Free plan needs a card is not stated on the page (https://crowdin.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$50 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer documentation, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 320,
        "npmWeekly": 264028,
        "pypiWeekly": 13847,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://support.crowdin.com/developer/api/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://support.crowdin.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://support.crowdin.com/src/assets/api/crowdin/file-based.yml",
      "capabilities": [
        "translate.text",
        "translate.documents",
        "translate.glossary",
        "translate.detect"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "cli",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "eu",
        "status-page",
        "closed-source",
        "localisation"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 69.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 153,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 78,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 68,
          "transparency": 79
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The REST API has a public OpenAPI document with 374 operations, and tokens can be limited by scope, access level and project. Translation runs inside Crowdin projects and connected engines, so it is not a stateless per-character translation API. No Retry-After guidance, idempotency keys or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that keep product strings and files in Crowdin and want an agent to upload sources, check progress, apply pre-translation, manage glossaries and pull builds.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 374 operations on 218 paths, plus `llms.txt` with one text file per route",
          "Personal access tokens take an expiry date, per-scope read-only or read-and-write access, and a granular option limiting them to chosen projects",
          "The MCP V2 endpoint filters tools by header, with `crowdin-read-only`, `crowdin-tool-sets`, `crowdin-project-type` and `crowdin-tool-filter`",
          "status.crowdin.com lists no incident between 10 July and 8 October 2026, with separate components for the API and the EU data centre",
          "Seven official API clients under MIT, with `@crowdin/crowdin-api-client` 1.59.0 on 29 September and `@crowdin/cli` 5.3.0 on 24 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The terms forbid accessing the service to monitor availability, performance or functionality, or for benchmarking, without Crowdin's prior written consent",
          "A 429 is returned above 20 simultaneous requests an account, with no Retry-After header or backoff guidance in the reference",
          "No idempotency keys in the OpenAPI document, and no SLA found in the terms or the help centre",
          "Plan limits and add-on unit prices on the pricing page are drawn by script. Only four plan prices were readable, from the page's structured data",
          "MCP V1 and 12 API operations are marked deprecated with no removal date, and no deprecation policy was found"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2`. Crowdin Enterprise uses `https://\u003corganization_domain\u003e.api.crowdin.com/api/v2`",
          "Use the MCP V2 endpoint `https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp` and set `crowdin-tool-sets`, because the server loads all 33 tool sets by default",
          "Set `crowdin-read-only: true` on the MCP connection for exploration. It exposes only list and get tools",
          "Keep to 20 concurrent requests an account across all tokens, and add your own backoff on 429",
          "Upload a file to `/storages` first, then pass the `storageId` to the add-file call. Builds, exports and reports are asynchronous and need a status poll",
          "`/mts/{mtId}/translations` takes at most 100 strings a call and needs the `mt` scope and a configured engine"
        ],
        "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": 69.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 78,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 68,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "provenanceScore": 93
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm i @crowdin/crowdin-api-client   # or: pip install crowdin-api-client",
        "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN\" https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2/projects",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --header \"Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_CROWDIN_TOKEN}\" crowdin https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "crowdin": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer {YOUR_CROWDIN_TOKEN}"
              },
              "url": "https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/crowdin"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 150,
          "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team+ plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 450,
          "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Crowdin OÜ",
        "domain": "crowdin.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2009-02-07",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://support.crowdin.com/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://support.crowdin.com/privacy-policy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.crowdin.com",
        "changelog": "https://crowdin.com/blog/whats-new-at-crowdin-september-2026",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last revised 24 September 2026) name Crowdin OÜ, Liivalaia 36, Tallinn, Estonia, register code 14479905, as the contracting party, under Estonian law.",
          "The terms govern the platform and its APIs (the definition of Software Services includes APIs) and carry the data processing contract in section 9.",
          "The privacy policy (last revised 24 September 2026) covers the site and the service. crowdin.com/privacy redirects to it.",
          "crowdin.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a contact page, a policy link and an expiry of 31 January 2030.",
          "No dated API changelog was found. The changelog link is the latest monthly product update on the blog, published 1 October 2026.",
          "RDAP for crowdin.com gives a registration date of 2009-02-07.",
          "The API answers at api.crowdin.com and the MCP server at mcp.crowdin.com."
