# Crowdin vs SYSTRAN Translate API (slim)

> Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against SYSTRAN Translate API's 40 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. SYSTRAN Translate API leads on payments & pricing. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against SYSTRAN Translate API's 40 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. SYSTRAN Translate API leads on payments & pricing. Both do translate text.

- Crowdin: B 69.6, rank #153 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md
- SYSTRAN Translate API: E 40, rank #691 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/systran.min.md
- Crowdin, good for 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. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 25; Schema & documentation, 80 against 42; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 54; Security & auth, 68 against 55; Maintenance & community, 82 against 4; Transparency & trust, 79 against 51.
- SYSTRAN Translate API, good for Teams that want European Union hosting, user dictionaries and translation memories applied through profiles, or the same API on an on-premises SYSTRAN server. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Crowdin | SYSTRAN Translate API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 78 | 25 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 42 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 54 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 4 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crowdin | SYSTRAN Translate API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crowdin OÜ | SYSTRAN (ChapsVision) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2` | `https://api-translate.systran.net` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | Proprietary service under the SYSTRAN Translate PRO terms and conditions |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2023-06-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | none |