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      "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).",
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        "google-speech-to-text",
        "google-adk",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-weather-api",
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        "google-calendar-api",
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      "vendor": "Replexica, Inc.",
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      "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",
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      "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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          "name": "lingodotdev"
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          "security": 62,
          "transparency": 71
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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.",
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          "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",
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          "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"
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          "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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      "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",
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        "privacy": "https://lingo.dev/en/legal/privacy",
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          "The privacy policy (last updated 7 May 2026) covers the website and the platform, including content submitted for translation.",
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          "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."
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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### Google Cloud Translation (B)\n\nGood for: Agents on Google Cloud that want high quotas, clear data terms and a choice of NMT, LLM or adaptive translation with glossaries.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 71\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 54\n- Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 71\n\nWatch for: Basic (v2) documents the API key as a URL query parameter\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 38\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 | Google Cloud Translation | Lingo.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 71 | Google Cloud Translation +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 54 | Google Cloud Translation +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 75 | Lingo.dev +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 62 | Google Cloud Translation +18 |\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) | 38 | 87 | Lingo.dev +49 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 71 | Google Cloud Translation +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.1 · B** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Translation | Lingo.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Replexica, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://translation.googleapis.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 | $20 per 1M characters | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (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 | 2026-04-09 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 561k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\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**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### 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### Lingo.dev\n\n1. Send `X-API-Key` to https://api.lingo.dev and keep the key server-side. 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Lingo.dev leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Google Cloud Translation and Lingo.dev need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Google Cloud Translation and Lingo.dev without installing anything?\n\nYes. Google Cloud Translation has a hosted endpoint at https://translation.googleapis.com and Lingo.dev at https://mcp.lingo.dev/account.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-cloud-translation-vs-lingo-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-cloud-translation-vs-lingo-dev.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-cloud-translation\", \"b\": \"lingo-dev\"}`. 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