        ],
        "score": 93
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "crowdin",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:08.255292657Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 271,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 280,
          "p95ms24h": 301,
          "samples24h": 21,
          "samples30d": 21,
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "ok": 21
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.crowdin.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:58.709720971Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:08.255292657Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Google Cloud Translation's 68.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Google Cloud Translation leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.",
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      "name": "Google Cloud Translation",
      "vendor": "Google Cloud",
      "vendorUrl": "https://cloud.google.com/translate",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "translation",
      "summary": "Google's API for translating text and documents.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-cloud-translation.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-translate",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://translation.googleapis.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "google-cloud-translate"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@google-cloud/translate"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Basic (v2) takes an API key. Advanced (v3) doesn't and needs an OAuth 2.0 bearer token from a service account or Application Default Credentials, on a project with billing and the API turned on.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "NMT text translation, Basic or Advanced, is $20 per million characters after the first 500,000 a month, which a $10 monthly credit covers. Over 1 billion a month is by quote. Detection is free alongside translation. The Translation LLM is $10 per million input characters plus $10 per million output, adaptive translation $25 plus $25 and custom Translation LLM $20 plus $20. Custom AutoML models cost $80 per million falling to $30 past 4 billion, with training at $45 an hour capped at $300 a job. Document translation is $0.08 a page with NMT and $0.25 with a custom model. Every character counts, whitespace and HTML tags included, an empty query bills one character, and batch jobs bill once per target language. The free credit doesn't roll over or cover document translation (https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$80 / 1k pages",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 561058,
        "pypiWeekly": 2331172,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/translate/docs",
      "capabilities": [
        "translate.text",
        "translate.documents",
        "translate.glossary",
        "translate.detect"
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "closed-source",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "enterprise",
        "batch",
        "async-jobs",
        "card-required"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-04-09",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.1,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 191,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 74,
          "maintenance": 38,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 70,
          "security": 80,
          "transparency": 79
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "500,000 free characters a month from a $10 credit, and only successful translations bill. Basic (v2) documents the API key as a URL query parameter.",
        "bestFor": "Agents on Google Cloud that want high quotas, clear data terms and a choice of NMT, LLM or adaptive translation with glossaries.",
        "strengths": [
          "500,000 free characters a month from a $10 credit, and only successful translations bill",
          "Content held in memory only, not used for training, not shared",
          "6 million characters a minute per project by default",
          "99.9 per cent monthly SLA for Basic and Advanced",
          "Glossaries work with NMT, the Translation LLM and adaptive translation"
        ],
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          "Basic (v2) documents the API key as a URL query parameter",
          "Quota errors come back as 403, not 429",
          "No formality control, no MCP server and no llms.txt",
          "Release notes have one entry in the past year and miss API changes the SDKs show",
          "Tags and whitespace count as billed characters"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use v2 with an API key for plain text and v3 for glossaries, documents and the Translation LLM",
          "Set `mimeType` to text/plain on v3 when the input isn't HTML",
          "Back off on 403 User Rate Limit Exceeded as you would on a 429",
          "Leave the source language empty rather than calling detect first, since detection with translation is free",
          "Keep requests near 5,000 characters. v3 rejects more than 30,000 code points"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 70,
          "security": 80,
          "transparency": 60
        },
        "provenanceScore": 97
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install google-cloud-translate   # or: npm i @google-cloud/translate",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://translation.googleapis.com/v3/projects/$GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT/locations/global:translateText\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"contents\":[\"Your table is booked for seven.\"],\"targetLanguageCode\":\"fr\",\"mimeType\":\"text/plain\"}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-cloud-translation"
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        "google-veo",
        "google-lyria",
        "google-speech-to-text",
        "google-adk",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-weather-api",
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        "google-calendar-api",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-cli",
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        "gmail-api"
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          "item": "NMT text translation",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "Basic or Advanced, after 500,000 free characters a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Translation LLM input",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 10,
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        },
        {
          "item": "Translation LLM output",
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          "usd": 10
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        {
          "item": "Adaptive translation input",
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          "note": "Plus $25 per million output characters"
        },
        {
          "item": "Custom AutoML model, first tier",
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          "usd": 80,
          "note": "500,000 to 250 million characters a month, down to $30 past 4 billion"
        },
        {
          "item": "Document translation (NMT)",
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          "note": "$0.08 a page"
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        "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/translate/docs/release-notes",
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        "notes": [
          "google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires on 2030-04-01."
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        "score": 97
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.json",
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The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-04-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 561k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Crowdin.** The REST API has a public OpenAPI document with 374 operations, and tokens can be limited by scope, access level and project. Translation runs inside Crowdin projects and connected engines, so it is not a stateless per-character translation API. No Retry-After guidance, idempotency keys or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**Google Cloud Translation.** 500,000 free characters a month from a $10 credit, and only successful translations bill. Basic (v2) documents the API key as a URL query parameter.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Crowdin\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2`. Crowdin Enterprise uses `https://\u003corganization_domain\u003e.api.crowdin.com/api/v2`\n2. Use the MCP V2 endpoint `https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp` and set `crowdin-tool-sets`, because the server loads all 33 tool sets by default\n3. Set `crowdin-read-only: true` on the MCP connection for exploration. It exposes only list and get tools\n4. Keep to 20 concurrent requests an account across all tokens, and add your own backoff on 429\n5. Upload a file to `/storages` first, then pass the `storageId` to the add-file call. Builds, exports and reports are asynchronous and need a status poll\n6. `/mts/{mtId}/translations` takes at most 100 strings a call and needs the `mt` scope and a configured engine\n\n### Google Cloud Translation\n\n1. Use v2 with an API key for plain text and v3 for glossaries, documents and the Translation LLM\n2. Set `mimeType` to text/plain on v3 when the input isn't HTML\n3. Back off on 403 User Rate Limit Exceeded as you would on a 429\n4. Leave the source language empty rather than calling detect first, since detection with translation is free\n5. Keep requests near 5,000 characters. v3 rejects more than 30,000 code points\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Crowdin or Google Cloud Translation?\n\nCrowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Google Cloud Translation's 68.1 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Google Cloud Translation leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Crowdin and Google Cloud Translation need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Crowdin and Google Cloud Translation without installing anything?\n\nYes. Crowdin has a hosted endpoint at https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2 and Google Cloud Translation at https://translation.googleapis.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-google-cloud-translation.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-google-cloud-translation.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crowdin\", \"b\": \"google-cloud-translation\"}`. 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