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      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "No free hosted tier. Pro is $29 a month with bursts of up to 80 calls a minute (about 20 sustained), Business $58 with bursts of 200 (about 50 sustained). Each call takes up to 2,000 characters. Both come with a 7-day money-back guarantee (https://portal.libretranslate.com). Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0 (https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate).",
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        "openapi",
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          "Pass `source=auto` to detect and translate in one call",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/libretranslate.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Google Cloud Translation for reliability (+55), schema \u0026 documentation (+5), agent ergonomics (+9), security \u0026 auth (+35), transparency \u0026 trust (+19).\n\nPick LibreTranslate for payments \u0026 pricing (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Cloud Translation | LibreTranslate | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 35 | Google Cloud Translation +55 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 65 | Google Cloud Translation +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 65 | Google Cloud Translation +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 45 | Google Cloud Translation +35 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | LibreTranslate +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 38 | 40 | LibreTranslate +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 61 | Google Cloud Translation +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.2 · B** | **49.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Translation | LibreTranslate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | LibreTranslate |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://translation.googleapis.com` | `https://libretranslate.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | AGPL-3.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-04-09 | 2026-05-26 |\n| Popularity | 561k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk | 17k stars, 4.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**LibreTranslate.** Open source under AGPL-3.0, self-hosted with no text leaving your network. No status page, SLA or terms of service for the hosted API.\n\n## Before you call either\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### LibreTranslate\n\n1. Split text into calls of 2,000 characters or fewer on the hosted service\n2. Pace to about 20 calls a minute on Pro, since repeated 429s turn into a 403 ban\n3. Pass `source=auto` to detect and translate in one call\n4. Set `format=html` for markup\n5. Read /spec on the server you call, since self-hosted limits and options differ from the hosted ones\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Cloud Translation or LibreTranslate\n\n- [Amazon Translate vs Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-google-cloud-translation.md)\n- [Amazon Translate vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [Azure Translator vs Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-google-cloud-translation.md)\n- [Azure Translator vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [DeepL API vs Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-google-cloud-translation.md)\n- [DeepL API vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [Google Cloud Translation vs Lara Translate API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-cloud-translation-vs-lara-translate.md)\n- [Google Cloud Translation vs Lingvanex Translation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-cloud-translation-vs-lingvanex.md)\n- [Lara Translate API vs LibreTranslate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lara-translate-vs-libretranslate.md)\n- [LibreTranslate vs Lingvanex Translation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/libretranslate-vs-lingvanex.md)\n",
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